Concerts are organized from September to May, usually on Fridays or Saturdays. A JC-session takes place on the first Wednesday of each month. In June and July the JC invites its guests to various open-air-events, where cabaret shows and stage plays complete the programme.               

Currently, the JC counts 370 members.

The JC offers a wide range of musical entertainment. Presented are performances of famous international as well as national, especially local Jazzstars such as: 

Barbara Dennerlein, Dusko Goykowich, Ack van Rooyen,
Albert Mangelsdorff , Klaus Doldinger, Hendrik Meurkens,
Aladar Pege, Attila Zoller, Deborah Henson, Gunter Hampel,
Ali Haurand, Klaus Ignatzek, Heinz Sauer, Lulu Weiß,
Katie Webster, Willi Little Littlefield, Joe Kienemann, Yuko Gulda,
Bill Ramsey, Joe Haider, Klaus Kreuzeder, Joe Viera, Herb Geller,
Lee Konitz, Simon Nabatov, Abraham Burton, Earny Watts,
Masha Bijlsma, Ricky Ford, Carla Cook, Charly Antolini, Benny Bailey,
Frank Lacy, John Hicks, Lili White, Jimmy Cobb, Philipp Catherine ...
           

                                                                                                                                           
                       Petra and Elisabeth
 

The JC's History

Having started in the late 50ies , Bamberg`s Jazz has managed to overcome its odyssey. Back then people devoted to Jazz were roaming unorganized but enthusiastic about the music through the city. The oldest fans will most certainly remember locations like "Café Jäger", "Wilde Rose", "Luitpoldkeller" and other places in the city of Bamberg. At first, those people's enthusiasm could not be halted by any lack of comfort or other setbacks.

However, in the early 70ies, Bamberg's  "post-war-jazz- movement" shipped off into the doldrums. It was an ordinary advertisement placed in "Fränkischer Tag" in 1974 ("wanted: Jazzfriends") that gave a new impulse to the scene.

In the beginning there were only five people, including Randolf John, who held the opinion that Bamberg could provide more than just Beethoven and Brahms in a "Kaisersaal-" and "Kulturraum"-atmosphere. An idealistic plan was drawn up by the founders, which included the following ideas:
-By no means "Vereinsmeierei"
-An offer especially for younger people
-No profit should be obtained
-to create an alternative to conventional music offer.

On September 17^th in 1974 a kind of constituted assembly was  initiated during which more than one hundred participants resolved the foundation of "Jazzclub Bamberg e.V.". Years later- a permanent domicil was found in the "Obere Sandstrasse 18" which required intensive renovation. Numerous volunteers helped, giving the vault its standard it has today with its lighting, ventilation, furnishing etc.