JVC Jazz Festival

In 2008 the JVC family of Jazz festivals celebrated its 24th anniversary as the longest running and most far reaching series of sponsored music events in history, with Jazz festivals held in Newport, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, North Sea, Warsaw, Miami, Concord, Chicago and other world cities. However in the economic downturn of 2009, JVC ceased its sponsorship of all Jazz festival events with this announcement:

"JVC is proud of its association with the Jazz Festivals, but the marketplace in which JVC competes today has changed dramatically, and so JVC has chosen to take our promotional activities in a different direction, and one that will no longer include Jazz event sponsorship."

The JVC International Jazz Festival Program started in 1984 when JVC teamed up with Jazz impresario George Wein to create an event that for the past 24 years has been a driving force behind the growing popularity of Jazz music around the globe without pause ever since. JVC's longstanding involvement with Jazz stemed from the company's audio industry heritage, which began in 1927 with the production of records and gramophones. JVC had since grown into one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics products and over the past twenty years, JVC has sponsored over 160 major Jazz festivals to live audiences of over five million people. The festivals have presented over 50,000 individual musicians.

JVC Jazz festivals have played in locations as diverse as the Roman arena in Nice, France; Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in Manhattan; the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles; the Royal Gardens of Turin, Italy; the Royal Albert Hall, London; the Berlin Philharmonic; the Theatre Champs Elysees, and Salle Pleyel, Paris, and hundreds of other top concert halls around the world.