Leipzig Jazz Club
| Jazzclub Leipzig e. V. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 1973 as Friends of Jazz |
| Seat | Leipzig , Germany |
| management | Board of Directors: Dr. Anna Dietze, Dr. Ute Fries, Prof. Werner Neumann
Advisory board: Simon Bodensiek, Ada Scholl, Nico Teichmann |
| Branch | Organizer ( Art & Entertainment ) |
| Website | www.jazzclub-leipzig.de |
| Status: July 22, 2020 | |
The Jazzclub Leipzig is a registered association that was founded in 1973 in Leipzig and is still active as an organizer of jazz concerts. Today the association not only stands for the Leipzig Jazz Days , but also for the smaller MusikZeit festival, regular concerts in the Telegraph live club and the monthly jazz calendar. In addition, the jazz club annually awards the Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award of the Marion Ermer Foundation as part of the Jazz Days with the City of Leipzig Cultural Office, initiated and supports the nationwide young jazz festival and maintains close contacts with the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig and Polish Institute in Leipzig. Since it was founded in 1973, it has been contemporary jazz in particular that has been promoted through the projects of the jazz club. The Leipzig Jazz Days, which have been held since 1976, have given the city of Leipzig an international reputation as a jazz location.
history
The Leipzig Jazz Club was founded in 1973 and initially existed as a group of friends within the Kulturbund - in the slipstream of the GDR cultural policy, so to speak.
Thanks to the commitment of the founding members, it was possible to organize individual concerts and, from 1976, the Leipzig Jazz Days. What began small in a cellar at the College of Graphics and Book Art moved to the ballroom of the Deutsche Post as early as the next year, only to fill the congress hall at the zoo the next year. At the same time, the spectrum expanded. Numerous private contacts and networks made it possible to increasingly invite musicians from Eastern European countries and Western Europe. The Leipzig Jazz Days became a place for international musical encounters and a meeting point for the jazz community in the GDR at that time - precisely because of this being viewed critically by the cultural bureaucracy. Conceptually, the focus of the festival was on the presentation of contemporary jazz, with the avant-garde being given a lot of space. Due to this specificity, the Leipzig Jazz Days gained international importance in the 1980s, which was also reflected in numerous Western specialist publications.
The autumn of 1989 marked a major turning point for the East German cultural landscape, and even the end for many initiatives. The Leipzig Jazz Club is one of the few that survived the fundamental changes in 1989/90. The year 1991 marked a new beginning: the main program of the Leipzig Jazz Days moved to the big opera stage. It has remained so to this day, apart from a two-year renovation phase.
Cooperations - such as those with the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater, other music schools (Neue Musik Leipzig) and associations (Initiative Leipziger Jazzmusiker e.V., KidsJazz LE) have helped to create a dense jazz network. Today the association organizes the jazz festival Leipziger Jazztage and the smaller festival MusikZeit as well as the jazz concerts in the Telegraph, publisher of the jazz calendar and organizer of the Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award of the Marion Ermer Foundation.
Projects
Leipzig Jazz Days
The Leipzig Jazz Days have been held every autumn since 1976. Internationally established names and pioneers in jazz history will be presented, but above all innovative trends and outstanding young musicians as well as projects they have initiated themselves.
Jazz club live
In 2010 the Jazzclub Leipzig initiated the series of events "Jazzclub Live" together with the help of students from the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater . The venue for the series was initially exclusively the cellar of the Café Telegraph in downtown Leipzig, which as a result was given the common nickname "Liveclub Telegraph". As part of “Jazzclub Live”, the “Flashback”, “Series 2”, “Only you alone” and “HMT Stage Night” events will also take place. The broad and varied jazz program, which presents both young, local jazz musicians and the big names in jazz, can now also be experienced in the socio-cultural center of naTo , the Werkcafé Leipzig and the UT Connewitz .
Music time
Organized since 1991, the small festival MusikZeit for contemporary jazz and improvisation music was created from 1999 by concentrating on one topic and on consecutive days. It forms its own accent in the cultural life of the city of Leipzig.
As the little sister of the Leipzig Jazz Days, MusikZeit is on the one hand dedicated to artists who have provoked or continued new jazz musical developments through their own innovative expression, on the other hand it looks at cultural areas and their individual musical developments, similarities and differences. External jazz trends that shape contemporary jazz are also expressly taken into account in the program.
From 1992 to 2007 the journalist and publicist Bert Noglik was the artistic director of the concert series.
Jazz calendar
The jazz calendar is the monthly information sheet for jazz and other music in Leipzig and Central Germany. Announcements and editorial contributions appear about jazz events, but also about electronic, contemporary, indie and rock music. In addition, interesting national and international jazz events without regional restrictions as well as reviews etc. Ä. published. The jazz calendar is available to take away free of charge in many restaurants, cafés and cultural institutions. It is also available for download on the website of the Jazzclub Leipzig and is available as a newsletter. Known as the jazz calendar since 1992 , it was previously published under the name »Jazzreport«.
Leipzig Young Jazz Talent Award from the Marion Ermer Foundation
Since 1997, the city of Leipzig has been awarding the Leipzig Young Jazz Talent Award of the Marion Ermer Foundation to promote and recognize the achievements of young young jazz artists, which is endowed with EUR 6,500. A board of trustees chaired by the City of Leipzig, which also includes the Leipzig Jazz Club, is set up to award the prize. The prize money will be made available by the Marion Ermer Foundation; Prizes and awards are traditionally presented at the international Leipzig Jazz Days.
Musicians and ensembles who are active in the field of jazz and who can expect a special artistic development can apply for the prize. The award supports the efforts of the city of Leipzig to develop this musical genre and its further development. So far, the winners of the Jazz Young Talent Award have been: Philipp Scholz , Robert Lucaciu , Evgeny Ring , Trio.Diktion, Eva Klesse , Johannes Bigge , Diego Piñera , Felix Franzke Trio, Sascha Stiehler & Antonio Lucaciu , Moritz Sembritzki , LU: V , Oliver Schwerdt , Sascha Paul Stratmann , Marcus Kesselbauer , Jan Roth , Winnie Brückner , Ronny Graupe , Ulla Viol , Großkopf-Schmidt-Duo, Jazzduo Timm-Brockelt, Michael Breitenbach , Philipp Rumsch .
Prices
After 2013, 2014 and 2016, the Leipzig Jazz Club won the "APPLAUS" (award for program planning of independent venues) from the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, in 2018 for the fourth time, again in Category III, and thus more often than any other club in Leipzig. The prize has been realized since 2013 by the Music Initiative and Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters .
Artist (selection)
To date, the Leipzig Jazz Club has been able to present the following local, national and international musicians and bands at the Leipzig Jazz Days, MusikZeit and the concert series:
John Scofield , Joshua Redman , Carla Bley , Brad Mehldau , Wayne Shorter , Bill Frisell , Marcus Miller , Stanley Clarke , Zentralquartett , Till Brönner , Günter Sommer , Erik Truffaz , Sophie Hunger , Mouse on Mars , Michael Wollny , Nils Wogram , Shai Maestro , Aaron Goldberg , Chris Cheek , The Bad Plus , Snarky Puppy , Avishai Cohen , Supersilent, Arne Jansen , Pablo Held , Eric Harland , Larry Grenadier , Wolfgang Muthspiel , Jim Black , Jorge Rossy , Tingvall Trio , Julia Hülsmann , Pat Metheny , Kynga Glyk , Gilad Hekselman , Matthew Herbert 's Brexit Big Band, Avishai Cohen Quartet, Dave Holland ' s Aziza, Yazz Ahmed , Norma Winstone Trio, Hidden Orchestra , Soweto Kinch u. a.
literature
- Bernd Jahnke, Peter Schlegel, Gerhard Schulz: 15 years of the Leipzig Jazz Club. Attempts at a chronicle. In: How it started . Leipzig 1988, Ill-18-131 LG 116 99 83, pp. 3-5.
- Ingolf Rosendahl: History with a view In: Leipzig Exklusiv - the magazine of the Leipziger Volkszeitung , issue: September 2013, p. 92.
- Ruprecht Langert: The valve of an inappropriate attitude towards life In: M&R | Melody and rhythm , November / December 2013, p. 78.
- sfr: What is jazz? In: Kippe - Die Leipziger Straßenzeitung , November 2013, p. 18.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The association - Jazzclub Leipzig e. V.
- ↑ Musikzeit - the concert series - Jazzclub Leipzig e. V.
- ^ Jazz club projects - Jazzclub Leipzig e. V.
- ^ Leipzig Young Jazz Talent Award of the Marion Ermer Foundation - City of Leipzig
- ^ Initiative Musik: Press release Music Prize APPLAUS. In: Initiative Musik. Initiative Musik, December 18, 2018, accessed on January 8, 2019 (German).