Live jazz, artists, venues and education in Leicester
Jack Ross
Jack is a regular band member with Anna Meredith, http://www.jacktheguitarist.com/
Jake McMurchie
Jake came up through the ranks of The National Youth Jazz Orchestra and worked in several bands before Get The Blessing. His own band Michelson...
James Allsopp
James Allsopp is a multi-instrumentalist and composer, he first came to public attention leading a band called "Fraud" which made an...
http://www.jamesallsopp.co.uk/
James Maddren
James is highly gifted drummer who has, in recent years, become the first call™ drummer of choice for both the younger and more established...
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James Mainwaring
James Mainwaring is a composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his saxophone playing in Roller Trio, Tipping Point and as a...
http://www.jamesmainwaringmusic.com/
James McMillan
Trumpet
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James Owston
Bass
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James Owston
Bass
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James Taylor
The UK's leading Hammond organist, with a huge international fan base and a back catalogue of over 30 albums.
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JAMIE SAFIRUDDIN
Aged 23 and based in London, Jamie is a freelance pianist, keyboardist, arranger and songwriter. He is currently working with a number of artists...
http://www.jamiesafiruddin.co.uk
Jan Kopinski
Jan Kopinski is a tenor saxist and composer, fronting cross-genre music, ranging from Free-funk to contemporary European jazz. A saxophonist for...
http://www.jankopinski.com/
Jarle Vespestad
arle has been one of Scandinavia's most in-demand jazz musicians for several years. His range of experience covers projects like
http://www.tordg.no/trio/
Jason Rebello
Classically trained but inspired by Herbie Hancock, Jason Rebello first came to the attention of one of the founders of jazz fusion, Weather Report...
Jason Yarde
Composer, arranger, producer, musical director and saxophonist Jason Yarde writes music that has been described as powerful, spiritual, evocative...
Jasper Hoiby
Jasper Hoiby started to play the double bass in Denmark before he moved to the U.K. in 2001 to study at theRoyal Academy of Music, where got into...
Jay Phelps
Jay Phelps is at the forefront of the young and creative generation of jazz musicians in the UK, with an instantly recognizable warm and projecting...
http://www.jayphelpsmusic.net
JEAN TOUSSAINT
Since Toussaint left Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in the mid eighties, He hasn’t looked back. Nor has he spent a career trying to...
Jed Levy
Saxophonist Jed Levy has been a mainstay on the New York jazz scene for over 20 years. In addition to performing and recording...
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Jeff Brown
Trumpet player Jeff Brown is a jazz graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatoire and a member of the Bollywood Brass Band. As a young musician growing...
Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams was raised in Oberlin, Ohio where he began playing drums at age eight. Self-taught, with the aid of his parents' collection of jazz...
http://Jeff Williams was raised in Oberlin, Ohio where he began playing drums at age eight. Self-taught, with the aid of his parents' collection of jazz recordings as a guide, he started playing gigs with local professionals at age fourteen. Jeff's mother
Jeremy Ashby
Double Base
Jeremy Price
Jeremy Price (born 1970) studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has since followed a career as a...
Jessica Radcliffe
Vocalist
JESUS OLMEDO
Jesus Olmedo was born in Madrid. One of three children from a working class family, his precocious talent and innate love for Spanish dance led him...
Jez Franks
Jez took up the guitar age 15 and attended Leeds College of Music acquring the College’s Jazz Guitar Prize. He has played,recorded and...
Jez Franks
Jez took up the guitar age 15 and attended Leeds College of Music acquring the College’s Jazz Guitar Prize. He has played,recorded and...
https://compassionatedictatorship.wordpress.com/biog/
Jez Wiles
Jez Wiles is a percussionist living and working in London. He plays a wide variety of music and instruments that have led him to roles as a perform...
http://jezwiles.com/
Jim Barr
Jim is best known as the bass player with Portishead's live band. He's also a founder member of Get The Blessing. Jim runs 'Jand J Studio' in...
Jim Bashford
Jim Bashford is a drummer and composer who resides in Birmingham UK. He is a faculty member at the Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Course, a course...
Jim Hart
Jim Hart is one of the most in demand musicians on the European jazz and alternative music scene as a soloist and sideman on both drums and...
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Jim Mullen
Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, like Wes Montgomery before him, picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum. Jim was...
https://www.facebook.com/JimMullenOrganTrio/
Jim Treweek
James has been a full time professional musician for 20 years having studied piano and clarinet at University. Following a degree in Music at...
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Jimmy Haslip
Jimmy Haslip was born December 31st, 1951 in the Bronx, New York. He grew up in Huntington, Long Island. In 1963 at the age of 13, he became intere...
http://www.jimmyhaslipbass.com/
João Lobo
João Lobo is a portuguese drummer very active in the European musical scene, having played in some of the most important jazz venues with musici...
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Joe Lee
Bass
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Joe Pettit
Joe Petitt is a member of Pete Long's Jazz at the Philharmonic, and is a bass player that's very active in the current jazz scene, having a vast...
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Joe Webb
Organist Joe Webb was born in Basingstoke but grew up in Neath and began studying jazz piano when he was 12 years old with Cardiff based jazz...
https://www.facebook.com/joewebbmusic/
Joe Wright
Joe Wright is an award winning saxophonist and electronic musician working around the UK as an improviser, sound designer, composer and musical...
www.joewrightmusic.co.uk/
Joel Barford
Joel is a 19 year old full-time professional jazz drummer/session musician. Joel has been performing since the age of 10 with various big bands...
www.joelbarford.com
Joel Prime
Joel has led percussion workshops and performed at Glastonbury Festival, Wilderness Festival, Senigallia Jamboree, WOMADelaide, Adela...
http://joelprime.com/Joel_Prime_Music/Home.html
Joey Palma - Joe Palmer
“Joey Palma†a tuba playing made man who had his throat slit by a piccolo playing hit man from NYC. Joe Palmer was born and brought...
John Critchinson
Born a true Cockney but spent his formative years (until aged 44!) in the West Country, around the Bath area. Worked with Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes...
http://www.johncritchinson.com/
John Donaldson
Piano
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John Ellis
John Ellis is a pianist/singer from the north of England. His musicianship has been utilised by well known artists such as Tom Jones, Corinne...
John Etheridge
Guitarist, composer, bandleader, educator. ohn Etheridge rightly enjoys a glowing reputation throughout the jazz world and beyond and has been...
http://www.johnetheridge.com/biog.htm
John Harriman
John Harriman is a pianist, bandleader and composer. He plays in a variety of line-ups with a range of musicians and singers including trios and...
http://www.johnharriman.com/
John Harriman
John Harriman is a pianist, bandleader and composer. He plays in a variety of line-ups with a range of musicians and singers including trios and...
http://www.johnharriman.com/
John Harvey
Novelist, poet, dramatist and sometime publisher, John Harvey has been a professional writer for some forty years. The first of his Charlie Resnick...
John Horler
John says: Jazz has been at the centre of my life since I was a child. For me music, and especially jazz, is about togetherness, about individual...
http://www.johnhorler.co.uk
John Law
Since his early beginnings as a classical child prodigy, then training as a classical concert pianist, and later changing over to jazz, contemporar...
http://www.johnlaw.org.uk/
John Martin
Tenor and soprano saxophonist
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John O'Gallagher
John O'Gallagher is considered one of the most compelling alto saxophonists and composers at work today on the New York jazz scene. He is known for...
http://www.johnogallagher.com/
John Perry
Percussion
John Pope
Basses
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John Trier
Pianist
John Turville
John Turville is one of the leading jazz pianists of his generation, and has won multiple awards for his two trio albums including ...
http://www.johnturville.com/
Johnny Hunter
Johnny Hunter is a northern UK-based drummer who comes from a background of both the Avant-Garde and the more mainstream Jazz. He has performed or...
www.johnnyhuntermusic.com
Johnny Richards
Image credits: https://downtownmusic.net/johnny-richards/shatners-bassoon-07-08-2016#
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Jon Richmond
Drummer in the Midlands. Plays with the Charles Tebbs Trio - http://
Jonathan Silk
Jonathan is a Scottish drummer, composer and band leader now living and working in Birmingham and the surrounding area. Since graduating from the...
Jonny Mansfield
Drums
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Josephine Davies
Josephine is a saxophonist who won the prestigeous Perrier Young Jazz Award whilst studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has...
Josh Arcoleo
Born into a musical family in 1989 Josh was lucky enough to start saxophone lessons with the legendary Pee Wee Ellis when he was 13. At 18 he...
http://www.josharcoleo.com
Joshua Blackmore
oshua was born in London into a musical family on May 20th 1986. He was constantly surrounded by music and by the end of Primary school Joshua was...
Judith O'Higgins
Renaissance woman Judith O'Higgins is a jazz saxophonist/composer, forensic pathologist and recording engineer.
Julia Biel
Vocals/ piano/guitar
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Julian Arguelles
One of Europe's leading saxophonists and currently Professor of Saxophone at KUG Institute of Jazz in Graz, Austria. Born in Lichfield, Stafford...
http://www.julianarguelles.com
Julian Siegel
Julian is an in-demand saxophonist on the British and European Jazz scene and has worked with many top figures in the music including Bill Frisell...
http://www.juliansiegel.com
Juliet Kelly
Juliet discovered her talent for singing whilst studying for an economics degree at university but it took some time before she found her musical...
http://www.julietkelly.com/
June Tabor
June Tabor's singing career, initially unaccompanied, grew alongside those of contemporaries such as Martin Carthy, Nic Jones, Martin Simpso...
http://www.brightfieldproductions.co.uk/tabor.htm
Juxtavoices
Juxtavoices is a large, 30 -40 the size varies, antichoir which includes many familiar faces from Sheffield’s leftfield music, poetry and...
http://discus-music.co.uk/juxtavoices#!Juxtavoices_36
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