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9. Darmstädter Jazzforum
Treason !!! ... or Chance?
Jazz and its ambivalent relationship(s) with popular musicfrom September 29th to October 2nd 2005
Jazz always resisted being pidgeonholed: Some thought it to be the popular music of the 1930s and basis for many later styles in popular music, for others it was art music and as thus an alternative to the commercial aspects of popular music. Jazz musicians always had to live with this split identity of their music, they had to reflect it, but they also could make use of it for their own purposes.
At the 9th Darmstadt Jazzforum we want to look at different aspects of this relationship between jazz and popular music. We will discuss some basic questions (What makes music popular?), we will look at historical facts (Where and when did jazz and popular music split and how did the relationship between the two develop thereafter?), we will ask about the economic situation jazz is being played and produced in (for instance about the influence of record labels), we will discuss current tendencies (young jazz musicians who consciously make use of popular music idioms) and aesthetic questions (Jazz as art music, the suspicious sides of commercial success).
As always at our Darmstadt Jazzforum we have invited historians, musicologists, sociologists, as well as musicians to approach the topic from different sides. Among the speakers are: Diedrich Diederichsen, Andreas Felber, Fabian Holt, Andrew Hurley, Peter Kemper, Wolfram Knauer, Paul W. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky), Martin Pfleiderer, Jürgen Schwab, Frithjof Strauß, Colin Towns and others. All papers will be given either in German or English, no simultaneous translation is being provided. If you want to attend, thus, you should have a general knowledge of the German language. The conference from September 29th to October 1st, 2005 is public and free and can be attended without prior registration. The conference is held at the conference hall of the Darmstadt Literaturhaus, the former John-F.-Kennedy-Haus (Kasinostrasse 3).
Part of the conference will be a panel discussion with colleagues from jazz business - agents, media people, producers. They will discuss their own experiences in producing and marketing jazz and the problems with the term "jazz" as a sales factor, with the tendencies of (especially German) listeners to pidgenhole musical tastes.
The Darmstadt Jazzforum will also feature an ensemble workshop with bassist Henry Grimes at the jazz lounge "Stella". And it will present an exhibition with drawings and paintings by Tony Munzlinger at three locations: Centralstation (during the evening concerts), Literaturhaus (during the conference) and the newly established "Galerie im Jazzinstitut" (from September 23rd).
No jazz conference would be complete without live music. And thus we will deal with the topic of the Jazzforum in musical terms during three evening concerts at Centralstation and Bessunger Knabenschule, featuring, among others the NDR Bigband under the direction of Colin Towns, the Henry Grimes Trio with David Murray and Hamid Drake, DJ Spooky (That Subliminal Kid), as well as the bands Palinckx and AUTOFAB.
Detailed Plan of the 9th Darmstadt Jazzforum
Thursday, September 29th 2005:
Exhibition
Location: Literaturhaus (John-F.-Kennedy-Haus), Rheinstraße/Kasinostraße
14:00 h: opening and reception: Exhibition with Jazz drawings and paintings by Tony MunzlingerSymposium
Location: Literaturhaus (John-F.-Kennedy-Haus), Rheinstraße/Kasinostraße
14:30 h: Martin Pfleiderer (Hamburg): Was macht Musik populär?
15:30 h: Andrew Hurley (Melbourne, Australien): Joachim Ernst Berendt – Jazz, U-Musik, Pop-Jazz und die Ambivalenz (1950-70)
16:30 h: Fabian Holt (Kopenhagen, Dänemark): Not a Silent Way: Popular Music and Jazz Modernism after Elvis (lecture in English)Friday, September 30th 2005:
Workshop
"grimes ahead!" Ensemble-Workshop with Henry Grimes
Location: Stella (Bar Lounge), Rheinstraße 40-42, 10.00 to 18.00 hSymposium
Location: Literaturhaus (John-F.-Kennedy-Haus), Rheinstraße/Kasinostraße
10:00 h: Wolfram Knauer (Darmstadt): Healing Force of the Universe? Warum der Free Jazz zahm wurde
11:00 h: Jürgen Schwab (Hanau): New Standards – Die (gar nicht mal so) neue Lust am Covern im Jazz
12:00 h: Frithjof Strauß (Greifswald): Zwischen Garbarek und Landgren. Zur Popularität des Jazz aus Skandinavien
15:00 h: Roundtable zu Aspekten der Produktion und Vermarktung von Jazz. Moderation: Peter Kemper; Teilnehmer: Veit Bremme, Bodo JacobyHarald Justin, Reiner Michalke, Olaf SchönbornConcert
Location: Centralstation, Saal, 20.30 h
"it's later than you think"
NDR Bigband with Colin Towns feat. Norma WinstoneExhibition
Location: Literaturhaus (during the Symposium), Centralstation (during the concert)
Exhibition with Jazz drawings and paintings by Tony MunzlingerSaturday, October 1st 2005
Symposium
Location: Literaturhaus (John-F.-Kennedy-Haus), Rheinstraße/Kasinostraße
10:00 h: Peter Kemper (Frankfurt/Main): Rock around the Pop. Überlegungen zur Belastbarkeit von Dummy-Terms im Jazz
11:00 h: Colin Towns (England): "musicians interview with Wolfram Knauer" (in English)
14:30 h: Paul D. Miller (New York): Rhythm Science (lecture in English) [this lecture takes place at Stella, Rheinstrasse 40-42]
16:00 h: Andreas Felber (Wien): Alter Greis auf der Suche nach neuer Jugend?
17:00 h: Diedrich Diederichsen (Berlin): Jazz als Concept-ArtConcert
Location: Centralstation, Saal, 20.30 h
"heritage and new soundscapes"
Henry Grimes Trio feat. David Murray & Hamid Drake
DJ Spooky That Subliminal KidExhibition
Location: Literaturhaus (during the Symposium), Centralstation (during the concert)
Exhibition with Jazz drawings and paintings by Tony MunzlingerSunday, October 2nd 2005
Concert
Location: Kulturzentrum Bessunger Knabenschule, 20.30 h
"free link music"
Palinckx
AUTOFABDie Partner des 9. Darmstädter Jazzforums
About the Darmstadt Jazzforum:
The Darmstadt Jazzforum is a unique blend of scholarly conference and festival organized every other year by the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Europe's largest public jazz archive and highly regarded research center. One of the world's few regular jazz conferences it centers around specific subjects which are discussed at length during the three day symposium at Darmstadt's Literaturhaus (fittingly situated in the former John-F.-Kennedy-Haus) by scholars from different fields: musicologists, sociologists, psychologists, literary critics, journalists as well as musicians, who regularly participate themselves to give their view of the subjects under discussion. Former conferences centered around subjects such as "Jazz and Composition", "Jazz and Language", "Jazz in Europe", "Jazz in Germany", "Duke Ellington and what followed", "Jazz and Society", "improvising..."
More information can be obtained from:
Jazzinstitut Darmstadt
Bessunger Strasse 88d
D-64285 Darmstadt
Germany
Tel. ++49 (6151) 963700
Fax ++49 (6151) 963744
e-mail: jazz@jazzinstitut.de
Website: www.jazzinstitut.de
