Historical background
FAZZ, formerly Museact, was founded in 2001. Its aim is to pool the concerns, advocacy and support of associations active in the field of jazz and improvised music. These associations, all constituted as non-profit organizations, are active in various fields: concert and festival organization, training and promotion, record production, etc.
Museact is a platform open to all other associations, provided they adhere to the general principles defined and specified in the “Charter”.
Since 2011, Museact has been collectively managing the Belgian Jazz Meeting with Dutch-speaking partners, an event held every two years to showcase jazz in Belgium to a public of Belgian and international professionals.
In 2020, Museact was recognized as a professional federation by the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, and as such sits on the Chambre de concertation des musiques, which enables it to participate in the new cultural policy being put in place and to defend its members’ points of view.
Since 2023, Museact has been recognized as a professional federation at federal level.
Particularly in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, Museact’s members realized that they needed to work in a more coordinated way, in order to leverage their actions and reinvigorate the federation, which aims to be a forum for the exchange of information and cooperation between its members.
This is why, in 2023, the members decided to strengthen the federation, restructure it accordingly, and increase its activities and actions. Since 2023, the federation has grown, and renamed itself FAZZ to mark these changes.
Missions
FAZZ aims to :
- promote jazz and improvised music, in the broadest sense of the term and in all fields;
- to represent all its members more effectively in dealings with public authorities, the media and international contacts; and to take part in all negotiations concerning issues that concern them;
- support the necessary upgrading of subsidies and, at the very least, their stabilization with public authorities;
- to share the common skills of the associations and thus improve the effectiveness of their action in the various fields of activity;
- improve the coherence of activities by promoting cooperation between its members and with other federations in the music sector;
- to contribute to the development of artists through concerted reflection on societal issues such as the “status of the artist”, equitable remuneration, ecology, parity and well-being in the sector.