Jazz Connective Birmingham
As part of the European Jazz Connective project I took part in an open panel discussion on the Birmingham jazz ecology on 10th March 2020. Also attending were key figures of the local scene including promoters and members of the pioneering Birmingham City University research group. This workshop aimed at interacting with the dynamics of […]
Everyday Jazz Life
Everyday Jazz Life: A photographic project on contemporary jazz musicians’ lives in Birmingham project, brought together a jazz scholar, myself, and my dear friend and colleague, freelance jazz photographer Brian Homer. The participants were saxophonists Chris Young, Joey Walter, Alicia Gardener-Trejo and Xhosa Cole (BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2018), pianist David Austin […]
Documenting Jazz Conference 2020
The second edition of the Documenting Jazz conferences offered an unparalleled variety of experiences drawn from across the world. It brought together more than one hundred delegates from twenty countries within the academic, archive, library, and museum sectors to explore and discuss documenting jazz. As the programme reflected, there were contributions from individuals of all […]