Students of the Jazz Department have a class at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 27, 2021. Elad Sobol, a jazz musician from Los Angeles, is known in China by his Chinese name as "Song Yuxiang" or "Teacher Song". He is a foreign teacher in the Jazz Department of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music's Pop Conservatory and is also a jazz musician still active on the stage. In the past six years, through classes, lectures and band performances, he has made more people fall in love with jazz. At the same time, he also witnessed the rapid development of Chinese jazz music and increasing public interests in jazz. In November 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officially designated April 30 as International Jazz Day in order to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe. (Xinhua/Liu Mengqi)
