Subway (music club)

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Jazz in the Subway 2018

The Subway is a music club located under a multi-storey residential building in the Belgian quarter of Cologne , which is also known as a discotheque . Since 1970 it has been located at Aachener Strasse 82–84.

history

Klaus Appelt founded the Subway , previously the cool cellar of a brewery, as a jazz club ; the first concert with the Boogie Woogie Company and Peter Trunk's trio took place on December 4, 1970. On Tuesdays, sometimes twice a week, (primarily American) jazz musicians performed, cross-financed by operating as a disco on the other days of the week. Appelt geared the program mainly to American mainstream jazz ; Musicians such as Dexter Gordon , Horace Silver , Johnny Griffin , Tommy Flanagan and Art Blakey played , but also Chet Baker and Max Roach . Stan Getz reportedly horrified fans for electronically editing his sound.

The program was of high quality, so that the radio recorded concerts. From 1984 the WDR even put its television cameras in the club: under the title "Jazz im Subway", Dieter Hens directed the first television series that broadcast live recordings from a German jazz club. Due to the wishes and fees of the television, the program could become more complex. Sun played Archie Shepp , Arnett Cobb , McCoy Tyner , Dizzy Gillespie , Joachim Kühn , Freddie Hubbard , Gary Bartz , Gonzalo Rubalcaba , Tony Williams , Eugen Cicero , Ray Brown and Abdullah Ibrahim . In 2000, Peter Sommer also initiated the Rockpalast festival series Crossroads , which was filmed in the Cologne club, which was only accessible via stairs, in the first two years.

The Appelt era ended in November 2001. The club closed and was rebuilt; When it reopened in 2002, the program structure changed. Jazz concerts no longer took place. Music acts and DJs from other genres such as hip hop or electro then appeared. From 2002 to 2017 the Beatpackers Party with DJ Cem was the meeting point for hiphop and rap fans on Thursdays . Although the Subway is a small club, international greats such as DJ Hell and Hans Nieswandt also play there on Fridays and Saturdays . Jazz has only recaptured the Subway since 2008. For several years the KLAENG Festival, organized by the musicians' collective of the same name, took place there in autumn. Since the summer of 2013, the Subway Jazz Orchestra has been on stage twice a month on Wednesdays .

Discographic notes

Subway Jazz Orchestra 2018
  • The Boogie Woogie Company Live For Dancing (Columbia 1971)
  • Chet Baker In Your Own Sweet Way ( Circle Records rec. 1980, ed. 1983, with Nicola Stilo, Dennis Luxion , Riccardo Del Fra )
  • Chet Baker Down - Live in the Subway Club (Circle Records rec. 1980, ed. 1988)

literature

  • Robert von Zahn: Jazz in Cologne since 1945: concert culture and cellar art. Emons Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-924491-81-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Oscar Peterson the subway stairs were too steep , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , November 6, 2001
  2. ↑ Oscar Peterson was supposed to perform for the 20th anniversary of the Subway ; but supposedly the stairs to the basement were too steep for the corpulent pianist. See the article in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
  3. ^ Portrait of Peter Sommer
  4. ↑ Club portrait
  5. ↑ On the CD edition cf. Chet Baker Live at the Subway Club at Allmusic (English)

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '12.1 "  N , 6 ° 55' 53.9"  E