Chen Yiping, senior reporter of The Paper
On the evening of April 30, the lawn of Jing'an Park in Shanghai brought 12 jazz songs by 20 of China's top jazz musicians, which made the audience spend a pleasant weekend.
As one of the "Top Ten Brand Activities of Shanghai Culture" with distinctive characteristics and high participation of citizens, the opening ceremony stage of this year's "Jing'an Jazz Spring" Music Festival was moved to the large lawn of Jing'an Park, and jazz music was perfectly integrated into spring wind grassland and urban life in the form of open-air and fully open performances.
The surging news reporter saw at the scene that the band and singers who performed the first performance of the opening ceremony of the jazz music festival were very highly benchmarked by Shanghai, and the weight was enough to represent the "Chinese jazz power".
The scene of the event was photographed by The Paper's reporter Chen Yiping
The first to appear was the famous singer-songwriter and representative figure of Haipai jazz music, Li Quan, who brought the scene back to the golden age of jazz music with a classic jazz song "Have You Met Miss jones". Bands and singers who followed brought their audiences their new adaptations of Chinese jazz music in different styles, with original tracks, classic songs, local folk songs, and even hip-hop all incorporating jazz elements.
The newly compiled classic red song "My Motherland" has a full "elegant style", and it is also presented by all the artists in jazz music, paying tribute to the centenary of the founding of the party, and when the music sounded, it aroused the resonance of the audience.
All the activities of the "Jing'an Jazz Spring" music festival this year will be open to the public in the form of public welfare.
Chen Hong, deputy director of the Publicity Department of the Jing'an District Cpc Committee and director of the District Culture and Tourism Bureau, said that it is very rare for citizens to have such an opportunity to get together in the form of music after the epidemic, "We have spent a lot of energy and financial resources to ensure that citizens can feel the charm of jazz, can have the best contact and feeling with nature and music, and let the fruits of our reform and development have more citizens to participate in and enjoy."
Jiang Ming, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Jing'an District Committee and director of the Propaganda Department, Long Wanli, deputy governor of the Jing'an District People's Government, Li Quan, a famous singer-songwriter and representative figure of Shanghai pop music, and Li Shihai, a young saxophonist and conductor of the JZ All-Star Band, jointly launched the ceremony. Consul General of the Netherlands in Shanghai, consular personnel of Finland, Italy, Cuba and other countries in Shanghai, representatives of key multinational enterprises in the region, and representatives of the Magnolia Award were invited to attend.
On May 1-2, the performances will be distributed in Parks, Neighborhoods, Communities and some public spaces in Jing'an, bringing a jazz carnival of 2 days and 3 nights.
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