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World Youth Jazz Festival

Jazz warriors

By LIM MAY LEE alltherage@thestar.com.my IF you’re talking about unlikely noble causes, getting young people to fall in love with jazz has to be way up there. But there is a team of young Malaysians, with an average age of 25, that are trying to do just that. And they’re not just setting their sights […]

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Jazzing up Malaysia

By LIM MAY LEE alltherage@thestar.com.my WHEN we met World Youth Jazz Festival (WYJF) chairman and founder Datuk Nik Azmi during the event, he was collapsed in a chair outside the hall radiating equal parts exhaustion, and equal parts satisfaction. “The turnout has been fantabulous!” he said with a relieved laugh. Held at the Putrajaya International […]

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Younger side of jazz

By LIM MAY LEE alltherage@thestar.com.my YOUTH. Jazz. Not two words you would usually find paired together, but the World Youth Jazz Festival (WYJF) – held on May 2-4 every year – is cultivating a beautiful friendship between young people and the sophisticated sounds of jazz. WYJF, founded by Datuk Nik Azmi, started in 2012 under […]

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