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 Morley played two great sets to a sold out crowd...

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 generation of jazz musicians in the UK. James is a...

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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 session musician for Django Django. He also performs...

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James McMillan

Trumpet

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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 and within a wide variety of genres.

  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 over thirty years in the UK, Jan specializes in...

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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’s saxophonist Wayne Shorter in the early...

Jason Yarde

Composer, arranger, producer, musical director and saxophonist Jason Yarde writes music that has been described as powerful, spiritual, evocative, rhapsodic, hair-raising and formidable. He compose...

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 the London jazz scene. This led to membership of...

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 tone. A Vancouver-born Canadian, Jay was tutored...

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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 repeat the past. The experiences gained in that...

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 as a leader, he has had long standing working...

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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 up in Derby he benefited from several Derby Jazz...

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 recordings as a guide, he started playing gigs with...

  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 freelance trombonist and jazz educator. Jeremy has been...

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 to commence studies at the Madrid dance conservat...

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 toured with a variety of ensembles including F-ire...

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 toured with a variety of ensembles including F-ire...

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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 performer, workshop leader and teacher. Jez has perfor...

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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 Bristol, and clients include Portishead, Goldfrapp...

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 which he studied on back in 2004. Jim is currentl...

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 vibraphone. Now living in Alsace, France, Jim was residen...

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 guitarist with Pete Brown & Piblokto! for two...

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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 Middlesex University in London, he returned to teach...

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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 interested in electric bass and has now been playing for...

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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 musicians such as Enrico Rava, Carlos Bica, Alexandra...

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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 experience of playing in many different forma...

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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 pianist Paul Jones. He studied with Huw Warren and...

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Joe Wright

Joe Wright is an award winning saxophonist and electronic musician working around the UK as an improviser, sound designer, composer and musical director. He is currently a full time PhD student at...

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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 through the Northampton Music and Performing Arts...

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Joel Prime

Joel has led percussion workshops and performed at Glastonbury Festival,  Wilderness Festival, Senigallia Jamboree, WOMADelaide, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide International...

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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 up in Birmingham and took up the Tuba from a young...

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, Jimmy Deuchar, Major Holly and many others in...

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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 Bailey Rae, Lily Allen, John Squire (Stone Roses) a...

John Etheridge

Guitarist, composer, bandleader, educator. ohn Etheridge rightly enjoys a glowing reputation throughout the jazz world and beyond and has been described by Pat Metheny as, "One of the best guitaris...

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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 quartets. John also leads award-winning Latin Jazz...

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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 quartets. John also leads award-winning Latin Jazz...

  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 series, Lonely Hearts, was named by The...

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 input being merged with others to make a whole...

  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, contemporary composition and creative music in 1983, John Law...

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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 an innovative style which pushes the boundaries...

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John Perry

Percussion

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 MOJO’s #3 Jazz Album of the Year&nb...

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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 recorded with such esteemed musicians as Benn...

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Johnny Richards

Image credits: https://downtownmusic.net/johnny-richards/shatners-bassoon-07-08-2016#

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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 city’s Conservatoire in 2011 with a First...

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 continued to play and write for various ensembles...

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 gained a place on the renowned jazz course at the Royal...

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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 studying Clarinet, Orchestral Percussion and...

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, Staffordshire, Argüelles was raised in nearby Birmingha...

  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, Andrew Hill, Steve Swallow, Adam Nussbaum, Hermet...

  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 identity... "Although many of my peers were record...

  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 Simpson and Maddy Prior. A restless creativity has led...

  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 visual arts scene. Although the group performs...

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