Jazz cellar

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Under Jazzkeller one understands jazz clubs in cellars. The tradition of accommodating venues for jazz in cellar vaults was based on French models. In the existentialist scene in Paris in particular, a number of such cellar bars have formed in the Paris district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and in the Latin Quarter since the mid-1940s , initially Le Caveau de la Huchette (1946). This spread to Germany, where a number of such jazz cellars were built in the 1950s and 1960s. These cellar bars also appear - often clichéd - in contemporary feature films such as Wir Kellerkinder , Paris Blues or Die Große Chance . Jazzkeller emerged in later decades, such as the Tonne jazz club in Dresden in 1981 .

Classic jazz cellars in Germany (by year of foundation)

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