With a month to go before jazzahead! 2024, the world’s largest jazz trade fair, 11-13 April in Bremen, it’s definitely time to be looking forward.
LJN has been asked to run the UK umbrella stand (*) in celebration of our 15th anniversary – and yes, there will be tea and cake at 15.15 on the Friday on the stand. The LJN team running the stand will be Nick Brown, Tara Minton and myself. It is an incredible honour to be doing this…
There has been a good response from UK participants attending – so far more than SEVENTY registered – and more are definitely welcome. Just sign up as a co-exhibitor on stand 6A46, and if you need help with the process, please get in touch. The current rates for participation are available until 27 March.
THE UK IN THE SHOWCASE PROGRAMME
This year there will be three UK acts in the showcase programme
Whereas last year there was no UK presence in the showcases, this year there are three, all at the Schlachthof venue:
11 April at 6 45 pm Sultan Stevenson Trio (Tomorrow’s Warriors)
12 April at 9 45 pm Matt Carmichael (Creative Scotland)
13 April 9 30 pm Mama Terra (Creative Scotland)
THE UK AND CLUBNIGHT
And wherea last year the Clubnight programme had just one act, Duncan Eagles’s Partikel, as the jazzahead press release outlining the Clubnight states
“The UK is very much back in the fray this year.”
At Tor 40, very close to the conference site, there is a programme of UK bands co-ordinated by Peter Conway Management:
8 30 pm Betty Accorsi
9 15 pm Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick
10pm Ilario Ferrari Trio
10 45 pm Mamma Terra
11 45 Jam Session led by Aaron Liddard
(MORE DETAIL ON THIS LATER)
At 8 15 at Cafe Sand, the site of Bremen’s only sandy beach, Emma Smith will be making her own-name German debut with Jamie Safir’s trio
Other artists with UK connections:
7pm Miriam Ast at Courtyard by Marriott
8pm INEZA (Kerschkamp) at Neusi’s
