Jazz Refreshed (stylised as jazz re:freshed) is a contemporary jazz record label in London whose roster includes

Shabaka Hutchings Shabaka Hutchings (born 1984), also known simply as Shabaka, is a British jazz musician, composer and bandleader. He leads the band Shabaka and the Ancestors, and formerly led Sons of Kemet before its dissolution in 2022. He was also a member ...

, SEED Ensemble,

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, and Rosie Turton.

History

In 2017 the organisation appointed Yvette Griffith as executive director. Griffith had been with the organisation as a consultant since 2013, helping them to win Arts Council funding. In 2019, Griffith won the h100 award for services to music and was awarded an

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in the 2024 New Years Honours List for services to Cultural Philanthropy and to Music. Griffith stepped down as CEO in 2024, after being appointed CEO of the

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. Jazz Refreshed promote and publish young British jazz musicians. They have run a showcase at the

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festival in Austin, Texas, for a number of years. Artists showcased at their 2019 SXSW event included Nerija, Joe Armon Jones, Sarah Tandy, Yussef Dayes and

Ezra Collective Ezra Collective are a British jazz quintet composed of drummer and bandleader Femi Koleoso, bassist TJ Koleoso, keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, and tenor saxophonist James Mollison, who met at the jazz youth programme Tomorr ...

. Jazz Refreshed holds a weekly live residency, annual festival, and band development programmes. Their recording series 5ive showcases five tracks by a range of artists.

Current artists

* SEED Ensemble *

* Ty

References

Music organisations based in the United Kingdom British independent record labels British jazz record labels Cultural organisations based in London Record labels established in 2003 {{Independent-record-label-stub