Jazz Outreach Project

Jazz Outreach Project: Digital Directions

by John Kelman
October 22, 2004

With a simple but ambitious premise the Jazz Outreach Project, a concept financed by the Arts Council England, commissioned by the Brighton Jazz Club, and given a vehicle for release by Antony Durrant and Nick Belcher of UK's Symbol Records, solicited some of the UK's most forward-reaching musicians to create works that would incorporate current technology into a jazz context. The resulting album, Digital Directions , is as diverse as one would expect, yet it manages to maintain a focus ...