Düsseldorf Jazz Rally
The Düsseldorfer Jazz Rally (also: Düsseldorfer Jazz Rally ) is a renowned music festival in Düsseldorf that has been held annually on a weekend in early summer since 1993, and has always been at Whitsun since 2006 . With around 250,000 visitors, it is by far the most popular jazz festival in Germany.
history
The event initially was based on the Jazz Rally of Brussels and was first held from 25 to 27 June 1993 under the name Brussels Jazz Rally held.
At the ninth edition of the Düsseldorf Jazz Rally , now known as the Düsseldorf Jazz Rally , from June 25 to July 1, 2001, the concerts, some of which took place outdoors, already attracted 280,000 visitors despite the occasional rain. In recent years, the number of visitors has regularly been a quarter of a million people and more.
Sparda Jazz Award
The Jazz Rally has presented a jazz award every year since 2012 , a prize for young talent exclusively for jazz musicians between the ages of 18 and 28. The sponsor is the Art, Culture and Social Foundation of Sparda-Bank West . In addition to a live performance during the rally, the top three winners will receive prize money of € 3,000 (1st place) or € 1,500 (2nd and 3rd place respectively). Musicians, jazz producers, music journalists and the board of directors of the Sparda West Foundation are represented in the alternating 4-5-member jury. Permanent members are the patron Klaus Doldinger and Ursula Wißborn from the board of the foundation. For example, the bassist Nico Brandenburg (2012, 2014) and the pianist Sebastian Gahler (2013) were there as musicians . Elbjazz programmer Götz Bühler (2012), jazz author Klaus Hübner (2013), as well as WDR music journalist Karsten Mützelfeldt and jazz producer Rüdiger Herzog (both 2014) came from the jazz scene . The young jazz promotion prize, initially planned for three years, was recently contractually extended for another two years until 2018.
For 2016–2020, Schauinsland-Reisen acquired the naming rights of the festival as part of a sponsorship contract , which is now called Schauinsland-Reisen Jazz Rally Düsseldorf for an initial five years .
procedure
The audience is offered a series of over 80 concerts at around 30 venues from Thursday to Sunday. For its extraordinary popularity, it is significant on the one hand that almost all the performances can be attended with just a single ticket , which is issued in the form of " buttons " plus "day wristbands", and on the other hand that a large part of the venues are located in downtown Düsseldorf in principle, one can be reached on foot from the other, which is to be symbolized by the term “rally”. It is also important that several venues in Düsseldorf's already heavily frequented old town are open and accessible free of charge. Only a few special concerts are accessible with a specially purchased ticket.
The patron of the Jazz Rally has been Klaus Doldinger for several years , who fled with his family from Vienna to Düsseldorf as a child after the Second World War and took his first steps as a jazz musician there as a teenager. The second patron is traditionally the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf, Thomas Geisel since 2014.
The festival is organized by Destination Düsseldorf , which brings together around 150 Düsseldorf companies. It is privately financed without direct public subsidies, which makes the Jazz Rally unique in Germany.
criticism
Popular music styles beyond jazz are also presented in special concerts that are to be paid for , such as 2007–2009 Roger Cicero , Die Fantastischen Vier and Jan Delay . On the other hand, the majority of the concerts are carried out by well-known but less established musicians or little-known young artists through to music students, and at the same time little importance is attached to international stars. This enables the audience-effective, flat rate comparable pricing and allows visitors to attend several concerts in a row on each of the four days of the event for the price of usual concert tickets.
In this concept, which has been pushed forward over time, both a dilution of quality can be discovered on the one hand and a successful opportunity to reach an audience that goes far beyond the usual audience of jazz concerts and festivals on the other. For example, the number of visitors exceeds that of the Leverkusener Jazztage , one of the most renowned jazz festivals in Germany, by more than ten times.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 250,000 visitors at the largest German jazz festival
- ↑ Why the Jazz Rally belongs in Düsseldorf Westdeutsche Zeitung , May 19, 2012
- ^ Chronicle 1993 in the city archive of Düsseldorf
- ↑ Chronicle 2001 in the Düsseldorf City Archives
- ↑ In 2012 there were 300,000 visitors. See Jazz Rally attracts 300,000 music fans , Die Welt May 27, 2012
- ↑ a b The Sparda Jazz Award extended until 2016
- ^ Author profile Klaus Hübner , Literatur im Netz NRW, accessed October 22, 2014
- ↑ Milestone in the almost 25-year history of the music festival. Homepage of the Jazz Rally homepage. Retrieved March 12, 2016 .