25 years of the Swiss Jazz Archive
The Swiss Jazz Archive, housed in the SwissJazzOrama Uster, is 25 years old and is organizing a special exhibition to mark its silver jubilee.
In text, images and sound, the show "25 Years of the Jazz Archive" in Uster from September 5, 2014 honors the founders of this institution as well as all those donors who have made a special contribution to the valuable and sometimes unique holdings of this national archive.
The SwissJazzOrama collects and archives audio and video recordings, literature and testimonies of all kinds from the world of jazz, but concentrates on items with a Swiss connection. It all began in 1989 with the founding of the supporting association Pro Jazz Schweiz and the expansion of Otto Flückiger's jazz collection into the jazz archive in Rheinfelden. After a four-year interim phase in Arlesheim, the Swiss Jazz Archive moved to Uster, where it flourished in 1998 in new structures and under new sponsorship as SwissJazzOrama.
The anniversary exhibition "25 Years of the Jazz Archive" celebrates its vernissage on Friday, September 5, 5 pm, at the headquarters of SwissJazzOrama. The first quarter of a century of the Jazz Archive is also the occasion for a concert jazz weekend (November 7/8/9, 2014) and other events.
