Jazzkalender 250. Jazzkalender

... is available as always at Jazzkalender, your faithful companion for jazz and other music. The anniversary to be celebrated this time is not at all "as usual". But read for yourself, ladies and gentlemen:
LET'S TALK ABOUT
What we want with Jazzkalender - one thing is for sure: to add one more irrelevance to the almost unmanageable German jungle of newspapers. But rather. To provide brief and precise monthly information about important Leipzig jazz events. No more and no less.
That's what it said in January 1992 in the first Jazzkalender and today, as we hold the 250th issue in our hands, we realize: As much as Jazzclub Leipzig as a publisher and the jazz landscape in general have changed, as much as Jazzkalender has changed, the basic idea for our little magazine has always remained the same. To illustrate what is happening here and to draw attention to what the (independent) scene is constantly putting together.
Of course, many people are involved in such a project over such a long period of time, and we would like to thank them all here. However, the fact that Jazzkalender has actually existed continuously for over 23 years is closely linked to one person: Steffen Pohle has practically managed the whole thing alone for years and still supports us intensively today (he wrote the texts for the Kurt Weill Fest and the WARED Trio). When one of the younger members of the club recently told us enthusiastically that Louis Armstrong must have played in Leipzig once, Steffen immediately knew how much he had paid for the ticket back then (1965!)... Steffen, we say thank you very, very much!
One more word about February: This time we'll be covering the young Trio.Diktion (March 2), Flo Kästner's Berlin Calling Combo (March 8) and exceptional trombonist Nils Wogram, who will be coming to the Telegraph with Nostalgia (March 29).
We hope you enjoy reading the new jazz calendar and quote once again from number 1: Failure is not planned.

Your Jazzkalender editorial team