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Rock in China : Jazz and Blues Music in China

Both Jazz and Blues are small scenes in China, there are few clubs and local musicians (both foreigners and local Chinese) doing gigs, but the development there is slow and actually never caught the real attention of the mass media. An article about Jazz in China on CRI.cn.

The main live scene is located both in Beijing and Shanghai. Compare to other genres of modern chinese music happenings, especially the Jazz section offers a high participation of foreign musicians.

Bigger events are festivals like Beijing Jazz Festival by Midi Festivals or the Nine Gates Jazz Festival 2009 in Beijing and the JZ Music Festival in Shanghai etc.

It is worth to mention that the radio show "All That Jazz" (CRI EasyFM Mon - Thu, 9pm - 11pm) by Zhang Youdai has been almost the only way to access to Jazz music in Chinese mass media for years.

Jazz Events

TBA

Jazz Locations

Jianghu Bar every Tuesday Jazz Jam Sessions

Wild Strawberry Cafe, The Park Restaurant, Purple Haze Bistro offer occationally live Jazz and Blues at Weekends or Wednesdays.

VA Bar a newly opened small bar in Wudaoying Hutong gets also more active in live jazz in Beijing.

The scene in Beijing

The scene in Shanghai

Jazz clubs and bars in Beijing incl. East Shore Live Jazz Cafe, CD Jazz Cafe, Flames (Hilton Hotel), OT Lounge, (Big Easy Icehouse, still around??) every Wednesday at Luce and occationally also other live houses such as Yugong Yishan or 2 Kolegas etc. (for weekly gig updates see: the Beijing Jazz Weekly!!!).

Beijing Jazz Bands:

As for Shanghai, JZ Club for sure is the place to go for. Other important locations are Cotton Club, the House of Blues and Jazz or the Sound Blue Jazz Club. Live gigs also take place in Wooden Box or occationally on Fridays can be catched at Twocities gallery.

To keep uptodate for Jazz happenings we refer to Shanghaijazzscene.com or Shjazz.com

Shanghai Jazz Bands:

Jazz and Blues Records

Summer Palace - Buddha and Friends 2003	The Color of Love - Jasmine Chen 2008	G-Eleven - G-Eleven	Drinkin' Alone - Black Cat Bone (Blues) 2008
The Brilliant Gia - Gia 2009	Beijing Blues (Woodie Alan Band) (Blues) May 2009	Baby sing to me Single - September 2008	July 4 - MousoN Demo CD - 2004 ???
Tango of Ecstasy - Chang Ning September 2006

Articles about Jazz in China

| Interview with Jens Bunge about Shanghai and Jazz 2009 | Jazz in Shanghai | Jazz in Shanghai, China: A Study in Contrasts | Jump'n Jive: All That Jazz | Liu Yuan, the CD Cafe, and Jazz in China | The Book of Changes: Jazz in Beijing (The Beijing Jazz Scene in the 1990s) | The LAND Tour and the Rise of Jazz in China |

About us

Jazz.rockinchina.com is an info portal done by Rockinchina.com with an specific focus onto the Chinese Jazz and Blues scene. We are eager to collect and present all available information about this field including historical and contempolary knowledge and facts to make it easier for the readership to access to it if needed. Thus Jazz.rockinchina.com is rather a documentation of the Jazz and Blues happening. What you see now is a non-editable presentation of the Jazz and Blues part of our wiki. If you like to participate and contribute to help us complete, add or corect data, you can go onto our wiki (http://wiki.rockinchina.com) or contact us at yang(at)rockinchina(dot)com.

By now, the content of this portal is still very small, we will update and complete the data source with time.