Deezer, one of the world’s premier music streaming services, is excited to announce that it will be partnering with the Manchester Jazz Festival, a true highlight of the North West’s summer season taking place 13-21 July 2012. The collaboration will provide Jazz fans with even more curated content and enable Manchester Jazz Festival revelers to listen to Deezer’s 18 million tracks from the festival’s website.

Manchester Jazz Festival, a stunning celebration of the best and newest in contemporary jazz, will return to the city centre 13-21 July for its 17^th year.Unlike any other event on the jazz festival circuit, the Manchester Jazz Festival offers a fascinating journey of discovery through the world of jazz today.

Deezer’s partnership with the festival will see the launch of the Manchester Jazz Festival radio channel on Deezer’s website and apps. Curated by the experts behind Manchester Jazz Festival, the radio channel will feature the coolest new sounds in jazz from the finest musicians from the North West and around the world. The radio channel will also be available on Manchester Jazz Festival’s website and facebook page via a Deezer widget. Furthermore, fans of the festival can listen to the tracks from key artists from the event’s impressive programme on the Manchester Jazz Festival website. 

Deezer will also be running a series of competitions across their social media platforms to give fans and followers a chance to win tickets to the Manchester Jazz Festival.

Mark Foster, MD of Deezer UK said, “Deezer is thrilled to be partnering with the Manchester Jazz Festival, an event praised for its diverse and eclectic programme of jazz music. Deezer is particularly proud of its extensive jazz catalogue and this partnership cements Deezer’s ongoing commitment to providing jazz lovers with a wonderful selection of tracks and encouraging more people to listen to the genre”.

Steve Mead, Artistic Director of Manchester Jazz Festival said, “mjf are thrilled to announce this new partnership with Deezer and to become the first major UK jazz festival to launch an internet radio channel. It’s an exciting and invaluable platform for providing a taster of our eclectic programme of music. As well as featuring artistsappearing at the 2012 event, we’ve dipped back into the festival archives from the last five years to produce a playlist that epitomises mjf. Thanks to Deezer’s music-centred approach, listeners have a chance to re-visit their favourite musical moments and discover a few gems they may have missed, as well as sample some of the up-coming delights on offer at this year’s festival.”

The collaboration follows Deezer’s successful media partnership with Jazz FM that began in December last year. The partnership offers even more Jazz recommendations to Deezer’s users.

Deezer launched in the UK in September last year. It already has over 23 million users worldwide. With over 18 million licensed tracks, Deezer is becoming the number one destination for all UK music fans.