Jazz Club Hannover

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The jazz club is located in the basement of the building

The Hanover Jazz Club is a jazz club in Hanover , which is also known as the "Orange Club" because of its orange interior.

Artist (selection)

In the Jazz Club Hannover performed a. a. Musicians like Lionel Hampton , Count Basie , Duke Ellington , Jan Garbarek , Randy Brecker , Pat Metheny , Mike Stern , on. Every year on Ascension Day , the Jazz Club organizes the Swinging Hannover open-air festival with international artists on the Trammplatz in front of the New Town Hall .

Location and facilities

The jazz club, founded in 1966, is located on the Lindener Berg in the Linden-Mitte district . It is located in the basement of a building that has served as a youth home for decades. The club holds about 130 visitors. The concerts take place on Mondays and Fridays.

Because of the narrow space in the orange-washed basement, spectators sometimes sit on the stage, which creates an intense atmosphere. The long-time chairman of the club, Michael Gehrke , commented: " Jazz lives from intimacy".

society

Thomas Hermann, chairman of the jazz club since September 2015
Manager Uwe Thedsen presents the city ​​culture award certificate awarded in 2013 by the Friends of Hanover

The jazz club is run by the "Jazz Club Hannover eV" association. Michael Gehrke was chairman of the association from 1968 until his death in 2004. Mayor Bernd Strauch , himself an ambitious musician, then took over the chairmanship and held it until September 2015. On September 10, 2015, Mayor Thomas Hermann was elected as the new chairman by the general assembly. Uwe Thedsen is the second chairman and managing director of the club.

The city of New Orleans as the cradle of jazz awarded the club and its long-time chairman Michael Gehrke honorary citizenship in 1978 .

2013 gave friends Hannover the Jazz Club Hannover the city Culture Award , among other things, "long-standing, sustainable cultural commitment".

Mike Gehrke was responsible for the program for the first 40 years and Nicolas Sempff after his death in 2004. From January 2019 Gerd Kespohl took over the program management; Until his retirement he was for many years director of concerts in the cultural center Pavillon and at the beginning of his career jazz editor at radio ffn .

literature

  • A club makes jazz - 25 years of the Jazz Club Hannover . Ed .: Gerhard Evertz on behalf of the Hanover Jazz Club. Hanover, 1991
  • Gerrit Prinssen: Hanover - moments in a world city of jazz . Dedenhausen: Edition Schöne Freizeit, 1999, ISBN 3-930542-28-5
  • Gerhard Evertz: Jazz - a journey through time through Hanover in the 1940s to 1960s , 2004

Web links

Commons : Jazz Club Hannover  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazz-club.de
  2. ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
  3. ↑ Jazz Book Hanover - Gerhard Evertz. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 46.7 ″  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 19 ″  E