Jazz Forum (magazine)

Jazz Forum is a jazz magazine, which was published by the European Jazz Federation founded in 1964 by Jan Byrczek in Warsaw. She appeared from 1965 in a Polish and from 1967 to 1989 in an English edition in Warsaw. The Polish edition still appears. From 1976 to 1981, a German edition appeared.

The magazine has enabled readers in Eastern Europe of information about jazz in the West get hold.

In the German edition wrote, among others, Joachim Ernst Berendt ( who also wrote the first English edition, 1967), Jürg Solothurnmann ( correspondent for Switzerland ), Michael Zwerin, Willis Conover and Charles Lippegaus. Bert Noglik was from 1976 to her German correspondent for the GDR. The German edition was published as the other editions usually every two months. ( No. 45 to 74) Wolfram Knauer counted the Journal and its international editions the most important jazz publications of the 1970s and 1980s.

The European Jazz Federation - she called herself later International Jazz Federation and was a member of the International Music Council of UNESCO - she edited, was from 1969 its official seat in Vienna. On the German side was Joe Viera 1969-1980 on the board.