Mount Fuji Jazz Festival

The Mount Fuji Jazz Festival was a 1986 to 1996 and most recently in 2004 on three days in August in the area of ​​Lake Yamanaka at the Mount Fuji Jazz Festival organized regularly every year.

It was written in 1986 in collaboration with Alfred Lion and Blue Note Records, according to many musicians of the label were also represented. These included, among others, Andrew Hill, Herbie Hancock, the Jazz Messengers, Dianne Reeves, Bobby Hutcherson, Michael Brecker, Chick Corea, Sadao Watanabe, John Scofield, Eliane Elias, Wynton Marsalis, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, James Newton, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Terumasa Hino, Horace Silver, Michel Petrucciani and Jackie McLean. Features were nocturnal All Star Jam Sessions and changing All Star Combo and Big Band ensembles, frequently. , Led by Art Blakey

There are movies and live CDs from the festival, such as the resulting 1992 recording of a concert by Albert Collins and The Icebreakers, which was published in 2005 as The Iceman at Mount Fuji. Also shots of Out of the Blue (1987 ), Gonzalo Rubalcaba ( Images, 1992) are available.

It existed before 1986 Jazz Festival under the name of Mount Fuji.

The Mount Fuji Jazz Festival was in the 1980s and 1990s as a major international jazz festivals in Japan, by the success of Live under the Sky Jazz Festival from 1977 to 1992, which was held as an open air concert and in the Tokyo area with Herbie Hancock 's VSOP quintet started, was initiated. Others were the Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao at a ski resort, which sought attractions for the summer and with the help of George Wein from 1982, an offshoot of the Newport Jazz Festival was ( it was until 1994), and the Aurex Jazz Festival ( Tokyo, 1980 to 1984 ). The respective numbers of visitors of all these annual concerts went to the tens of thousands. In the late 1990s, there were at international jazz festivals in Japan next to the Newport branch nor the Ocean Blue Jazz Festival in Hitachinaka, the Monterey Jazz Festival in Noto (named after the famous Californian Monterey Jazz Festival) and the Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festival ( named after the underlying sponsors Fujitsu and Concord Records), in addition to local jazz festivals with mainly Japanese musicians who attracted the late 1990s at around 50 local festivals over 400,000 visitors ( mainly in July / August). The international Group of Blue Note jazz clubs and jazz festivals worldwide JVC came up with offshoots in the 2000s to Japan.