Enjoy Jazz

Ornette Coleman at Enjoy Jazz Festival 2008

Enjoy Jazz is a jazz festival in the Heidelberg, Mannheim and Ludwigshafen region in Germany held each year in October and November. Founded in 1999 by Rainer Kern it stages about 60 concerts and draws an audience of 20,000. It features major international stars as well as local heros and is not restricted to jazz but explicitly includes all kinds of innovative music. Ornette Coleman's live recording from the 2005 festival "Sound Grammar" received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.


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