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Book Launch for International Jazz DayLABYRINTH: British Jazz on Record 1960–75Richard Morton Jack in Conversation With Jon Newey Jazz Hub @ The National Jazz Archive (map) Saturday 27th April 2024 Door time: 9.30am; start time: 10.30am £ £10.00 + booking fee Helping us celebrate International Jazz …
Loughton Methodist Church (map) Saturday 27th April 2024 Door time: 1.30pm; start time: 2.30pm £ £22.50 + booking fee Born in 1930 in Calcutta, composer and violinist John Mayer studied in Bombay before coming to England in 1952 to take up a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. We are really exc …
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The National Jazz Archive was in the news this week promoting its new grassroots Jazz venue and additional research space in Loughton Library, Essex. Interviewed by Jazzwise for its online magazine, the Archive's CEO and Chair of Trustees Mark Kass, launched his concept of national Jazz Hubs. The first of these will be opened in Loughton Library i …
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As part of my MA in History, I completed a placement for the National Jazz Archive in April 2022. I catalogued part of Roy Hulbert's personal collection who was a lifelong jazz fan and donated his collection to the archive in his will. Hulbert's collection consists of personal items and jazz memorabilia, including autographs, concert tickets, an …