Celebrate JAM 2008!
Learn all about Jazz Appreciation Month in April 2008.

Smithsonian Jazz Triumphs in Egypt

The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra recently performed to standing ovations in multiple venues in Egypt and across the Middle East via television. Al-Ahram, Egypt’s leading daily, wrote:

"The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra's recent Egyptian concerts made a delicious musical cocktail, imaginatively conceived, brilliantly performed, and very exciting. . .The concert presented by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra must have been one of the most ravishing jazz concerts ever presented at the Opera. . .a pure jazz experience, a meeting of spontaneity and virtuosity." Learn more

The Museum closed on September 5, 2006 for major architectural renovations and is scheduled to reopen by fall 2008.

The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service Jazz Exhibits
SITES is currently developing and has traveling Jazz exhibits.
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