Jazz music festivals were introduced in England by Harold Pendleton in the 1960s as the National Jazz Festival for a display of British and US jazz. Jazz music festivals are greatly shaped by the events happening around the world and have always grown and changed over the years. After the WW1 and WW2, the circuit of jazz festivals began when Europeans needed a distraction from the crisis around them and resorted to the folk culture and reflections on the good old days.