Updated On: 07 April, 2011 07:49 AM IST | | Rocky Thongam
A first of its kind, Delhi Jazz Festival comes knocking at our door. Are you ready to embrace it?
Au00a0first of its kind, Delhi Jazz Festival comes knocking at our door. Are you ready to embrace it?
Now that the Delhi has heard, chewed and digested Mohit Chauhan's live show, it's time for the Capital to 'jazz' up the entertainment quotient by a notch. And oh! We must confess what a furor it created till the end hours when fans high profiled and common kept the organizer Radio 1's office phone ringing till the end hours requesting for passes to the show.
But like the IPL is knocking at our doors before the pleasure of winning the World Cup has sunk in, the Delhi Jazz Festival too is at our door step. We have had jazz artists come and go but 'a first-of-its kind music festival' tag the three day long festival boasts of is possibly apt.
International artists from Italy, Germany, Canada, Scotland and Sweden plus Indian artists for the first time will converge in the capital to give it an identity which it has been lacking.u00a0
After all, South Africa has its Cape Town has its own festival, Europe has its endless lists and even our own humble Mumbai has Jazz Yatra Festival. It was indeed time Delhi rose to the occasion and hosted one of its own.u00a0 Some of the bands which will be performing are
Cesare Pico (Italy)
His love affair started with the piano at four and since then the man has aged like wine, composing and performing since his public debut in 1986. Picco's personal musical brilliance goes across different genres giving birth to music which is intense and captivating.