Jazz Services - A voice for jazz

As part of Jazz Services’ commitment to the development of its website and an online jazz music business resource, made possible with Lottery funding from Arts Council England, jazz Services commissioned the first ever mapping of jazz in the UK from the University of Westminster in 2006.

This report was produced by Jazz Services in 2004, after it was commissioned by Arts Council England, North East to undertake a review of the provision of jazz in the North East of England and make recommendations. The Jazz Services team that produced this report comprised Chris Hodgkins, Kathy Dyson, Ivor Widdison and Kate Roebuck. The report consists of an executive summary, the report with conclusions, analysis, recommendations and appendices. Each section is indexed for ease of reading.

Central to the Jazz Services mission statement introducing its Annual Report for the year 2008-9 is the same message that has driven the organisation throughout the 24 years it has been making its crucial contribution to British music: Jazz Services has always seen its principal mission as being ‘to provide a voice and support for UK jazz'.

Written in April 2010 by then Chair of Jazz Services, John Blandford, in response to the Arts Council England consultation which they ran from January to April 2010. This was undertaken with a view to building a strategic framework for ACE's decision making, investment priorities and relationships with artists and audiences.