North Sea Jazz

À propos de ce festival

The place where the past, present and future of jazz can be enjoyed within three days. The multitude of musical styles being played ensures everybody finding something to their taste.

The first edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival took place in 1976 in the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague. Some numbers in those early days: six venues, three hundred artists and about nine thousand visitors. In this very first festival year internationally renowned jazz legends performed, such as Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, as well as most Dutch avant-garde artists.