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Festival Internacional de Jazz de Lima in Lima
The Festival Internacional de Jazz de Lima is a long-running jazz festival held annually in the Peruvian capital, bringing together Peruvian and international jazz musicians for a series of concerts. Long associated with Lima's cultural institutions promoting jazz education and performance, the festival has become one of the city's established fixtures for fans of the genre.
Jazz arrived in Peru through the same mid-twentieth-century channels that spread the genre across Latin America, taking hold among a smaller circle of musicians and enthusiasts in Lima who built the city's own jazz scene alongside better-established criollo and Andean musical traditions.