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By Nigar Orujova

Baku will host another international jazz festival from October 19 to 30.

The festival organized by the Culture and Tourism Ministry will bring together acclaimed jazz musicians from all over the world.

Craig Taborn Trio, Terri Lyne Carrington quartet, Terence Blanchard quintet, Stanley Clarke from the US, Anat Cohen quartet from Israel, Michel Camilo from Dominican Republic, Trilok Gurtu from India, and Bebel Gilberto from Brazil will join acclaimed Azerbaijani jazz musicians such as Salman Gambarov, Elchin Shirinov, Rain Sultanov, and bands, including Rast and Jangi.

Terence Blanchard quintet and Stanley Clarke will also give concerts as part of the festival.

The festival venues include Heydar Aliyev Palace, International Mugham Centre, Jazz Centre, State Song Theatre and State Philharmonic Hall.

The festival will feature a celebrative event marking the 20th anniversary of Rast at the Heydar Aliyev Palace.

Curiously enough, jazz music is one of the main favorite music of Baku audience. Founder of Azerbaijani jazz, Vagif Mustafazadeh managed to establish jazz Azerbaijani, creating in it something native and something close to Azerbaijani soul. He created a new sound - his own kind of jazz, a fusion of jazz with a form of indigenous Azerbaijani music, Mugham.

The Baku International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz event aimed at showcasing Azerbaijan's long-running attachment to the American-born art form, a connection first established in the country during the 1950s and 1960s, a time when jazz was outlawed by Soviet authorities.

Many famous musicians from a dozen countries, including Georgia, Portugal, Italy, Israel, USA, Germany, Canada, and Russia, are participating in the festival.