Jazzinstitut Darmstadt

The Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, a municipal institute of the city of Darmstadt, is Europe's largest public research archive on jazz. It holds specialized books, periodicals, sheet music, records, photographs as well as posters and other memorabilia. It provides services for researchers (journalists, musicologists, students), as well as for the music community, for musicians and music educators, working to broaden the audience of jazz as an African American music which has become a major influence on world culture. The Jazzinstitut Darmstadt is the foremost institute of its kind in Europe and acknowledged for its varied services by American colleagues as well. The Jazzinstitut resides in a small baroque palais built 1709-1725. The historical cave underneath the Jazzinstitut is being used for intimate concerts, among them the concert series "JazzTalk".