Münchner Klaviersommer

Münchner Klaviersommer (Munich Piano Summer) was a series of jazz concerts in Munich featuring various famous artists. Despite the name, not only pianists performed in these concerts. The concerts were usually held in July in the Philharmonic Hall Gasteig and they took place from 1981 to 1998. The sequel to the Munich Piano Summer is the Jazz Summer in the Bayerischer Hof at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof.

The concert series began in 1981 with performances by Friedrich Gulda in the America House in Munich, from which the idea of the Munich Piano Summer was based on. The initiator, Gulda, appeared often in the concert series, usually with jazz classics and original compositions mixed and performed with other jazz stars. In 1982 Gulda performed together with Chick Corea, which was followed by performances from Corea and McCoy Tyner in 1983, Cecil Taylor in 1984,James Blood Ulmer in 1985, and Joe Zawinul with Gulda in 1986. A big highlight was the concert from Miles Davis in Gasteig in 1988 with an octet. Miles Davis appeared the year before with a nonet, in 1987 also Herbie Hancock also performed. 1989 included performances from the Modern Jazz Quartet, Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans, Friedrich Gulda, Joe Zawinul, the Jacques Loussier Trio, Katia Labèque, John McLaughlin, George Benson accompanied by McCoy Tyner and Michael Brecker. In 1986 Keith Jarrett performed.

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