Letter in the Stage -Lottery money should not be used for core funding February 27th 2025

I recently appeared in a podcast with Nicoleta Porojanu a  psychologist and therapist from London. It was an interesting interview where the topic of stress was discussed. Stress  is explored and what is causing stress in our modern world and the terrible impact it has on our mental activity, emotional life and physical body. Music…

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,…

The Arts Council published a policy for the support of jazz in 1996 and then 4 years later it was dropped in favour – as I recall – of “the bigger picture”. Needless to say no real resources had been allocated to the policy. In Paragraph 62 the Arts Council say clearly that they will…

     JazzUK hands over the baton to MusicTank JazzUK, formerly Jazz Services was, for 34 years, the voice of advocacy for Jazz in the UK.   As an Arts Council of England National Portfolio  Organisation, the charity targeted grant funding for touring, promoters and recording schemes since 2004 creating over 5,000 gigs, providing employment…

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…

Sunday 25 February 7.30pm Jazz on the Plaza Café Yukari, Kew, TW9 4HJ – Chris Hodgkins – Trumpet, + Terence Collie – Piano and Esther Ng – Double Bass The Thursday 29th February has been cancelled and we are now on the 5th April at the Great Scotland Yard Hotel, 3-5 Great Scotland Yard, London, SW1A…