<Tr> <Th> Founded by </Th> <Td> Paul Acket </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Official site </Td> </Tr> <P> The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue . It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam . This is because the Statenhal where the festival was held before was demolished in 2006 . As of 3 November 2017 the festival officially will be known as the NN North Sea Jazz Festival . </P> <P> The founder of the three - day festival was Paul Acket, a businessman and jazz lover who made a fortune in the 1960s with his pop magazine publishing company . When Acket sold his company in 1975, he was able to start and sponsor the North Sea Jazz Festival . Acket wanted to present American jazz and European avant - garde jazz . In 1976 the first edition of the festival took place . It was an immediate success: six stages, thirty hours of music, and 300 performances drew over 9000 visitors . Acts included Count Basie, Miles Davis, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Sarah Vaughan . </P>

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