The shared History of European Jazz
Roundtable/working group - 31st October 2014 at Fiera del Levante, Bari, Italy
The roundtable was introduced by Giambattista Tofoni, EJN Network Manager, who outlined briefly the European context relative to the project supported by EACEA. The project was then presented by the coordinator Francesco Martinelli, and then commented by Frank Bolder, Programme Manager at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and by Doctor Duncan Heining, contributor to the project for UK. Martinelli illustrated the reasons and aims of the project, the structure and main guidelines for the work. Bolder underlined how the project meets a real need not only for audiences, students/teachers and researchers but for programmers as well. Heining concentrated on the need for a sound historical narration and on the potentialities of the project as a base for an expanded website, for educational activities and for further publications.
The discussion with the audience, composed of jazz journalists, historians, local journalists from Bari, representatives of Italian and international festivals, record producers, agents and musicians, was lively with several questions and requests for information related to the structure of the work.
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