THE INITIATIVE, IN COORDINATION WITH THE UNESCO CLUSTER OF MUSIC CITIES, ALSO AIMS TO FOCUS ON ODS 14 TO RAISE AWARENESS ON THE CONSERVATION OF UNDERWATER LIFE.
“Llíria, as a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, will celebrate next April 30, with an online event, the International Jazz Day 2023, as Intangible Heritage of Humanity to raise awareness among the general public of the virtues of this music as an educational tool and as an engine for peace, unity, dialogue and cooperation between peoples,” announced the mayor of Tourism and UNESCO Creative City, Paco Garcia.
The UNESCO Cities of Music cluster with the collaboration of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, has decided to dedicate this year’s commemoration to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 14, “Life under water”. Jazz, understood as the most universal contemporary music, as a vehicle that unites the different regions of the planet, can also be an instrument to raise awareness of the conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, aquifers and other aquatic resources.
In this sense, the creative cities that are part of the project have promoted the edition of the video “Jazz Day Relay”, with the participation of jazz performers representing each of the cities and whose leitmotiv is underwater life and jazz music. Experts from the area of natural sciences of UNESCO also participate in it.
Likewise, Turisme Llíria has elaborated the audiovisual “The waters of Llíria (or La Font de Sant Vicent)”. It is based on a jazz musical composition created by the musician Chipi Chacón and performed by a sextet formed by Álex Conde on piano, Gerardo Chacón on double bass, Javier Vercher on saxophone, Pancho Montañez on drums, Emmanuel Navarro on congas and Chipi himself on trumpet.
Llíria City of Music will present these audiovisuals in their social networks next Sunday, April 30, at 13.30 and 18.30 hours, on the occasion of International Jazz Day 2023.
In addition, Councilman Paco Garcia said that “from Turisme Llíria is preparing for the upcoming dates the photographic exhibition called ‘Valencia 70s: the emergence of jazz in Spain’ by photographer Antonio Sambeat”. The exhibition will feature previously unpublished images of the activities of the first jazz clubs created in the city of Valencia during the Transition, such as the Tres Tristes Tigres or the Perdido Club, as well as the first jazz festivals organized in Spain.
