Jazz in Europe

Igor Wasserberger (born 1937 in Bratislava, Slovakia) has been active as a jazz theoretician and writer since the early 1960s. He collaborated on the Encyclopedia of Jazz and Modern Popular Music (together with Antonín Matzner and Ivan Poledňák, 1980–90) and is also the author of Jazz Profiles (co-author Antonín Matzner, 1969) and Phenomena of Contemporary Jazz (2003). Antonín Matzner (born 1944 in Plzeň, Czech Republic; died 2017 in Prague) was a music theoretician and writer. Among his most important achievements are the four-volume Encyclopedia of Jazz and Modern Popular Music, which he co-wrote and co-edited (1980–90), The Beatles, the Voice of a Generation (Prague, 1987), Czech Film Music (coauthor Jiří Pilka, Prague, 2002) and Sixty Prague Springs (Prague, 2006). Peter Motyčka (born 1978 in Michalovce, Slovakia) is a writer on music with a focus on jazz, as well as editing the monthly classical music magazine Hudobný život published by Music Centre Slovakia (Hudobné centrum). He participated in the Jazz in Eastern Europe project run by the Osteuropa-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin (2007–10).

CONTENTS: Foreword: Jazz and Europe in the Twentieth Century: Dominants and Stereotypes of the New Music in the Old Continent – Great Britain – France and the Francophone Countries – Austria – Germany – The Soviet Union – Switzerland – Italy – Hungary – Scandinavian Countries and the Nordic Concept – The Netherlands – The Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) – Yugoslavia and Succession Countries: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia – Poland – The Czech Lands – Slovakia