JULIAN & THE SIXTEEN  
Julian's collaboration with The Sixteen at this summer's Spitalfields Festival will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Performance on 3 at 7.00pm on Friday 2 July.
   
SHADOWBALL  

Shadowball, Julian's new opera, is to be premiered at London's Mermaid Conference and Events Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday 29 and 30 June at 7.30 pm, with a childrens' matinee on 30 June at 1.30 pm. The opera features Julian and his quintet, Cleveland Watkiss in the role of Satchel Paige and a cast of over 100 children from Hackney schools. See gigs page for booking.

Julian talks about Shadowball on Front Row (c. 10 minutes in). Click here for BBC London feature.

"In a time of segregation, when jazz and baseball flourished, a courageous group of men struggled to achieve their dream despite the odds. Shadowball - an opera in a league of its own."
   
JULIAN WITH WYNTON MARSALIS'S LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA
Sunday 20th June 7.30pm @ Hackney Empire. Julian joins Cleveland Watkiss, Jean Toussaint and Jim Hart as guests of Wynton Marsalis and the JALC Orchestra.
 
YAMAHA JAZZ EXPERIENCE COMPETITION
Julian will be judging the Yamaha Jazz Experience competition at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival on Saturday 1 May. For more details, click here.
   
JULIAN TALKS TO BRANFORD MARSALIS  

Julian will be talking to American saxophonist Branford Marsalis on BBC Radio 3's Jazz Line-Up on Sunday 17 January @ 11.30 pm. The interview was recorded live at the 2009 London Jazz Festival.
   
JULIAN & MATTHEW BARLEY PLAY RAVEL
Click here to watch Julian and Matthew Barley perform Ravel's 'Habanera', featured on their new album, Dance of the Three Legged Elephants.
 
PATRONAGE
Julian is now a patron of the Firebird Trust, a charity that offers positive experience through music to vulnerable people in society, and supports musicians from all genres. Their latest project, Komposit, is the name of a new ensemble founded to give opportunities to composers and musicians keen to play new music.
 
VOICE OF BLACK OPERA & PAUL HAMLYN COMPOSERS AWARDS
Julian will be judging in two major music competitions during October - the Voice of Black Opera and the Paul Hamlyn Composers Award.
   

SHADOWBALL

  
Julian has been commissioned by the Hackney Music Development Trust to write a jazz opera about the US Negro Baseball Leagues which will involve young people in performance activities and promote interest in the game whilst addressing issues of racism and descrimination.

‘Shadow Ball’ refers to a common pre-game feature during which Negro League players warmed up by staging mock games with an imaginary ball. Though unintended, this pantomime was an apt metaphor for the exclusion of Blacks from Major League play in America for over 60 years. Using the stories of Black Baseball players in the 1930s-40s, and their jazz compatriots who often suffered similar racial prejudice, Shadowball is designed to inspire young people to achieve despite the odds.

Julian will be launching the project with a children's opera workshop on 7 October. Click here for more info. Photos of the Shadowball launch event can be seen here.
   
THE NEVERENDINGSONG  

Julian and Paul Pacifico announced the launch of a new UK jazz initiative, the NeverEndingSong, on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. The project plans to play a continuous jam on a blues in G for 7 days in 7 towns across the UK - London, Brighton, Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Edinburgh - starting on Monday 7 September.
   

JULIAN JOSEPH & MATTHEW BARLEY - NEW CD RELEASE

DANCE OF THE THREE LEGGED ELEPHANTS, Julian's new duet album with cellist Matthew Barley, features originals and arrangements of jazz and classical numbers, from Bach to Chick Corea, Ravel to Jaco Pastorius.

Dazzling yet intimate, this set of 10 tracks is the work of two brilliant and internationally renowned musicians who are also close friends, and their friendship pours from the music with passion, intensity, humour and inspiring energy.

Click here to buy direct from Signum Classics.

Watch the live stream of Matthew and Julian performing at King's Place, London, on 23 and 26 September.
   
BBC Radio Scotland Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2009  
Julian is Chairman of Judges at this year's BBC Radio Scotland Young Jazz Musician of the Year competition. The final will be held on Wednesday 24 June, 7.30 pm at the Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow. For more info and tickets, click here.
   
PATRONAGE  
Julian has recently become a patron of Manchester's Band on the Wall, which is reopening at the end of September, and the Pembroke Academy of Music, with Sir Colin Davis.
   
JULIAN JOINS YAMAHA'S JAZZ EXPERIENCE

Yamaha have launched a wide-ranging new jazz education initiative, The Jazz Experience, involving teacher-training, school activities and live events with major input from Julian Joseph, Gwilym Simcock, Tim Garland and jazz educator Richard Michael.

A series of regional one day improvisation work shops will be led by Joseph, Simcock, Garland and Michael with contributions form Peter Ind while additional name players will be announced for subsequent training and master classes.

The scheme is aimed at secondary school classroom and instrumental teachers and is designed to give them the skills to encourage and teach pupils to learn improvisation and help showcase the best of this emerging talent at festivals and venues including the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Ronnie Scott’s and the 606 club.

For more info and application forms, click here.

  
 
JAZZ LINE-UP MOVES TO SUNDAY NIGHTS
BBC Radio 3's Jazz Line-Up has moved to a new slot on Sunday nights @ 11.30/11.45 pm.
 
JULIAN JOSEPH ALBUMS NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
The Language of Truth, Reality, Live at the Wigmore Hall and Universal Traveller, as well as the new duet album with Matthew Barley, Dance of the Three Legged Elephants, are now available to download on iTunes, Amazon, Napster and Rhapsody.