An excellent article in June’s edition of Jazzwise by Andy Robson. NYJO are celebrating fifty years. They used to say life begins at forty but in this case, Â life roars ahead at fifty. Congratulations to Bill Ashton, Nigel Tully, Jack Fallow, Mark Armstrong and the rest of the NYJO team.
The Arts Council published a policy for the support of jazz in 1996 and then 4 years later it was dropped in favour â as I recall â of âthe bigger pictureâ. Needless to say no real resources had been allocated to the policy. In Paragraph 62 the Arts Council say clearly that they will…
In 1993 the Arts Council announced they were conducting a review of jazz. Jazz In , the precursor to Jazz UK published an editorial on the review. Reading the editorial will engender a profound sense of deja vu. Please see Arts Council Review of Jazz 1993
I have just completed a paper on âPublic investment of jazz â a coherent policy for jazz, changing demographics, live music and coping with the increasing supply of jazz musiciansâ. This paper examines: A level playing field for jazz The paucity of public funding for jazz The lack of a coherent policy for jazz in…
Firstly the Arts Councilâs magazine Create â vanity publishing in an age of austerity. I looked into the Arts Council’s publication of their magazine “Create”. “The publication cost ÂŁ16,999 to commission the essays. Nineteen contributors in all, of which only three contibutors gave their services for free. ÂŁ1062 an essay â nice work if you…