Professor Tim Wall and the Interactive Cultures team at Birmingham City University are hosting a one day academic conference on Jazz and the Media on October 15th. Speakers so farannounced are:

Mike Connolly– Documentary maker – Jazz Britannia and Folk Britannia

–Alyn Shipton

–William Ellis

Full details of the conference are here.

Photo: one of the most celebrated images of jazz. Dexter Gordon by Herman Leonard, who passed away this weekend, . RIP