Jazz cellar
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)
- Jazzkeller Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1952
- Cave 54 , Heidelberg, founded in 1954
- Jazzstudio Nürnberg , Nürnberg, founded in 1954
- Jazzkeller Krefeld , Krefeld, founded in 1958
- Birdland Neuburg , founded in 1958
- Jazzclub Villingen , Villingen, founded in 1961
- Jazzkeller Sauschdall , Ulm, founded in 1963
literature
- Ekkehard Jost : Jazzkeller . In: Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost: Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .