Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research are hosting ‘Jazz and the Media‘, in partnership with Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham Jazz on 15 October. The event welcomes three internationally recognised speakers who will be presenting seminars throughout the day.

Mike Connolly is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 10 years experience in factual and arts television production.

William Ellis is at the vanguard of music photographers and is widely recognised as having created an important document of the contemporary jazz scene in Africa, Europe and The Americas.

Alyn Shipton is an award-winning author and broadcaster, who is jazz critic for The Times in London, and a presenter/producer of jazz programmes for BBC Radio.

To read more about these guys and their extensive careers working around jazz and the media, visit the event page.

Tickets can be ordered online at jazzandthemedia.eventbrite.com.