This year JazzFest Berlin marked its 60th anniversary with an outstanding programme and a couple of special strands to mark the anniversary. These celebrations focused on the Berlin community, in particular on that in the Moabit district, an area in [...]
Berlin, Berlin, we’re on our way to Berlin!(*) Every autumn we go to the jazz festival, which was considered for a long time the most important festival in Europe, if not the world. In its early days it was closely [...]
Jazzfest Berlin started in 1964, and has announced the full programme for its “Jubiläumsausgabe” (Jubilee Edition). As the release states: “The past, present and future also interact in the diverse concert programme of the anniversary edition, and over the four [...]
One of the strengths of JazzFest Berlin – this year presenting its 60th edition – is that it provides a insight into many of the key developments in contemporary jazz, and a confident selection of some of the most creative groups [...]
The distinguished Munich-based journalist Ralf Dombrowski sets the scene for the 60th Jazzfest Berlin, looking at the festival’s history, at the programme in general, and at one concert which is set to be a defining moment of this year’s event [...]
This year, JazzFest Berlin, presenting its 59th edition, returned to its natural home, the Berliner Festspiele, a venue near perfect for a jazz festival due to its size and flexibility. The programme, as in recent editions, was based on four elements, the Artist [...]
The programme of Jazzfest Berlin 2022 is announced and tickets go on sale this morning. The press release begins: “After the two hybrid festival editions with digital bridges to New York, Johannesburg, Cairo and São Paulo due to the pandemic, [...]
Jazzfest Berlin was founded in 1964 in West Berlin as the “Berliner Jazztage” with an activist spirit informed by the civil rights movement. Dr Martin Luther King sent a speech when the festival opened, a fact pianist Jason Moran reminded [...]
The Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin is a golden egg designed by Frank Gehry to yoke audience and artist together and hatch an intimate mutual response through music. There’s no stage or separation between the oval central floor space and [...]
“An international, collaborative experiment” is how Festival Director describes Jazzfest Berlin 2021. Ahead of the opening of the festival on Thursday 4 November, a further press release has been published, developing further the theme of this year’s hybrid digital event, [...]
