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Review of Arts Council England – Fan Led review -European Touring – AI update – Creative Industries Sector Plan – Agent of Change – Is this the triumph of hope over experience? 1 Review of Arts Council England This section evidences the slipshod and insouciant way that jazz and grassroots musics are is being treated…

Arts Council England funding of National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) for jazz 2014/2022 Set below in Table 1 is the funding of the National Portfolio Organisations for 2014 to 2022.  Please note only those organisations are included whose activity is a give or a take a percent, 100% jazz activity. They are the core jazz National…

  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…

Pete Allen Jazz Band Touring Dates November 2024During a professional career in show business that has spanned over 46 years, there is so much Pete has achieved that it is impossible to list everything. During the past 46 years, his band personnel has always featured a host of British talent, and his present line-up is…

The Autumn Culture  Preview in  the New Review  in the Observer on the 1st September 2019 was disappointingly narrow in its outlook. The highlights were heavily skewed towards London and limited in the coverage of different genres of music. There were 11 mentions generally, on film, television and books with 12 mentions of art, theatre,…

I have just received details of the Will Michael Jazz Education Awards for 2016. The Will Michael Jazz Education Awards Panel is  chaired by Ivor Widdison. His colleagues on the Panel are Dr Catherine Tackley, Bill Martin, Andrea Vicari and Richard Michael.  The Awards were presented by Leslie East, Chair of the Jazz Committee of the Musicians’ Company,…