About Tomorrow's Warriors

Tomorrow's Warriors is a jazz music education and artist development organisation that was co-founded in 1991 by Janine Irons and Gary Crosby. Their mission is to inspire, foster and grow a vibrant community of artists, audiences and leaders who together will transform the lives of future generations by increasing opportunity, diversity and excellence in and through jazz.

About Musical Passage

Led by Tomorrow's Warriors Musical Passage brings together Arts and Culture, University of Exeter, Radical Ecology, the Eden Project, The Box, Plymouth, Asone Perform, Plymouth Youth Music Service, Devon & Torbay Music Education Hubs and Leskyn Kernow, for a project that aims to support the long-term development of a cohesive infrastructure for anti-racist jazz education across Devon and Cornwall, encompassing:

• Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for music teachers
• Jazz workshops in schools for students
• The establishment of a regular jam session for jazz enthusiasts of different ages and levels
• The consolidation of a live performance touring network of venues across the region

Developing the Regional Network of Jazz Music Teachers

Drawing on Tomorrow’s Warriors expertise as the UK’s leading provider of free-at-the-point-of-delivery jazz education for young people, Radical Ecology will work with partners across Devon and Cornwall to identify a network of 12-20 music teachers across the region, covering Plymouth, Redruth, Bodmin, St Ives, Totnes, Torbay, St Austell, Sidmouth & Exeter.

The selected group of teachers will in turn be invited to serve as the project’s core community:

1. Working directly with TW musicians in CPD settings
2. Hosting Tomorrow's Warriors at local schools to support the delivery by TW of jazz workshops for students
3. Leading on the delivery of regular, funded jam sessions that will move across the project’s geographical area to support the ongoing connectivity and participation of the teacher-participant cohort whilst also providing a point of contact and engagement for emerging musicians in each location.

The aim is that through the relationship with Tomorrow’s Warriors, the cohort will emerge as an autonomous network, active in and across the region whilst also connected through TW with the leading edge of the UK youth jazz scene.

Developing Regional Audience for Jazz

The jam sessions will be organised to lead into a live performance by visiting Tomorrow's Warriors musicians, both taking place at venues in the area where the CPD and schools workshops have happened. This will create an opportunity to develop audiences for jazz in each of the locations where we are working and, taken together, will establish a network of partner venues that can support touring schedules for Tomorrow's Warriors and other related talent looking for opportunities to explore the viability of additional dates across South-West England.

Plymouth Workshops, June 2023

On 9th and 10th June Tomorrow's Warriors ran workshops with students and teachers from across Devon and Cornwall. Below you can see a selection of photographs from the jam session.