Manchester Jazz Festival 2012

Manchester Jazz Festival celebrates 17 years in 2012 and takes place from Friday 13th until Saturday 21st July at the following venues: Band on the Wall; mjf Festival Pavilion in Albert Square; Matt & Phred's Jazz Club; Midland Hotel; Royal Northern College of Music; St Ann's Church.

Line-up

Seventy events, more than half of them free, including DJ Doreen Edwards, Pocket Central, Alice Zawadzki, Stevie Williams and The Most Wanted Band, A Greater Horror, Mastretta, Bugalu Foundation, Mr Scruff, Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra, Jessica Berry, The Magic Beans, Jambone, Global Grooves: Junk Jam, Grandma's Party, Rick Farrow and The Big Red Orchestra, Roller Trio, HSQ+2, Bruce Hunnisett & Robin Joiner, Mercury, The Jazz Department, Songs of the Caged Bird: Open Rehearsal, Microscopic, BBC Introducing with Gilles Peterson and Jez Nelson, Beating Wing Orchestra, Jazz Jam led by Dave Spencer of Marley Chingus, Phil Meadows Group, Steve Hawkins/Sam Healey Quintet, John Helliwell & John Ellis, KAB Trio, Zoë Gilby Quintet, Un-Caged Birds: Justice and Jazz, Then and organised by Kooj Chuhan and Frankie Mullen, Stan Sulzmann Big Band, TG Collective, Stop Motion Trio, Noose, Dan Whieldon & Alice Zawadzki, Sue Parish & Andrzej Baranek, Kyran Matthews Quartet, Alex Hutton Trio, Chris Searle, John Surman, Orli Nyles, Zoe Rahman Quartet, Michael Cretu Sextet, Jonathan Silk Quintet, Flea Circus, Juliet Kelly & Jonny Phillips, Jamie Safiruddin Trio, Rick Simpson Quartet, George King: Songs of the Caged Bird, Kind of Cai, Sons of Kemet, Anton Hunter Trio, Stuart McCallum, The European Union Quintet, Avalon Trio, Unfurl, Matt Owens Ensemble, Nick Blacka & Andrzej Baranek, Pete Moser: Sound Games, Ríoghnach Connolly's Black Lung, Junior Murvin, Spoonful, Neil Yates’ Five Countries Trio, Breach, Prestwich Deluxe, Hackney Colliery Band, Colman Brothers, DJ Mike Chadwick, Shake'n'Bake, and Dub Jazz Soundsystem.

Commissions

Two new commissions to premiere at this year's festival as part of mjf originals, the festival scheme that pioneers new work, will produce Sound Games, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Pete Moser, and Songs of the Caged Bird, a new song cycle by composer-pianist George King, featuring arguably Manchester’s finest jazz vocalist Doreen Edwards.

Tickets

Accessible to all and mostly free, some ticket prices vary depending upon event. To buy tickets, click here.

Accommodation

This event does not have camping but there are a number of hotels, hostels and guest houses in the area.

More information will be here when available.

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