Links4Fun
what this is all about
This page consists of hyperlinks to pages of other musicians, bands or simply to pages which looked interesting to us. In a sense, it's "our internet". In order to keep the resulting mess to a minimum, here's something like a TOC:
- The Jazz4Fun family
- Fun with Jazz in Germany
- Jazz4Fun and the big wide world
- Jazz4Beer: Jazz in Munich's bars
the Jazz4Fun family
Those who read our FAQ page know it already, here we repeat it for the uninformed: Jazz4Fun as a band's name is about as useful as being Mr. Li in China or Herr Müller in Germany. But unlike Mr. Li and Herr Müller we know and like all our relatives and therefore reveal their addresses here:
- Big Band Jazz for Fun from Schwalmstadt/Treysa in Hessen
- The Hauni Freizeitgruppe Jazz for Fun from the Hamburg area gave rebirth to their Internet website
- JAZZ 4 FUN from the Aschaffenburg/Würzburg area was only present for a short while
- Professionally made, even with a domain name appears Regina Büchner's Jazz4Fun. And the music sounds good, too. Well, the name obliges ...
- They are a few more than just four, but the Orchestra of the municipal music school of Mannheim has also chosen Jazz4Fun as it's name.
- The name Jazz'd for Fun was chosen by the Big Band of the Sing- and Music school of Kempten. Statistics show Big Bands now at even with Quartets at 3 : 3.
- Quartets watch out! The big bands are ahead. Jazz for Fun from Erftstadt scored with the domain name jazzforfun.de.
- What's that: it is neither a quartet, nor a big band, but still is called JAZZ FOR FUN? It's our youngster, a septet from Vechta in Niedersachsen.
- Far away in Sweden, our colleagues also have some difficulties with the '4' in their name. The pictures on the hemsida of Jazz4fun clearly show a trio at work.
- The Big Bands stabilize their lead, the culprit being Jazz4Fun of the Hofenfels Gymnasium in Zweibrücken.
Will the quartets strike back? Are there more septets? Follow this exciting match - exclusively at Jazz4Fun, the Dixieland Jazz Quartet from Munich.
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Fun with Jazz in Germany
Apart from our namesakes there are plenty of other bands and musicians who populate the internet, play similar music and who have something in common with us.
- The Charivari Jazzband was founded by Jazz4Fun trumpeter Christian and meanwhile also includes banjoist Gerhard.
- PowerKraut not only is a beautiful name (and more rare than Li) but first of all it is the band of Dieter Grosche from Düsseldorf. Dieter is a multi-talent. He is a master of the trombone but also a master of ceremonies who knows about 1000 jokes. Gerhard and Christian met Dieter on the Danish island of Bornholm.
- The United Syncopators from Munich play a considerably more archaic jazz than Jazz4Fun. We all enjoy listening to their music and substituting or sitting in with them.
- The Dark Down Stompers from Munich's suburb of Pasing are what has been termed a Territory Band in America's 20ies: totally unknown to the vast majority but extremly well accepted by the few locals who know them.
- The uniformly older gentlemen of the Munich Jazz Company fall into a similar category, although they still sound quite lively when they play.
- On his homepage, as fresh and inspired as his trumpet playing, Michael Etzel presents his Hot Lips.
- A dear old friend, Klaus Weinhardt from Saalbach, today plays trumpet with the Jazz-Optimisten from Sonneberg.
- "Dixieland is played by bearded, bald, fat, retired old men". Now we can fundamentally reject this infamous statement, thanks to the Jazz Alligators from Hamburg.
- With their name Joe&Jazzer this "unplugged quartet for old-time jazz and funny songs" didn't qualify for the "relatives" category, but with Harry Thurm on clarinet they clearly belong to the "friends" department.
- TheJazzPages is a very comprehensive and well designed site on jazz in Germany covering concert schedules, festivals, PR agents, and many more. Also available in English.
- Dresden also maintains a well-organized band index.
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Jazz4Fun and the big wide world
Christian is a cool fellow. With the first page of Jazz4Fun hardly on the internet he Emailed some American bands whose pages he found on the net. And he was successful. Americans take it as easy as he does. So you'll not only find Jazz4Fun on American pages but also bands from all over the world on our pages. As a consequence we had to translate our text into English. At least we thought it was English until Mike Evans of the Toll House Jazz Band had mercy and sent us his version. Have a beer on us Mike!
- Mike Johnson was the first to exchange links with us. He's the father of Washboard International and he plays a mean and clean washboard. He also looks after the home pages of a number of American bands. Mike maintains one of the most complete link lists of the international dixieland scene.
- Our (of course electronic) correspondence with the Toll House Jazz Band of Columbus, Ohio led to an invitation for this band to join Christian's Charivari Jazzband on their 18th anniversary in Unterbrunn, near Munich. It was a tremendous success. They played to an enthousiastic crowd in a packed Gasthaus Böck. But this was not all. Read more!
- Born in Unterbrunn, Bavaria, the CanAmGer Jazzband meanwhile has grown to a multinational, global enterprise.
- Appropriately, England is represented by a real British club. The Clevedon Jazz Club was the first on the island to go on the internet as webmaster Trevor Tomasin proudly states.
- Bavaria, USA, England, isn't there something missing? You're right, Australia's missing! O.T.T. Chicago Swing, a professionals' trio from Perth in West Australia apparently became aware of that and spontaneously placed us in their list of international bands. And you folks down under sure got a fair dinkum homepage. Av-a-go mate!
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Jazz4Beer
Luckily
there still are people who can imagine better things than chasing musicians on
the internet. Therefore we want to tell you where to find real non-cyber
musicians in and around Munich.
- The Unterfahrt is the place for the more modern oriented ones. They also head for Einsteinstr. 42. Apparently you can't go wrong with this address.
- At the Brunnwart, every second and fourth Thursday of the month, the Jazzkränzchen Immergrün performs sophisticated arrangemens of all the beautiful dixieland evergreens. Visit them at Biedersteiner Straße 78.
- In the Wirtshaus zum Isartal at Brudermühlstraße the world famous (no joke!) Veterinary Street Jazz Band appears every Thursday.
- during winter and once a month on Friday, the Charivari Jazzband of Jazz4Fun's trumpet virtuoso Christian plays at Gasthaus Böck in Unterbrunn, near Munich.
- During the winter season, on Sunday at 12 noon there's a dixie brunch at the Wirtshaus in der Au.
- In summer, the Waldwirtschaft Großhesselohe features an open air jazz program. On weekends, there's open air jazz at the Alte Villa in Utting/Ammersee.
- The Jazzwerke München keep on moving. Currently they can be heard every third Sunday a month at the "Die Wally" in Neuhausen. See them and enjoy banjoist Helmut Hertel's famous announcements.
- Same time (16 Uhr) , same place, but one week later, trumpeter Michael Etzel and his Hot Lips take you on a journey through all styles.
- On the second Thursday of every month, the Jazz Kids (feat. Christian Gad from Denmark) also appear at "Die Wally" in Neuhausen. You may also hear them at the Pfälzer Weinstuben and in the Palais-Keller of Hotel Bayerischer Hof. Both start around 11 am.
- Still not enough? You want to see today's programme? Visit Jazz Zeitung!
- The official home page of the city of München features a short and incomplete list of Jazz bars.
- A decent list is available from the Jazz Institute.