Awards

Jazz venues to get plaques

By | Published on Tuesday 28 July 2009

Jazz fans are being asked to nominate British jazz venues to be awarded plaques, a bit like those blue plaques you see about the place. Which is why they’ve called the initiative ‘The (Kind Of) Blue Plaque Scheme’ (well, that and the fact that it coincides with the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’ ‘Kind Of Blue’ album). Set up by the Brecon Jazz Festival, one plaque per year will be awarded to a current or former venue associated with legendary jazz performers or deemed to have played a pivotal role in the history of British jazz.

Director of the Brecon Jazz Festival, Peter Florence told the BBC: “The environment that allows improvisations to take place is almost as important as the players themselves. But the venues remain only in people’s memories, unlike recorded music. We want to tap into the memories of people who remembered the great days of the 1950s – and the record of what went before – to find the location for Brecon’s debut (Kind Of) Blue Plaque”.



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