"For Horses, Not Artists": Artistic–educational Vision, Value, and Standards of the B-Jazz International Contest, 1979–2019. University of Antwerp
Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen, Antwerp Media in Society Centre (AMSoC)
This project aims to study the artistic and educational vision, value, and standards of the B-Jazz International Contest, an international jazz competition held in Belgium since 1979. In that year, the Belgian jazz aficionado Albert Michiels (1923–2008) established the first edition of what was to become an annual international jazz contest, picking up a tradition that began in Belgium as early as 1932. Today, B-Jazz is one of the ...