when was the first jazz concert at the white house?
President Obama Celebrates Jazz at the White House. More ways to share... President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are celebrating International Jazz Day a day early with a concert at the White House. Borrowing a line from trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie, who ran for president in 1964, Obama says he intends to turn the White House into the Blues House with Friday night's concert. Obama says he first obtained an appreciation of jazz when a father he barely knew came to visit him for about a month in Honolulu.