with "rays of light. has "Memories and Reflections on Jazz in Dresden around the political turn of the Jazz Club New tonne a brochure published that attempts to wrest both the events surrounding the "ton" concerts of the former IG Jazz Dresden in October 1989 and the memories of some musicians from oblivion and to find answers to the question of the role that the East German cultural policy or even the state security in the adoption of the vaulted cellar under the ruins of the palace by the IG Courlanders Jazz at the end of the seventies and early eighties was playing. is also the final part of the project brochure "turning Jazz - Jazz in Dresden around the political changes in 1989," the "from the program" 20 Years Peaceful Revolution and the German unit of the Saxon State promoted and had been held in the framework of two concerts in October 2009 and an exhibition at the Jazz Club New tonne by end 2009. Also lectures and a website were part of the project.
illustrates the using of drawings of the 1999 who died in Dresden artist and jazz friend Jürgen Haufe of Kelly Nicely (principle graphic designer) design sophisticated brochure that the former IG Jazz Dresden in the years before the political change in Jazz organizers certainly the beneficiaries of the culture and security policy of the GDR was one, never "to the disadvantaged, or even the oppressed." The publication also refers, however, that this constellation worked quite well for the benefit of jazz fans and good, international jazz: could take place as many wild and interesting concert with musicians from the West because it jazz-oriented culture officials, or even IMs had succeeded, "up" the distrust to dissipate. Described using a few examples, also wanted to "break down with what perfidious methods, the Stasi dissenters in the field of jazz."
The documentary part of the publication calls two concerts in the old "ton" in October 1989 in memory and shows how the anniversary concerts have twenty years later in October 2009, addressed the 1989 concept and developed.
Mathias Bäumel
Jazz Club Neue Tonne Dresden e. V. (ed.): Highlights. Memories and Reflections on Jazz in Dresden about the political change, Dresden 2010, 56 pages, ISBN 978-3-941209-04-6
reference to www.jazzclubtonne.de or, from September 2010 back to concerts Jazz Club New tonne or Sweetwater, Friedrich Wieck Str 4, 01326 Dresden.
donation to the "ton" from 5 € per issue welcome.
