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STORY: GA / JAZZ CONCERT
TRT: 2.39
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 APRIL 2012, NEW YORK / FILE
FILE – 2011, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters
30 APRIL 2012, NEW YORK
1. Med shot, GA hall with UN emblem in the background and in the forefront Zakir Hussain playing tablas
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Irina Bokova, Director General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):
“Jazz has provided the soundtrack for struggles for dignity and human rights. It remains today a force for positive social transformation and now we must continue to voice this message of dialogue and freedom.”
3. Various shots, Tony Bennet singing
4. Wide shot, GA Hall, Quincy Jones enters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Quincy Jones, musician, composer:
“There is a reason that every musician in the world can communicate with one another, it’s because they speak a universal language, that’s music and more times than not that music is jazz.”
6. Various shots, Herbie Hancock alongside saxophonist Wayne Shorter and bassist Ron Carter
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Herbie Hancock, musician, composer UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador:
“Not only does understanding and learning an instrument increase cooperation, self confidence, intuition and creativity but developing a love of music inspires and brings entire communities together. The best way to change the world is through education.”
8. Various shots, Chaka Khan performing
9. Various shots, Actor Robert De Niro introducing Candido, Sheila E, Bobby Sanabria, and ‘Cuarteto H’
10. Various shots, Chaka Khan, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sheila E, Shankar Mahadevan, Susan Tedeschi, and Stevie Wonder at piano closing the show playing “As”
On Monday evening (30 April), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) along with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, hosted a concert at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day, featuring an all-star cast of performers, among them Tony Bennett, Chaka Khan, Sheila E, and Stevie Wonder as well as Herbie Hancock among others.
UNESCO’s Director General Irina Bokova said that jazz had provided “the soundtrack for struggles for dignity and human rights. It remains today a force for positive social transformation and now we must continue to voice this message of dialogue and freedom”.
Hosted among others by Quincy Jones and Robert De Niro, as well as Michael Douglas and Morgan Freeman the show kicked off with singer Tony Bennett performing a three-song set, "Watch What Happens," "Who Cares?" and "Lost in the Stars".
Quincy Jones who followed said that there was a reason that every musician in the world could communicate with one another, “it’s because they speak a universal language, that’s music and more times than not that music is jazz”.
Jones also introduced Hancock who took the stage alongside the surviving members of Miles Davis' second quintet, with saxophonist Wayne Shorter and bassist Ron Carter.
Hancock later took the microphone to speak and said that, “the best way to change the world is through education”.
The show ended with a rendition of Stevie Wonder’s song “As” together with Chaka Khan, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sheila E, Shankar Mahadevan, Susan Tedeschi, and Stevie Wonder himself at the piano.
Born in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, jazz is rooted in African traditions, draws from European musical forms, and has evolved into various styles across the globe.
At the UNESCO General Conference in November last year, the international community proclaimed 30 April as International Jazz Day, with the intention of raising awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.