The city of Lahore is going to jazz up this month with the German Jazz festival to be held on May 3 and 4. Organized by The Annemarie-Schimmel Haus (German Cultural Centre), the event will kickstart at the National College of Arts (NCA).
The festival titled German Jazz 2011 aims to give Lahoris two days of pure jazz from Germany. The first day of the event will be more academic and literary, bringing a photo exhibition on the history of German Jazz. This exhibition has traveled across South Asia, featuring pictures …

Jazz must change, says Rez Abbasi, and he’s set his sights on one possible path forward. “In order for this music to keep living and evolving, it has to break the boundaries,” the New York City–based guitarist contends. “You can’t call my music ‘jazz’ anymore; you can’t call jazz jazz anymore. I just prefer to call it multicultural music.”
He’s got a point. As the lineup for this year’s Vancouver International Jazz Festival indicates, what began as a specifically American art form has put down roots all over the globe. “The …