Melbourne International Jazz Festival announces its lineup for 2012.
The largest and most diverse festival of its kind in Australia, it starts in June with a program of 300 performers and 100 events (including 30 free events, 11 world premieres, 13 Australian premieres, eight Festival exclusives and eight Australian/international collaborations).
This year Artistic Director Michael Tortoni has drawn on the rich legacy of jazz as inspiration for its future in crafting the 2012 Festival – from living legends like McCoy Tyner (USA), Dr Lonnie Smith (USA), Patti Austin (USA) and The Fringe (USA), to shapers of the contemporary scene like Terence Blanchard (USA), Chris Potter (USA) and Renaud Garcia-Fons (France), to the next wave in jazz powerhouses like Hiromi (Japan), Robert Glasper (USA), Eli Degibri (Israel) and Samuel Yirga (Ethiopia).
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
