The Antwerp Jazz Club (Dutch: Antwerpse Jazzclub, abbreviated AJC[7]) is an association in Antwerp, Belgium,[8] founded in 1938[1] by Hans Philippi,[3] which delivers weekly lectures about and presentations of jazz music,[8] at no cost,[3] open to the public at large.

[11] 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.

[3] 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.

[1] The building is actually an old guild house (Dutch: ambachtshuis) called "Ambachtshuis de Mouwe" (alternative names: "de gulde Mouwe" or "het Cuypershuys"), which is registered and protected as a monument since 2 September 1976 into the Flemish inventory of immovable property, part of the heritage registers in Belgium.

The building was originally the "house" of the craft of cooperage (Dutch: kamer van het Kuipersambacht).

[21] The Swiss jazz musician Mario Schneeberger compiled a list of notable documents regarding Hans Philippi, from the memorial albums of Philippi, after an acquaintance of Schneeberger had told him that they were about to be put up as garbage disposal following a house clearance in February 2004.

Later, his brother François Vaes (born 1939), nicknamed "Sus",[7] became president of the club,[3] until he died after a "short disease" on 9 August 2012.