Jazzahead

The jazzahead! is an annually held in Bremen since 2006 Jazz exhibition. It grows continuously since then - in addition to the four -day trade fair, there is a broad public program in and around Bremen. Meanwhile jazzahead! become the largest industry gathering of the international jazz scene.

The fair covers a showcase festival, conferences and panels on the topic of jazz. The main points in the program are audience since 2011 jazzahead! Škoda club night, the partner country program and showcase concerts, which are open to visitors.

The artistic director of jazzahead! are the Bremen professor of Jazz Trumpet Ulrich Becker Hoff and Peter Schulze, Head of Broadcasting Hall of Bremen and former head of the Berlin Jazzfest.

Is organized jazzahead! of a 6- member team of Messe Bremen, a division of WFB Bremen Economic Development.

The next jazzahead! will be held from 24 to 27 April 2014.

The trade fair

As a German Jazz industry gatherings is jazzahead! from the modules trade show, Jazz Festival, Cultural Festival and interdisciplinary symposium. The latter relies on fundamental topics that are not usually dealt with by the musicological Jazz Research. The event takes place every year in the Bremen Congress Centrum. At the exhibition -terrain exhibit concert agencies and instrument makers and phonogram producers and distributors.

In 2012 there were over 500 exhibitors from 31 countries, approximately 2,250 professional participants from 44 countries and around 11,000 visitors to the " jazzahead ". In the showcase festival there are the following program modules: the imagined European Jazz Meeting, the Jazz from all over Europe, the German Jazz Expo with jazz from Germany, the Overseas Night with non-European jazz and a showcase module that per musician from the partner country jazzahead! imagines.

The open to the general public Jazz Festival offers both some familiar names ( 2007, for example, the Arve Henriksen Quartet and Marc Ducret Trio which ) but also young, not yet on the market enforced band projects and emerging artists in numerous small concerts.

The growing public program

In addition to the trade fair, there is a growing program for the public in and around Bremen. This includes since 2011 jazzahead! ŠKODA clubnight: With one ticket, visitors to all the participating clubs and event venues, participating in the Club Night (2012: 17 units ). In addition, the partner country program and the Young Stars program points of attention.

Partner countries

Since 2011 there jazzahead! awarded annually to the opportunity to present itself as a country of culture in Bremen and its art, culture and music scene to present a country. With numerous cultural institutions in the region several weeks of culture festival is organized. It is about jazz and music, but also, among others visual arts, theater, readings, exhibitions.

Partner countries jazzahead!

  • 2011: Turkey
  • 2012: Spain
  • 2013: Israel
  • 2014: Denmark

German Jazz Expo and price for German jazz journalism

Two novelties of 2012, the German Jazz Expo and the prize for the German jazz journalism were in 2013 continued. The German Jazz Export Expo is the forum for German jazz, she was promoted again by the Initiative Musik gGmbH. On the jazzahead! the German jazz scene can present in your width and contacts, especially abroad socialize. To promote the German jazz also heard that is reported about him. For this reason jazzahead praises! since 2012 the price of German jazz journalism. This is endowed with 5000 € and 2013 was the second year of the Dr. EA Langner Foundation donated. The winners have been:

  • 2013 - Ralf Dombrowski
  • 2012 - Hans- Jürgen Linke

Jazzahead! Škoda Award

With the 15,000 euros doped jazzahead! Škoda Award are outstanding personalities of the international industry honored who have made a particular degree to the Jazz earned as a cultural asset. This Jazz is sponsored by the automobile manufacturer Škoda. The winners contest, provided they are musicians, the Friday night concert.

  • 2013 - Han Bennink, musician percussionist
  • 2012 - Siggi Loch, music manager, producer and founder of the jazz label ACT
  • 2011 - Claude Nobs, organizer of the Montreux Jazz Festival, Laudator Siggi Loch from the ACT label
  • 2010 - John McLaughlin, British jazz guitarist
  • 2009 - Norma Winstone, British jazz singer
  • 2008 - Karsten Jahnke, German concert promoter
  • 2007 - Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz musicians
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