Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts takes over jazz archive
The research department of the Lucerne School of Music, together with the Swiss National Sound Archives, is taking over and archiving the entire archive of the Schaffhausen Jazz Festival.
For 28 years, the Schaffhausen Jazz Festival has been documenting the Swiss jazz scene almost completely as a showcase of current Swiss jazz. The donation will "not only guarantee professional archiving, but also create public access", similar to what the HSLU Music is already doing with the archive of the Willisau Jazz Festival, write those responsible.
Together with the Swiss National Sound Archives, the university will process, catalog and store the material - over 3000 application documents, over 2500 hours of sound recordings by SRF 2 Kultur, media reports and festival photographs, concert videos, all advertising material (posters, program booklets, flyers and so on) - in order to make it accessible to the public as an online archive via the Schaffhausen Jazz Festival website in around two years' time.
