Jazz is alive and well in China with jazz festivals and jazz clubs popping up in many of the big cities all the time!

The new Beijing Jazz Orchestra with musical and creative director Mark Van Cleave is readying Beijing jazz lovers with the powerful sound of big band music in 2011.

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The New face of Jazz in China

Mark Van Cleave has a vision for bringing Jazz to China which started with the formation of the Beijing Jazz Orchestra in late 2009. Along with the birth if this new big band, Mark also formed the first big band ever in the Conservatory system in China at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

Mark is known world wide as a trumpet performer, pedeagogue, and musical director. His vision to introduce jazz music to a new audience in China is a psssionate one. Not only is mark working to present epic performances througout China with the BJO, but also to teach student musicians and jazz fans about the rich musical history that is jazz. ...more