The Jazzinstitut
Darmstadt, a municipal institute of the city of Darmstadt,
is Europe's largest public research archive on jazz. It holds specialized
books, periodicals, sheet music, records, photographs as well as
posters and other memorabilia. It provides services for researchers
(journalists, musicologists, students), as well as for the music
community, for musicians and music educators, working to broaden
the audience of jazz as an African American music which has become
a major influence on world culture. The Jazzinstitut Darmstadt is
the foremost institute of its kind in Europe and acknowledged for
its varied services by American colleagues as well. The Jazzinstitut
resides in a small baroque palais built 1709-1725. The historical
cave underneath the Jazzinstitut is being used for intimate concerts,
among them the concert series "JazzTalk".
The Jazzinstitut
is a municipal institute founded and financed by the city
of Darmstadt.
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Jazzinstitut's treasure -- antiquarian books
The
perfect present for jazz lovers!
As many other archives,
the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt has a lot of doublettes, triplettes, quadruplettes.
Much of this is highly regarded material, and we would not part with
it. Some material, though, is here in such quantities that we decided
to open this online "shop" in order to finance the further
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about current activities of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt
The Jazzinstitut
Darmstadt is involved in innumerable projects all over the world. Many
of these are coordinated from the historic Bessunger Kavaliershaus.
For others we travel around the world, for lectures, conferences, meetings,
exhibitions. In this column we report about some of the more recent
activities we've been involved in.
Our motto, still:
Darmstadt is everywhere... |
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|  New
Books ...
Our archive is
growing and growing. On this page we introduce you to some new books
in the arhive of the Jazzinstitut - in English as well as German language.
Our archive is
no lending library, but you will find enough space to read and browse
and listen to some music. And we gladly invite you for a cup of coffee.
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 One
of the most used services of the Jazzinstitut is the Jazz-Index. This
is the world's largest computerbased bibliography on jazz, listing
articles, essays, interviews and much more contained in books and
periodicals of the Jazzinstitut's archive.
The Jazz Index can be used for no fee by everybody, researcher, studend,
fan. How does it work? If you want to know what written information
the Jazzinstitut has on a specific musician, just write us an e-mail
and ask for a free excerpt on this musician from our Jazz Index. We
will respond as soon as your e-mail has been opened. You'll receive
a mail containing a (long) list of articles, essays, interviews and
much more including a short characterisation of what's in the entry.
Here
are some excerpts from our Jazz-Index – bibliographies on:
Louis Armstrong, Paul Bley, Paul Chambers, Don Cherry, Eric
Dolphy, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Peter Herbolzheimer, Peter Kowald,
James Newton, Django Reinhardt. These are just examples –
you can order more excerpts on specific musicians from us at no cost
by ordering it by e-mail.
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 4.
February 2000:
Joachim Ernst Berendt died
On Friday, 4. February
2000 Joachim Ernst Berendt, journalists, critic, producer, broadcaster
and one of the most important promoters of jazz in Germany died after
he had been hit by a car in Hamburg.
The Jazzinstitut Darmstadt,
holding the Berendt archive, is mourning for an important German intellectual,
for a man who helped jazz and jazz musicians wherever he could, and
for a dear friend.
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 "Little
Walter". A sculpture by Detlef Kraft in front of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt
A new sculpture
has recently been unveiled in front of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt. It
is an artful monument dedicated to blues harp player "Little Walter.
Since then we have photographed a couple of visitors to the Jazzinstitut
in front of the sculpture.
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| "Jazz"
Ein
Überblick über die Jazzgeschichte
A short survey on the History
(von
Wolfram Knauer)
Jazz celebrates
its 100th birthday. Here you find a historical overview covering the
development of jazz from its start up to the 21st century (in German
only)
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More
about the Jazzinstitut -
A descriptive and photographic tour of the Jazzinstitut
Bessunger
Kavaliershaus -
Some remarks about the architecture of the Jazzinstitut's site
[mostly in German]
How
to find us -
City map and further explanations
Publications
of the Jazzinstitut |
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Jazz
Research / current
research projects -
Addresses
of archives and researchers; information about current research
projects from all over the world
Jazz-Index
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Bibliographical services of the Jazzinstitute including bibliographical
listings for several musicians
Jazz-Periodicals
worldwide -
from all over the world. Lists complete mailing, e-mail
and Internet addresses
Jazz-Periodicals
at the Jazzinstitut -
A catalogue of what we have
Periodicals
Exchange -
Doublettes of our periodicals can be ordered by other archives
or collectors for exchange ...
Jazz
Links -
A listing of interesting jazz links
Jazz
Research
- A listing of serious research projects published on the web
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| Concerts
in and around Darmstadt [in
German]
Musicians
and Bands in Darmstadt
[in German]
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