READ ELSEWHERE

• Producer Rick Beato’s latest YouTube interview with Keith Jarrett (screenshot above) is now published – watch/listen

• A petition to keep Jazz Centre UK at its location in Southend on Sea is still over 400 signatures short of its required goal – read more

• John Fordham reviewed Brad Mehldau’s new Beatles retrospective, Your Mother Should Know, in the Guardian (also mentioned in albums of the month are Christian McBride, Keith Tippett and Joelle Leandre) – read more

• Reservoir Media has acquired the publishing and recording rights of Sonny Rollins – read more

• Sebastian reviewed performances from Kit Downes, Jay Phelps, Elina Duni, and Rob Luft at the new Sparks & Visions Festival in Regensburg (in German) – read more

• …he also writes about Sam Slater, the Birmingham-based label boss at Stoney Lane (in German) – read more

• Composer/arranger Maria Schneider discusses her collaborations with David Bowie in the San Diego Union-Tribune – read more

• Congratulations Camilla George – winner of Best Jazz Act at the Urban Music Awards – read more

• The New York Times previewed an upcoming performance of Dave Brubeck’s 1969 choral work, “The Gates of Justice”, featuring all three of his sons (£) – read more

• …also in the NY Times, Christian McBride discusses his upcoming album and turning 50 (£) – read more
• The Guardian reviewed Terence Blanchard – read more

• ThisIDig.com counts down the 20 best jazz albums released on Atlantic Records – read more

• “Got the Keys to the Kingdom captures Chris Potter’s warm intensity”: Chris Potter’s latest album was reviewed in the Financial Times (£) – read more

• The reissue of Irish guitarist Louis Stewart’s album, Out on His Own, was previewed in the Irish Times – read more

• JazzHalo has an interview with drummer Sebastian Rochford (in German) – read more

• Bebop Spoken Here has announced the programme for this year’s Manchester Jazz Festival including Eliades Ochoa (scroll down) – read more

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

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 – Lunchtime – Mike Austin plus Sarah Jane Hassall are at The City Wall in Rochester High St

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Sunday 5 March – The South London Jazz Orchestra are at Toulouse Lautrec in the afternoon as part of International Women’s Day
Sunday 5 March – Esther Bennett with the Ed Bentley Organ Trio are at The Bohemia ,762-764 High Road North Finchley London N12 9QH
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
Monday 6 March – Sean Gibbs Quintet are at Jazz at the Oxfords temporary venue at the Assembly House, KentishTown
Tuesday 7 March – Magpie Trio ft George 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 – Midivent are putting on a gig in celebration of International Women’s Day at the Canal Bar in Camden ft Lois Levin and Natasha Boon
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 – Rafe’s Dilemma are the Vortex
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 – Tara Cunningham is at the Vortex
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 – At the Vortex Fini Bearman , Brigitte Beraha and Sara Colman celebrate International Women’s Day with a late night from Marble Sun
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 – Eddie Gripper has an album launch at Kings Road Yard in Cardiff
Friday 10 March – Imperial College Big Band are at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 10 March – Betty Accorsi Quartet are at the Crypt in Camberwell
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 – Dunajska Kapelye are at the Vortex
Saturday 11 March – Burrough Jazz have the Rob Barrron Trio at St Mary’s Burrough on the Hill LE14 2JQ
Saturday 11 March – Mornington Lockett and Henry Lowther are at the 606
Saturday 11 March – Alex Bonnet , Olie Brice , George Crowley and Will Glaser are at the Finch Cafe 12 Sidworth St E8 3SD
Sunday 12 March – lunchtime – Mike Westbrook is doing a solo show at Dean St Pizza Express
Sunday 12 March – lunchtime – Geoff Mason Quintet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 12 March – Lunchtime – Vasilis Xenopoulos Quartet are at The City Wall in Rochester High St
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 – The vortex have the London Jazz Orchestra in the afternoon and the Vortex Jam in the evening
Sunday 12 March – Rob Luft Quartet, featuring Joe Wright, Tom McCredie, Jay Davis are Off the Rails, Richmond TW9 2NQ
Sunday 12 March – Mary Pearce is at the 606

Sunday 12 March – Filthy jazz & blues songs and rude jokes from the 1920s-40s sung by Suzanne Noble with George Webster and Lana-May at Phoenix Arts Club, One Phoenix Street, London, WC2H 8BU
Monday 13 March – Raible/Gardischnig Quintet play Elmo Hope at Jazz at the Oxfords temporary venue at the Assembly House, KentishTown
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
Wednesday 15 March – At the Vortex WIllCleasby Trio with Will Barry and Will Sach
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 – George Crowley , Ruth Goller and Will Glaser are at the Vortex
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 – ARQ – the Alison Rayner Quintet are at Piano Smithfield
Friday 17 March – David Ijaduola steel pan Lucumi Project is at the Vortex
Friday 17 March – Horace Silver Project at Chichester Jazz Club – The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, PO19 1SY.
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 – Colin Webster , Dirk Serries and Andrew Lisle are at the Finch Cafe 12 Sidworth St E8 3SD
Saturday 18 March – Rachel Sutton 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 – lunchtime – Simon Spillett All Star Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 19 March – Lunchtime – Nigel Price Quartet are at The City Wall in Rochester High St
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
Monday 20 March – Heidi Vogel , Ivo Neame , Larry Bartley and Jason Brown are at Jazz at the Oxfords temporary venue at the Assembly House, KentishTown
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 – German Jazz Prize-winner Magro at Woolwich Works
Thursday 23 March – Sue Greenway and Mike Wills both on reeds are at Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 23 March – Deirdre Cartwright / John Etheridge Two for the Road Upstairs at Ronnie Scotts
Friday 24 March – Nigel Price & Alban Claret – album launch at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 24 March – Sarah Jane Morris and the Solis String Quartet perform Songs of the Beatles at St Matthias Church, Stoke Newington
Friday 24 March – Tom Sochas, Thodoris Ziarkas and Filippo Galli at Woolwich Works
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 – lunchtime – Renato D’Aiello Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 26 March – Lunchtime – Dave Barry Quartet ft Art Themen are at The City Wall in Rochester High St
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
Monday 27 March – Alex Western-King is at Jazz at the Oxfords temporary venue at the Assembly House, KentishTown
Tuesday 28 March – Alan Barnes / David Newton Duo are 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
Saturday 1 April – Joanna Eden celebrate Ella Fitzgerald at Saffron Hall , Saffron Walden
Sunday 2 April – lunchtime – Nicolas Meier Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 2 April – Lunchtime – Simon Spillett Quartet are at The City Wall in Rochester High St
Tuesday 4 April – Alina Bzhezhinska Quartet is with Tony Kofi at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Thursday 6 April – Byron Wallen Quartet with Dan Kempshall (gtr), Menelick Claffey and Dave Ohm. are at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, Eltham, SE9 2 PE
Friday 14 April – Roger Beaujolais Quartet at Chichester Jazz Club – The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, PO19 1SY.
Thursday 20 April – Alan Barnes Quartet with John Horler, Andy Cleyndert and Dave Ohm are at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, Eltham, SE9 2 PE

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

Thursday 2 March – Mark Lockheart’s Dreamers are livestreaming from the SoundCellar in Poole – https://soundcellar.org/events/
Thursday 2 March – James Carter celebrates Eddie Lockjaw Davis at Birdland https://flymachine.com/events/1947451616
Friday 3 March – Renee Rosnes Quintet are streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Sunday 5 March – Ravi Coltrane Trio are streaming from Keystone Korner in Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Sunday 5 March – Craig Taborn / Tomeka Reid / Ches Smith are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Thursday 9 March – Dave Holland Trio w/ Kevin Eubanks & Eric Harland (USA) are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Sunday 12 March – Chris Potter Quartet are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Sunday 12 March – Renee Rosnes is streaming from Keystone Korner in Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Saturday 18 March – Mary Halvorson Amaryllis Sextet are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming

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
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/