Jazz Forum

Presentation of the Jazz Forum at the Pol'and'Rock Festival 2019

Jazz Forum is a jazz magazine published by the European Jazz Federation in Warsaw, founded in 1964 by Jan Byrczek . It appeared from 1965 in a Polish and from 1967 to 1989 in an English edition in Warsaw. The Polish edition is still published. From 1976 to 1981 there was also a German edition with 16,000 copies that had to be "abandoned due to financial difficulties of the Polish exporter".

The magazine "pursued a completely new concept in terms of content, in that it not only reported on jazz in the USA, but also on the scenes in Western and Eastern Europe". Due to its location in Warsaw, it was "an easily accessible source of information for many readers in Eastern Europe" and enabled readers there to obtain information about jazz in the West.

The German-language edition wrote, among others, Joachim Ernst Berendt (who also wrote in the first English edition in 1967), Jürg Solothurnmann (correspondent for Switzerland), Michael Zwerin , Willis Conover and Karl Lippegaus . Bert Noglik was her German correspondent for the GDR from 1976 . The German edition, like the other editions, was usually published every two months. (Nos. 45 to 74) Wolfram Knauer , with its international editions, was one of the most important jazz publications of the 1970s and 1980s.

The European Jazz Federation - it later called itself the International Jazz Federation and was a member of the UNESCO International Music Council - which published it, had its official seat in Vienna from 1969. On the German side, Joe Viera was on the board from 1969 to 1980.

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Individual evidence

^ Byrczek in the first English edition of the Jazz Forum 1967
^ At that time with correspondents in Belgium, Hungary, Norway and Yugoslavia
^ ^A ^b Wolfram Knauer "Play yourself, man!" The history of jazz in Germany. Reclam, Stuttgart 2019, p. 357
^ Editor-in-chief in the first edition Jan Byrczek, German editor Rolf Reichelt , published in Vienna. Correspondents in Germany were Berendt, Michael Henkels in Hamburg, Werner Panke (Altena), later Peter Ortmann, Karl Lippegaus, and in the GDR alongside Reichelt Martin Linzer von Jazz in der Kammer in Berlin, later Noglik.
↑ Wolfram Knauer on the Jazz Forum at the Darmstadt Jazz Institute

[1] Byrczek in the first English edition of the Jazz Forum 1967

[2] At that time with correspondents in Belgium, Hungary, Norway and Yugoslavia

[WK-3] A ^b Wolfram Knauer "Play yourself, man!" The history of jazz in Germany. Reclam, Stuttgart 2019, p. 357

[4] Editor-in-chief in the first edition Jan Byrczek, German editor Rolf Reichelt , published in Vienna. Correspondents in Germany were Berendt, Michael Henkels in Hamburg, Werner Panke (Altena), later Peter Ortmann, Karl Lippegaus, and in the GDR alongside Reichelt Martin Linzer von Jazz in der Kammer in Berlin, later Noglik.

[5] Wolfram Knauer on the Jazz Forum at the Darmstadt Jazz Institute