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Jazz In Britain A not-for-profit organisation, whose aim is to collect, curate, preserve, celebrate and promote the

Working for Jazz In Britain might just be the best job in the world… as in a ‘voluntary’ job… we have just received the ...
28/11/2025

Working for Jazz In Britain might just be the best job in the world… as in a ‘voluntary’ job… we have just received the sleeve notes for our impending release ‘John Taylor & Stan Sulzmann with The NDR Orchestra 1987’… from the inestimable Liam Noble… who talked to Stan… and they’re perfect.

The (long) story of how this album came about will be in the sleeve notes… together with thanks to a very long list of people who helped make it come about… including: Stan (obviously), Chris Laurence, Norma Winstone, Nikki Iles, Leo Taylor, Joerg Reinicke, and the team at OneGate Media who handle NDR licensing.

The current plan is to use this photo as the album cover… we think that John & Stan’s expressions of happiness… contentment… achievement… perfectly sum up this album… and if it doesn’t make ‘album of the year’ somewhere, we’ll eat our hats! NB: Pete Woodman often wears a hat, but John Thurlow generally doesn’t.

Mujician's 'Vienna Set 1' from In Concerts played on this weekends Bob Osborne 'World of Jazz' show... hear it at 1:19:1...
26/11/2025

Mujician's 'Vienna Set 1' from In Concerts played on this weekends Bob Osborne 'World of Jazz' show... hear it at 1:19:11

World of Jazz 767

So, the work starts on 'TUBBY HAYES: AN UNEXPECTED PLEASURE: rare live and studio sessions 1958-1972'. It' a triple CD a...
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:

Following the extraordinary success of their performance at Bath Jazz Weekend in January this year, and the release of t...
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.

Aurora is available from Jazz In Britain at https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/aurora

Quite a few Jazz In Britain album mentions in the latest edition of Jazzwise... first a review of the Larry Stabbins-Pau...
19/11/2025

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...

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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.