Following ACE’s latest funding settlement, in which Jazz Services lost its National Portfolio status, Ivan Hewett examines how national attitudes to jazz around the world impact how it is funded.
The normally placid jazz scene has been stirred up by some bad news regarding funding. Jazz Services is losing its status as one of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations. This means its funding of £340,000 pounds will cease from March next year.
Quite how bad this blow is to jazz in England is now being hotly debated (though the jazz community being so close-knit, the debate is still amicable). Jazz Services has done sterling work for years in supporting tours by hundreds of musicians to hundreds of venues, as well as providing a host of other services to the jazz community. However the loss of its grant has been offset by increased grants to other jazz organisations, two of which are being funded for the first time. There are now 12 jazz “National Portfolio Organisations,” comprising a mixture of festivals, touring organisations, bands and record labels.
Altogether Arts Council England funding to the jazz sector now stands at something like £1.67million. Add to that local authority funding, charitable trusts and organisations like the Performing Rights Society Foundation, and the figure for public funding of jazz climbs to around the four million pound mark... Keep reading on The Telegraph
The normally placid jazz scene has been stirred up by some bad news regarding funding. Jazz Services is losing its status as one of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations. This means its funding of £340,000 pounds will cease from March next year.
Quite how bad this blow is to jazz in England is now being hotly debated (though the jazz community being so close-knit, the debate is still amicable). Jazz Services has done sterling work for years in supporting tours by hundreds of musicians to hundreds of venues, as well as providing a host of other services to the jazz community. However the loss of its grant has been offset by increased grants to other jazz organisations, two of which are being funded for the first time. There are now 12 jazz “National Portfolio Organisations,” comprising a mixture of festivals, touring organisations, bands and record labels.
Altogether Arts Council England funding to the jazz sector now stands at something like £1.67million. Add to that local authority funding, charitable trusts and organisations like the Performing Rights Society Foundation, and the figure for public funding of jazz climbs to around the four million pound mark... Keep reading on The Telegraph