This year in November there will be a Jazz Fest in Berlin which has a long and enviable history.
This festival started out in 1964 and was involved in presenting some very interesting and swinging concerts.
In its early years, it was closely connected with the late Joachim Ernst Berendt, this name is very well knoun as "Germany's Jazz Pope".
Berendt brought Jazz musicians together and put them on stage together as it was expected the result was excelent.

In recent years, the Jazz Fest has been criticised as having gone somewhat off the boi, but in 2000, it came back into its own, presenting as it did everything from wordjazz (Ruth Weiss) to cross-cultural fusions (British tenor saxophonist Alan Skidmore, his quartet and Amampondo, a six-piece South African drumming group). 2001 brings a new musical director and promises to be worth checking out if you are a jazzbo. So you should go to this excellent event in November.

Dates: 4-7 Novmeber 2010 (annual)
Web page: http://berlinerfestspiele.de/