Lucerne School of Music opens jazz archive
Two years ago, the Schaffhausen Jazz Festival handed over its archive to the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Together with the Swiss National Sound Archives, the University has catalogued and digitized the material. It will make it available to the public in an online archive on May 22, 2019.
Together with the Swiss National Sound Archives and with the support of other specialized institutions, such as Swiss Radio and Television SRF and the Lucerne Central and University Library, over 3000 artist biographies, 2500 hours of sound recordings, media reports and images, videos and all promotional material have been professionally processed.
The archive documents jazz and improvised music in Switzerland since the early 1990s. The audiovisual collection consists primarily of concerts, audio and video recordings recorded live by SRF, and recordings submitted by bands to the program committee.
The online archive will be launched at the opening of this year's festival on Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at the Kulturzentrum Kammgarn. Selected years will be accessible there at the start, and more will be added gradually.
Photo (from left): Hausi Naef, Urs Röllin, Barbara Ackermann (all OC Schaffhausen Jazz Festival) and Michael Kaufmann (Director Lucerne School of Music)
