Henkelmann Jazz Club

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Henkelmann Jazz Club

The Henkelmann jazz club is a jazz music venue in Iserlohn , founded in 1957 by the Iserlohn Hot Club in an old factory , located at 46-50 Obere Mühle street.

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history

On June 3, 1952, 8 members founded the Hot Club Iserlohn as a jazz club , which in 1953 joined the German Jazz Federation . In addition to record evenings and lectures, concerts were soon held. In 1955, the city of Iserlohn provided a vaulted cellar in the building of today's city ​​museum as a rehearsal and music-making room, which functioned as a jazz cellar . In 1957, the Jazzkeller moved to the basement of a former factory building on Friedrichstrasse and the corner of Oststrasse and was named Henkelmann .

Under the direction of musicians such as Fritz Tonath, Gustl Kaesche or Klaus Demski, big bands were put together several times. The big band of the Hot Club Iserlohn was invited to regional festivals, to Dortmund and in 1961 to the German Amateur Jazz Festival . There were several radio and television recordings from the basement with Iserlohn musicians and bands. The WDR made sound recordings in the Henkelmann, z. B. 1994 from the Boogie Woogie Company from Cologne, to whose establishment in 1964 the Hot Club Iserlohn or Henkelmann contributed indirectly with its jazz connections. Peter Herbolzheimer and his Big Band were regular guests at the Henkelmann. Jazz formations from the environment of the music academies were and are to be seen again and again at the Henkelmann, including its lecturers such as B. Walter Norris .

In the decades to come, in addition to local musicians, international stars such as Mal Waldron , Gary Burton , Elvin Jones , John Abercrombie , Ralph Towner , Steve Swallow , Joe Zawinul , Johnny Griffin , Maynard Ferguson , Sun Ra , John Scofield , appeared in the Henkelmann Newport All-Stars around George Wein , WDR Big Band , Charly Antolini , Jasper van't Hof , Axel Zwingenberger , Torsten Zwingenberger and Katie Webster . Some albums were also recorded (-> discographic information).

Dieter Enners (chairman of the Hot Club Iserlohn in the 80s) founded the Hammond Nostalgie Club in Henkelmann, which served as a venue for club meetings, exhibitions and jazz and blues concerts shaped by the Hammond organ. The young Hammond organist Barbara Dennerlein had a large fan base there. She gave several concerts and workshops. San Francisco-based Johnny Heartsman (John Leroy "Johnny" Heartsman) played a concert.

During the concert in June 1988 with Laco Déczi and his band Celula , a fire broke out in the upper building complex, in which there were a few craft shops above the jazz cellar. The club's refurbished concert grand piano was covered before the fire brigade arrived and so the water from the fire was extinguished from the floors above. The building complex was too badly damaged. The Hot Club had to look for new premises, which it found in a disused factory site. In 1990 the Henkelmann was reopened there. The weekly concerts, at which Joachim Kühn or Sarah Buechi / Christoph Haberer could also be heard in recent years, have now been opened to other genres.

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  1. ↑ The Hot Club Iserlohn is the oldest existing jazz club in Germany with its own premises; The Itzehoe Jazz Club, founded in 1949, does not have its own club.

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '8.6 "  N , 7 ° 42' 6.4"  E