Jazz Ost-West

Jazz Ost - West was a Jazz Festival, which takes place in Nuremberg since 1966 every two years. The event was initially the city of Nuremberg. It was organized under the patronage of the Nürnberger Nachrichten.

During the Cold War, the festival was first used as a meeting point between jazz musicians from the West and the Soviet bloc. For a long time the opportunity was mainly here for a German audience given to inform yourself about the latest development not only in the U.S. but also in different parts of Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the 1990s, the festival lost its importance. The audience went back and also the Bavarian television no longer wore. The Club Jazz Studio Association, which has been taken over the organization of the city, also withdrew, so that the festival in 2002 was again taken over by the city and the last time performed.

At the festival, among others, were Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Albert Mangelsdorff, Attila Zoller, Rolf Kühn, Klaus Doldinger, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Peter Herbolzheimer, Barbara Dennerlein, the big bands of Dusko Goykovich and Kurt Edelhagen, Tomasz Stanko, Peter Brötzmann, Art Blakey, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie husband, Phil Woods, Archie Shepp, Abdullah Ibrahim, Keith Jarrett, Karin Krog, Cecil Taylor, Paul Motian, Egberto Gismonti, Adam Makowicz, Bobby McFerrin, German Clarinet Duo, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, McCoy Tyner, Charlie Mariano, Jasper van't yard, Abbey Lincoln, Michel Petrucciani, John McLaughlin, Bill Frisell, Lou Donaldson, Milt Jackson, Trilok Gurtu, Jiří Stivín, Dewey Redman, Carla Bley, Hagaw Association and Terje Rypdal on. There also the International Jazz Award of the Nürnberger Nachrichten was awarded. http://www.nuernberg.de/imperia/md/gruene/dokumente/antraege/kulturausschuss/jazzfestival_stimmenfang_17_10_12.pdf

His successor was from 2005 the Jazz Festival fishing for votes which was discontinued in 2013.