JazzLeeds news - autumn programme, jazz lockdown sessions, helping musicians...

(pic - William Ellis from last year's Jazz Leeds Festival 2019)

We've unfortunately had to cancel most of our spring and summer programme due to the Covid-19 virus. So - no summer JazzLeeds festival in July - we'll have to wait another year to see the acts that were appearing - and no Chapel Allerton Arts Festival in early September, although we are still hoping to run some of the Village Jazz Festival events (4-6 September) ourselves.

Our Rush Hour Jazz series and our Jazz Workshops are also suspended at present but Tessa Smith, the Jazz Voices Choir Leader will be running an online summer choir, starting this coming week - If you are interested, please subscribe to her newsletter to hear all about it. The link is here https://tessasmith.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=69db758b91f5b9e67320c4723&id=79357f647a - do pass it on!

From October, our concert live listings are planned as follows - obviously subject to change with the current virus situation...

Thus 1 Oct Jobic le Masson and Steve Potts - "Double Dutch Treat" @Seven 8pm
Sun 4 Oct Suppertime @Inkwell 1.30pm
Thus 8 Oct: Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra (re arranged from March 8pm)
Sun 11 Oct Pete Johnson Brodie Jarvie and Steve Hanley Inkwell 1.30pm

****Mini Jazz Piano Festival @Seven Arts***
Sun 18 Oct John Colliani Trio 1.30pm
Sun 25 Oct Andrew McCormack solo 1.30pm
Thus 29 Oct Fergus Mcreadie Trio 8pm

Sun Nov 1 Tango jazz with Martin Alvarado piano and vocals, Eero Koivistoinen, and Alexi Tuomarila. Seven Arts 1.30pm
Sun Nov 8 Daisy George Trio with Daisy George bass Will Barry piano and Jay Davis drums @Inkwell 1.30pm
Thus 12 Nov Ian Shaw, Ian Ballamy, Jamie Safir “What’s New” (re arranged from March) 8pm Seven Arts
Sun Nov 15 Jamie Taylor with US guitarist John Stowell Seven Arts 1.30pm
Sun Nov 22 Tori Freestone Trio Seven Arts 1.30pm
Thus 26 Nov Josephine Davis “Satori” Seven Arts 8pm
Sun Nov 29 Louise Gibbs “Love You Madly” @Seven Arts 1.30pm - (re arranged from March)

Thus 3 Dec Nigel Price and “Wes Re-imagined’ Seven Arts 8pm
Sun Dec 13 About Time – Malcolm Strachan 1.30pm Seven Arts (tbc)
Thus 17 Dec Adrian Knowles and Sound of 59 - re arranged from April 8pm
Sun Dec 20 Christmas Jazz Cafe at Inkwell 1.30pm

Leeds lockdown Sundays
On Sunday afternoon, when we would normally be opening up for an afternoon of jazz, instead we've a selection of some of favourite music from our archives and THE RAFFLE (for the Wensleydale cheese!). Check our our You Tube Facebook Page from 1.30pm - the lockdown link is.... here

Live streaming jazz favourites
Here are four of our favourite live streams - catch up with them here

Emmett Cohen trio - New York pianist swings his way through the lockdown
https://www.facebook.com/emmet.cohen

Enrico Tommasso - Leeds born trumpeter (and Louis Armstrong fan) is posting funny affectionate and endearing tributs to the jazz trumpet masters
https://www.facebook.com/enrico.tomasso

Chic Corea - a nightly masterclass posts from the piano legend
https://www.facebook.com/chickcorea/ 

Liane Carroll and Roger Carey - "Live from Home" Vocalist extraordinaire!
https://www.facebook.com/LianeCarrollMusic/

How can we help musicians?
With all jazz venues now closed because of the coronavirus, musicians and singers have seen their main source of income suddenly cease. Most musicians rely on gig money to survive and even those with teaching jobs or other supplementary incomes will be finding it difficult to support themselves during this self-isolation period. Many musicians have their music available from their own website or as downloads, and I’d urge you to buy their CD's! Musicians - please post your music purchase links on the Northern Jazz promoter website. Suggestions about how we can help our musicians are also here https://www.jazznorth.org/

Watch our website and social media for further updates - our web is www.jazzleeds.org.uk
Our email address for queries is info@jazzleeds.org.uk

Good luck and stay safe!

Steve Crocker
JazzLeeds

Ilkley Jazz Festival cancelled ..

From Mark Beirne Smith

Sadly we have decided that Ilkley Jazz Festival will be cancelled for 2020, our decision is based on having our Arts Council grant pulled as they will ‘focus on providing emergency financial support for the cultural and creative sector

In the mean time we hope you stay safe and if you do want to support jazz artists during this difficult time please buy their music.

Mark, Beverley and the team.

Cancellation of this year’s Marsden Jazz Festival

From Barney Stevenson  

The Marsden Jazz Festival team have been working hard over the last days and weeks, keeping abreast of all of the news and guidance which has been released by both the government and funding bodies, and meeting digitally to discuss the developing situation and the impact on Marsden Jazz Festival.

The festival is committed to protecting our artists, staff, volunteers and local community, and as such we have made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s Marsden Jazz Festival. We know October still seems quite a long way away, but even at this stage of the year planning for our annual festival is usually in full swing and we are fundraising to put the festival on as well as commissioning artists. Whilst we hope things will improve significantly over the coming months, at this stage we do not know when things will return to a semblance of normality and so we have to plan accordingly.

Arts Council England has responded incredibly quickly to the crisis by diverting £160 million to a COVID-19 emergency fund to help the creative sector sustain itself over the next six months. Many organisations and individual artists face very difficult times with work unable to take place and venues temporarily closing. Arts Council England is not funding live audience-facing work over this period, so we are unable to apply for the usual grant to put on Marsden Jazz Festival this October. We would like to thank Arts Council England for the work they are doing to make this funding available and we absolutely support their decision.

We want to support both artists and our local community as best we can during this uncertain time and as such we are exploring what opportunities there might be to deliver some online events and music over the coming months. We also want to keep you, our lovely supporters, entertained as best we can. We will share news and updates regularly on social media, on our website, and via our email newsletter.

Some of you have been in touch asking how you can support us through this difficult time and whilst keeping yourself safe and healthy is the best thing, those who do want to support us can donate to the festival on our donation page.

We know this news will come as a big disappointment, but we want to reassure you that Marsden Jazz Festival’s central aim is to ensure that we survive over the next 18 months and deliver our much-loved festival on 8 – 10 October 2021. There is much uncertainty ahead, but we will do everything we can to keep the music playing.

Stay safe and take care of yourself, your friends, family and neighbours.

We will see you soon.

Best wishes
Barney

Helping Our Bands And Musicians

To jazz musicians and artists

During these challenging times for Northern Jazz bands and musicians, you are invited to email us at rich@northernjazzpromoters.org or rich@norvoljazz.org with the following details, to perhaps help with generating an additional income stream. Please restrict your information as requested, as there’s only one person putting it all together:

1. Name of artist/band
2. A link to your main website OR facebook page
3. A link to a purchase page OR a CD you want people to buy
4. A link to single track purchases
5. A YouTube share link (if no video link, I will accept one photo)

Suggestion: You may like to include a link whereby a person could buy just one track to download (as well as the option to buy a whole album) and we could encourage visitors to buy at least one track from a number of bands/musicians, to spread the support as widely as possible. (Items will be added in order of receipt and alphabetically for items arriving at the same time).

The page link on Northern Jazz Promoters website will be populated, as we receive information from bands and musicians. Please check back regularly over the next few days and weeks.

https://www.norvoljazz.org/helping-our-bands-and-musicians/

---

To the public – please help our bands and musicians by purchasing their music. During these times of national lockdown, musicians are no longer able to perform live – an essential way that they normally make their livelihoods. Your support is greatly appreciated.

You can also support bands and musicians on another listing at Northern Jazz.

You can also support bands and musicians on another listing at Wakefield Jazz

 

Every Wednesday at 8:45pm – the time when live music usually starts at Scarborough Jazz – we’ll be releasing a whole package of jazz goodies on the internet.

Steve Crocker’s “Jazz Leeds Lockdown Session”
Keep listeninhg and watching every Sunday afternoon at the usual gig time of 1:30-4pm (including a raffle!). Playing videos of jazz musicians and bands from our Jazz Youube archives from the last 10 years