Jazztage Dresden

The Dresden Jazz Days are held annually in the fall in Dresden International Jazz Festival, which has the Jazz prescribed in its full breadth. Since 2009 acts Kilian Forster, bassist of Klazzbrothers and founder of the festival, as director of the Dresden Jazz Days.

History

The idea for the festival was born in 2000 at a concert of the Klazzbrothers to the 650 -year anniversary of local Unkersdorf and implemented in the following year. The first Unkersdorfer Jazz Days were held to 23 September 2001 of 20. Despite an extremely short preparation time and the parallel organized popular wine festivals in Radebeul and Meissen, the festival attracted almost 500 visitors at that time.

After five years Unkersdorfer Jazz Days, the festival attracted 2006 Dresden Jazz Days in the country's capital, where she has since complement the cultural offer of Dresden.

International musicians such as Maceo Parker, Monty Alexander, Jacques Loussier, Al di Meola, Christopher Cross, Mike Stern and James Morrison as well as German jazz greats such as Paul Kuhn, Till Bronner or Günter " Baby" Sommer already appeared at the Jazz Festival Dresden. One of the early venues such as theater, airport or other locations Societaetstheater later came as the royal court at Wasaplatz that Yenidze that Rundkino or the Dresden Academy of Music.

The solid points in the Dresden Jazz Days program, the Funk & Soul Night ' at the airport and the Swing Band Ball have established.