Jazz is being talked about. The art sections of newspapers debate it, the German parliament has devoted a major Question Time to it, new initiatives have been founded for it.More ...
First came the dancing, then the experimenting. Big Bands and jazz orchestras in Germany have been through a varied development, but are more vital than ever.More ...
In 1939, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff founded the “Blue Note” record company, thereby creating the first jazz label that was independent from racial barriers and the American media lobby – the home of the swinging modern age.More ...
Wolfram Knauer, director of the Jazz Institute in Darmstadt, was appointed a Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor in New York. A sign of nascent change in German-American cultural exchange?More ...
Young jazz musicians in Germany face new tasks. Global competition, structural changes in the media and a plurality of styles require imagination in treating their own art – and viewing with curiosity beyond cultural boundaries.More ...
