10 Facts About German jazz

Jazz was incorporated into musical works such as operas and chamber music through "art-German jazz", which utilized German jazz-inspired and ragtime-inspired syncopated rhythms and modes.

German jazz gave young people the enthusiastic hope for rebuilding the country.

American jazz musicians were heard at the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts, and at events in the major concert halls in western Germany.

Until the end of the 1950s, the German jazz scene was strongly fixated on imitating American jazz, and on regaining the period of development it had previously missed.

From 1954 on, West German jazz slowly departed from the pattern established by this musical role model.

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Karl Heinz Drechsel was dismissed from his job at the GDR broadcasting organization in 1952 because of his fondness for German jazz and was prohibited from organizing German jazz broadcasts again until 1958.

The Theo Jorgensmann quartet, an avant-garde German jazz group, was even in the Best-of Lists of Popular Music in the Music-Yearbook Rock Session.

In East Germany in particular, free jazz musicians developed their own gestures and improvised first on apparently East German-specific material in such a way that the idea of an "Eisler-Weill Folk-Free jazz" could take hold abroad.

Over time, elements of German jazz were increasingly integrated with other styles such as hip-hop, later drum 'n' bass and others, most prominently by the internationally successful duo Tab Two.

Since the 1990s, Germany's most renowned jazz festival has been regularly criticised, and its artistic directors have fallen back on highly elaborate concepts without a clear artistic line being visible.