Sebastian writes: Over the course of the summer season, London Jazz Information will grow to be UK Jazz Information. Step one has been taken: we unveiled our new title branding on the jazzahead! convention in Bremen, the place the banner within the photograph above was formally unveiled by the CEO of jazzahead!, Sybille Kornitschky.

With writers and different contributors primarily based everywhere in the UK, we really feel this variation is now overdue, as many readers have been telling us. The total textual content of the banner briefly explains our essence, objectives and aspirations:

jazzahead’s management staff had invited us to run a UK umbrella stand, the UK as an entire having been unrepresented on the previous few conferences. This was a one-off, a method to have fun LJN’s fifteenth birthday. Within the occasion, it was a convincing success! Contributors from the UK together with a staff of volunteers on a rota, created a welcoming buzz in regards to the stand, which was broadly appreciated. A selected phrase of because of Nick Brown, challenge supervisor, who did a very good job, eg, co-ordinating video enter from greater than thirty organisations for an on-site show…devising the volunteer rota… preserving the place tidy and welcoming….all the best way to coping with misplaced property on the finish of every of the three days because the halls had been closing!

We had been additionally thrilled to welcome musicians and organisations from Northern Eire and the Republic of Eire to make their house at jazzahead! on our stand.

The UK additionally had three showcases and two Clubnight occasions. Experiences to observe.

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This success, it’s clearly to be hoped, would be the starting of an everyday British presence at this necessary worldwide music business assembly, alongside and throughout the aisle from our Scottish colleagues. With its spirit of group and informality, jazzahead! is a novel occasion the place impartial UK musicians and likewise their brokers can develop enterprise. There’s at all times latent, unmet demand all throughout continental Europe for what goes on in our distinctive and thriving music scene, and jazzahead!’s casual pleasant vibe is the appropriate place to construct consciousness of it to an viewers of pros eager to study.

For 2025 we aspire to be a part of constructing a collective of UK organisations which is able to all convey shared experience, ardour and talent. Our goal is to have a funded UK presence on the commerce honest comparable with that of each single European nation.

(*) Our Tea and Cake get together was sponsored by Pukka Tea and cake sponsor Jazz on the Seashore Early morning espresso and biscuits had been sponsored by the Nationwide Jazz Archive.

LIST OF 2024 Registered individuals on 6A46 plus helpers on the stand:

Betty Accorsi Music
Rob Adams
Kevin Brady Music
Lauren Bush
Sara Colman
Ben Cottrell
Anova Music
ECN Music (Nadja von Massow, Elaine Crouch)
Nuovi Fratelli
FMLY (Agnese Daverio)
Pleasure Ellis Music
Ilario Ferrari Trio
Tori Freestone & Alcyona Mick Duo
Faucet dancing Musician: Petra Haller
FUNKGURUS Artist Administration (Craig Hume)
manchester jazz pageant (Steve Mead)
Nationwide Jazz Archive UK (Mark Kass)
Helena Kay
Improvised Music Firm (Kenneth Killeen)
Conor McAuley
HITar
Phil Meadows
Rebecca Nash
Sorana Santos
Irene Serra
Henry Spencer
en Rapport / Keith Michael
Home made Information (Tim Whitehead, Amanda Parkin)
Jazz Promotion Community (UK): Ros Rigby (Chair), Nod Knowles, Keith Michael, Mark Kass
Shiny Stockings LTD (Emma Smith)
South Financial institution Centre / Cheltenham Competition (Alex Carr)
Adjunct Ensemble (Jamie Thompson)
Copasetic Basis (Alex Webb)
Perdido Information (Charlie Wooden)
London Jazz Information (Nick Brown, Sebastian Scotney