An announcement from Bureau Export.

Sunday, October 26, 2014

We have received a press release from David McKenna of Bureau Export's London office. The agency champions French jazz in the UK and is heavily involved with the forthcoming EFG London Jazz Festival.

Bureau Export: Championing French jazz in the UK

2014 has seen Bureau Export’s London office reaffirm its commitment to jazz music and the jazz sector across a number of events including Jazz Shuttle, Match & Fuse, the Jazz Sous Les Pommiers festival, the Jazz Promotion Network conference and of course the London Jazz Festival.

The Bureau Export and its British and French partners (Serious, Match & Fuse, Jazz Promotion Network, UK Trade and Investment, PRS, SACEM, Institut Fran?ais du Royaume Uni) have come together to help support new and more established French artists to develop their careers in the UK as well as reinforcing and creating new professional ties between the two country’s industries. These links will serve to keep professional French and UK jazz relationships developing for years to come.

Furthermore, in 2013 & 2014, French-signed artists like Gregory Porter and Stacey Kent have proved to be hugely important musical exports, maintaining France’s position at the heart of the international scene and investing in the jazz stars of today ? and tomorrow.

 
Jazz Sous Les Pommiers ? the 33rd edition of the festival (24-31 May 2014).
Bureau Export, in partnership with SACEM and the festival, invited a delegation of UK professionals to explore the superb line-up in Coutances, Normandy: Paul Bream (Jazz North East promoter); Tony Dudley-Evans (Cheltenham Jazz Festival); Oliver Weindling (Vortex Club); Steve Mead (Manchester Jazz Festival); Nigel Slee (Jazz North). The UK delegation participated in a meeting focused on the Franco-British Jazz Shuttle programme organised by SACEM, l’AFIJMA/AJC and the festival.

Jazz Promotion Networking
The Bureau Export supported the inaugural conference in Manchester featuring 104 delegates and speakers gathered for?two days of presentations, debates, gigs and networking in July 2014.

EFG London Jazz Festival
The capital’s biggest music festival, and one of the most important jazz events in the world, returns with a thrilling and diverse line-up featuring established artists and rising stars. French-signed and/pr published artists supported by the bureauexport this year are: legendary double bassist Henri Texier, trumpet star Ibrahim Maalouf, XL-signed Franco-Cuban twins Ibeyi acclaimed Malian singer Kass? Mady Diabat?, highly original audio-visual fusionist Chassol, Papanosh’s raw grooves, experimental jazz rockers Rusconi, renowned bassist Marcus Miller, the duo of Vincent Segal and Piers Faccini and an Anglo-French collaboration, Shakespeare Songs, that sees UK saxophonist Andy Sheppard team up with drummer Christophe Marguet and pianist Guillaume de Chassy.

Match & Fuse
The Bureau Export and the Institut Fran?ais offered accommodation to the French group Pulcinella as part of their UK tour with Troyka.

Andy Emler at South Kensington Kids Festival 22nd November
http://southkenkidsfestival.co.uk/whats-on/impro/
Andy Emler is one of France’s pre-eminent pianists, a prodigious Conservatoire-educated composer, arranger and improviser. His infectious enthusiasm and open approach to jazz, rock and classical music make him a very welcome addition to this year’s South Ken Kids Festival, where he’ll be solo improvising along with guest illustrators for a music & drawing jam.