Java Jazz Festival

Hi… I want to do this essay assignment from my beautiful  English teacher Miss Silvana, I want to say thanks for this essay assignment before.. thank you so much miss. Now I want to write about Java Jazz Festival, I do not know much about this event so  I took this assignment  from several sources .  

Java jazz festival is one of the biggest jazz festival in the world, this festival is held in early March each year in Jakarta,  It was held for the first time in 2005 so now java jazz festival was ten years old. This festival is not only present jazz musicians but there are also musicians from another music genre like hip hop, R&B and reggae. Many famous international jazz musician came to this festival like  James Brown, Earth, Wind & Fire, Eric Benet, Bubi Chen, and Angie Stone in 2006 but actually I don’t know about them and there were many local jazz musician like  Maliq & D'Essentials, Marcell, Ten 2 Five, Ruth Sahanaya and many more, and I like listening their song specially for Maliq & D’Essentials and Ten 2 Five.  According to this festival official account more than 67.000 visitors came to this festival for three days in 2006,  I think this is great festival with great musician too.

Initiator of this event is Peter Frans Gontha, he was born in Semarang,May 4 1948. He is a son of the couple V Willem Gontha and Alice. He is one of the success businessman in Indonesia, now he has many corporation like Plaza Indonesia Realty (The Grand Hyatt Jakarta), Bali Intercontinental Resort, Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (RCTI), Surya Citra Televisi (SCTV), PT Chandra Asri Indonesia, PT Tri Polyta Indonesia, Firstmedia, and Indovision wow rich man. Peter Frans Gontha inspired to create this event from him experience, he was always going to Europe to watch jazz concert so he want to make jazz concert in Indonesia and Indonesian people don’t need to go abroad, so I think we can take the spirit of him and make something great like him make this great festival.

MURI give this event world record highest award plaque for Java Jazz Festival. Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival break the record for the world's largest jazz festival as much as 1.300 musicians, artists and music group in 21 stage wow congratulation for Java Jazz.

Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2014 (JJF 2014) which was held on February 28, 1 and March 2, 2014, in JI Expo Kemayoran, is holding the 10^th of the world's largest jazz festival is produced by the Indonesian consistently. Java Jazz Festival 2014 presents many international musicians, some of which are Tania Maria, Sadao Watanabe, Ivan Lins, Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith, Allen Stone, Jamie Cullum, Robert Glasper, Thais Motta (Brazil), Joao Sabia (Brazil), Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and Grumul (Australia), Nils Petter Molvaer and Magnus Lindgren (Skandinavia), Gerald Albright, James Taylor Quartet, Norman Brown, Earth Wind and Fire Experience, Dave Koz, Mindi Abair, Richard Elliot, Jonathan Butler, and Rick Braun, and some local musicians like Deddy Dukun, Dian Pramana Putra and Adie MS

Java jass festival could be a promotion for tourism in Indonesia so the government get the provit from this event. This year java jazz sponsored by Clear Shampoo and this year java jazz use batik theme, all singer and musician wearing batik so this is pride for us, Indonesian people. Now I am confused  what to write anymore, I swear I am confused.

This musical events that became the pride of Indonesia is supported by several loyal sponsors such as First Media, BNI Bank, Garuda Indonesia, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, the Ministry of Commerce, and others. I hope this event can continue to be held because I think this event is the good way to promote Indonesia. But I think some of us including me didn’t know what is jazz, we just enjoyed the music without know what is jazz.

Jakarta International Java Jazz 2014 have another event that event called Sound Fair it will  held on  October 24 – 26, 2014 and the guest star  is Magic! Band that mixed reggae, pop, rock and a little soul as their genre is one of the famous newcomer artist today, and their song “Rude” is famous among teens, and I like their song too, I hope I can go to Jakarta and watch their performances, I hope…..   Miss Sil maybe you want to go there? If you want, can you treat me? :D

I hope we as the young generation can make something good creation for Indonesia maybe with music, make a great event like Java Jazz without forgetting our culture or we can mixed the modern music with our traditional music and local culture, so we can reduce negative behavior among the teens with positive activity. Be good generation for a good country. Fighting!!

I’m sorry Miss Sil I can’t write well, because actually I didn’t know about Java Jazz, so I retrieve data from the Internet, but I translate this assignment by my self and my friend helped me to find the word, I hope I can be more active in class than before, Thank you ((:

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