New German online jazz magazine
Jazzpects is a new format of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, a collection of longer articles, essays and historical documents on jazz history and contemporary discourses in jazz, which is expected to be published biannually and is freely accessible online.
The Jazzpects supplement the Darmstadt Contributions to Jazz Research, a book series that documents the results of the Darmstadt Jazz Forum every two years and the Jazz News, and an e-mail newsletter that provides information on current developments in jazz every two weeks.
The first issue of the magazine contains a documentary by Rüdiger Ritter, Krystian Bodacki and Wolfram Knauer with many facsimiles about the II Jazz Festival in Sopot (Poland) in 1957, to which Werner Wunderlich, then living in Darmstadt, took a delegation of Frankfurt jazz musicians led by Albert and Emil Mangelsdorff to Poland. The event proved to be the prelude to and new beginning of cultural exchange between Germany and Poland after the Second World War.
At present, the content for Jazzpects is not subject to peer review. The staff of the Jazzinstitut are also editors; they are grateful for suggestions and proposals for future content. The current issue can always be downloaded as a pdf document at www.jazzpects.de can be downloaded.
