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!→

The Riviera Quartet – The Globe, Newcastle

Date: 7 March 2021

Time: 20:00

Location: Livestream from The Globe + possible few seats

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Jazz Northeast | The Globe

The Riviera Quartet – The Globe, Newcastle

Due to any Covid-19 announcements, please check event website before attending in person.

Livestream from The Globe + limited number of seats available at the venue (if permitted)
Tickets for livestream: £7.50, £15.00, £20.00
(You may like to pay more than the minimum if you are feeling generous or if there is more than one person watching).

Tickets for venue: £10.00 (if this option is not available it will say ‘Out of stock’ when you click it)

Note: Full details and ticket links can be found via the ‘More info’ link.

Bossa Trio – The Globe, Newcastle

Date: 14 March 2021

Time: 20:00

Location: Livestream from The Globe + possible few seats

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Jazz Northeast | The Globe

Bossa Trio – The Globe, Newcastle

Due to any Covid-19 announcements, please check event website before attending in person.

Tickets for venue: £10.00 (if this option is not available it will say ‘Out of stock’ when you click it)

Note: Full details and ticket links can be found via the ‘More info’ link.

Four In One – The Globe, Newcastle

Date: 21 March 2021

Time: 20:00

Location: Livestream from The Globe + possible few seats

More info

Jazz Northeast | The Globe

Four In One – The Globe, Newcastle

Due to any Covid-19 announcements, please check event website before attending in person.

Tickets for venue: £10.00 (if this option is not available it will say ‘Out of stock’ when you click it)

Note: Full details and ticket links can be found via the ‘More info’ link.

Bradford/Shoulder/Williams – The Globe, Newcastle

Date: 28 March 2021

Time: 20:00

Location: Livestream from The Globe + possible few seats

More info

Jazz Northeast | The Globe

Bradford/Shoulder/Williams – The Globe, Newcastle

Due to any Covid-19 announcements, please check event website before attending in person.

Tickets for venue: £10.00 (if this option is not available it will say ‘Out of stock’ when you click it)

Note: Full details and ticket links can be found via the ‘More info’ link.

Northern Jazz Promoter (NJP) Network Meeting

Date: 6 April 2021

Time: 13:00

Location: Online via Zoom

Northern Jazz Promoter (NJP) Network Meeting Tuesday 6 April 2021 Online via Zoom from 1 pm. Please request the Zoom information from Steve on the day, or the day before.

This meeting is open to any northern jazz promoter to attend.

Would you like to include a short presentation about what you’ve been up to during lockdown? If so just let Gill or I know – thanks. Steve

Nigel Price Quartet – JazzLeeds

Date: 8 April 2021

Time: 19:30

Location: Seven Arts, 31 Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, Leeds LS7 3PD

Jazz Leeds

Nigel Price Quartet – JazzLeeds

This event could be subject to local or national lockdown rules. Please check before attending.

Nigel Price Quartet: “Wes Reimagined” with Nigel Price guitar, Vasilis Xenopoulos tenor sax, Ross Stanley Hammond organ, Joel Barford drums

JazzReset21
A massive programme of live jazz music has been announced for 2021 in Leeds. Called JazzReset21 and running for three months, the programme will feature dozens of COVID-safe events, concerts and masterclasses by established and emerging artists, from Ian Shaw on 27 May to Byron Wallen on 17th June.

The programme is part of an attempt to bring live jazz back to Leeds, and sees live music promoters JazzLeeds in partnership with arts space, Seven Arts.

View or download our full list

“About Time” – JazzLeeds

Date: 15 April 2021

Time: 19:30

Location: Seven Arts, 31 Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, Leeds LS7 3PD

Jazz Leeds

“About Time” – JazzLeeds

This event could be subject to local or national lockdown rules. Please check before attending.

“About Time” Leeds trumpeter Malcolm Strachan’s new sextet featuring Nico Widdowson, piano, Courtny Tomas double bass, Erroll Rollins drums, Atholl Ransome, tenor saxophone, Danny Barley trombone, and Malcolm himself on trumpet

The programme is part of an attempt to bring live jazz back to Leeds, and sees live music promoters JazzLeeds in partnership with arts space, Seven Arts.

View or download our full list

Clark Tracey Sextet – Sheffield Jazz

Date: 16 April 2021

Time: 20:00

Location: Crookes Social Club, Mulehouse Road, Sheffield S10 1TD

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Sheffield Jazz

Clark Tracey Sextet – Sheffield Jazz

Doors open at 19:15; music starts at 20:00; finish time 22:30.

Prices: Full £16 (£17 for Yazz Ahmed), Over 60s, disabled and unemployed £14 (£15 for Yazz Ahmed), Students with NUS card £9, 15–17 year olds £4, Under 15s FREE.
Advance tickets only available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/sheffield-jazz.

Clark Tracey: drums
Alex Clarke: sax
Alexandra Ridout: trumpet
Daniel Higham: trombone
Will Barry: piano
James Owston: bass

For more details about gigs visit www.sheffieldjazz.org.uk and click on the links. Although Sheffield Jazz’s concerts are held primarily for adults, we very much welcome attendance by young people but please note that Sheffield Jazz and its volunteers cannot be responsible for the welfare of any unaccompanied youngster under the age of 16.

Clark Tracey’s Sextet – JazzLeeds

Date: 22 April 2021

Time: 19:30

Location: Seven Arts, 31 Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, Leeds LS7 3PD

Jazz Leeds

Clark Tracey’s Sextet – JazzLeeds

This event could be subject to local or national lockdown rules. Please check before attending.

Clark Tracey’s Sextet featuring: Alex Ridout – trumpet, Dan Higham – trombone, Alex Clarke – alto/flute, Will Barry – piano, James Owston – bass, Clark Tracey – drums

The programme is part of an attempt to bring live jazz back to Leeds, and sees live music promoters JazzLeeds in partnership with arts space, Seven Arts.

View or download our full list

Fergus McCreadie Trio – Sheffield Jazz

Date: 23 April 2021

Time: 20:00

Location: Crookes Social Club, Mulehouse Road, Sheffield S10 1TD

Sheffield Jazz

Fergus McCreadie Trio – Sheffield Jazz

Doors open at 19:15; music starts at 20:00; finish time 22:30.

Fergus McCreadie: piano
David Bowden: bass
Stephen Henderson: drums

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NorthernJazzLive

Voice of the Northern Jazz Promoters network - independent jazz clubs and jazz festivals in the North.

2020 reflections at Jazz Leeds

Thanks to all the musicians who've made 2020 a memorable year - but in a good way. We're glad we've helped to keep the live scene going in Leeds, and host a few international big names too..

Em Brown Quintet
Teena Lyle Quintet
Gary Boyle Quartet
Jeff Hewer Trio
Soul Surgeons
Ed Kainiek Quartet
Eirik Svela Quintet
Zoe Gilby Quartet
Emilia Mårtensson group
Suppertime
Ethan Iverson/ Martin Speake Quartet
Will Powell Trio
John Settle Quartet
Manouche North
Sam Jackson and Harry Orme
Rebecca Frodsham
Washboard Resonators
Nicki Allen Quartet
Hyde Park Brass
Toby Jack Brazier group
Ben Powling Quartet
Emma Johnson’s Gravy Boat
John Taylor’s Blues Dudes
Eliot Richards “Meantime”
Tshok
Bassa Bassa
Rhythm de Luxe
Alice Higgins
Jeremy Sassoon Quartet
Rory Ingham+Dom Ingham+Jonny Mansfield+Will Harris
Jennie Hammond sings Blossom Dearie
Will Howard Trio
Svarc-Hanley-Longhawn
Tom Sharp Quartet's tribute to Clifford Brown
The Bluebirds
Ends and Means
Kate Peters Quartet
Catimba
Henry Botham
Fergus McCreadie Trio

Plus... thanks to our jam session participants, to Joey Dunn for her live gig drawings, and to our "living room" recording stars with live sessions by Jeff Hewer, Nicki Allen, Chris Lloyd, Jenny and John Chamberlain, Ed Barnwell and more

Many many thanks also to Seven Arts for allowing us to put the gigs on, to Gledhow Sports Club who hosted our Flying High Jazz picnic (we'll be back!), to Chapel FM for allowing us to do the Jazz Unlocked Radio shows, to Leeds Inspired, Music Leeds, Jazz North for encouragement, and last but not least to all our jazz supporters - we couldn't have got though the year without you.

Happy New Year, and let's hope its a good one for us all!!

Steve Crocker

Author: Steve Crocker

Posted: December 31, 2020, 10:17 pm

Reflections on the past year - Southport Jazz

Keeping jazz live!

With the current restrictions on hospitality and performance venues it would be understandable to think that there has been virtually no live jazz performed since March. The amount of live music may have diminished but it hasn’t disappeared! Tom Sykes (Southport Jazz Club) has been able to perform a few times, including at a couple of outdoor jazz concerts at Sefton Park Cricket Club in Liverpool in September. He was playing piano with a quartet and quintet (which included Southport Jazz Club’s Mike Smith) and fortunately the rain held off long enough to finish the concerts, with the audience sitting on benches, socially distanced. Thanks to the organisers, Jazz on the Hill, audience members were able to book tickets in advance online and the events turned out to be a very pleasant way of spending a late summer evening.

Tom has also recently been appointed as Lecturer in Music Performance at Liverpool Hope University, where he has been able to run a small student ‘big band’. While the band is able to rehearse in Hope’s larger spaces using Perspex screens to separate horn players, it has been necessary to keep the band to a maximum of 14 musicians. There are students on the waiting list to join, and it is very heartening to know that young musicians are keen to play jazz and big band music. They are, after all, the musicians and audiences of the future, and they provide hope for the continuation and development of the music we love.

Author: Steve Crocker

Posted: December 19, 2020, 10:05 pm

Reflections on the past year - Olivia Cameron

We asked jazz promoters in the north for their reflections on the past year - and especially those bits that had offered those rare commodities - fun and inspiration! This is from Olivia Cameron, who runs the concert series at Kings Hall, Newcastle University

"fun = interacting with musicians to make recordings, still being able to work with colleagues in this musical making capacity

inspiring = seeing others get to grips with technology, and being inspired to do the same. that's been a challenge, but certainly a positive one

Hearing audience's reactions has inspired me to keep going with offering virtual 'concerts' for them, and also being able to support musicians financially."

Author: Steve Crocker

Posted: December 19, 2020, 8:39 pm