Begegnungen

Jazz is a music with African-American roots, but it flourishes all over the world in all kinds of (sound) colors. Jazz is a productive art: musicians all over the world who turned to it had to know and respect its roots as African-American music just as much as they were called upon to bring in their own traditions. This book is about these processes between respect and independence. It is not so much about "world music" as such, but rather about the productive confrontation with traditions, and about the fact that jazz now receives a great deal of inspiration from all possible corners of the world, where it is also understood as music in its own right.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 10th Darmstadt Jazz Forum in October 2007, in which various musical approaches, adaptations or adoptions are examined in more detail. These are often ideas that originate from ethnic musical styles but harmonize so well with the jazz playing style that it is difficult to classify the musical results under conventional genre terms. You can't really speak of "world music", nor is it mainstream jazz in the conventional sense. It is a creative exchange that changes jazz, whether you like it or not.

With contributions by:
Andrew W. Hurley: But did the world meet jazz? Behind J-E Berendt's 'Jazz Meets the World' series
Maximilian Hendler: Jazz or not jazz?
Torsten Eßer: Jazz in Latin America - a peripheral phenomenon?
Wolfram Knauer: Blowin' Up a (European) Storm. Stanko / Rava / Beckett -
a comparison of very different trumpet voices in European jazz
Günther Huesmann: "Tokyo Operations" - John Zorn and the Japanese concept of tradition
Gerhard Putschögl: On the interactions between jazz / Afro-American music and
music and flamenco nuevo in contemporary styles of Spanish music
Timothy R. Mangin: Cosmopolitan Roots: Jazz in Senegal
Silvia Kurschus: The contemporary jazz scenes in Berlin and Rome. Jazz tradition versus cultural background. "Melting pot" or "salad bowl"?
Ralf Dombrowski: The original and the original. Techniques of cultural appropriation
using the example of Oriental Jazz
Martin Pfleiderer: The World Meets Jazz. On the aesthetics of jazz in the age
of globalization
Gilad Atzmon: Aesthetics, Ethics and Contemporary Music.
Musician's talk with Gilad Atzmon
Karl Berger: Sketches of world music experiences
Harald Justin: Jazz and world music in the crosshairs of the culture war

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