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Adam Sweeting wrote the Guardian obituary of Burt Bacharach (photo above from 2013 by Phil Guest / Creative Commons) – read more

…also in the Guardian, John Lewis reviewed Peter Brötzmann at Cafe Oto – read more

John Kelman revisits John Abercrombie’s Quartet recordings on ECM – read more

Melody McLaren shared photos from Jerry Bergonzi’s performance at PizzaExpress – read more

Martin Johnson reviewed Brad Mehldau’s latest record, ‘Your Mother Should Know’, in the Wall Street Journal (£) – read more

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Pianist Richie Beirach writes about overcoming stage anxiety for MusicSavvy – read more

Evan Chung explores how the 1942 recording ban led to the development of bebop – listen more

“It’s impossible to imagine jazz’s development [.] without the artists who grew up in San Juan Hill.” Great essay by Seton Hawkins – read more

The Bear Club in Luton has reopened – read more

Richard Williams reviewed the Julian Siegel Jazz Orch at Ronnie Scott’s – read more

The Cusp Magazine reviewed Alice Zawadzki’s “Bag of Bones” – read more

Wirral-born bassist Shez Raja is returning home for his first Merseyside gig in over 25 years – read more

Eve Risser & Red Desert place at the top of Telerama’s list of best current jazz artists (in French) – read more

…and it was great to see a good friend of LJN, Scottish harper Karen Marshalsay, featured with almost a whole page of Dundee-based newspaper The Courier – read more

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

Wednesday 15 February – Empirical are at Ronnie Scotts with Jason Rebello
Wednesday 15 February – Natasha Seale is at Zedel Brasserie, Crazy Coqs with all-stars; Clark Tracey, Mike Gorman & Rob Rickenberg
Wednesday 15 February – Emily Francis Trio are at the 606
Wednesday 15 February – the Aidan Pope Trio are at the Vortex
Thursday 16 February – Richard Fairhurst Trio are at the Vortex
Thursday 16 February – Rebecca Nash is at Ronnie Scotts
Thursday 16 February – Johnny Thirkle on trumpet and Frank Walden on reeds are at Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 16 February – Tim Penn & The Second Line’s Blues & Roots line up over at the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 16 February – Leeds based guitarist Nik Svarc, drummer Steve Hanley and keyboardist Martin Longhawn are at the SoundCellar in Poole

Thursday 16 February – Esther Bennett ft John Hogg is at the Spice of Life in Soho
Thursday 16 February – Derek Nash is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club, EN2 8AS
Thursday 16 February – Johanna Burnheart is at Ninety One Living Room Brick Lane
Thursday 16 February – James Pearson Trio are at the 606
Thursday 16 February – Beyond The Blue at The Jazz Sanctuary, Twickenham
Friday 17 February – Elsden Music Showcase feat. Juliet Wood and Alban Claret&Evan Clegg is at Cafe POSK
Friday 17 February – Anita Wardell Quartet at Chichester jazz Club – The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, PO19 1SY.
Friday 17 February – Joy Ellis Trio are at the Vortex
Friday 17 February – Noah Stoneman is at Collage Arts, Karamel, 4 Coburg Rd, London N22 6UJ
Friday 17 February – Alex Garnett’s “CoverUp” are at the 606
Friday 17 February – Xhosa Cole is at Guildford Jazz
Friday 17 February – The Art Themen Quartet play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head,, Barnes, SW13
Friday 17 February – L T Beauchamp is at Rich Mix
Friday 17 February – Lulu Pierre and the Alex Webb Trio – Special Guest: Tony Kofi – Toulouse Lautrec

Saturday 18 February – from 2pm a new jazz lounge launches at the Broadway Theatre, Barking with Tony Kofi
Saturday 18 February – Lulu Pierre is at the Bear Club in Luton with Alex Webb Trio ft Tony Kofi (yes, again!)
Saturday 18 February – Five-Way Split ft Quentin Collins , Rob Barron and Vasilis Xenopoulos are at Clun Valley Jazz
Saturday 18 February – Jean Toussaint is at the Vortex
Saturday 18 February – Svarc Hanley Longhawn is at Cafe POSK
Saturday 18 February – Big Mama’s Door play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head,, Barnes, SW13
Saturday 18 February – Derek Nash is at the 606
Sunday 19 February – Lunchtime – Brandon Allen Band are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 19 February – Lunchtime – Adam Page is at the 606
Sunday 19 February 5pm – Ozzy Duzenli is at the Bald Faced Stag East Finchley
Sunday 19 February – Evening – Tony O’Malley is at the 606
Sunday 19 February – Grand Union Orchestra present Bengal to Bethnal Green at the Rich Mix
Sunday 19 February – Jam session at the Vortex with Jas Kayser
Sunday 19 February – Chris Laurence Quartet are at Pizza Express Soho
Sunday 19 February – Nina Kristofferson Sings Billie Holiday. at the Pheasantry in the Kings Rd
Monday 20 February – Saxophonist Kaidi Akinnibi (Black Midi, Blue Lab Beats) & his quintet make their 606 Club debut
Monday 20 February – Artie Zaitz is at Jazz at the Oxfords temporary venue at the Assembly House, KentishTown
Monday, 20 February – The Marc Cecil/Zac Barratt Quartet with Richard Busiakiewicz and Matt Ridley plays Bexley Jazz Club, The King’s Head, Bexley Village, DA1 1AA
Tuesday 21 February – Fergus McCreadie Trio at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 21 February – Vasilis Xenopoulos Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM144TJ
Tuesday 21 February – Pianist Andrew McCormack & his Trio play music from his latest album ‘Terra Firma’ at the 606
Wednesday 22 February – Italian guitarist Daniele Cordisco & his Organ Trio with special guest, guitarist Nigel Price are at the 606
Wednesday 22 February – Thokozile feat. Dan Somogyi (keys/ gtr), Terry Quinney (sax), Rob Palmer (gtr), Jack Shaughnessy (bass), Neil Evans (drums) are at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 22 February – Toti Freestone / Alcyona Duo + Tori Freestone Trio are at the Vortex
Wednesday 22 February – The Old Familiar Places, Sam Emony’s Debut Book Launch at Ronnie Scott’s
Thursday 23 February – Vasilis Xenopoulus Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 23 February – Pianist John Crawford & his jazz/Latin quintet are at the 606
Thursday 23 February – Basil Hodge is at the Vortex
Thursday 23 February – Al Nicholls on reeds and Max Brittain on guitar are at Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 23 February – Denys Baptiste Quartet are at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, Eltham, SE9 2 PE
Thursday 23 February – at the The Capstone Theatre in Liverpool, Milap Indo-Jazz Club is a major celebration of IndoJazz in partnership with NYJC
Thursday 23 February – Soulfunks big band jazz & soul ensemble play the Boston Room over at the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 23 February – Brigitte Beraha’s Lucid Dreamers are at Gonville Hotel, Gonville Place, Cambridge , CB1 1LY
Thursday 23 February – James Pearson Trio are at Guildford Jazz
Thursday 23 February – Paul Higgs is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 23 February – The Zoot Money Band play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head,, Barnes, SW13
Thursday 23 February – Dan Newberry is at St Nicholas Methodist Church, Fore Street, Topsham, EX3 0HQ
Friday 24 February – Jazz At The Tree with Martin Pyne. The Talking Tree, Staines-upon-Thames.
Friday 24 February – Herne Bay Jazz presents Jo Doolan & Richard Rozze Quartet, Pier Ceylon Restaurant. Herne Bay, Kent
Friday 24 February – Salena Jones with Pete Billington, Oli Hayhurst and Elliot Henshaw at The Pheasantry, Chelsea
Friday 24 February – Roger Carey & John Harriman at the Bell at Iden, Rye TN31 7PU
Friday 24 February – Neal & Sue Richardson are at Cuckmere Inn, Exceat Bridge, Seaford BN25 4AB
Friday 24 February – Barry Green , Brigitte Beraha and Alan Barnes are at the Vortex
Friday 24 February – Szymon Mika & Yumi Ito are at Cafe POSK
Friday 24 February – Samara are at the 606
Saturday 25 February – Jakub Cywiński’s Street Jazz Project feat. Irene Serra are at Jazz Cafe POSK
Saturday 25 February at The Capstone Theatre Liverpool Shez Raja ft. Tony Kofi
Saturday 25 February – Salena Jones with Pete Billington, Oli Hayhurst and Elliot Henshaw at The Pheasantry, Chelsea
Saturday 25 February – Tommaso Starace Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2

Saturday 25 February – Pigfoot play Ellington at the Vortex
Saturday 25 February – ‘BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year’ pianist Deschanel Gordon & his Quartet ft. trumpeter Quentin Collins are at the 606
Saturday 25 February – Nette Robinson Trio ” Flowers, Stars, and Wild Seas: An evening of Poetry as Song” at All Saints Church High Street, Carshalton SM5 3AG
Sunday 26 February – Lunchtime – Notes from the Underground – Vladimir Miller Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 26 February – Lunchtime – Rachel Sutton – vocal-led jazz & swing feat. Roland Perrin-piano are at the 606
Sunday 26 February 5-7pm – Tim Richards Trio are at The Music Room , 116 New Cross Road, SE14 5BA
Sunday 26 February – Evening: a Tribute to Mike Frohlich feat. Joe Stilgoe, Liane Carroll, Rebecca Poole aka Purdy, Giacomo Smith, Iain Ballamy, Pat Clahar are at the 606
Sunday 26 February 5pm – Ben Croft is at the Bald Faced Stag East Finchley
Sunday 26 February: Jazz On The Plaza with Paul Silver and Terence Collie. Café Yukari, Kew
Sunday 26 February – Fizzle: Alex Ward Item 4 | Cath Roberts & Olie Brice at Centrala, Digbeth
Monday 20 February – Vittorio Mura (sax), Will Sach (bass), Will Cleasby (drums) are at Jazz at the Oxfords temporary venue at the Assembly House, KentishTown
Monday 27 February – Clement Regert’s “Wild Card” – guitar-led Jazz/Groove feat. Denys Baptiste-sax & Daniel Higham-trombone are at the 606
Tuesday 28 February – James Allsopp Quartet ft Steve Buckley are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 28 February – Gary Willcox’s Drummer/Composer Project-Music written by Drummers at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 28 February – British Jazz Award ‘Rising Star’ saxophonist Alex Clarke & her Quartet are at the 606
Wednesday 1 March – Paris-based UK jazz pianist Dave Bristow & his quintet are at the 606
Thursday 2 March – Tristan Mailliot Quartet remember Chick Corea at Collage Arts, Karamel, 4 Coburg Rd, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 2 March – Alan Barnes is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 2 March – Jazz/R&B singer/songwriter Polly Gibbons is at the 606
Thursday 2 March – Mark Lockheart’s Dreamers are at the SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 2 March – The Sarah Moule Trio celebrate “The Songs Of Johnny Mercer & Friends” over at the Boston Room over at the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 2 March – SOMI is at Ronnie Scotts
Friday 3 March – Five-Way Split ft Quentin Collins , Rob Barron and Vasilis Xenopoulos are at The Crypt Jazz Club, London
Friday 3 March – Singer Jaelee Small & her band play rare-groove & soul are at the 606
Friday 3 March – Quintet Blue with Denys Baptiste and Nigel Price are at Boulevard Theatre, 6 Walkers Court, Soho London W1F 0BT
Friday 3 March – Sarah L King Quartet at Piano Smithfield, London EC1A 9PN
Friday 3 March – Neal Richardson is at Nautilus Lounge, 129-130 St James Street, Brighton. BN2 1TH
Saturday 4 March – Rick Simpson: Kid A Revisited at Woolwich Works
Saturday 4 March – Jazz Saxophonist Brandon Allen & his quartet is at the 606
Saturday 4 March – The Katriona Taylor Quintet “Jazz & It’s Romance With The Silver Screen” over in the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head,, Barnes, SW13
Sunday 5 March – Lunchtime – Andrea Vicari Quartet featuring Emma Rawicz are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 5 March – Lunchtime – The 606 Gospel Group are at the 606

Sunday 5 March – Vocalist Claire Martin celebrates the legacy of the late great Sir Richard Rodney Bennett is at the 606
Sunday 5 March – Riverside Arts Jazz feat. Jo Fooks with Terence Collie, Nick Lerner-Webster and Buster Birch. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury.
Tuesday 7 March – Stan Sulzmann & Gwilym Simcock are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 7 March – Magpie Trio ft Goerge Crowley are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Wednesday 8 March – Shez Raja ft Vasilis Xenopoulos at The Jazz Mix, Chalkwell Park Rooms, Southend-on-Sea
Thursday 9 March – Dom Pipkin’s “Smokin’ Boogie, Bad Boys, Bourbon & The Big Easy” show over at the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 9 March – Mike Wills on reeds and Lester Brown on trumpet. are at Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Friday 10 March – Minihi, the London-based percussionist/composer duo Zands Duggan and Louise Anna Duggan are at the Waiting Room Under The Three Crowns, N16
Saturday 11 March -The Fabulous Red Diesel are at the Verdict in Brighton
Sunday 12 March – Gill Cook & Michele Ingham Quartet “Skae That Jazz Jive” on the Sunday Lunchtime Session over in the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head,, Barnes, SW13
Tuesday 14 March – Only London gig for the Gaz Hughes Trio East Side Jazz Club, Leytonstone, London
Tuesday 14 March – Elmo at 100: Raible/Gradischnig Quintet plays the music of Elmo Hope at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Thursday 16 March – Vasilis Xenopoulos on reeds and Stuart Henderson on trumpet are at Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Friday 17 March – Lonnie Holley is at Royal Academy of Arts
Friday 17 March – Herne Bay Jazz presents Kai Hoffman Quartet. Pier Ceylon Restaurant. Herne Bay, Kent.
Saturday 18 March – Duke Ellington Sacred Concert is at Guildford Jazz
Sunday 19 March – Dameronia’s Legacy All-Stars will be performing at Ronnie Scott’s
Tuesday 21 March – Trichotomy are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 21 March – San Franciscan band Charged Particles with Tod Dickow play Michael Brecker at their only London gig at East Side Jazz Club, Leytonstone, London
Thursday 23 March – Sue Greenway and Mike Wills both on reeds are at Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Sunday 26 March – Kai Hoffman at Ronnie Scott’s Club, Lunchtime show. With Vasilis Xenopoulos, Liam Dunachie, Eleazar Ruiz, Steve Brown
Sunday 26 March – Jazz On The Plaza – Terence Collie’s Solo Piano Album Launch. Café Yukari, Kew
Tuesday 28 March – Alan Barnes at East Side Jazz Club, Leytonstone, London
Tuesday 28 March – Xosha Cole’s Rhythm-a-ting are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Friday 31 March: Jazz At The Tree – Janet and Friends with Vocalists Janet McCunn, Zoë White and Rebecca Morse plus Terence Collie & Nick Lerner-Webster. The Talking Tree, Staines

2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.

Wednesday 15 February – Luciano Biondini & Andreas Schaerer are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Thursday 16 February – Leeds based guitarist Nik Svarc, drummer Steve Hanley and keyboardist Martin Longhawn are livestreaming from the SoundCellar in Poole – https://soundcellar.org/events/
Friday 17 February – Louis Hayes Cannonball Legacy Band featuring Jeremy Pelt & Vincent Herring are streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Saturday 18 February – Simon Spillett Quartet are streaming from Peggy Skylights https://peggysskylight.co.uk/upcoming-events/
Sunday 19 February – George Coleman is streaming from Keystone Korner in Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Monday 20 February – Larry Goldings / Peter Bernstein and Bil Stewart are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Thursday 23 February – The Bad Plus are streaming from Keystone Korner in Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Sunday 26 February – John Scofield is streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Sunday 26 February – Tribute to Mike Frohlich ft. Joe Stilgoe, Liane Carroll, Giacomo Smith (Kansas Smittys), Rebecca Poole aka Purdy, Iain Ballamy & Pat Clahar are streaming from the 606 – https://www.606club.co.uk/account/videos/live/
Monday 27 February – Dominic Ingham is streaming from The Yard in Manchester https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on
Thursday 2 March – Mark Lockheart’s Dreamers are livestreaming from the SoundCellar in Poole – https://soundcellar.org/events/

3) Residencies

Every Monday at Off The Cuff , Railton Road, Herne Hill, London, at 8.30 Roger Humbles Quartet followed at 9.30 by a jam.
Every Tuesday – Silver Bullet Jazz Jam at The Night Owl in Finsbury Park with Bukky Leo
Tuesdays – Jazz Duo pianist Aurelius Sciuka / W bass Lakis Economou & guests @ The Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone, London E11 1HG
Every Thursday , Friday and Saturday Leo Green hosts shows at the Middle Eight bar WC2B 5BX
Every Thursday at The Great North Wood, 3 Knight Hill, Norwood, London, at 8.30 Roger Humbles Quartet followed at 9.30 by a jam.

3) NOT TIMED –

Emmet Cohen has still got a weekly stream going on Monday nights from his place https://www.facebook.com/heyemmet/?hc_location=ufi
Smalls in New York are streaming every night and if you sign up you get access to their archive https://www.smallslive.com/
Snake Davis has at home Livestreams 7pm (BST) every Friday, Saturday and Sunday http://www.youtube.com/user/snakedavistv plus sax clinics on Sundays at 11am then click on the live screen.
There is a Facebook group called Jazz Stream Sessions which has a number of jazz streaming events – https://www.facebook.com/groups/260015701678348/
Duke Ellington Society UK, Uptown Lockdown have podcasts , broadcasts at https://www.pscp.tv/AP64740207/1eaJbzZPrvYJX

4) Radio etc

Roger Burgess Jazz across the Pond has an interview with Arturo Sandoval https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYfIMlqHFPE&feature=youtu.be
Frank Griffith – “The Jazz Cavern” Thursdays at 9PM. Repeats at 6PM Sunday http://www.mykindamusic24.com
Liverpool Community Radio – “The Jazz Cavern” 106.7 FM. http://www.l-c-r.co.uk Airs on weekly Fridays-2PM, Saturdays- 4PM, Tuesdays- 4PM
The European Jazz Hour with Peter Slavid – https://www.mixcloud.com/ukjazz/ or on hayesfm 91.8 FM
Wednesdays at 10pm on Radio Deal – Jazz on the Beach with Adam Sieff https://www.dealradio.co.uk/shows/jazz-on-the-beach
Watch The LP Swing Orchestra on Sky Arts on 20th and 27th June at 7pm.
Marlow FM’s longstanding Jazz Show “Swing That Music” (www.marlowfm.co.uk) 6pm Sunday repeated 10pm Monday) now gets a worldwide audience being transmitted 5 times weekly by New York’s Pure Jazz Radio (www.purejazzradio.com)
Tim Richards has a series of jazz piano pdcasts on Morley Radio e.g. this one i about Chick Corea https://morleyradio.co.uk/programmes/jazz-piano-library-ep12/

5) Courses etc

JMI Youth Big Band on Sunday 29th January @ SOAS University of London (1pm – 4pm) are offering a free taster session to young musicians (aged 11-18) who would like to try out with the band.
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