Joachim-Ernst Berendt
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Joachim-Ernst Berendt (20 July 1922 in Berlin – 4 February 2000 in Hamburg) was a German music journalist, author and producer specialized on jazz.
Life
Berendt's father, Ernst Berendt, was a
After
In 1952, the first German edition of Berendt's Jazz Book was published. It became a definitive book on jazz translated into many languages and is still being updated and reprinted. For almost 40 years, Berendt produced the jazz program of the Baden-Baden station of the German public radio and TV network ARD. His weekly TV show Jazztime Baden-Baden and his daily radio shows were pioneer work in promoting jazz in post-war Germany. Berendt later focused on world music and was one of its early promoters, founding a World Music Festival in 1965.[1]
Berendt initiated and organized many jazz festivals (
Berendt was awarded, amongst others, the critic's award of German television, the culture award of Poland, and twice the
Berendt died on 4 February 2000 at the age of 77 after a traffic accident which he was involved in as a pedestrian. The accident happened in Hamburg, Berendt was on his way to a book promotion for his book Es gibt keinen Weg nur Gehen (There Is No Way, Only Going).
Berendt's huge collection of records, books, magazines, photos and more is in the archive of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt.
Later work
In 1983, Berendt published The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma and The Third Ear: On Listening to the World. In these books Berendt investigates in listening in general, i.e. its medical, historical, physical, cultural and philosophical aspects.
This turn to philosophy also saw him becoming a disciple of the Indian mystic
Works (selection)
- "Jazz: A Photo History." (Translated by William Odom), Schirmer Books 1979, ISBN 0-02-870290-5.
- Joachim-Ernst Berendt reads Rainer Maria Rilke "Seelenlandschaften" (Landscapes of the Soul), with music from Philip Catherine, Krzysztof Zgraja, Vladislav Sendecki; Producer: ℗1998 Horst Bösing ©2003 Jaro 4267-2 [1]
Bibliography
- The Jazz Book, Lawrence Hill & Company, New York
- The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness, Inner Traditions
- The Third Ear: On Listening to the World
- Klangräume (1996)
- The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change, Andrew Wright Hurley, Berghahn Books (2011)
See also
References
- ^ . Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ Joachim Süss, Bhagwans Erbe, p.27
External links
- Joachim-Ernst Berendt in the German National Library catalogue
- Obituary from Der Journalist
- Homepage of J.-E. Berendt at the Wayback Machine (archived July 21, 2001)
- Jazz & Lyrik Archived 2020-12-02 at the Wayback Machine