William Bares (Photo: Herbert Fritz)

11th Darmstadt Jazzforum great success
September 25 – October 4, 2009. The U.S. Consulate General supported the participation on October 2 of two American speakers, William Bares (Harvard University, Cambridge) and Harald Kisiedu (Columbia University, New York), during this year’s Darmstadt Jazzforum. The 11th Darmstadt Jazzforum, organized biannually by the Jazz Institute Darmstadt this year focused mainly on Albert Mangelsdorff, his music, his influence on German jazz history and his role as an integrational figure for German and European jazz.

Harald Kisiedu (Photo: Herbert Fritz)

The Jazzforum consisted of five program parts - an international three day conference, a concert series, an exhibition, an evening of rare film footage, and a book documentation of the Jazzforum to be published next year. The two U.S. speakers gave presentations at the three day conference, which was very successful and drew an average audience of 50-60 jazz enthusiasts per lecture