The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam. This is because the Statenhal where the festival was held before was demolished in 2006. As of 3 November 2017 the festival officially will be known as the NN North Sea Jazz Festival.
The founder of the three-day festival was Paul Acket, a businessman and jazz lover who made a fortune in the 1960s with his pop magazine publishing company. When Acket sold his company in 1975, he was able to start and sponsor the North Sea Jazz Festival. Acket wanted to present American jazz and European avant-garde jazz. In 1976 the first edition of the festival took place. It was an immediate success: six stages, thirty hours of music, and 300 performances drew over 9000 visitors. Acts included Count Basie, Miles Davis, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, James Taylor, Benny Goodman, and Sarah Vaughan among others.
CD1 - 01:08:58
01. Roy Hargrove - Soppin' The Biscuit
02. Hank Jones - Kids Are Pretty People
03. Benny Carter - The Little Things That Mean So Much
04. Illinois Jacquet - Have You Met Miss Jones?
05. Shirley Horn - Makin' Whoopie
06. Peter Delano - Sunrise Remembered
07. Rebecca Paris - Save Your Love For Me
08. Kenny Barron - Wildlife
09. Oscar Peterson - 9:20 Special
10. The Rosenberg Trio - La Promenade
11. Betty Carter - Please Do Something
12. Arthur Taylor - Stressed Out
CD2 - 01:15:38
01. Bheki Mseleku - Timelessness
02. Tommy Flanagan - Smooth Sailing
03. Stanley Turrentine - Marvin's Song
04. Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
05. Vienna Art Orchestra - Red Shoes
06. Teddy Edwards - Them Dirty Old Blues
07. Lucky Peterson - Count On Me
08. The Free Spirits feat. John McLaughlin - 1 Nite Stand
09. Roy Ayers - Fire Weaver
10. Maceo Parker - Splashin'
11. Pee Wee Ellis - Why Not
12. Fred Wesley - Just Like That
