Jazz Services - A voice for jazz

Jazz Services PRSF Jazz Promoters Award Scheme Evaluation Report, 2006 - 2010  

This report has been written by Esther Briggs who spent the summer of 2011 on a work placement at Jazz Services.  Esther updated the first report on jazz in the media (2008) which was commissioned from the University of Westminster by Jazz Services.  The report compares the actual press coverage of a range of musics, including jazz, with the level of coverage that might be expected if the newspapers under scrutiny based their coverage on their readers’ actual musical tastes as indicated by the standard media research sources used by the industry. Chris Hodgkins, Director Jazz Services October 2012 To download…

JAZZ SERVICES AT JAZZAHEAD, BREMEN, 2012 In April this year, Jazz Services’ Touring and International Manager Anne Rigg went to the annual JazzAhead! conference in Bremen, Germany.  Here she reports on her experiences and offers an introduction on the conference and its value to the UK jazz scene. = = = = = Now in its seventh year, this was the first time I attended JazzAhead! in Bremen, representing Jazz Services Ltd.  My role was to run the JSL stand, for which we were fortunate enough to have received funding of £3,000 from UKTI Niche Genre Project. The trade fair has…

Since 1992 Jazz Services has been operating a National Touring Support Scheme whose aim is to use the JSL Touring Scheme to promote musicians and bands of merit not readily promoted by the commercial sector and other agencies and to maximise attendance at these events and reflect Jazz Services equal opportunities policy. The policy is mainly geared to small groups and covers the full range of jazz music, idioms and styles. The purpose of the scheme is: To broaden touring opportunities for musicians and include the full range of styles of jazz and related music. To encourage musicians and musicians'…