"jazzaar concerts" 2008 - Daily Blog by Mark Small
“jazzaar concerts” Aarau, Switzerland
“jazzaar concerts” is a jazz festival with a heart for cultural exchange and education. 
 Every April the audience is entertained with brand new productions of musical works; old, new and originals, Afro-American, Classical traditions as well as fusions into other genres.  
But most uniquely, "jazzaar concerts" is specially known for its collaborations between professionals of international and national acclaim with selected Swiss youth that culminate into memorable and grand performances that showcase the basic ingredients for cultural sustenance – tradition, interaction, innovation and progress! 

A published documentation about Jazzaar and 15 years of youth & cultural endeavour is now available for purchase online!


jazzaar 1992 - 2007   eine Dokumentation
                                   a documentation
Bands Across The SeasTM (BATS)

The music educational programme for youth that is implemented at “jazzaar concerts” has convincingly practiced the ideology of learning on the bandstand for the past 16 years. It is known as
Bands Across The SeasTM (BATS).
This youth development engagement had certainly triggered an impulse in many a young musically inclined participant over these years to venture into the professional music scene successfully both within the country and internationally. 
The emphasis of BATS educational concept is on Role Modeling, that which requires excellent mentors for effective motivation of learners for emulating them in the art of music making and problem solving.