Caspian Jazz & Blues Festival
Caspian Jazz and Blues Festival,
April 8 – 14 2002, Baku, Azerbaijan
www.bakujazz.com/festival
Thanks to Garadagh Sement the events of the first Caspian Jazz and Blues Festival in Baku could be documented with this CD. There were so many wonderful concerts at the festival in April 2002 and it has been difficult to chose the best of them and put them into a 75 minute CD. We hope some of your favorites are among the selection here and wish you many hours of happy reminiscing when listening to this CD.
Thanks to our sponsors of the festival:
Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan, US Embassy in Azerbaijan, Unocal, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, Statoil, Kocbank Azerbaycan, Schlumberger, Devon Energy, Coca Cola, SI Travel, Lufthansa, Bakcell Motorola, AMCHAM, Itochu, Baker & McKenzie, ACCELS, Radisson SAS, Hyatt Hotels Baku, Grand Hotel Europa Baku, Salans Hertzfeld and Heilbronn, Flexible Solutions, Adanet, Ascot Enterprises Limited, Fisherman’s Wharf, Old Mill Café, Sunset Café, OSI – Baku, Azeri Musicians Union, International Security Services , Garadagh Sement, Wisseloord Studios
Organized by American Voices
Festival and Artistic Director – John Ferguson
Festival Manager – Liz Smailes
Assistant Manager – Seymur Karimov
Workshop and Volunteer Coordinator – Kenan Mammedov
Festival Assistant: Ayla Aleskerova
Recording and Sound Engineer – Tijmen Zinkhaan
Mixed in Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, The Netherlands
Recording and CD Production made possible thanks to Garadagh Sement