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25 Years of the London Jazz Festival MUSIC FROM OUT THERE, IN HERE: 25 YEARS OF THE LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL Emma Webster and George McKay MUSIC FROM OUT THERE, IN HERE: 25 YEARS OF THE LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL Emma Webster and George McKay Published in Great Britain in 2017 by University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK as part of the Impact of Festivals project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, under the Connected Communities programme. impactoffestivals.wordpress.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This book is an output of the Arts and Humanities Research Council collaborative project The Impact of Festivals (2015-16), funded under the Connected Communities Programme. The authors are grateful for the research council’s support. At the University of East Anglia, thanks to project administrators CONTENTS Rachel Daniel and Jess Knights, for organising events, picture 1 FOREWORD 50 CHAPTER 4. research, travel and liaison, and really just making it all happen JOHN CUMMING OBE, THE BBC YEARS: smoothly. Thanks to Rhythm Changes and CHIME European jazz DIRECTOR, EFG LONDON 2001-2012 research project teams for, once again, keeping it real. JAZZ FESTIVAL 50 2001: BBC RADIO 3 Some of the ideas were discussed at jazz and improvised music 3 INTRODUCTION 54 2002-2003: THE MUSIC OF TOMORROW festivals and conferences in London, Birmingham, Cheltenham, 6 CHAPTER 1. 59 2004-2007: THE Edinburgh, San Sebastian, Europe Jazz Network Wroclaw and THE EARLY YEARS OF JAZZ FESTIVAL GROWS Ljubljana, and Amsterdam. Some of the ideas and interview AND FESTIVAL IN LONDON 63 2008-2011: PAST, material have been published in the proceedings of the first 7 ANTI-JAZZ PRESENT, FUTURE Continental Drifts conference, Edinburgh, July 2016, in a paper 8 EARLY JAZZ FESTIVALS 69 2012: FROM FEAST called ‘The role of the festival producer in the development of jazz (CULTURAL OLYMPIAD) in Europe’ by Emma Webster. George McKay has drawn on this Citation 14 CHAPTER 2. TO FAMINE (AUSTERITY), Emma Webster and George McKay. TOWARDS THE LONDON research for a chapter called ‘Festivals’ in Francesco Martinelli AND BEYOND (A NEW 2017. Music From Out There, In JAZZ FESTIVAL TITLE SPONSOR) (ed.) The History of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians and Here: 25 Years of the London 14 THE BIRTH OF BRACKNELL Audience in Context (Equinox, 2018). Jazz Festival. Norwich: Arts and AND CAMDEN FESTIVALS 70 CHAPTER 5. Humanities Research Council/ THE EFG YEARS: 19 THE NEW JAZZ OF THE 1980S At Serious and the EFG London Jazz Festival, thanks to John University of East Anglia 2013-PRESENT Cumming, David Jones, Claire Whitaker; Ope Igbinyemi, Martel 24 FESTIVALS IN THE CITY Design 70 2013: 21 YEARS’ YOUNG Ollerenshaw and Amy Pearce; and other Serious staff members www.designpod.info 75 2014: JAZZ EDUCATION past and present, particularly Louise Dennison and Piers Mason, 28 CHAPTER 3. THE BIRTH OF A NEW 77 2015: IN THE CLUBS AND for all their help in facilitating the research. Print Page Bros FESTIVAL AND ITS EARLY ONTO THE STREETS Many thanks also to all the other interviewees (see list at end) YEARS: 1993-2000 82 2016-2017: LONDON who took the time to contribute to the project. 28 1993: THE FIRST LONDON For an open-access PDF JAZZ FESTIVAL 86 CONCLUSION. #JAZZIMPACT Thanks to the National Jazz Archive, particularly David Nathan, version of this book, 36 1994-1995: NEW VENUES, Roger Horton, and to the Royal College of Music library for help where the print size NEW SPONSORSHIP 91 JAZZ IS FOR EVERYONE with sourcing and scanning archival material. can be enlarged, go to 39 1996-1998: THE ORIS YEARS 92 BIBLIOGRAPHY/SOURCES And last but not least, a huge thanks from Emma to Jan Webster https://impactoffestivals. 43 1999: BUT IS IT JAZZ? 99 INTERVIEWS for his excellent editing talents and encouragement over the wordpress.com/project- 47 2000: THE NEW MILLENNIUM 100 PICTURE CREDITS course of the project. outputs/ 101 INDEX FOREWORD: 25 YEARS ON… JOHN CUMMING, DIRECTOR, LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL INTRODUCTION Landmarks come and go, and the Jazz occupies a special place in Not just within a city, but as part of Perhaps more important, they have Yet the music retains its And I thank a Serious team that 25th year of the London Jazz Festival London. Over the decades, jazz in worldwide reach that transcends helped to remind us of our core fundamental spirit – a spirit that includes directors and staff, offers an opportunity not just to this city has connected with new barriers of race and ethnicity, and, values – some of which stretch back fires the urge of the individual artist freelancers and volunteers, and celebrate the dynamic that connects cultures and new communities, at its best, celebrates a global mix of to the pre-history of the London to create, and to communicate the authors of this history. As the the jazz generations but also to making music that has become an gender, class and generation. Jazz Festival. Their approach has with an audience that continues to hashtag – something that we never reflect back on the festival itself. essential part of London’s cultural been painstaking, sympathetic, value the simple and profound live dreamt of a quarter of a century ago For those of us involved in the fabric. During the festival’s ten days, and sometimes provocative. Most experience of a band on a stage. – for the 25th festival proclaims: In a year, 2017, where the centenary festival, and even though we you find it in venues large and small, important, they have immersed And while this experience still We are Jazz… of the first jazz recordings marks are committed to our aims and in cinemas and art galleries, on the themselves in our world while lies at the heart and soul of our one stage in a history that stretches aspirations, both short and longer airwaves and online – and playing managing to make their own festival, the new world allows us further back, the London Jazz term, it’s all too easy to lose sight to all ages, from Jazz for Toddlers judgements. The outcome is I think to spread the message ever more Festival – in its own quarter-century of the wood among the trees. This sessions to a dedicated audience for an immensely valuable piece of widely through means that might year – itself marks jazz past and new history of the festival not only whom jazz has been the soundtrack work that informs our practice as allow a performance in London to present. As it has since it began. And reminds us of the highs and lows, of their lives. a producer of live music, and at the be experienced simultaneously in – as festivals should – it also enters evolution and the rationale, but also same time marks the essential role the further reaches of the planet. the jazz clairvoyant’s tent, gazing The meticulous work that follows moments of revelation, frustration, of academic research in evaluating The next 25 years will be an equally into the crystal ball. Alongside the in this history charts the festival and intense pleasure. the impact of the cultural sector in fascinating journey. artists who have helped shape the journey across decades, and probes I’m not sure that those of us involved a wider context. music, today’s movers and shakers the bigger picture that surrounds Festivals are a mammoth team in the day-to-day, year-to-year are finding their own creative it. It’s not just about the music, Looking back at the materials that effort, and I’d like to take this business of getting the show on the pathways that will steer us into the extraordinary and inspiring as that Emma and George unearthed in opportunity to thank everyone who road ever really get to the bottom of future, in the true spirit of a music can be. It’s about the way that what their festival archaeology… well, has ever been part of making it all how it all works. Emma and George that thrives on innovation and new might be seen as a niche area 25 years ago, social media hadn’t happen, and then making it happen have found their way through piles of energy. of creative work can reflect and been invented, the internet was a again, and again – the funders, randomly stored paperwork, sounds, respond to external change – and, nascent force, and we still lived in a donors and sponsors, our ever- strongly-held opinion, and often we hope, make a difference. world where the old school was only expanding audience, and of course only half-remembered anecdote, to just beginning to be re-invigorated the thousands of musicians who illuminate this process. by a fast-changing new world of have provided countless hours of communication technology – let pleasure and stimulation, some of alone fast-shifting social, economic them just starting on their creative and cultural change. path, others no longer with us. 1 2 The London festival still puts an emphasis on the adventure of “ being human and also becoming more human, and jazz, to me that word means ‘I dare you to go beyond – like in Star Trek! – places where no-one goes’… And I see that in director John Cumming’s attitude… when he talks and he gets really excited about something, it’s like his life, he wants to keep that rich adventure, INTRODUCTION you know… The London Jazz Festival’s a great festival.” WAYNE SHORTER, SAXOPHONIST 2016 The first London Jazz Festival in 1993 is heralded by 20m THE OPENING projections on the side of St Pancras railway station NIGHT On Friday 14th May 1993, the Union Grimes’ folk-jazz group with its By putting on a young American The aim was to create a London Sending a bold message to London This book, published to coincide Chapel in Islington hosted the guitars, percussion and the ‘graceful band who looked to the music’s Jazz Festival that both reflected and that its new jazz festival had arrived, with the 25th anniversary of what opening night party of a brand new lyricism’ of Annie Whitehead’s roots, its ‘vigorous present’, and to contributed to London’s status as the 1993 event was heralded by is now a major fixture in national festival.
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