Next Festival: December 12 - 19 2012

The 28th edition of the Havana International Jazz Festival. The Havana International Jazz Festival (Cuba Jazz Festival) was born in 1978 when Bobby Carcasses, and other well known Cuban Jazz musicians, presented the first Jazz concert at the Casa de la Cultura de Plaza in downtown Havana.

For over three decades the big names of world jazz have taken to Havana stages at this event, including the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Charlie Haden and Chucho Valdés

Among the 2012 performing artists are Chucho Valdes, Arthur O'Farrill, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Bobby Carcasses, Berklee Faculty Jazz, National Symphony, Digna Guerra Voices, Ernan Lopez Nussa, Amadeo Roldan String Quartet, Harold Lopez Nussa, Havana Jazz Project Colections, Hill Colhoun, Aldito Lopez Gavilan, Joaquín Betancourt, Frank Fernandez, Kash Killion, Alexis Bosch, Nori Brothers, Klimax, Triple Ace, Alfred Thompson, Labyrinth of Chaos, The Tosco, Mateuz Kolakowski, Omar Puente, Julito Padron, Havana D'Primera, Jorge Reyes, AFROCUBA, Mateuz Kolakoswki, Havana Sax, Mixture, Oscar Valdes and Diakara, Naad Brahman, Jesus Fuentes and Sto. Thomas Colections, Cesar Lopez and Havana Emsemble, Emilio Morales, Will Colhoun, Rough and the Camerata Flute, Alejandro Falcon, Sixth Sense, Lopez Gavilan Aldito, Roberto Fonseca, Chaos Labyrinth, Manzano Yasek, Ta 'Good Jazz, Calderon Abelito, Ernesto Camilo Vega, Michel Herrera, Jorge Luis Pacheco, William Roblejo, Emir Santa Cruz, Alejandro Merono and many more