Running to include a warm up weekend beginning on Friday and continuing the following weekend Nicole Mitchell, Alexander Hawkins and Orphy Robinson are among the line-up at the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in the north-east of England. A ''destination out'' for everyone who loves freely improvised music and associated allied styles - note, some acts for instance Noel Dennis, Pete Churchill and Zoe Gilby are far more mainstream in nature - Pendulums: Music for Bellringers, Improvisers and Electronics, Archipelago, SA Malley, Taupe, Skylla, Pete Wareham/Ruth Goller/Will Glaser, Czajka & Puchacz (Lapwing & Eagle Owl) also known as Kaja Draksler and Szymon Gasiorek, Mark Solborg, the Anthropology Band, Adam Johnson, Noel Dennis and Pete Churchill, Orphy Robinson, Emanuele Maniscalco / Francesco Bigoni / Mark Solborg, Binker Golding / Alexander Hawkins / John Pope / Paul Hession, Nicole Mitchell with Alexander Hawkins, The Beck Hunters with John Pope and Laura Cole, Daniel Levin, Black Top with Mariam Rezaei, Helen Anahita Wilson, Zoë Gilby Trio with Noel Dennis, John Garner with John Pope, Dilutey Juice, Farida Amadou, Bex Burch and Leafcutter John and Shifa are in the very impressive line-up planned to keep all very much agog on the Tyne in the early autumn. More details

Nicole Mitchell photo: Bandcamp