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Rooted in jazz and related contemporary music. Connecting artists, venues, and audiences.
ConnectsMusic is a free-to-users online sector-support portal for independent music creators, venues, promoters, and audiences.
Explore: discover 1000+ ConnectsPages, bringing together artists’ releases, biography, images, video, streaming, gigs, social links and professional contacts in one easily shareable place.
Connect: search our 1700+ UK grassroots venue and jazz-club listings, plus Gig Listings. Find where to listen and where to play. ConnectsMusic creates two-way visibility:
Share: artists, music, venues, gigs and features you value, using easy shareable links across your own networks.
Learn: explore editorial features and practical music-business guidance through Industry Nuggets: how to get your music out there, including metadata, rights, release planning and audience development.
ConnectsMusic is free to access and use
In a time when the music world faces more challenges than ever, community matters. We’re here to support, showcase, and amplify the incredible talent all around us — because when our community grows, the whole industry gets stronger.
ConnectsMusic provides free professional digital infrastructure for independent artists and music creators. It is particularly valuable for self-managed artists who may not have the resources for a standalone website, PR support or commercial industry databases.
Our mission is to grow and support grassroots music by helping artists present and promote new work, find places to perform, reach audiences and access practical industry information, while helping venues and promoters gain visibility and discover artists.
Editorial consideration does not depend on an artist’s ability to pay. We are completely free. We are committed to an inclusive music industry and to continually improving the accessibility of ConnectsMusic.
What we stand for:
ConnectsMusic was founded in 2017 by Emily Saunders, originally as JazzConnects.
Emily is a professional vocalist, composer and producer and an established music-sector advocate. She created the ConnectsMusic concept, brand and user experience and continues to lead its business, editorial and content activity.
Emily says: “Growing up in a family of music creators, working and connecting within our incredible music community has always been everything to me. Experiencing the power of connection, collaboration and combined voices is the main drive behind my creation of ConnectsMusic.”
“The Jazz world thrives on collaborative spirits. ConnectsMusic provides an accessible, free portal for artists and associates to build on the heart of unity that Jazz represents. It is a music industry networking source supporting the UK based scene with a platform for the world to experience a Jazz array – at the click of their fingertips.”
Carleen Anderson
Award winning vocalist, recording artist, composer, lyricist, producer
Winner of Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award
“In this sea of internet information overload, it’s great to be a part of, and have access to, a new and growing portal like ConnectsMusic, where you can engage with all the different aspects of your art, within a more community spirited feel and fashion.”
Cleveland Watkiss MBE
Award winning international vocalist, professor (Trinity Laban), Warriors International
“ConnectsMusic is a communal service which helps us all … whether we are an artist or a manager or a promoter. It’s the perfect antidote to the unwanted divisions in our society by virtue of its sharing nature and positivity.”
Mary James
Artist management
“Just as the primary genre it supports, from very important initial connections and in a relatively short space of time it has developed into a great forum facilitating fantastic creativity (in the U.K. and further afield) and it continues to expand and evolve. This should be encouraged as it benefits all involved with every aspect of the music.”
Jason Yarde
Composer, arranger, producer, musical director & saxophonist
“ConnectsMusic/JazzConnects is one of the most comprehensive places on the net for Jazz Promo. The Ivors Academy was represented at leading jazz trade fair, Jazz Ahead, held annually in Bremen, having been invited to join the ground-breaking UK organisation ConnectsMusic/JazzConnects, setup by Emily Saunders. A huge thank you to Emily for making it happen and including so many Academy members, commissioners & potential members.”
Orphy Robinson MBE
Award winning multi-instrumentalist and composer
