Belgrade Jazz Festival
After various cancellations, bans and boycotts, in what I hope will be the last season of the lack of budget for culture, our oldest and biggest jazz festival, the Belgrade one, announced itself just before the actual event, without the usual institutional fanfare of make-up users of state money. The late start and weaker funding are certainly among the more important reasons for the inclusive ebb of the 41st edition of BJF, but not everything is bad: fewer foreign reporters, absence of accompanying activities (photo exhibitions, edition promotions...), fewer bars for a somewhat thinned-out audience, but also the duration reduced to four days, whereby two of those evenings were not overloaded with midnight concerts. Memorable highlights as always, and some lessons are there
