Birdland (Hamburg)

The Birdland is a Hamburg jazz club . The cellar club is located in the Eimsbüttel district on Gärtnerstraße. It holds 150 guests with around 110 seats.

The club was opened in 1985 by Dieter Reichert. He was supported by the Friends of the Jazz Federation Hamburg eV , which acted as the organizer of the music events and whose members had free entry to the events.

The program of Birdland included swing , mainstream , bebop , Latin and modern jazz . Only live music was played. Concerts took place several times a week. Once a week, Birdland hosted a jam session in which not only beginners and music students but also well-known jazz stars played when they were on tour. There was a vocal session once a month.

The musicians who performed at Birdland include Chet Baker , Johnny Griffin , Joe Henderson , Art Blakey , Ray Brown , Diana Krall , Tommy Flanagan , Brad Mehldau , Viktoria Tolstoy , Rebekka Bakken , as well as the brothers Branford and Wynton Marsalis . Recordings of performances for the labels ACT , Polonia and Nagel-Heyer Records took place in the Birdland and were published on sound carriers.

After Dieter Reichert retired for reasons of age, the Birdland closed on June 30, 2013. On October 1, 2014, it was reopened under the direction of Dieter Reichert's sons Wolff and Ralph Reichert. There are regular jam sessions, jazz concerts and singer / songwriter evenings are also held.

Recordings

• Herb Ellis Trio Burnin '- Live at Birdland Hamburg 1998 (with Hendrik Meurkens )
• Włodek Pawlik Live at Birdland (Polonia / Koch 1993, with Richie Cole )
• Ken Peplowski & Jesper Thilo : Happy Together (Nagel-Heyer 2008)
• Ralph Reichert Quartet & Randy Sandke : Reflections (2007)
• Randy Reinhart / Jesper Thilo Sextet: For Basie (Nagel Heyer, 2004)
• Wolfgang Schlueter / Simon Nabatov / Charly Antolini Swing Kings (ACT 2001, recorded on September 19, 1996)
• Clark Terry : Herr Ober (Nagel Heyer, 2000)
• Jack Walrath & Ralph Reichert : Solidarity (ACT, 1996)

Web links

• jazzclub-birdland.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Die Welt: 4000 times jazz live in Birdland. Interview with Dieter Reichert, January 5, 2003
2. ↑ Der Spiegel: Jazz club sailboats for self-exploiters. Hans Hielscher, January 16, 2009
3. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: The air is sultry, the jazz up close. Heinrich Oehmsen, December 9, 2005
4. ↑ Tom R. Schulz: Last spring for the Birdland - the traditional jazz club in Eimsbüttel closes on June 30th. in Die Welt and Hanna Grimm End of a jazz club: Bye-bye Birdland! , NDR June 30, 2013
5. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt: The return of a cult club: Birdland reopens. 2nd September 2014.
6. ↑ Jazz in Hamburg
7. ↑ Stefan Hentz: Swing yourself up, Hamburg! zeit online, October 2, 2014.
8. ^ Schlueter, Nabatov, Antolini - Swing Kings. In: Discogs. Retrieved April 16, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 42.4 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 44.2"  E