Jazz museum

A jazz museum can have several purposes: to provide an overview of the music genre jazz , to collect literature and media (e.g. instruments) on the subject of jazz in an affiliated archive, or at the place of work of a well-known jazz musician and his artistic contributions recall. Often they are also venues.
Some museums offer activities related to music theory , jazz research , jazz history, and music education .

Jazz museums in the USA

American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri

Such museums emerged primarily in places where the historical development of jazz was particularly concentrated:

• New Orleans : First and foremost, the Louisiana State Museum's Jazz Collection should be mentioned, which was created from the collection of the New Orleans Jazz Club founded in 1948. The club founded a jazz museum in 1961, which was temporarily housed in a hotel on Bourbon Street, then had to be stored and reopened in 1977 in the Old Mint in New Orleans as part of the Louisiana State Museum. To be exhibited u. a. Instruments by Louis Armstrong , Dizzy Gillespie , Bix Beiderbecke , Kid Ory , George Lewis .
• Jazz at Lincoln Center , in New York (Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway and 60th Street), with an event hall, archive, educational activities, performances with its own orchestra (conducted by Wynton Marsalis ), own exhibition hall ( Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame )
• The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (New York), created in 2003 on a private initiative, is primarily an event location. The leaders are saxophonist Loren Schoenberg and bassist Christian McBride .
• American Jazz Museum in Kansas City : With the claim to be the leading American jazz museum, the museum presents jazz as American music. Exhibits revolve around Charlie Parker , among other things . Also partially event location with its own jazz club.
• The Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC has an extensive jazz archive, its own Oral History Collection , a Jazz Cafe and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra . Nationwide jazz exhibitions are also organized from here.
• University of Idaho International Jazz Collections, some photos online, u. a. Lionel Hampton , Leonard Feather , Conte Candoli , Dizzy Gillespie , Joe Williams , Al Gray , Lee Morse .
• Louis Armstrong House and Archive, Queens, New York, opened in 2003. Armstrong had lived there since 1943.
• Graystone International Jazz Museum, Detroit . In the former Ballroom of Jean gold chain .

Digital jazz museums (selection)

• Red Hot Jazz Archive, Jazz from 1895 to 1930
• Digital Jazz Greats Exhibit of the Institute of Jazz Studies , Newark , New Jersey with exhibits by Count Basie , Benny Carter , Fats Waller and Mary Lou Williams

Jazz museums in Europe

• Germany :
  • Hamburg : Jazz Museum Bix Eiben Hamburg
  • Bad Wildungen : Manni Raupach's private museum
• Austria :
  • Vienna - Donaustadt : Jazzmuseum Fatty-George-Jazzmus since October 2005 in the Essling district , where Fatty George grew up. It is also dedicated to other Austrian jazz greats such as Joe Zawinul and Hans Salomon .
• Switzerland :
  • SwissJazzOrama , Jazz Museum in Uster near Zurich, the only Swiss jazz archive is located in the same place. Every Friday a jazz concert in the evening and a jazz matinée on the first Sunday of the month. Important second hand record shop in the museum.
• Sweden :
  • Jazzens Museum in Strömsholm , since 1999
• Belgium :
  • Brussels : Jazzclub Jazzstation in the converted train station in Sint-Joost-ten-Node, not far from the government and European quarters. With media library and exhibitions.
• France :
  • Paris : Maison du Jazz, Champs Elysees 63. Audiovisual exhibitions, seminars, concerts.
• Portugal :
  • Lisbon : Museum of the oldest still existing jazz club in Europe, the Hot Clube de Portugal on Praça da Alegria square near Avenida da Liberdade

Web links

Commons : Jazzmuseum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• www.jazzpodium.de Exhibitions and jazz festivals
• Links to jazz archives and jazz museums from the University of Chicago Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jazz Collection of the Louisiana State Museum
2. ^ Jazz at Lincoln Center
3. ↑ Harlem Jazz Museum
4. ↑ Charlie Parker Memorial ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 8, 2015.  
5. ^ Smithsonian Jazz Museum
6. ^ University of Idaho Jazz Collections
7. ^ Louis Armstrong House and Archive
8. ^ Graystone International Jazz Museum, Detroit
9. ↑ Red Hot Jazz Archive ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ^ Institute of Jazz Studies Digital Jazz Exhibits (flash)
11. ↑ Bix-Eiben Jazz Museum
12. ↑ Article about Manni Raupach's private museum ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
13. ^ City of Vienna - Fatty-George-Jazzmus, Kulturfleckerl Eßling and homepage
14. ↑ SwissJazzOrama
15. ↑ Jazzens Museum in Strömsholm Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
16. ↑ Guided tours  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and homepage Jazzclub Jazzstation  
17. ↑ Maison du Jazz