Antwerp Jazz Club (AJC)
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A sculpture resembling the logo of the Antwerp Jazz Club, attached to the front of the foldable wooden screen covering the presenter's area, present during the jazz club's Tuesday-evening sessions in its clubhouse (13 September 2016).
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The logo of the Antwerp Jazz Club, as retrieved in 2016. The logo depicts the abbreviation of the club (AJC), while a saxophone takes on the shape of the middle letter "J".
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| Named after | The city of Antwerp |
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| Formation | 1938, making it one of the oldest sill existing jazz clubs. |
| Founder | Hans Philippi |
| Purpose | "The study and propaganda of the jazz-music, as it was created and played by the Afro-Americans of the United States, by means of the exemplified listening of music- and image recordings, through lectures at third parties about the nature and movements of jazz and, if feasible the organizing of concerts with American jazz musicians." |
| Headquarters | Second floor of Café Den Bengel, Grote Markt 5, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium. (Clubhouse) See also: § Location
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The Antwerp Jazz Club (Dutch: Antwerpse Jazzclub, abbreviated AJC) is an association in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1938 by Hans Philippi, which delivers weekly lectures about and presentations of jazz music, at no cost, open to the public at large. Its sessions are held in Dutch. Other than these sessions, the club organizes concerts, including helping to organize blues concerts; and has aided in the screenings of jazz documentaries.
Its Tuesday-sessions are held mostly by a member, and if not by another amateur of jazz, and are often illustrated by DVD-recordings. They are held every Tuesday night from 20PM until 22PM, but not during the Christmas period, nor the month of July. On request, the association also organises events about jazz for interested associations.
The jazz club is a member of:
The now obsolete Dutch-language website Gratisinantwerpen.be, which was supported by the city of Antwerp and listed free events in Antwerp (the website also had a less complete English version at Antwerpforfree.be), used to advertise the weekly Tuesday-sessions of the AJC.
AJC is a subscriber to a number of jazz magazines, from the United States and from several European countries, which can be consulted in its clubhouse.
In 1938, the club started as gatherings to listen to commented jazz music, which remains the main activity of the club today (info as of 2016[update]).
Since 1950, the club also started organizing concerts. Among the famous jazz musicians who have performed in Antwerp in the 1950s and 1960s, due to the AJC, are: Willie "The Lion" Smith, Big Bill Broonzy, Earl Hines, Memphis Slim, Buck Clayton, Bill Coleman, Buddy Tate, Ben Webster, Illinois Jacquet, Ray Bryant and Guy Lafitte.
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