Press releases 2010
Press releases 2010
Jazz Services announces the recipients of awards from its National Touring Support Scheme for next year’s first quarter (January/February/March 2011): Chris Biscoe Quartet Dylan Howe Quartet HAQ Jay Phelps Quintet plus One John Law's Opt Trio Juliet Kelly Mick Hutton Group Osian Roberts/Steve Fishwick Quintet Phil Robson & the "Instant Message Service" Quintet Phronesis Stan Tracey Trio/Duo Terry Seabrook's Milestones Tim Richards Trio October 2010
Jazz Services urges the jazz community and music lovers all over the UK to press the BBC for more coverage of jazz music - in this critical two month window within which the BBC Trust's March 2010 strategy for the future is opened up to industry and public consultation. April 2010
BBC Radio 2 and 3 music bosses Roger Wright and Lewis Carnie joined UK promotional and support organisation Jazz Services, musicians, academics and broadcasters in a three-hour public discussion on the future of jazz in Britain at London’s Cockpit Theatre last week. January 2010
Last night, the House of Commons played host to the sixth Parliamentary Jazz Awards sponsored by PPL and Jazz Services, which was attended by a record number of MPs and peers, showing a cross-party love of jazz. It was the first major musical event in the new Parliamentary calendar. Hosted by broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, many MPs, Peers and renowned jazz musicians were present on the night including Mr Ed Vaizy,…
As Britain faces the harshest public-expenditure cuts since the post-war years of the 1950s, a timely Jazz Services report shows just how effectively jazz practitioners and a hidden army of volunteers are making a little go a very long way. December 2010
Jazz is worth over £80 million to the British economy according to a new survey, carried out by the University of Westminster for Jazz Services Ltd. There is an encouraging expansion of jazz interest in the 15 - 34 age range and a rise in the number of women active in jazz. Yet most British jazz musicians earn a wage below the national average. In Jazz Services' second 'Value of…
Bob Blizzard, the former government whip and Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group, is to chair the jazz promoting and information organisation Jazz Services. Blizzard, MP for Waveney in Suffolk until the 2010 election, is a long-time jazz enthusiast who in an influential political career has combined that interest with many others - including global energy issues, education, transport and health. He inherits the chairmanship from former…