Jazz east-west
Jazz East-West was a jazz festival that has taken place in Nuremberg every two years since 1966 . The organizer was initially the city of Nuremberg. It was organized under the patronage of the Nürnberger Nachrichten .
During the Cold War , the festival initially served as a meeting place for jazz musicians from the West and the Eastern Bloc . For a long time, it was mainly a German audience that had the opportunity to find out about current developments not only in the USA, but also in different parts of Europe and the former Soviet Union . In the 1990s the festival lost its importance. The number of viewers fell and the Bavarian television no longer broadcast. The JazzStudio eV association , which had previously taken over the organization from the city, also withdrew, so that the city took over the festival again in 2002 and held it for the last time.
At the festival, u. a. Aziza Mustafa Zadeh , Albert Mangelsdorff , Attila Zoller , Rolf Kühn , Klaus Doldinger , Zbigniew Namysłowski , Peter Herbolzheimer , Barbara Dennerlein , the big bands of Dusko Goykovich and Kurt Edelhagen , Tomasz Stańko , Peter Brötzmann , Art Blakey , Sun Ra , Pharoah Sanders , Herbie Mann , Phil Woods , Archie Shepp , Abdullah Ibrahim , Keith Jarrett , Karin Krog , Cecil Taylor , Paul Motian , Egberto Gismonti , Adam Makowicz , Bobby McFerrin , German Clarinet Duo , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , McCoy Tyner , Charlie Mariano , Jasper van't Hof , Abbey Lincoln , Michel Petrucciani , John McLaughlin , Bill Frisell , Lou Donaldson , Milt Jackson , Trilok Gurtu , Jiří Stivín , Dewey Redman , Carla Bley , Hagaw Association and Terje Rypdal . The Nürnberger Nachrichten International Jazz Prize was also awarded there.
His successor from 2005 was the jazz festival Stimmfang , which was discontinued in 2013.