What is »jazzahead!« anyway?

jazzahead! is an exhibition and meeting point for the international jazz scene. Since its premiere in 2006, the event has enriched the regional and national cultural scene with its high quality and diverse jazz as well as with international flair. With a concept that is unique throughout Europe this interdisciplinary cultural event does not only turn heads in the European professional jazz scene, but also in German politics and press.

With a special combination of festival, conference, exhibition and symposium, where everything revolves around the topics jazz and culture, the event does not only address professional participants, but also music lovers from Bremen, Germany and Europe, precisely because jazzahead! is also over 40 concerts in 3 ½ days. Additionally, the event also incorporates occupational groups which seemingly don’t have direct relations to jazz, but are attracted to this music genre via the symposium (topics change annually).

jazzahead! 2010 in numbers:

·         5,000 visitors, including over 2,000 professional participants

·         a total of over 272 exhibitors from 23 different countries

·         professional participants and guests from almost 50 countries

·         more than 13,000,000 media contacts in print, broadcasting and TV nationally as well as internationally.

Since the start in 2006 jazzahead! has had a visitor growth of 160% and a participant growth of about 128%.

Highlights of the past years: the German Jazz Meeting 2006 and 2008, the European JazzXchange 2007 with partners from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Italy and Hungary, the symposia on management, medicine und education as well as numerous concerts and showcases of national and international jazz highlights and new artists:

Joe Zawinul, John Scofield, Norma Winstone, Maria João, Arve Henriksen, Maceo Parker, Wallace Roney, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, NDR Bigband, Jazz Bigband Graz, Marilyn Mazur, Thärichens Tentett, Michael Schiefel, Florian Weber, Matthias Schriefl, Nils Wogram, Julia Hülsmann feat. Roger Cicero, Enders Room, Matthias Eick, Cyminology, Glauco Venier Trio, Szakcsi-Horvath-Duo, and many more.