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500
CONCERTS IN 35 YEARS
500 CONCERTS EN 35 ANNÉES
— 500 KONZERTE IN 35 JAHREN
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jazzclubluxembourg was founded in 1967 by a group of jazz enthusiasts
under the decisive initiative of its first president, the late
Marc Weber. Its origins go back to meetings and spontaneous
jam sessions of jazz aficionados in Luxembourg in the mid-sixties.
Its purpose is to enliven the Luxembourg jazz scene through
concerts with international and home-grown jazz artists. The
full spectrum of jazz styles is presented to its customers,
from modern jazz to avant-garde, traditional, and fusion jazz,
including also world music. Its sole ambition is to present
a top quality and varied programme to its customers. At its
adventurous beginnings concerts took place at changing places,
first at the "Walsheim" near the Central Station,
later at the "Napoleons-Haus" in Luxemburg-Grund.
Since 1972 the jazzclubluxembourg has regularly organized concerts
at the "Melusina" in Luxembourg-Clausen and other
venues. Especially since the mid-nineties the jazzclubluxembourg
has widened its activities beyond the confines of the capital
and has organized concerts at the Centre culturel in Belvaux
(Paul Bley, Enrico Rava, Paolo Frisu), the Centre des Arts Pluriels
in Ettelbruck (Dollar Brand) as well as the Conservatory in
Esch/Alzette (Anouar Brahem). In 1995, the year Luxembourg was
Cultural Capital of Europe, the jazzclubluxembourg organized
an international jazz festival at the "Cité des
Chapiteaux" in downtown Luxemburg with jazz legends John
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1995, the jazzclubluxembourg organized the very first jazz rally
in the romantic surroundings of the old part of the city, Grund
and Clausen, where well over 30 bands and solists from the greater
region appeared.Today, the jazzclubluxembourg draws up a programme
in cooperation with the Luxembourg Municipal Theatre with concerts
taking place on the premises of the latter. Many jazz legends
have called in Luxembourg since the beginnings, among which
one finds the cream of jazz from the U.S. (Dexter Gordon, Charlie
Mingus, Buddy Tate, Woody Shaw, Art Blakey, Chet Baker, Elvin
Jones, Anthony Braxton, Dollar Brand, Art Ensemble of Chicago,
McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson) as well as the big names of European
jazz (Philip Catherine, N.-H. Orsted Pedersen, Jan Garbarek,
Toots Thielemans, Jan Garbarek, Vienna Art Orchestra, Albert
Mangelsdorff and Wolfgang Dauner, Joachim Kühn, Maria Joao,
Urszula Dudziak, Gary Thomas), but also some stars of Latin
jazz (Arturo Sandoval, Airto Moreira & Flora Purim, Gonzalo
Rubalcaba or Paquito d'Rivera) and world music (Don Cherry,
Trilok Gurtu) - to name the best-known. With hindsight, it shows
that some of the artists that were guests in Luxembourg have
later become major jazz artists, as, for example, Keith Jarrett,
John Scofield or Ray Anderson. The presentation of musicians
from Luxemburg, especially young talents, is another ambition
of the jazzclubluxembourg. At least once a year, there takes
place, under the motto "Jazz in Luxembourg", a concert
night presenting bands and/or artists from the national scene.
Altogether, the jazzclubluxembourg has organized more than 500
concerts since its foundation and has attained during more than
35 years of existence a reputation beyond the confines of Luxembourg.
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