Northern Jazz Promoters – the new name for NorVol Jazz
We are now using our new name of Northern Jazz Promoters (NJP) Read more here
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Education Partnership for jazz promoters
Network members are asked if you would be interested in taking part in the new Education Partnership for jazz promoters and their Music Education Hubs. If so please let Gill Wilde know on
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Our Latest News and Developments
The network has approved new objectives to allow membership by all promoters of jazz whether voluntary, pop up, musician led, commercial or public funded. They also approved the new “gold” logo (seen on this front page). The current set of minutes from our Manchester Jazz Festival Meeting on Sat 25 May are attached. Northern Jazz Promoters. The next meet-up (and our AGM) will be at Scarborough Jazz Festival @Scarborough Spa Sat 21 Sept 10 for 10.30am. All welcome.
See our current management group, here.
Emerging Artist Programme
Leeds College of Music, together with Norvoljazz network, have organised six jazz groups in an emerging artist programme in that took place during April and May 2019. We have agreed to run another programme with the College in April and May 2020. If you would like to book one of these bands – say as a support band, or to fill a gap in your programme in the near future, do get in touch.
See our members here | See our Venues/A-Z of clubs in North | Check Jazz days here
All the latest NorVol Jazz Minutes – click here – See the photo and NorVol banner here
Remember too, that Jazz Festivals run throughout the year! Check our Festivals page.
Changes to our website
We have updated and changed some aspects of the NorVol Jazz website. Click here for details of the changes.
Current Events:
Community Jazz afternoon – JazzLeeds
Leeds Jazz Festival are pleased to offer a platform for school, student and community bands. Saturday afternoon at the Wardrobe Sat 20 July 12-6pm
Free entrance!
• Leeds Youth Jazz Rock Orchestra – LYJRO gives young people from Leeds the chance to perform in a professional setting whilst learning how to be confident musicians, in both their reading and improvisation abilities. 12.00
• Yaatri – a five-piece jazz crossover quintet formed in Leeds in 2018. Influenced by the Scandinavian jazz tradition, the momentum of the rhythms of India and the energy of rock and roll, their music has a strong sense of purpose and journey. 13.00
• Blueberry Jam – a small Leeds based jazz ensemble who have been playing together for about 18 months 14.00
• Mondo Bizarre – a 9-piece funk-soul-jazz band coming up in the exciting Leeds jazz scene 3pm 15.00
• New York Brass Band -a powerful team of some of Yorkshire’s finest musicians packing an arsenal of percussion, sax, trumpets, trombones and sousaphone with a varied repertoire from jazz to pop, reggae to funk and New Orleans to ska – following a performance in Briggate earlier in the afternoon 16.00
• Chapel FM Jazz Collective is a brand new, exciting, high-energy big band who play a wide range of music from across the jazz spectrum including original compositions with a healthy focus on the joy of improvisation. 17.00
A Concert for Margaret Barnes – Jazz Northeast
Featuring:
Zoe Gilby
Tom Chapman
Tobias Illingworth
Russ Morgan
Mark Williams
Jason Etherington
Christian Alderson
Callum Younger
Bradley Johnston
Andy Champion
The evening session of our tribute to Margaret Barnes continues to demonstrate the high esteem in which she was held by North East musicians right across the stylistic spectrum.
Admission £10.00
(Starts 5:45 pm)
Shai Maestro triob+ Frank Harrison and Brigitte Beraha – JazzLeeds
Leeds Jazz Festival event: Shai Maestro triob+ Frank Harrison and Brigitte Beraha
6:30-7:15 pm: Frank Harrison and vocalist Brigette Beraha.
The first part of the concert will celebrate an exciting new collaboration between pianist Frank Harrison and vocalist Brigitte Beraha.
Tickets £20 (concessions £10). Buy online here
A Concert for Margaret Barnes – Jazz Northeast
Featuring:
Thomas Dixon
Stephen Glendinning
Paul Edis
Lindsay Hannon
Inês Gonçalves
Graham Hardy
Debra Milne
Bradley Johnston
Ben Lawrence
Ben Fitzgerald
The jazz scene on Tyneside can surely have had no more committed a supporter than the late Margaret Barnes. This Jazz North East concert, spread over afternoon and evening sessions, is our way of saying “Thank you Margaret”, with all the proceeds going to her chosen charity, Marie Curie.
Admission £10.00
(Starts 1:00 pm)
Vula Viel + support from Las Camaradas – JazzLeeds
Leeds Jazz Festival event: Vula Viel + support from Las Camaradas
Bex Burch brings her unique energetic and intense vibe to Leeds for the first time with her band Vula Viel! The band name means “Good is Good” in Dagaare, the language of the tribe in Upper West Ghana where Bex lived, farmed and studied for three years. Vula Viel’s music is intensely rhythmic; a uniquely engaging mix of African, punk and minimalist influences, based around the Gyil (the Dagaare xylophone made of sacred lliga wood).
Support is from Leeds favourite salsa band Las Cameradas 8:30 – 9:15 pm
Tickets £15 (concessions £8). Buy online here
Adrian Knowles and “Sounds of ’59” – JazzLeeds
Leeds Jazz Festival event: Adrian Knowles and “Sounds of ’59”
The afternoon’s concert features “Sounds of 59” (1 pm- 2:15 pm) followed by the Leo Richardson Quartet (2:45-4 pm)
The year 1959 was a special one in jazz history. It saw the release of classic jazz albums including Charlie Mingus ‘Ah Um’, Miles Davis ‘Kind of Blue’ , Dave Brubeck ‘Out of Time’ and John Coltrane ‘Giant Steps’ amongst many others.
“Sounds of 59” are drawn from some of the best of Leeds Jazz musicians to recreate the music. Their leader Adrian Knowles will relate some of the history and stories behind these classic jazz albums.
Doors 12:30 pm. Music 1 pm
Tickets £15 (concessions £7.50). Buy online here
Leo Richardson Quartet – JazzLeeds
Leeds Jazz Festival event: Leo Richardson Quartet
Without a doubt, Leo Richardson is widely recognised to be one of London’s leading Jazz Tenor Saxophonists, best known for his honest, straight-ahead, contemporary hard-bop style. His most significant influences include John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon, Horace Silver and Art Blakey.
Doors 12:30 pm. This concert starts at 2:45 pm
This afternoon’s concert features “Sounds of 59” from 1 pm- 2:15 pm and then the Leo Richardson Quartet follows between 2:45-4 pm
Tickets £15 (concessions £7.50). Buy online here
Mrs Boyes Bingo featuring Mark Sanders – JazzLeeds
Leeds Jazz Festival event: Mrs Boyes Bingo featuring Mark Sanders
Our first Leeds Fusebox presention at this Festival is “Mrs Boyes’ Bingo” featuring Mark Sanders. It is a bog-standard game of prize bingo with simultaneous drumming and percussion / disruption. Conceived and produced by Simon Thackray, the event was premiered at The Shed in North Yorkshire in 1999. This totally unrehearsed performance brings together the 81 year-old bingo caller Mrs Eileen Boyes with leading drummer and percussionist Mark Sanders, in what remains one of the happiest accidents in the world of free improvisation. Rarely do two worlds collide and create so much fun.
Doors 3:30 pm. This concert starts at 4 pm
Tickets £15 (concessions £7.50). Buy online here
New York Brass Band – JazzLeeds
Leeds Jazz Festival event: New York Brass Band
A powerful team of some of Yorkshire’s finest musicians, they pack an arsenal of percussion, sax, trumpets, trombones and sousaphone with a varied repertoire at their fingertips without a note of music in sight. This is a band that works without gimmicks, auto tune or backing tracks, we blur the line between band and audience by inviting the crowd to become part of the show and ending the performance in the audience, dancing on the tables or congaing under the stars.
They will be starting off in Briggate in Leeds City Centre at 1 pm and then making their way down to the Wardrobe where they will be performing a set a the festival stage.
35 years old Celebration – Scarborough Jazz
Scarborough Jazz is 35 years old! Celebration Sunday 21st July.
We think it’s an amazing achievement to have been running fifty nights a year for so long. It’s worth a celebration! And that’s what we’ll be doing down at the Spa on the afternoon and evening of Sunday 21st July. There’ll be some great music from Dennis Rollins and Vibeology, the New York Brass Band, AC3 and more. And it’s all free so get this date in your diary. More details to come (see website).
£ Free
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Jazz North is the development agency for jazz in the North of England funded by Arts Council England.
Their mission is to increase the profile of contemporary jazz in the North by developing opportunities for artists and building audiences through collective partnership working.
