African American music

BELGRADE - Renowned jazz musician and composer Mihajlo Misa Blam died in Belgrade on Thursday, his family told Tanjug.

The popular double-bass player won the Nisville Festival lifetime achievement award, wrote a number of books on jazz and founded a jazz department at the music school Stankovic.

BELGRADE - Belgrade will join the International Jazz Day celebrations on Wednesday with several concerts and promotions.

Pop jazz singer and composer Lena Kovacevic and students of the jazz department of the Stankovic Music School will perform at Belgrade's Dom omladine.

Twenty-two bands from 21 countries all around the world are to perform live next month in Bucharest in EUROPAfest, one of the most important jazz festivals in Eastern Europe.