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Jazz Centre Society

…a big plus that the venue management included an ex professional musician and jazz enthusiast, Steve Morris. Launch The Northern Jazz Centre Society (NJCS) was launched in September 1976 at…

Workshops

As part of Telling Our Stories, we’re conducting a series of workshops in schools and care homes where young and older people alike can discover the music and cultural heritage…

New Programme, New Management

…put jazz at the centre: Jazz – arguably the mainstream and biggest influence worldwide in music this century – will be the central theme. So there will be jazz, traditional…

Steve’s Jazzy Selection

…later became a mainstay of Band on the Wall’s education programme, for several years running jazz courses and workshops at the club. Munch would follow him in this role, still…

Telling Our Stories: South Asia

…learning and performance to celebrate local unsung, untold or hidden musical histories, bringing diverse communities together to celebrate the city’s multi-faceted music heritage. Throughout the project we’ll be conducting Workshops…

Teaching Resources

…opportunities: Full or half-day workshops in your school on a range of music and heritage themes School visits to the venue tailored to your requirements, which can include music workshops…

Memories of The Band: Steve Forster

jazz programme (possibly called simply Jazz Club?). One programme was filmed at BOW* and while the music was filmed at nightime the links were done in the morning beginning at…

Learning

…and create music of their own, regardless of experience. We offer a wide range of workshops and groups for all ages and abilities, from yoga to choirs to early years…

African Music

…Wall launched its new programme in 1982. The Northern Jazz Centre Society had already broken new ground in the 1970s presenting groups of South African musicians, then resident in the…

1980s

Band on the Wall in the early 1980s continued to be the hub of the Northern Jazz Centre Society’s regular northern tours by visiting and local groups, and of their…

Lunchtime Theatre and Comedy

…by the Northern Jazz Centre Society’s promotions from October 1976 that brought a succession of the UK’s finest modern jazz groups to the venue for the first time, and would…

Ukulele for Beginners

…Kate is founder of song-writing community & development company ‘Just For The Record’, with a focus on supporting songwriters, artists, producers and musicians through workshops and networking events. Follow Kate…

On Swan Street

…in the street in 1788: Sam Hegginbottom’s rope yard just 20 paces or so across Swan Street, with the family home and workshop a few doors along from the George…

Latin Music

…end in terms of fame and wealth, was the jazz musician Kenny Graham* who formed his Afro-Cubists band in 1950, merging African and Cuban rhythms with bebop and modern harmonies,…