🎶 Interested in promoting jazz in the East Midlands?
The new mjazz New Promoters Scheme is offering support for up to 4 emerging promoters with:
• £1,000 development funding
• Mentoring and guidance
• Marketing and audience development support
• Access to regional networks
We’re looking for new ideas, new voices and new approaches to building jazz audiences and activity across the region.
No extensive experience needed — just a strong idea and commitment to making it happen.
Applications close: 15 June 2026
Find out more at the link in the bio.
Honoured to share that I’ve been awarded the Midlands Jazz, Young Musician Commission 2026.
I’m incredibly grateful for this opportunity as it gives me the time and space to develop my original music over the coming months and bring the project to life in its fullest form.
I’m especially thankful to be mentored by jazz piano legend @robertmitchellmusic and to be working alongside an incredible band!
We’ll be sharing the project pre-recording on March 25th at one of my favourite Nottingham venues @jamcafe 🔥🔥
More to be announced soon!
Massive thanks to @exec.officer1@aceagrams
📸:@johnberry60
🎼✨ Young Composer Commission 2026 — Applications OPEN!
mjazz is on the hunt for one bold, curious, boundary-pushing early-career composer (aged up to 30) from the East Midlands to create a brand-new work for our 2026 programme.
The commission includes:
💷 £3,500 fee
🎧 You choose your mentor
🎶 A full public premiere of your new piece
We welcome jazz, experimental soundmakers, electronic explorers, improvisers… anyone with an adventurous musical pulse.
How to apply (in writing, video or audio):
📝 Your idea
🔧 How you’ll approach it
⭐ Your chosen mentor (and why)
🌍 Your connection to the East Midlands
📅 Simple plan + short bio/CV
📆 Deadline: 9am, 5 Jan 2026
Full details + submission info: mjazz.co.uk
Tag a young composer who needs to see this 👇🎷🔥
Nottingham Jazz Workshops are performing their annual Christmas Gig at the Robin Hood Community pub in Sherwood, Nottingham on Wednesday 17th December 2025.
This is a free to attend event.
There will be Jazz and Christmas tunes in abundance with the music
starting at 8:00pm.
Come along and start the festive season with some Jazz and Christmas cheer.
The players are attendees of the weekly Nottingham Jazz Workshops - beginners and seasoned players playing together.
🎷✨ AHMED live at Chapel Street Arts Centre, Derby
📅 Sunday 26 November • 🕓 4 PM
🎟 Tickets: £26.50 / Students £16.50 / Under-18s £15 – via mjazz.co.uk
Get ready for something extraordinary — AHMED bring their international quartet (piano: Pat Thomas, double bass: Joel Grip, drums: Antonin Gerbal, alto sax: Seymour Wright) to completely re-imagine the music of composer, bassist & oud-player Ahmed Abdul‑Malik (1927-1993) in real time.
Expect something rare — the band’s UK gigs outside London are “rare as hen’s teeth.”
🎶 Their 2024 live boxed set got rave reviews across Europe, USA & UK.
East Midlands Jazz
#DerbyJazz #LiveMusic #JazzNight #AHMEDband #ChapelStreetArtsCentre #EastMidlandsJazz
Cosmopolitan Arts is pleased to announce that the For the Love of Jazz Festival is back for its fourth year. Taking over both Jubilee Square and Leicester Cathedral on Saturday, 16th August, from 12 pm until 8:30pm, this free Jazz extravaganza is not to be missed!
Introducing our spectacular finale show headliner at Leicester Cathedral, playing from 7:30pm, JOE ARMON-JONES of the Mercury Prize and Brit Award Group of the Year 2025 winning Ezra Collective. He is a London-based producer, composer, and keyboard player who creates in an uncompromising, free-flowing, and experimental way, combining jazz, dub, hip-hop, funk, and soul.
🎷 Very pleased to share mjazz’s first-ever Impact Report! 🎉
This has been a powerful year of growth, creativity, and connection — and the numbers speak for themselves:
📍 137 live performances
🎟️ 7,481 audience members
🎶 564 artists supported (35% with protected characteristics)
🎓 396 workshop attendees
💷 £130,483 ticket income generated
But the real story is in the people, partnerships, and bold new ideas that are helping to shape a more inclusive, sustainable future for jazz in the East Midlands.
📖 Dive into the full report to learn how we’re building a dynamic regional jazz ecosystem — from world-class festivals to grassroots workshops, new commissions, and beyond.
👉 Read it here: /file/d/1gklXyIrq6lnxOIePTsD6xRMWhi3EHAui/view?usp=sharing
#mjazz #JazzImpact #EastMidlandsJazz #ArtsCouncilEngland #JazzCommunity #MusicForEveryone
Earlier this month, the mjazz Board came together for an Away Day — a vital moment to pause, reflect, and reimagine our purpose and mission.
The world is changing, and so are the conditions for the arts. At mjazz, we’re responding with care, curiosity, and strategic intent. This Away Day marked the beginning of a longer journey — one that will ensure we remain rooted in our values while evolving to meet new challenges and opportunities.
We asked big questions, revisited our core purpose, and began shaping a vision that will guide us — and the wider East Midlands jazz scene — into a bold, inclusive, and sustainable future.
This is just the start.
Stay tuned.
👧 Girls Into Jazz – Huge Success in Northampton!
Working with Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust, our partners at NC Jazz delivered a brilliant workshop for 15 young girls led by flautist Amy Roberts.
It’s all part of our commitment to growing the next generation of jazz musicians – and the feedback has been amazing!
