1 October 2017 | Northern Jazz Promoters

Scarborough Jazz festival – UK 2017 Jazz Venue of the Year!

Posted on 11 October 2017 by Steve Crocker

So the north has done it again – the second year running a NorvolJazz network promoter has won the jazz venue of the year in the prestigious Parliamentary Jazz awards. And our warmest congratulations to Mike and Marion Gordon who Continue reading Scarborough Jazz festival – UK 2017 Jazz Venue of the Year!→

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Discus Music reaches the ton!

Good to see Discus Music, the Sheffield based indie jazz and improv music label getting some long overdue national recognition.

A program on BBC Radio 3 Midnight Saturday 14 November looks at the Discus label which has produced over 100 CDs of experimental sounds over the last 30 years.

Upcoming from BBC Radio 3 "Freeness" with Corey Mwamba. "Celebrating the 100th release on the Discus Music label run by Martin Archer.

Author: Steve Crocker

Posted: November 14, 2020, 1:32 pm

James Hamilton releases the Yorkshire Suite - at last!

“Yorkshire Suite” is the fourth release from James Hamilton Jazz Orchestra on New Jazz Records. Part of a set of live recordings from Seven Arts Leeds in 2015 that have been gathering digital dust on a hard drive waiting to be mixed. It’s taken a global pandemic to help them finally see the light of day. Hamilton was commissioned in 2014 to write a suite of music for the Yorkshire Festival to celebrate the life of Jazz Yorkshire. The result is this four part work reflecting on the feelings, people and places of Yorkshire. The brief was to compose a multi-part suite with each movement increasing in difficulty in order to be accessed by youth bands of varying levels. This isn’t a subtle nuanced work of contemporary jazz, there’s a back catalogue from JHJO where you can already find that, it’s an unashamedly “heart on it’s sleeve” tour de force of cheesy big band music, drawing inspiration from Hamilton's past playing in youth bands.

The release is currently available for pre-order with the track “Thrifty” immediately available for download. The rest of the E.P. will release on 7th December 2020 alongside study scores, parts and multitracks available to download for pay what you want from www.james-hamilton.co.uk.

All JHJO releases are available for PWYW above the cost of production.

Saxophones: Mark Ellis, Cat Miles, Matt Anderson, Will Howard, Rob Mitchell

Trumpets: Gareth Smith, Simon Dennis, Kim Macari, Simon Beddoe

Trombones: Matt Ball, Stuart Garside, Tom I'anson, Chris Dale

Guitar: Harry Orme | Piano: Aron Kyne | Bass: John Marley | Drums: Steve Hanley

Author: Steve Crocker

Posted: November 12, 2020, 9:46 am

Yazz Ahmed live streams for Sage Gateshead

After a long season of Covid discontent, we are thrilled to finally invite you to join us for an emotional reunion of this incredible ensemble of 12 musicians led by Yazz Ahmed from her Hafla band- players from the album and friends- to perform this beautiful and highly immersive suite of music, from the main stage in Sage One Gateshead. The music is a celebration of female courage, determination and creativity and the album has had incredible reviews – this is truly a jazz star who goes from strength to strength.

yazzahmed.com

Yazz Ahmed is a British-Bahraini trumpet player and composer who seeks to blur the lines between jazz, electronic sound design, bringing together the sounds of her mixed heritage. Her music has been described as ‘psychedelic Arabic jazz, intoxicating and compelling‘.

In recent years she has led her various ensembles in concerts around the world as well as recording and performing with Radiohead, Lee Scratch Perry, Nile Rodgers, ABC, Swing Out Sister, Joan as Police Woman, Tarek Yamani, Amel Zen and These New Puritans. Yazz’s highly anticipated third album, Polyhymnia, was released in 2019 on Ropeadope Records and following a residency with our youth Jazz ensemble, Jambone, Yazz was due to play our Gateshead Jazz festival in March 2020.

Tickets https://sagegateshead.com/seasons/sage-live-2020/

Live Stream Pass - Saturday 14 November - £8.10

Author: Steve Crocker

Posted: November 11, 2020, 7:00 pm