A not-for-profit organisation, whose aim is to collect, curate, preserve, celebrate and promote the
20/11/2025
So, the work starts on 'TUBBY HAYES: AN UNEXPECTED PLEASURE:
rare live and studio sessions 1958-1972'. It' a triple CD album and should come out next April or May. Three CDs of entirely previously unreleased material.
Simon Spillett, who has worked with Jazz In Britain since its very inception and has contributed to its success in a big way, has written 13,000 words, and provided a wealth of photos and ephemera, for the booklet... that we have spent the afternoon scanning. Here's a taster of the images... purposely tiny so don't complain!
20/11/2025
"Mujician seemed intent on creating new forms, conjuring never-before-heard sounds out of the aether. It’s something the new box set makes gloriously apparent. Fierce gusts of the heaviest free jazz give way to passages of driving jazz with the bass galloping for its life, interrupted by interludes of quiet, avant-garde exploration. Carried along by an upward thrusting energy, as though reaching for the heavens, the music barely sits still for a moment."
Read Dan Spicer's interview with Paul Dunmall - news and stuff in the new issue of Jazzwise here:
20/11/2025
Following the extraordinary success of their performance at Bath Jazz Weekend in January this year, and the release of their CD Aurora on the JAZZ NOW label, the SAROST Trio - Mark Sanders, Paul Rogers and Larry Stabbins have a short UK Tour in December. Dates are as follows:-
9th London – The Vortex
10th Bristol - Fringe Jazz at BMC
11th Malmesbury – Westport Sound, The Three Cups Inn
12th Birmingham - Fizzle, Hexagon Theatre at MAC
13th Ashburton – Ashburton Arts Centre, Devon
14th Constantine, Cornwall – The Tolmen Centre
The trio creates chamber music of infinite variety, dependent on the musicians who can bend genres beyond breaking point. – Jack Kenny, Jazz Views
The mighty trio of improv legends SAROST aka Mark Sanders (drums), Paul Rogers (bass) and Larry Stabbins (sax) was an anticipated highlight that…unleashed a richly varied stream of spontaneous music that melded into new shapes and moods as they played off each other. Paul’s remarkable seven-string instrument allowed him to soar, grind, thunder and growl, while Mark’s deployment of percussion produced a soundscape all of its own. Running through it all, Larry’s precision delivery on soprano and tenor sax made a telling vocal contribution that both steered and followed in the flow of the improvisations. – Tony Benjamin [B24/7] on the trio’s performance e at Bath Jazz Weekend 2025.
Quite a few Jazz In Britain album mentions in the latest edition of Jazzwise... first a review of the Larry Stabbins-Paul Rogers-Mark Sanders, ie SAROST, Aurora album... then Tubby Hayes Live In Antibes '62 album cited in a couple of the top ten archival issues of the year list... and then Mujician 'In Concerts' lauded in Dan Spicer's interview with the éminence grise that is Paul Dunmall - news and stuff...
17/11/2025
Trevor Hodgett's review of Colin Harper's biography of Pete Deuchar in UK Jazz News...
Newcastle-born New Orleans-style banjo player Big Pete Deuchar, who died in 1988, is so obscure that he probably wasn’t even a household name amongst his own household. Why then has author Colin Harper, whose previous biographies have included 'Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch And The British Folk A...
17/11/2025
'Hikmah (Wisdom), Sufism and Free Jazz' - three hour playlist of Pat Thomas music and interviews with David Mittleman at WFMU on Saturday evening:
Audio & playlist from November 15, 2025
16/11/2025
Gordon Beck 'Suite Number One' from Pay Now Live Later : Live at the Bass Clef ‘85 featured on Bob Osborne's Different Noises show - hear it at 1:41:47
World of Jazz 766
13/11/2025
Thank you to all the loyal Jazz In Britain supporters and Tony Coe fans around the world... you've got his new album to Number 1 on the Bandcamp WORLDWIDE best-selling jazz chart...
13/11/2025
Launched yesterday... No. 1 best-selling jazz album on Bandcamp in the UK this morning... and No. 3 worldwide. What Say We Play Today? from Tony Coe's Axel - Tony, Gordon Beck, Phil Lee, Chris Laurence & Bryan Spring...
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Jazz in Britain Ltd incorporating the British Jazz Sound Archive
A not-for-profit organisation, whose aim is to collect, curate, preserve, celebrate and promote the legacy of British jazz musicians. The archive collects, curates and preserves off-air and other recordings of British jazz performances.
The organisation will publish books, release vinyl, CDs and downloads, working in partnership with musicians and their families. The source material will either come from musicians’ own archives, or from the collections of fans who had the foresight to preserve copies of off-air recordings. Recordings will only be used with the approval of the musicians or their families and subject to appropriate copyright clearance and royalty payments.
Interest is sought from anyone who has recordings that could be contributed to the archive, and from musicians (or their families/estates) who are willing to contribute material from their own archives.
From jazz innovations in the 1950s, to the golden age of 1960s and 70s modern jazz, jazz-rock and free improvisation, and all the original music created since; the archive intends to ensure that music is not lost, but heard, and that musicians receive recompense, recognition and appreciation.
