Swanage Jazz Festival, 7-9 July 2023Review by Jon Turney Coming up to six o’clock on Friday evening, there’s a pleasant sea breeze offsetting hot sunshine outside the main marquee, Alan Barnes’ alto […]
Swanage Jazz Festival 2023
Programme announced for 2022 Swanage Jazz Festival (8-10 July)
The team at the Swanage Jazz Festival has announced its 2022 programme. This year’s festival will be centred around the Mowlem Theatre. The programme will present a very wide cross section of […]
Artists Announced for 2020 Swanage Jazz Festival (10-12 July)
Sebastian writes: The first artists for the 2020 Swanage Jazz Festival, with a wide range of predominantly British jazz, have been announced: Friday 10 July features musicians from the region, notably the […]
The precarious British jazz world
Sebastian’s London Column, just published in the new September/October 2019 edition of the German magazine Jazzthetik, concerns the unpredictable and changing circumstances that affect jazz festivals in England, and the way organizers […]
2019 Swanage Festival
Swanage Festival (Mowlem Theatre and other venues in Swanage. 13-14 July 2019. Report by Brian Blain) One of the unforeseen positives of what was, as Peter Jones reported in his round-up published […]
Swanage Jazz Festival 2019
Swanage Jazz Festival 2019 (13-14 July 2019. Report by Peter Jones) “We WILL be here next year,” vowed Paul Kelly, director of the 2019 Swanage Jazz Festival as he spoke to the […]
