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Java Jazz Festival 2012: Where Jazz Finds a Home

Source: Widyasena Sumadio

Born and bred in the US, jazz has expanded its wings all over the world. Nonetheless, the notion that a city in Southeast Asia, located thousands of miles from the birthland of jazz, would develop to become a venue for one of the world's largest and finest jazz festivals, seemed inconceivable. Since 2005, Jakarta has become the host of a jazz festival featurinng more than 1,000 musicians and attended by more than 100,000 visitors in a three-day span. Jakarta International ...


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