Congratulations to the National Youth Jazz Orchestra celebrating fifty years

  Applications now open for Help Musicians’ prestigious Peter Whittingham Jazz Award  Today, 5 September 2022, Help Musicians open applications for its prestigious Peter Whittingham Jazz Award, offering financial support towards a musical activity and business advice to a jazz musician or band at a tipping point in their career. Now in its 32nd year, it is awarded…

I’m one of 1,000+ musicians who are jointly releasing this album to protest the UK government’s planned changes to copyright law, which would hand the life’s work of the country’s musicians to AI companies for free. It’s an album of recordings of empty studios, which is what we’ll get if the government’s plans go ahead….

Pete Allen Jazz Band Dates May 2025 Here is the newsletter for May. The band has recently completed their latest album which will be released in September and launced at the Pizza Express, Dean Street London. Here are the details: 4th November at 8pm – doors open at 6pm. Here is a link https://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/pete-allen In May Pete…

In the glorious surroundings of Southwark Cathedral the politicians  nonsense of broken Britain was kicked firmly in the seat of the pants and into the Thames. The National Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain ably led by Mark Armstrong and Ben Parry produced an evening of memorable music of Duke…

On Wednesday 13th March 2024 I presented a paper to the All Party Parlimentary Opera Group on  at Portcullis House, House of Commons. Thie paper was not about the Arts Councils decision to move ENO to the North of England but about the most effective response to the Arts Councils latest document Lets’ Create: Opera…

STOP PRESS: 7th July 2025 JAZZLONDONLIVE UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT! Nine years on since its inception, founder Sarah Chaplin is handing the baton over to Danielle White, who runs Raestar and is known to many as an active entrepreneur and promoter with a wealth of knowledge and experience of the British jazz scene. Danielle has been…