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Jazz Education Awards announced
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Applications now open for Help Musicians’ prestigious Peter Whittingham Jazz Award
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Does Jazz Get The Money Due To It – Jazzwise March 2020
I was bemused to read in the article “Time for Change” that Arts Council England gives 16% of its music funding to jazz. My last calculation in “Public Investment in Jazz 2012-2022” (see https://chrishodgkins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Public-investment-in-jazz-2012-to-2022.pdf) showed that of the total funding of music for Regularly Funded Organisations was £359 million of which jazz accounted for £6.9million or 1.9%. For…