NDR jazz workshop

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The NDR jazz workshop is initially a form of event organized by Norddeutscher Rundfunk radio, later also television in Hamburg , founded in 1958 , where jazz musicians from different bands and different scenes worked together and presented their work results in a concert after several days of rehearsal. The NDR series of the same name later remained for the documentation of recorded jazz concerts.

history

In 1958, at the suggestion of Rolf Liebermann, Hans Gertberg developed the concept of the NDR jazz workshop from the studio jazz concert series that has existed since 1952. The broadcasting corporation invited leading jazz musicians from different countries to its place, gave them space for a week and the task of working out a concert program together. This created a platform for jazz musicians to “develop their art free of commercial pressure”. In the resulting concerts, which were then broadcast on radio and later also on television, the audience had the opportunity to experience “jazz by international music greats who would normally never have met”. Between ten and 20 musicians were invited to each jazz workshop three times a year. For several years since 1961, an NDR jazz workshop has taken place outside the broadcasting area every year - as part of the Ruhr Festival . In 1962 an international big band around Fatty George presented itself in Recklinghausen , for Gerstberg a “small league of nations under the sign of jazz”. Wes Montgomery and Johnny Griffin exchanged ideas with Martial Solal , Hans Koller, Ronnie Scott and Ronnie Ross in April 1965 . Even after Koller's resignation as director, Austrian musicians such as Fritz Pauer and Erich Kleinschuster were also included in the international summit meetings. An NDR jazz workshop also took place around Friedrich Gulda . Despite the Cold War , Gerstberg succeeded in bringing jazz musicians from Eastern Europe to the NDR jazz workshops: in early 1967, Andrzej Trzaskowski's Polish band met Americans like Nathan Davis and Dave Pike as well as Palle Mikkelborg , Albert Mangelsdorff and Ronnie Stephenson . There was also room for unusual constellations: in 1970, for example, the Dave Pike Set (with Volker Kriegel , Hans Rettenbacher and Peter Baumeister ) was expanded to include singer Karin Krog for an NDR jazz workshop .

Under the direction of editor Michael Naura , the orientation of the NDR jazz workshop changed from 1971, but also its frequency. Regular bands were invited to radio concerts with increasing frequency. Keith Jarrett's trio with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian ( Hamburg '72 ) performed on June 14, 1972 , Soft Machine on May 17, 1973 in the regular line-up, after Volker Kriegel performed the songs on his album on January 26 of the same year Missing Link presented a changed line-up (including Zbigniew Seifert , Stan Sulzmann , Peter Warren and Joe Nay ). In the 100th NDR Jazzworkshop, which took place in Hanover on April 18, 1974, Keith Jarrett met Jan Garbarek , Jon Christensen and Palle Danielsson , his later European quartet, after Garbarek had already visited Jarrett in winter and decided on compositions with him. Manfred Schoof and Alexander von Schlippenbach were commissioned to write compositions for the Globe Unity Orchestra for the 105th jazz workshop in November 1974, which could be carried out as a joint event with the series “das neue werk” (Schlippenbach also used the NDR choir a).

effect

The series of concerts and broadcasts was considered innovative and made a decisive contribution to publicizing the new developments in jazz in the broadcaster's area. From mid-1961 onwards, the rehearsal work in NDR Studio 10 was occasionally reported on television under the title “Notes from the Jazz Workshop”; later the concerts were documented on NDR television . Some concerts were also taken over by broadcasters in other European countries: For example, the NDR jazz workshop on March 28, 1969, in which Charles Tolliver , Herb Geller , Albert Mangelsdorff , Gilbert Dall'Anese , Wolfgang Schlueter and Ralf Hübner on Juhani Aaltonen , Eero Koivistoinen , Eero Ojanen and Pekka Sarmanto met, also broadcast by Finnish radio; four more workshops were created in cooperation with the Czech and Polish broadcasters.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e Johann Lankenau history of the NDR jazz workshop
  2. ↑ The album Belonging was made in Oslo a week later. See Ian Carr Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music. London 1991, pp. 76, 218.
  3. ↑ See Ekkehard Jost , European Jazz. Frankfurt am Main 1987, p. 146 and Melos / Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Volume 1 (1975), p. 45 as well as the album Globe Unity Orchestra 74, initially published by FMP
  4. ↑ cf. Hans Bredow Institute “No feast for the ears in the traditional sense” - Free Form Jazz and the beginnings of the NDR jazz workshop ( memento of the original from September 10, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hans-bredow-institut.de
  5. ↑ 2015 awarded an ECHO Jazz for the “editorial performance”, cf. ECHO Jazz for NDR recording ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )