Jazz Days Dresden
The Dresden Jazz Days are an international jazz festival that takes place every autumn in Dresden and is dedicated to jazz in its full range. Since 2009 Kilian Forster, bassist of the Klazz Brothers and founder of the festival, has been the artistic director of the Dresden Jazz Days.
history
The idea for the festival was born in 2000 on the occasion of a concert by the Klazz Brothers for the 650th anniversary of Unkersdorf and implemented the following year. The first Unkersdorf Jazz Days took place from September 20 to 23, 2001. Despite an extremely short preparation time and the popular wine festivals held in Radebeul and Meißen at the same time, the festival attracted almost 500 visitors.
After five years of Unkersdorfer Jazztage, the festival moved to the state capital as Jazztage Dresden in 2006 , where it has since complemented Dresden's cultural offerings.
International musicians such as Maceo Parker , Monty Alexander , Jacques Loussier , Al di Meola , Christopher Cross , Mike Stern or James Morrison as well as German jazz greats such as Paul Kuhn , Till Brönner or Günter “Baby” Sommer have already performed at the Dresden Jazz Days. In addition to the early venues such as the theater , airport or Societaetstheater , other locations such as the Königshof am Wasaplatz , the Yenidze , the Rundkino or the Dresden University of Music were added .
The Funk & Soul Night at the airport and the swing band Ball have established themselves as fixed points in the Dresden Jazz Days program .
In 2019 there was an event not related to music for the first time at the Dresden Jazz Days. The controversial historian Daniele Ganser stepped up to create a counter-public to the mainstream media and proclaim his alternative truth about 9/11 .