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Baku Jazz Festival
Oct 3–11, 2026ConfirmedBaku Jazz Festival 2026
Run by Baku Jazz Festival, with published dates and a real program.
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Why go
The Baku Jazz Festival has run since 2005 under founder-director Rain Sultanov, the country's leading saxophonist, and draws over twenty thousand spectators across a week-plus of concerts, exhibitions, panels, and master classes each October. The context is what makes it: Baku's jazz lineage runs through the Soviet era's most distinctive fusion, mugham-jazz, invented here by Vagif Mustafazadeh when playing it could end a career, and the festival programs that inheritance alongside international headliners. The 2026 edition runs October 3-11 in venues across the city.
When it runs
Annual in early October
- Oct 3–11, 2026ConfirmedBaku Jazz Festival 2026
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What to expect
Annual in early October: the 2026 edition runs October 3-11. Club sets sell out before the big-hall names, book both early. October is Baku's best walking weather.
Getting there & around
Venues spread across central Baku, all reachable on foot or short taxi. Pair with the mugham row to hear the tradition jazz grew from.
Where it happens
Baku, Azerbaijan.
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