READ ELSEWHERE

Chris Searle interviewed trumpeter Charlotte Keeffe (above) in the Morning Star – read more

Nick Lea interviewed Rebecca Nash (contains tone rows) – read more

Dave Gelly reviewed the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet’s album, ‘Warm Up’, in the Observer – read more

Rob Adams previewed singer Christine Tobin’s homecoming album, ‘Returning Weather’ – read more

Saxophonist Joshua Redman was interviewed in StyleWeekly – read more

Richard Williams reviewed Julian Siegel’s suite for big band, ‘Tales from the Jacquard’, at Ronnie Scott’s – read more

Samo Šalamon interviewed Martin Speake on his show, Dr. Jazz Talks – watch

Esther Bennett is the latest guest to appear on TheJazzPodcast – listen

Melody McLaren shared photos from Brigitte Beraha’s performance at Frank & Marks in Oxford – read more

The Scotsman reviewed Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi’s ‘Blues & Bach: The Music of John Lewis’ (scroll down) – read more 

A few tickets for Fred Hersch’s upcoming concert at Wigmore Hall are still available – booking link

The Financial Times has been finding jazz in less obvious places, restaurants in Belgravia and Mayfair – read here

Philip Clark, biographer of Dave Brubeck, discusses his next book, ‘Sound and the City’ – read more

Ian Mann has a new gig “practically on my doorstep” We salute him for a 2660-word live review of Cathy Jordan / Liam Noble/ Paul Clarvis aka Freight Train – Read here

Kieron Tyler reviewed “Debut In The Netherlands 1958” by the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet – read more  

Nel Begley (above) and the Paul Edis have recorded the Betty Carter/Gigi Gryce classic “A Social Call – watch here

Cormac Larkin of the Irish Times celebrated the remarkable career of Irish guitarist Louis Stewart as his 1977 solo album. Out on His Own is reissued – Read More

“Song introductions have become shorter” (Max Martin). Three decades of pop singles analysed by the Economist podcast – Listen here

Michael Jackson reviewed mid-January’s 20th Panama Jazz Festival for Jazzwise – read here

Ross Boissoneau reviewed Chick Corea’s posthumous 2022 release, ‘The Montreux Years’, for SomethingElse Reviews! – read more

Vocalist Somi is among six new recipients of the Doris Duke Artist Award – read more

The New York Times has a feature by Hank Shteamer about Christian McBride (photo above © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk) at 50 – read more

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

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 – Tori 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
Friday 24 February – Salena Jones with Pete Billington, Oli Hayhurst and Elliot Henshaw at The Pheasantry, Chelsea
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 – Salena Jones with Pete Billington, Oli Hayhurst and Elliot Henshaw at The Pheasantry, Chelsea
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 – Germana Stella La Sorsa: Pizza Express Jazz Club
Sunday 26 February – Lunchtime Denmark Street Big Band featuring Paul Wood are at the Spice of Life in Soho
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 – At the Vortex Mopomoso in the afternoon , jam in the evening
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 – Duncan Eagles Quartet are at the Vortex
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 – Lester Brown on trumpet and Mike Wills on reeds are at Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 2 March – Alan Barnes is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 2 March – Ferdinando Romano’s Totem ft Freddie Gravita are at the Vortex
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
Thursday 2 March – Jo Harrop and Jo Fooks and Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
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 – Alex Hitchcock / Ant Law’s Same Moon in the Same World at the Vortex plus a late night with Bruno Heinen
Friday 3 March – Neal Richardson is at Nautilus Lounge, 129-130 St James Street, Brighton. BN2 1TH
Friday 3 March – Lara Eidi is at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
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 – Matt and Stan Sulzmann are at the Vortex
Saturday 4 March – Piotr Zubek & Janek Pentz Piazzola Duo are a Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
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.
Monday 6 March – Singer & renowned blues/boogie-woogie pianist Dino Baptiste is at the 606
Tuesday 7 March – Magpie Trio ft Goerge Crowley are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 7 March – Al Nicholls Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club, Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 7 March – Stan Sulzmann & Gwilym Simcock are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 7 March – Singer, songwriter Jana Varga plays music from her album ‘Foreigner Face’ as well as songs by Joni Mitchell at the 606
Wednesday 8 March – Shez Raja ft Vasilis Xenopoulos at The Jazz Mix, Chalkwell Park Rooms, Southend-on-Sea

Wednesday 8 March – Iain Ballamy Quartet are at the 606
Thursday 9 March – James Davison & Duncan Hemstock play the music of Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison & Ben Webster at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 9 March – Lianne Carroll is at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, Eltham, SE9 2 PE
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
Thursday 9 March – Paul Booth is at the 606 with his jazz/funk/fusion project “Hoop”
Thursday 9 March – Louise Cookman, is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Friday 10 March – Betty Accorsi Quartet: The Crypt, London 
Friday 10 March – Eddie Gripper Album launch: Kings Road Yard, Cardiff
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
Friday 10 March – PIanist Joe Webb (Kansas Smitty’s) & his quartet ft. Alec Harper, sax are at the 606
Friday 10 March – Imperial College Big Band are at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 11 March – International Women’s Day Special feat. Krzysztof Urbanski/Turville/Cywiński/Barford Quartet present compositions written by women at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 11 March -The Fabulous Red Diesel are at the Verdict in Brighton
Saturday 11 March – Mornington Lockett and Henry Lowther are at the 606
Sunday 12 March – lunchtime – Mike Westbrook is doing a solo show at Dean St Pizza Express
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
Sunday 12 March @ 3pm – Herts Big Band is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Sunday 12 March – Mary Pearce is at the 606
Monday 13 March – Todd Sharpville is at the 606
Tuesday 14 March – Only London gig for the Gaz Hughes Trio East Side Jazz Club, Leytonstone, London
Tuesday 14 March – Ted Beament Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club, Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 14 March – Elmo at 100: Raible/Gradischnig Quintet plays the music of Elmo Hope at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 14 March – Dan Reinstein’s Quintet is at the 606
Wednesday 15 March – Ruben Fox is at the 606
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
Thursday 16 March – Cuban-born Jazz/Latin singer Elsa Valle & her band is at the 606
Thursday 16 March – Art Themen is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Friday 17 March – James Kitchman Quartet are at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
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.
Friday 17 March – Blues, jazz & Americana by way of New Orleans band The Coalminers are at the 606
Saturday 18 March – lunchtime Elchin Shirinov and Ivo Neame are at Pizza Express Dean St

Saturday 18 March – Rachel Sutton (above) and Roland Perrin Trio are at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 18 March – Duke Ellington Sacred Concert is at Guildford Jazz
Saturday 18 March – Alex Hitchcock Quartet is at the 606
Sunday 19 March – Dameronia’s Legacy All-Stars will be performing at Ronnie Scott’s
Monday 20 March – Alex Garnett Quartet with Alex Bryson, Adam King and Matt Home are at Bexley Jazz Club, The King’s Head PH, Bexley Village
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
Tuesday 21 March – Trichotomy are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 21 March – Renato d’Aiello Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club, Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Thursday 23 March – Renato d’Aiello Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 23 March – Stan Sulzmann Quartet with Kate Williams, Steve Watts and Dave Ohm are at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, Eltham, SE9 2 PE
Thursday 23 March – Sue Greenway and Mike Wills both on reeds are at Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Friday 24 March – Nigel Price & Alban Claret – album launch at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 25 March – Norwegian band WAKO are at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 25 March – Leon Greening Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beectoft Art Gallery, Bictoria. Avenue, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
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
Friday 31 March – Migdalia Van Der Hoven is at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 1 April – Gianluca De Martini Quartet are at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

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

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/
Friday 3 March – Renee Rosnes Quintet are streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/

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.