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Welcome to the Jazz Services website, home of the UK's foremost charitable support organisation for jazz music.
Jazz Services is working hard for jazz, promoting its growth and development and offering services on touring, recording, information, international support, education and communications, publishing and promotion.
LATEST NEWS
- Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year competition 2013
- Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2013 - Winners
- Tony Haynes on improvisation - Music Teacher magazine
- Promoters and Artists Fund, Café Oto - open call for proposals
- Burcharest International Jazz Competition 2014
- International Junior Jazz Meeting in Switzerland
Jazz Services
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Jazz Services is the UK's support organisation for jazz and owns and manages the Jazz Site and Jazz UK. Jazz Services provides a voice for jazz promoting its growth and development by offering services in information, education, touring, communications, marketing and publishing.
Jazz UK
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The April/May issue of JazzUK features Dave Stapleton and Edition Records, an introduction to the scene in Birmingham and the West Midlands, a guide to April's JazzAhead conference in Germany, Bruce Lindsay in The Guest Spot, more from the youth scene in HotHouse, highlights from April's issue of Gigs, Q&As…
Jazz Services has played an important role in promoting British jazz overseas and in supporting and advising artists, managers and agents as they look to develop their careers in international markets. We do this by partnering with funders and industry experts at a range of events, festivals and showcases worldwide. The bands showcased are of the highest quality and reflect our rich and diverse jazz scene, and artists interested in submitting themselves for consideration for these opportunities can do so by following the instructions on our International Showcases page.
Incorporating the MusicEd website and drawing on Jazz Services' own Education resources, the Education section of the Jazz Site will help you further your development whatever your interest in jazz. As well as reading the Education Blog, you can find information on Jazz Services' own Educational activities and the National Youth Jazz Orhestra, you can use the options on our Jazz Education Seach page to find a tutor, orchestra, course or institution to suit your needs...
JAZZ BUSINESS - ONLINE MUSIC BUSINESS RESOURCE
Jazz Services commissioned Debbie Dickinson of City University to develop this definitive guide to managing your career. With help from Noel Dennis of Teeside University Business School and Mykaell Riley of Westminster University and financial support from the Arts Council England's lottery funding, theOnline Music Business Resource (OMBR) has been able to draw on a wide breadth of professional insight and experience, in order to generate a wealth of information and materials relevant to the current climate.
"There’s currently a buzz about British jazz. It’s on a roll. New bands and fresh faces that demand attention seem to be popping up every month" - Professor Stuart Nicholson
The contemporary UK jazz scene in all its forms has not emerged out of a vacuum. The story of British jazz began nearly a hundred years ago and has developed through the decades in creative and unexpected ways sometimes mirroring and often influencing jazz movements in USA and the rest of the world. Use this section of the site to browse profiles of British musicians and learn more about the UK's great contribution to the global jazz scene.
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22nd MayGeorgia Mancio Duo/Trio/Quartet
Old Clee Club,Grimsby, East Midlands, 8.30pm; -
22nd MayIndigo Kid
Carlton Theatre,Teignmouth, South West, 8:00pm; -
23rd MayGeorgia Mancio Duo/Trio/Quartet
Bloom Jazz Club,Altrincham, North West, 9.30pm;
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