Since 1996 Quite Great has been helping jazz artists and jazz labels from Universal Classics and Jazz to Sony along with many small labels and developing artists to think creatively about developing their brand and release pattern in the UK. We also have team members with many years of publishing knowledge who again could slot in where relevant and help develop the PR plot and take the strategy outside of radio, online and press and into the majors.
Over the years we have worked with catalogue owners to broaden the market for the legends of blues and jazz releases from the likes of Betty Wright, Nina Simone, La Vern Baker, Selena Jones and Barb Jungr, as well as helping to light a spark on the career of Jamie Cullum when we helped his manager gain some early live media attention. The long relationship we had with the wonderful Jazzee Blue label helps to underline the passion and focus that this musical genre means to us, when we were at the forefront of helping Chris Rea adapt the media focus and really start to appreciate the way he now had not only changed his musical style to fully embrace the blues genre but also developed a series of fantastic jazz releases that were critically acclaimed. The superb, ‘Dancing Down The Stony Road’, was a testament to his love of jazz and blues, his talent as a guitarist and his skill as a songwriter, going on to sell over 100,000 copies in the UK.
We work with the print media, broadcast media and online media to develop acts and help them grow we structure releases to fit your needs and your budgets as well as offering a friendly, efficient service.
Any PR company can get a Jazz artist into the Jazz media in theory but at Quite Great we go much further to make sure our clients reach as broad a range of media as possible by thinking laterally and creatively, taking you out of the genre specific music media and into the mainstream.
Take for example the cult jazz artist Barb Jungr. We worked on her successful campaign igniting a broad range of interesting and exciting media including naturally the likes of Jazz News but then huge monthlies like Country Life and the yoga monthly omyoga Magazine. This detailed consideration of all angles of an artist, from health through to lifestyle in order to drive interest for tour dates through to album releases is featured in all our artists campaigns in order to maximise every element of the overall campaign.
Jazz Artist Barb Jungr – Omyoga Magazine
Jazz Artist & Interpreter – Barb Jungr
When it comes to Jazz icons the Quite Great PR team have to highlight, Madeleine Peyroux, famed for her stylistic song writing and stunning Nina Simone-esque vocals. While working with an artist of the stature of Madeleine, we knew we had to look at both the biggest Jazz areas but also look at wider media to gain her the mainstream coverage she deserved as it is always vital for us to look beyond the music and target every part of an artist that links into their music. So whilst it goes without saying that Madeleine got a Jazz FM playlist straight off the bat, securing radio play across every show on a daily basis. Leading to her being offered not only a spot at Jazz FM’s 30th birthday gala but also saw her being nominated for a prestigious Jazz FM award! We just loved that!
Having also gained significant support from London Jazz Radio, Soho Radio and many other Jazz Radio stations and naturally coverage across Jazz print media including Jazzwise and London Jazz News it was so good to get support from the amazing Jamie Cullum on BBC Radio 2. Then looking outside the Jazz media, we also gained Madeleine coverage in the all important The Daily Mail Femail section, which as you may know is so important and tough to get, so we were so happy to get their support. The Mail story was really effective in gaining her broader widespread coverage helping us to pick up by a number of other publications including Happiful Magazine which we just love and the flag ship taste making , awareness builder Sky News.
Thanks to Madeleine and her team such a great group of professionals to work with.
Michael Tinholme
We were fortunate enough to be working with not only a contemporary classic jazz artist, but one whose story is “the 
stuff of dreams are made of” (USA Today). We were delighted to have the ever-stylish and musically masterful Michael Tinholme join the ranks of our clientele with an exciting series of projects primed to take the world of jazz blues by storm. Having worked alongside collaborators of Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Quincy Jones, Ringo Starr, and Paul McCartney (to name a few) Michael is more than ready to take centre stage.
Whether on his emotive originals, lovingly crafted renditions of jazz classics, or his Christmas album quite like no other, Tinholme’s velvety voice ties together a rich texture of world class jazz/blues stylings. It comes with good reason that there is such passion and truth to Michael’s work.
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