JAZZ MUSEUM BIX EIBEN HAMBURG

What you should know

Until recently the Jazz Museum Bix Eiben Hamburg was a purely private activity. But in the course of the last years we have been able to create the premises permitting to bring together all the material collected over decades.

Actually, the major part of the collection is housed in a building of 1400 m² floor space, but which originally had not been planned to be used as a museum.

For this reason, the collections which had been stored in different separated locations for lack of space, could only be integrated in the new building by dispatching them into the different available rooms.

This is the origin of the "sections" represented in the web pages below. The covers of the respective sections reproduce exactly the covers of the books in which the different material is listed.

In the near future an extension of the existing building, precisely adapted to the needs of the museum, will be built and the new space will change the whole exposition of the material.

The catalogue work is continuing. Its progress will be documented accordingly in our internet pages and the information will be frequently updated. The scanned picture material of all listed records is gathered in folios and the catalogue data are available in digital format.

Please pay attention to the streamed music of the web pages. It shows the musical center of our collector's passion. All titles are in the public domain.

Approximate account of the materials

We finally accomplished our goal (December 2009) to get an overview of the account of the museum's materials. The main work is done, after two years of ambitously trying to reorganizing, document and archiving our materials which we have collected within the last 50 years.

The Numbers:

1. approx. 95.000 items 78er Schellackrecords, including special categories.

2. approx. 75.000 items 33 rpm records, including special categories..

3. approx. 6.500 Tapes

4. approx. 150 Pianorolls

5. approx. 4.000 Jazzbooks

6. Several hundred old thick Edisonrecords from 1910 - 1920

7. approx. 1.000 items 45er records

8. approx. 400 framed pictures

9. approx. 1.000 big radiovinyl records

10. approx. 7.000 Jazz-CDs

11. The complete 1.600 magnetic tapes and CDs of the 30 years lasting USA Radioshow "Jazz-Revisited"

12. Thousand other materials related to Jazz such as:

- photos, brochures, magazines, movies, old phonographs, Announcements, sheet music. Several volumes of "Storyville". A number of volulmes of "Mississippi Rag". Letter, all kinds of notification related to Jazz and many, many more.

13. approx. 500 obskur recordings, which a US-Freak donated the museum a long time ago. These recordings contain secret Jazz recordings which he has done without the knowlegdge of the musicians or hosts.

14. The extensive private volumes from the founder are not part of above account of materials. They will be added to the museum's account of materials within a mid-term perspective.