Swinging Hanover

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Swinging Hannover , officially enercity swinging hannover since 2005 , is a two-day international jazz festival and has been taking place once a year in Hannover since 1967 .

history

The festival is organized by the Hanover Jazz Club , whose founder Michael Gehrke brought the festival to life in 1967. The festival began as an open air concert on Opernplatz. In 1969 the jazz band ball was added in initially changing institutions. It was not until 1971 that the open-air concert moved to Trammplatz. Today the jazz bandball is called Jazz Night and takes place regularly on the evening before Ascension Day in the dome hall of the Hanover Congress Center and the open-air concert on Trammplatz in front of the New Town Hall on Ascension Day morning. There are five or six selected bands each year.

reception

Numerous international and national stars of the scene played at the festival. Swinging Hannover a. a. through the numerous so-called "all-star casts" that were introduced from the end of the 1990s under the name "Swinging Hannover All Stars". These "all-star casts" included a. Music greats like Sweets Edison , Red Holloway , Houston Person , Jimmy Woode , Keith Copeland , Etta Jones , Benny Bailey , Keith Smith , Rod Mason , Colin T. Dawson , Jerry Tilitz , Joe Wulf , Peter Müller , Andy McGhee , Charly Höllering , Thilo Wagner , Hal Singer , Abraham Burton , Dick de Graaf , Romano Mussolini , Benny Golson , Oscar Klein , Doug Weiss , Eli Degibri , Aaron Goldberg , Dusko Goykovich and Olaf Polziehn .

World-famous drummers competed against each other in the so-called “Drum Battles”, for example Al Foster , Pete York , Bobby Durham , Huub Janssen , Gregor Beck and Charly Antolini .

The bands that have been part of Swinging Hannover so far include: a. Mezzoforte , Lothar Krist Hannover Big Band , Knut Richter Swingtett , Count Basie Orchestra , Nils Landgren Funk Unit , Electro Deluxe , Klaus Doldingers Passport , Jazzkantine , Nils Wülker and Band , Mario Biondi and Band , NDR Bigband , Candy Dulfer and Band , The Big Chris Barber Band , Marquess , Anthony Strong and Band , Brand New Heavies , New York Voices , Incognito , The Manhattan Transfer , Paddy Milner and the Big Sounds , Take 6 , Dirty Dozen Brass Band , Fred Wesley and the JBs , Bennie Wallace Disorder Band , The Blues Band , Roomful of Blues , King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys , Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazzband , Max Collies Rhythm Aces , Swingin 'Fireballs , Axel Zwingenbergers Boogie Woogie Two , Phil Mason New Orleans All Stars , Mardi Gras Brass Band , Trevor Richards Trio , Maynard Ferguson Band , BB & The Blues Shacks , Engelbert Wrobels Swing Society , Les Haricots Rouges and Old Merry Tale Jazzband .

The other music guests at Swinging Hannover included a. Hazy Osterwald , Benny Waters , Silvia Droste , Barbara Dennerlein , Katie Webster , Beryl Bryden , Eggy Ley , Jean Shy , Sid Kucera , Monty Sunshine , Tyree Glenn , Axel Prasuhn , Turk Murphy , Ian Wheeler , René Franc , Humphrey Lyttelton , Ken Colyer , Clyde Bernhardt , Bud Freeman , Viktor Lazlo , Lillian Boutté , Clark Terry , Wild Bill Davis , Arnett Cobb , John Defferary , Lindy Huppertsberg , Eddie Jones , Linda Hopkins , Lonnie Donegan , Peter "Banjo" Meyer , Wolfgang Schlueter and Max Mutzke .

The open-air concert on Ascension Day was recorded by NDR television until 2000 . With around 40,000 visitors (in the last two years) it describes itself as Germany's largest open-air jazz festival.

The name of the festival has been changed by its sponsor since 2005, Stadtwerke Hannover .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sören Oelrichs: Hanover swings through Father's Day . ndr.de. May 5, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ Jazz festival attracts thousands to Trammplatz. May 13, 2018, accessed May 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 40,000 at Ascension Jazz with Mezzoforte on Trammplatz. May 31, 2019, accessed May 31, 2019 .