There is a prevailing feeling of dissatisfaction among Germany’s jazz musicians – bur no sign of resignation. Arndt Weidler reports on recent developments in the German jazz scene.More ...
Actually, he has celebrated more Christmases than birthdays, says Heinz Sauer. Anyway, the number 80 to his mind is no reason to celebrate. The jazz world sees this differently. For it, he is one of the great stylists of the present day.More ...
2012, the jazz journalist Bert Noglik has replaced the trombonist Nils Landgren as the artistic director of the Berlin Jazz Festival. An interview on opportunities, dreams and jazz in Germany.More ...
He is himself hardly known, but many of the songs to which he contributed. Claus Ogerman is one of the most influential arrangers of past decades.More ...
For a long time it was not clear whether the festival JazzBaltica could be continued after its twentieth anniversary. Then the Swedish trombonist Nils Landgren took the helm and dispelled the organizers’ doubts.More ...
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 ...
