JAZZ WORKSHOPS

Derby Jazz has always placed a high priority on jazz education projects. For Every Second we are staging a rolling programme of informal workshops and mini sets in the Assembly Rooms complex throughout both days. Artists from the main programme bands will join these workshops.

EXHIBITIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FORMAT - Derby's International Photographic Festival

John Goto, Visual-Artist-in-Residence

Professor John Goto will be visual Artist-in-Residence at EVERY SECOND. John will be incorporating images and texts from his "WEST END BLUES, Jazz Migrants in London, 1919-74" series into animated stage sets for all the concerts.

It will bring together the subject of the ‘West End Blues’ series, which is an historical account of jazz migrants in Britain, with the new generation of musicians playing now, who are, of course, all steeped in the history of the music. Courtney Pine, for example, is performing a work based on the music of Sidney Bechet, whose visit to Britain in 1919 is commemorated in the pictures.’

John has been an internationally exhibiting artist since 1980 and Professor of Fine Art at University of Derby since 2003. His narrative photo-digital images draw on a huge range of intellectual and visual sources including jazz and jazz history. All ticket holders can pick up a free copy of John Goto's 'West End Blues' catalogue at the Festival.    www.johngoto.org.uk

Also exhibiting:

George Harris, photographer 

Jazz LP covers