What you need to know about Cairo Jazz Festival

CAIRO – 24 September 2017: Cairo Jazz Festival (CJF) kicks off on September 28 till September 30, at the American University’s Tahrir Campus, in downtown Cairo.

Many jazz music fans will gather to enjoy three nights of performances by a mixture of Arab and foreign jazz singers for the 2017 edition of the festival.

There are nine countries participating in the festival this year; Egypt, Denmark, Austria, Holland, Portugal, Panama, Japan and the Czech Republic.

Kids can also participate and join Jazzinino, "Music for Kids," by Bandmakers. They will present a music workshop, youth performances, and sessions to inspire a new generation of musicians by teaching music using innovative and fun methods.

Cairo Jazz Festival is an event that supports jazz music in Egypt and cultural exchange, with musicians and artists from all over the world.

In 2009, the first annual Cairo Jazz Festival (CJF) was founded by pianist, composer and producer, Amr Salah, driven by his passion to celebrate jazz and pay tribute to one of the unique forms of music that magically diffuses and overwhelms humans all over the planet from Alaska to New Zealand, CJF official website reported.

Cairo Jazz Festival aims to spread jazz and have it reach more people; not only as a music genre, but as a thought and a life experience with its ideas, freedom of expression and innovation.

The festival managed to maintain a reputation of presenting the best of the world’s jazz. CJF hosted on its stage jazz with Spanish, German, Japanese, Moroccan, American, Portuguese and Lebanese flavors; featuring famous jazz masters such as Gilberto Gil, Ziad Rahbani, Carles Benavent, Kazumi Watanabe and Han Bennink and the fresh wild modern jazz of the E.M.J.O to the world jazz sound of Eftekasat and Calima, the website added.