ABSTRACT
The first chapter can be summarised as a lead-up to the Tallinn ’67 jazz festival. It opens by examining the role of two prominent jazz figures Uno Naissoo and Valter Ojakäär in Estonian and Soviet jazz culture, and whose enthusiasm was the driver in establishing and sustaining the jazz festival tradition. Based on primary and secondary sources, the areas of contribution and personal life paths of those two all-rounders are disclosed. The second half of the chapter, based on archival documents, discusses the administrative procedures by which the festival was organised: its initiation, the financial procedures, the amateur status of the Soviet jazz festivals – and introduces the members of the orgkomitee (the abbreviation of the word for the committee of organisers will be used from that point onwards). The last short subchapter provides an overview of the course of the festival.
