At the annual JPN AGM on the 23rd July, we elected three trustees to join the board. Welcome to our new Trustee, Josie West, from London. Here’s what Josie has to say:I am currently the Marketing Manager at Toulouse Lautrec Restaurant & Jazz Club where I have spent the past year working closely with artists, … Read More
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JPN is keen to hear from anyone interested in joining the JPN Board.
Sustaining grassroots jazz: collaboration, creativity and the road ahead
Grassroots jazz in the UK and Ireland is vibrant and essential, but precarious. At the recent Jazz Promotion Network conference, delegates from across the UK and Ireland gathered to tackle the question: How can working at the grassroots be sustainable long-term? The session was chaired by Barry Holloway, JPN board member and Marketing Director at … Read More
Routes Into Jazz
Routes Into Jazz Ready to connect with like minds and deepen your work in organising jazz or improvised music? Now’s your chance. Routes into Jazz is a mentoring scheme in England and Scotland for the next generation of creative movers and shakers working behind—and for—the music. Over twelve months, you’ll get: Friendly, focused one-to-one mentoring from … Read More
There’s never been a better time to join JPN!
Why not join NOW to play your part in what you feel a UK/Ireland wide network should be offering to the sector, to have the opportunity to feed into the Research Project being run with BCU as described above, to nominate bands for the 2025 showcase programme, have at least one free place at the annual JPN Conference and to network with other JPN members
Would you like to join the JPN trustees?
JPN is still keen to hear from anyone interested in joining the JPN Board. To find out more about what becoming a JPN Trustee would involve you can contact Ros Rigby (JPN Chair for an informal chat by the end of February.
Jazz Promotion Network heads to Bristol 4-5 Nov 2024
4 - 5 Nov 2024 Bristol Beacon, Trenchard Street, Bristol BS1 5AR See the complete Conference & Showcases Timetable Read about the Speakers & Facilitators Read about the Showcase Artists Held at the newly refurbished Bristol Beacon (formerly Colston Hall), this year's conference will be a chance to get together in person- with fellow promoters, [...]
Fergus Quill & Django Bates, JPN dialogue #1
International Jazz Day 2024 We know that many members have activities planned to celebrate International Jazz Day and we hope they all go well! JPN considered what we could do that was a little bit different and our Vice-Chair Orphy Robinson suggested the idea of hosting on-line conversations between key UK jazz musicians with an [...]
Read the 2023 HERE TO STAY Conference and Showcases Report
Now available, an 18 page report ‘HERE TO STAY’ documenting The 2023 JPN Conference and Showcases. You can either read the report online or download a PDF copy.
Here to Stay conference report published by Jazzwise
Kinch’s forthright address to the 150-plus conference delegates (a record attendance for a JPN event) focussed on the need for uncompromising truth, in the telling of the history of jazz and the history of slavery, racism and denial within jazz.