Links4Fun

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. 

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. Now available in English, too.
	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.
	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.
	The Royal Dixie Stompers come from Bavaria'a most important area, where asparagus, hops and malt are grown.
	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.
	There's New Orleans Jazz, Bigband Jazz, Modern Jazz and now there's also Bayernjazz. But don't be fooled, this is a very informative site about jazz in Bavaria.

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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.
	Almost as comprehensive as Mike's list is Karen Quick's list of dixieland bands which references dixieland bands all over the world, among them famed quartets :-)
	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!
	Bernhard Kanduth from Austria really cares for teachers. On his search machine music seek you may rate web sites. We're pleading for a mild sentence: 10 (best) 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (worst)

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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.

	In the basement of the Unionsbräu, Einsteinstr. 42, there's Jazz several times a week. Mostly it's old-time style.
	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.
	Jazz bei Fritz was the name of a bar, run by "Bully" Stevens, featured trombonist of the Allotria jazz band. Later it became the Jazzladen, currently it's Gerry's Swingland. You'll still find it in the basement of the Hofbräukeller at Wiener Platz.
	For quite a while they only offered 'canned' music. At least on Monday they're back on life music at the Schwabinger Podium at Wagnerstraße.
	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.
	once a month on Saturday, the Charivari Jazzband of Jazz4Fun's trumpet virtuoso Christian plays at Gasthaus Böck in Unterbrunn, near Munich.
	Every Sunday at 12 noon there's a dixie brunch at the Wirtshaus in der Au.
	The St. Ursula recently closed. The Jazzwerke München moved a few blocks further to the Rolandseck. Hopefully this will not affect Helmut Hertel's famous announcements.
	Still not enough? You want to see today's programme? Visit Jazz Zeitung! BTW: you don't have to stare at the monitor - subscribe to it.
	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.

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