As part of its ongoing commitment to artist mobility and the development of European cooperation, AJC is launching a new edition of its Jazz With program. With this third edition, Jazz With continues its momentum by supporting new ambitious projects from the European jazz scene, offering comprehensive support including networking opportunities, visibility, booking assistance, and financial support for international touring. Application deadline: May 4th.
About “Jazz With”
Designed as a space for exchange and collaboration on a European scale, Jazz With is a support program for jazz projects bringing together France-based artists and their European counterparts. Led by AJC, it fosters transnational collaborations and supports their development and circulation across France and internationally.
Since its launch, the program has supported several ensembles, including T.I.M, Cheel, Weave 4, Bonbon Flamme, Garden of Silences, and Lotus Flowers. These projects benefit from increased professional visibility, notably at the Rencontres AJC, as well as support for developing tours across Europe.
With this third edition, Jazz With continues its momentum by supporting new ambitious projects from the European jazz scene, offering comprehensive support including networking opportunities, visibility, booking assistance, and financial support for international touring.
If your band consists of French and European musicians, you can apply.
Selected projects will receive:
• professional support
• an opportunity to present their music at Les Rencontres AJC, in front of a professional audience
• a significant financial grant to support series of tours in France and accross Europe
Apply
Application deadline: May 4thSelected projects will be announced early June 2026
Introductory Webinar – 12 PM (CET) on April 21st
Join us on Monday, April 21 at 12:00 PM (CET) for a webinar introducing Jazz With, AJC’s European project, and get all your questions answered. Don’t forget to register!
About AJC
Founded in 1993, AJC is opened to all organisations involved in producing and disseminating jazz (festivals, national and state-sponsored venues, theatres, cultural centres and clubs) which share its objectives and values.
AJC has so far brought together 92 French and European organisations and is now becoming the most important jazz promoters network in France with the potential annual involvement of nearly 700 000 spectators.
AJC is focusing on the issue of aesthetics at the heart of its collective project, because jazz, while sharing many values with art, contemporary or modern music, has a specific history, sociology and economy.
AJC is committed to improve the mobility of artists, the emergence of new talents (Jazz Migration) and the creation of original projects, is getting more heavily involved in finding new audiences all over the country and is boosting its involvement in the field of cooperation and international exchanges (welcoming of foreign professionals, our various binational projects – Una Striscia di Terra Feconda, French Nordic Jazz Transit, Jazzdor Berlin, etc).
From now on, AJC is committed to the promotion and defence of jazz in all its diversity, in a spirit of solidarity amongst its members and in collaboration with all its professional partners.
Get more info, here. Don’t be shy, apply!