Jazz Preview: Yorkshire getting into the festival spirit

Each has a different flavour, beginning, next Friday, with the Burton Agnes jazz and blues festival in the elegant Elizabethan surroundings of Burton Agnes Hall, near Driffield.

The three-day event is organised by the Hall's saxophone-playing owner, Simon Cunliffe-Lister, and singer Saffron Byas.

Clare Teal, Anita Wardell, Dennis Rollins and Omar Puente are in the line-up for a swinging change of pace at a stately mansion.

On a more intimate but no less enjoyable scale, jazz will take to the streets of Chapel Allerton, Leeds on September 5 – Regent Street to be precise – when five bands will perform outdoors to round off the annual Chapel Allerton Festival.

The North Leeds Jazz Orchestra, the Magic Hat Ensemble, Jenny Smith's quintet, Richard Ormrod's A Dread Supreme and Rod Mason's Elements are all popular attractions at the nearby Seven Arts Centre. A lively day is in prospect, irrespective of the weather.

All this leads to one of Yorkshire's jazz jewels, Scarborough Jazz Festival , on September 24-26, which is expected to attract 3,000 people to the Grand Hall at The Spa.

Martin Taylor's Spirit of Django, the Stan Tracey

Trio with Guy Barker and Bobby Wellins and Ian Shaw, are part of an impressive array of talent – with Alan Barnes playing and compering.

Finally, from October 8-10, Marsden completes its annual transformation from rugged Pennine village to the hub of the jazz universe. More later about this yearly gem.