Festival Jazz ao Centro

The inaugural concert of the Festival Jazz ao Centro - Encontros Internacionais de Jazz de Coimbra took place on January 18th, 2003, at a time when Coimbra was getting ready to launch the program that celebrated the city as the National Capital of Culture.

Regardless of the many formats, the festival has known for the last 19 years, there is a set of characteristics that have remained unchanged and among which it is worth highlighting the privileged place given to creation (with more than 20 albums available in the catalogue of labels such as Clean Feed, Cipsela and JACC Record where recorded during artistic residencies at the festival) and the unorthodox vision that allows opening space for very diverse artistic approaches, from the most indebted to tradition to those who challenge the boundaries of the genre.