the sixties - Tauranga Jazz festival

DescriptionJocelyn Buchanan, former Tauranga Jazz Society president, put together a visual history of the festival which showcased at Creative Tauranga from March 30 over the Easter period. This poster represented the 1960s._x005F_x000D_
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The Sixties_x005F_x000D_
1963_x005F_x000D_
Playing for free, forty musicians perform in the first festival 13 January at the Memorial Park Sound Shell. A crowd of 1000 enjoy the jazz on a summer's day._x005F_x000D_
1965_x005F_x000D_
First festival appearance of the 16 year old jazz prodigy from Auckland Alan Broadbent. His sound introduces to the Festival a modern, progressive jazz. His depth and versatility culminates in an 8minutelong version of Art Pepper”s standard “I love you” which was twice the length of every other piece played that year._x005F_x000D_
1967_x005F_x000D_
Comfort and convenience saw the festival move from Tauranga”s Town Hall located on the corner of Willow and Wharf Streets where the Isite is located today. The Festival is picked up by sponsors Benson & Hedges._x005F_x000D_
1968_x005F_x000D_
Jim Langabeer”s performance was credited with the “biggest musical innovation of the Festival”. His outfit, sandals, a flowing kaftan and a beret, were in stark contrast to the standard dress code of suit and tie. His new take on jazz challenged the established and was the beginning of the Tauranga festival being a hub for the new and innovative, an invitation to experiment._x005F_x000D_
1969_x005F_x000D_
By the end of the decade the Festival is a sell out with 250 musicians playing three concerts to a total attendance of 2000. Every bed in town is full.

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