For over a century there has been an artist association named „Allotria“. A jazz club named „Allotria“ existed from the nineteen-sixties to then nineteen-nineties, and the Allotria Jazz Band has been around for more than 40 years. All of these institutions are from Munich, Germany. Translated from the Greek, „allotrios“ literally means „strange, foreign“. Today in the Bavarian/Bayuwarian sense it means: mischief, fooling around, kidding.