Swinging Hannover

Swinging Hannover, a recently enercity swinging hannover, is a two-day international jazz festival and takes place once a year since 1967 in Hanover. Organisers of the festival is the Jazz Club Hannover, whose founder Michael Gehrke has launched the festival to life. The festival is divided into the Jazz Band Ball on the eve of Ascension Day in the domed hall of the Hannover Congress Centrum and in the open-air concert on the Trammplatz front of the New Town Hall on the morning of Ascension Day. Every year, each of seven selected bands are.

Numerous national and international stars of the scene have played here. These include the Count Basie Orchestra, Candy Dulfer, The Manhattan Transfer, Incognito (band), Dusko Goykovich, Axel Zwingenberger and Oscar Klein. Furthermore, they include Clark Terry, Benny Bailey, Jimmy Woode, Maybebop and Benny Golson to call. Furthermore, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Viktor Lazlo, Romano Mussolini, Mr. Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band, Bennie Wallace Disorder tape, the big Chris Barber Band and Fred Wesley and the JBs occurred. Swinging Hannover became known by the numerous so-called " all-star line-ups " and the " Drum Battles ", where world famous drummers are up against each other, so for example, Al Foster, Pete York, Charly Antolini.

The open- air concert on Ascension was recorded up to the year 2000, the NDR television. The festival is visited every year by around 30,000 people, making it one of the largest in Germany.

The name of the festival was changed by his sponsor since 2005, Stadtwerke Hannover ( enercity ).