This year's International Jazz Day celebration, which falls as usual on April 30, will feature satellite programming in 190 countries, as well as a centerpiece All-Star Global Concert.
The concert, from Tangier, Morocco, will be webcast at 6 p.m. EST on Tuesday. You can watch on platforms including jazzday.com, unesco.org, and hancockinstitute.org. But you should also feel free to bookmark this page and watch right here at wrti.org.
With Herbie Hancock serving as master of ceremonies, the concert will feature some distinguished Jazz Day regulars, like singers Dianne Reeves and Dee Dee Bridgewater, bassists Marcus Miller and Christian McBride, and drummer Antonio Sánchez.
Among the promised highlights: Zimbabwean mbira ace Musekiwa Chingodza will duet with Israeli clarinetist Oran Etkin, JazzWomenAfrica will beam in from Casablanca, and the Blue Note China Jazz Orchestra will perform from Beijing. As usual, the event's music director is pianist John Beasley, who just won his second Grammy as an arranger.
To learn more about International Jazz Day and the Global All-Star Concert, visit jazzday.com.