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Marcus Miller (right), the UNESCO Artist for Peace, performs before in the General Assembly at the Concert in honor of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on 22 March 2013.

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

World celebrates second International Jazz Day

30 April 2013

The Second International Jazz Day is being commemorated on April 30th 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey.

UNESCO proclaimed International Jazz Day in November 2011 and five months later, the first celebration was held at United Nations headquarters in New York.