Despite this year’s event being moved to October, the 36 year run of July festivals will continue on the original dates scheduled for the festival,thanks to the the neatly-titled Virtual But Remarkably Real Birmingham, Sandwell & Westside Jazz Festival.

Every day from July 17th to 26th, festival organisers will be presenting online at 8am a Jazz Digest with regular features, a bunch of random thoughts, memories and anecdotes – some of them actually true.

Highlights include:

Wish We Were There: Greetings and exclusive performance clips from festival favourites including The Schwings (Lithuania), The Jim Dandies (Italy) Les Zauto Stompers de Paris (France) and more
Once Upon A Time In Jazzland: Featuring Charles Brown, Madeleine Peyroux on Billie Holiday, King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys
Don’t Worry ‘Bout The Bear: Extracts from the critically acclaimed history of Birmingham’s Big Bear Records, organisers of the festival
Waxing Lyrical: Classic albums recorded at previous festivals
Painting The Town: The art of Dave Newbould
The Daily Sketch: Artistic highlights from the annual Jazz Festival Sketch Crawl
The Nearly Moving Picture Show: A series of classic photofilms.