Trade Fair
jazzahead! 28 April - 1 May 2022
Trade – Showcase – Festival: The largest international trade fair for jazz
From April 28 to May 1, the jazz world will come together to network, exchange ideas, attend conferences and panels, and experience 40 showcase concerts in the official program during four days at jazzahead! and its global and professional digital platform. Exciting content relevant for the jazz scene are part of the program.
For the next edition we are planning an hybrid version, making it possible to attend in person on-site and with an "online-only" registration. In 2021, we carried out a digital version due to the pandemic via a professional platform that made it possible for exhibitors and professional participants to take part and exchange within the international scene and the participants, despite the pandemic, in keeping with the motto "close together from afar"
We have now compiled the contents in a "jazzahead! 2021 Compact" - and besides the overviews of what took place in 2021, you will find some content to relive for everyone, even the non-registered! Enjoy the review and outlook as well as the 31 showcase concerts of jazzahead! digital 2021.
jazzahead ! is the annual industry gathering of the international jazz scene in Bremen, Germany. In 2019, 3,408 participants from 64 countries were registered.
jazzahead! connects the international scene since 2006. The participants of jazzahead! come from all areas of the scene such as: artists and promoters, bookers, labels, agencies, publishers, festival and club programmers, distributors, lobby institutions, associations, press and more.
jazzahead! is a trade fair, conference and showcase festival - with contemporary, high-profile jazz from Germany and Europe and from overseas.
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Registration
Register now for jazzahead!
Via the links you can choose your participation for jazzahead! 2022.
Depending on the type of registration the selected link will lead you to the appropriate form. Further information regarding participating options, terms and conditions and more is available here
Exhibitor
Book a booth at jazzahead! 2022 to present yourself in the best possible way. From mini stand to larger individual solutions - book your stand here through our new exhibitors portal.
Exhibitor PLUS
Increase your visibility and be part of the professional program by adding a session/panel slot to your stand booking.
Please find more information here .
Co-Exhibitor
As a co-exhibitor you are part of a joint stand. Find out here about the joint and country stands and book your participation via the link here.
As a co-exhibitor of an umbrella stand, you should first contact the organizer to receive a discount or a direct link.
Register now as a:
INFO CLUBNIGHT artists
Professional Participant On-site
As a professional participant, you are represented at jazzahead! for one or all days of the fair without a stand for the entire booked period of the event.
Day registrations (Thursday, Friday or Saturday) will be bookable through here starting 08.11.2021.
Register now as a:
INFO CLUBNIGHT artists
Professional Participants Online-Only
As an online-only attendee, you will visit jazzahead! 2022 digitally. We will digitally broadcast the conference and showcase program.
This option will be bookable through here starting 08.11.2021.
Find more info in our price list.
After booking your stand, take the chance and be part of our professional program by adding your own session/panel. Includes: recording (not part of the official showcase program), on-site and online available, format in agreement with jazzahead!, speakers receive
a free registration.
For more information please contact Malena Drela.
As a co-exhibitor, you are registered at a joint stand, e.g. countries or regions. These are some of our umbrella stands:
German Market (stand number 5D20)
- for German musicians and their representatives, associations as well as other institutions from Gemany
- area is funded
- registration fee is 135€ + 19% VAT
Please contact Nina Thomann (+49 421 3505 529) to get the discount and further information
Umbrella Stand USA
- for delegates from the USA
- registration fee is 330€ + 19% VAT, this includes the stand construction and the support by a hostess
- additional passes for a company member are 135€ + 19% VAT
Umbrella Stand Showcasing Artists & International Promoters (5G40)
- registration free of charge for performing showcase artists, jury members and international guests of the German Jazz Expo.
- for all other international program maker the registration fee is 135€ + 19% VAT .
- The umbrella stand is part of the German Jazz Expo and is organized by jazzahead!
Umbrella Stand Partner Country Canada (5B20)
- for Canadian delegates who are not booking via CIMA & CQM
- registration fee is 135€ + 19% VAT
Umbrella Stand Central Europe
- for industry representatives from Central Europe, who are not represented at another country's umbrella stand
- registration fee is 330€ + 19% VAT
- additional passes for a company member are 135€ + 19%VAT
Other umbrella stands / country umbrella stands
Many regions and countries are already represented here. If you are considering participating as co-exhibitor, just contact us and we will be happy to forward it to the appropriate organization.
If you have further questions or need more details regarding the stand and/or jazzahead!, please contact
Malena Drela, +49(0)421 3505 287.
As a professional participant, you can take part in the fair for one to all days without booking a stand.
As an Online-Only-participant you are granted access to the conference program and showcases online, are able to use the networking opportunities via participant portal and get an entry in the list of professional participants.
Media representatives can sign up for press accreditation. More information and our accreditation guidelines can be found here.
Registration will be possible online until 12 April 2022 for the on-site participation and 21 April 2022 for the online-only. After that registration is only possible on site as a professional participant and will be charged additionally with 20 € plus 19% VAT. Registration as an exhibitor or co-exhibitor is no longer possible on site.
Options & Prices
To participate in jazzahead! choose one of the following options:
What's included:
As a participant of jazzahead! 2022 on-site you will receive the following benefits:
- Access to the trade fair, including all showcase concerts and events of the conference program in Hall 5, Hall 7 and Kulturzentrum Schlachthof and our new Circus Tent
- Networking tools via the participant portal
- Entry in the attendee directory with all important personal data as well as login to the jazzahead! participant portal
- Recordings of the conference program will be recorded in parts and give also on-site participants the opportunity to experience panels and sessions more intensively, even after the trade fair
- Regular discount when buying a ticket for the jazzahead! CLUBNIGHT or the Gala Concert at the Glocke
- Personal badge & official jazzahead! bag with professional participant information and goodies (issued on site)
- Free wi-fi at the event
- Depending on the booked package further services of your chosen registration option
By registering as Online-Only participant, you will receive the following benefits:
- Online access to conference program and showcase concerts events
- Networking tools via the attendee portal
- Entry into the professional participant directory with all important personal data as well as login to the jazzahead! Participant Portal
Deadlines jazzahead! 2022
| September 16, 2021 | Registration start for professional participants (all days) and (co-)exhibitors / start for showcase applications | .
| October 18, 2021 | Deadline 1st early bird rate for professional participants (all days) |
| November 4, 2021 | Deadline Showcase Applications | .
| November 8, 2021 | NEW: Start for day and online-only registrations | .
| December 16, 2021 | public announcement of the 2022 showcase bands | .
| January 10, 2022 | Deadline 2nd early bird rate for professional participants (all days) |
| January 31, 2022 | NEW: Booking Deadline Exhibitor Package PLUS |
| March 31, 2022 | Exhibitor Booking Deadline |
| April 12, 2022 | Online registration deadline for professional participants & Co-Exhibitors / on-site registration with surcharge still possible |
| April 21, 2022 | Registration deadline for professional participants with online-only participation |
Opening Hours
- Thu 28 April 2022 10:00 – 19:00
- Fri 29 April 2022 10:00 – 19:00
- Sat 30 April 2022 10:00 – 19:00
- Sun 1 May 2022 10:00 - 12:00 jazzahead! Farewell Breakfast
- Thu 29 April 2022 · 19:30 – 00:40
- Fri 30 April 2022 · 14:00 – 18:35 / 19:30 – 00:40
- Sat 1 May 2022 · 14:00 – 18:35 PM / 19:05 PM – 01:40
Hall Plans & Rooms
In case you wish to discuss larger stand bookings beforehand, please contact Malena Drela .
More information will follow soon.
Matchmaking
jazzahead! has partnered with the Enterprise Europe Network Bremen to offer the jazzahead! Matchmaking service to all participants.
There will be themed and industry-specific online matchmaking sessions before, during and after jazzahead!
At jazzahead! itself, there will be daily on-site matchmaking sessions as usual.
You can book the matchmaking registration directly with your registration for jazzahead 2022. If you are already registered and would like to add a matchmaking registration to your booking, please contact us.
- During this “Speed Dating”, we bring together companies and other organizations looking for partners to advance their projects
- Participants will share their offers or requests and meetings will be scheduled in advance
- Bilateral meetings (Matchmaking) are a quick and easy way to meet new potential customers, service providers and cooperation partners
- Attendees meet and greet in 20-minute intervals
- Instead of arranging business meetings by chance, our B2B sessions guarantee fixed meetings
Attendee List
jazzahead! is the world’s largest meeting place for the international jazz scene. More than 3,400 professional participants from over 60 countries met in Bremen in 2019. If you want to know which companies have already registered for the upcoming digital edition, have a look at the current list of participants.
As a registered participant for jazzahead! 2022 you have the opportunity to view the contact details of the participants who have agreed to the publication of their data via the Participant Portal.
Conference program at jazzahead!
The conference part of jazzahead! 2022 will consist of the professional program curated by jazzahead! and the sessions of our exhibitors with Plus Package. Future-oriented topics and current discussions, especially for organizers and musicians, will again be the main focus. In addition, the topic of sustainable business solutions will play a central role in a market that has changed significantly, not least due to Corona.
Organize Your own Panel
The Exhibitor-Plus Package, which was successfully introduced this year, will again be on offer. After booking your stand, you can get in touch with us to book this option and get the opportunity to be part of the professional program of jazzahead! The conference program will be recorded in parts so that all online registrants can also participate in the program. For those registered on site, this will give them the opportunity to experience panels and sessions more intensively, even beyond the events of the trade fair. The Exhibitor Plus Package is limited and can only be booked until January 31, 2022. For further information please contact Malena Drela.You can find more info on the package here.
Jazz made in Germany
The German Jazz Expo also includes other program content related to the German jazz scene - e.g. certain panels on topics that are of interest, especially for the German participants, or the biennial prize for German Jazz Journalism.
jazzahead! is funded by the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
- German Market
- Deutsche Jazz Union special
- Prize for German Jazz Journalism
- Showcases
- Invitation Program
The German Market is the meeting point of the German scene - for club owners, musicians, festival makers and others. It is place to establish and encourage the general promotion of German jazz exports or individual concerns, such as the networking of federal and state activities.
More information:Nina Thomann; +49 (0)421 3505 529.
Especially for the members of the German Jazz Union (Deutsche Jazz Union) jazzahead! offers registrations at a special discount: 80€ plus VAT for a four-day registration for jazzahead! 2022. In addition, Deutsche Jazz Union participants with a one-day registration for the fair on Friday and Saturday can submit applications for a showcase at the German Jazz Expo.
Since 2012 jazzahead! award the "Prize for German jazz journalism". It is funded by Dr. E.A. Langner Foundation and endowed with 5,000 €. This prize is part of the German Jazz Expo and is intended to promote qualified reporting on jazz in the German media.
Previous awardees:
- 2012 – Hans-Jürgen Linke
- 2013 – Ralf Dombrowski
- 2015 – Wolf Kampmann
- 2017 – Martin Laurentius
- 2019 – Stefan Hentz
Eight of the 40 showcases on the jazzahead! are dedicated to bands from Germany. Find out more here.
Invitation program for international organizers
As part of the German Jazz Expo, the export platform for Jazz made in Germany at jazzahead!, we are again inviting international organizers and program makers to Bremen in 2022. Participants from this sector of the industry receive preferential conditions for participation and, depending on their origin, also a travel allowance. If you are particularly interested in the German jazz scene or would like to recommend someone, who should be part of this program, please write us an email to Nina Thomann thomann@jazzahead.de.
Symposium and Concerts
In recent years, the symposium Improvisation and Jazz for Children has regularly been able to bring together experts from German-speaking countries and hundreds of children from various daycare centers and elementary schools in Bremen. However, the digital implementation of interactive children's concert formats is unfortunately not possible to the desired extent at this point of time. The symposium and children's concerts are cancelled for this year.
In order to still offer the possibility to deal with the topic of improvisation and jazz for children, there will be a multiplier-workshop with Masha Corman. It will ask about the possibility of working in a pedagogical way in daycare centers and elementary schools even in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop will deal with the conceptual level, but also give hints for practical implementation and offer space for exchange.
The workshop will be held in English as part of the jazzahead! digital professional program. Here you can register to be part of it.
