For over forty years, Berlin has in early November been the city capital of jazz. It has been recognized the city festival of jazz because it represents all the diverse styles of jazz. The full and varied programme is equally traditional and progressive and has in the past tended to particularly focus on big bands and large ensembles.

The Jazz Fest Berlin has a long and enviable history. It started out in 1964 and has for the rest of this decade been involved in presenting some very interesting and swinging concerts. The Berlin Jazz festival gained momentum in its early years due to it being closely connected with the late Joachim Ernst Berendt. Joachim Ernst Berendt was known throughout Germany as the ¨Jazz Pope¨ at the time. The main driving force and reason that the Jazz festival gained momentum was because Berendt brought jazz musicians together from all corners of the globe and put them on stage together, this undeniably created a special blend and mix for the art form that is Jazz.

The Berlin Jazz festival takes place over a period of four days and in keeping up with its legacy created by Berendt, the Jazz festival today still creates a special blend of music by combining jazz musicians from all over the world as alongside the big American stars the Jazz festival in Berlin also increasingly presents artists from all over the world. Artists whose music centers on crossing the borders between local folk traditions and global sounds and trends. This is an important aspect as this is the reason being why the Jazz festival attracts so many people as its sound form are not only for jazz enthusiasts. It is therefore recommended to arrange all of your accomodatie in Berlijn ahead of time in order to avoid any unexpected inconveniences. Your time of stay in the city of Berlin will dictate what is most convenient for you, either by booking at a hotel in Berlijn or by looking for appartement Berlijn for which would be more suitable for a longer stay.

Today the Berlin Jazz festival has set regional focuses and has thereby gained a reputation as a forum of European jazz. In relation to structure of the Berlin Jazz festival, it includes performances from wordjazz to cross-cultural fusions even including a six piece African drumming group. As one can see that the Berlin Jazz festival has expanded to include the various tastes of its audiences and the more the reason that you should also enjoy this festival no matter what kind of music that you’re into.

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