Posted on 8th Mar 2019 by John Rosie
Happy International Women’s Day! At the archive, we are incredibly lucky to have so many dedicated women who volunteer and work for us (such as Jenny pictured working on the digitisation of the Brian Foskett collection, with a picture of Nina Simone). We are also incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity earlier last year to put on an e …
Posted on 6th Mar 2019 by John Dale
Joe Daniels As well as the many photographs, books, programmes, journals, posters and letters that get donated to the Archive as part of jazz collections, we also have some jazz related objects donated. One of these jazz related objects donated to the Archive by Joe Daniels is this trick drum. The drummer constructed this wooden bass drum, with a …
Posted on 4th Mar 2019 by John Rosie
Dizzy Gillespie One of the donations received by the Archive is the photographs and negatives taken by the late Denis Williams (1933-2009). Denis was a press photographer and enthusiastic freelance photographer of both jazz musicians and events and was a regular at the Bracknell Jazz Festival and London venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, the …
Posted on 1st Mar 2019 by John Dale
Glenn Miller On March 1st 1904, in Clardina Iowa, Alton Glen Miller was born. He went on to become the trombone player and bandleader Glenn Miller. Sadly, on December 15th 1944, while flying across the Channel on his way to entertain troops in Paris, his single engined C-64 Norseman aeroplane disappeared and Glenn Miller was lost. The Archive h …
Posted on 26th Feb 2019 by John Dale
Read all our past newsletters In 2018 the National Jazz Archive celebrated its 30th Anniversary. If you want to know what we have achieved in those thirty years the best place to start is looking through all our newsletters. This early newsletters can be found here: Issue 1 Spring 1996; Issue 2 Autumn 1996; Issue 3 Spring 1997; Issue 4 Autumn …
Posted on 23rd Feb 2019 by John Dale
This month's newsletter features a review of the 100 years of jazz piano as performed by The James Pearson Trio. It also has a report of the NJA at ‘Documenting Jazz’ held at the TU Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama and the Trustees visiting Birmingham City University (BCU), to discuss arrangements for closer cooperation of the Archive …