The Jõulujazz festival actually got started by chance when the world-famous Danish bassist, Nils Henning Orsted Pedersen, who was always too busy to come to the annual Jazzkaar Festival in the spring, agreed instead to come to Estonia in December 1996 together with a Danish TV crew.
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