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“Over 1 in 4 UK Musicians Skip Meals Due to Cost of Living Crisis” [Survey] (image above from Encore Musicians) – read more

Ian Maund of Sandy Brown Jazz has just put together a list of 29 UK Jazz Festivals which he hopes is complete – read list

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Christian McBride looks back at the music of Wayne Shorter for NPR – listen

“I think the only way to learn is to be obsessed”: Norma Winstone was interviewed in Psychedelic Baby Magazine – read more

Richard Williams writes about an exhibition in the Musée Picasso devoted to Picasso paintings from the 1950s that is paired with Thelonious Monk’s album Thelonious Himself – read more

Nikki Iles (above) in her role as composer in residence (and conducting) the NDR Big Band – watch the second video/ commentary in English

Nate Chinen highlights alto saxophonist Tim Berne – read more

Wulf Muller remembers Wayne Shorter – read more

Rob Adams previewed Jazz sous les Pommiers in Normandy – read more

George Melly wrote the Guardian’s obituary for political cartoonist and jazz clarinettist Wally Fawkes – read more

Jazz FM 91 has all the jazz winners at the Canadian Juno awards, including Florian Hoefner – read more

Drummer Rodney Green has opened a new jazz dinner club in New Jersey – read more

Chris May reviewed (and liked) Sultan Stevenson’s debut album Faithful One – read more

South African percussionist & poet Eugene Skeef is joining the faculty at Guildhall School of Music – read more

Here is the official list of winners at the French Academie du Jazz – read more

…where the big prize went to Leila Olivesi (above) – read more in French

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

Wednesday 15 March – Ruben Fox is at the 606
Wednesday 15 March – At the Vortex WIll Cleasby 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 – Noah Stoneman Trio are at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 16 March – Cuban-born Jazz/Latin singer Elsa Valle & her band is at the 606
Thursday 16 March – Cassius Cobbson is at 91 Brick Lane
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
Thursday 16 March – Gaz Hughes Trio are at Peggy Skylight’s in Nottingham
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 – The Banger Factory are at Guildford Jazz
Friday 17 March – David Ijaduola steel pan Lucumi Project is at the Vortex
Friday 17 March – Marko Punzi Quartet are at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Friday 17 March – Horace Silver Project at Chichester Jazz Club – The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, PO19 1SY.
Friday 17 March – The Art Themen Quartet are at the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head,, Barnes,
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 – Janette Mason’s New Acoustic Trio is at the Vortex
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 – The Decibelles with special guests Afternoon Delight play the Lunchtime Session in the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head,, Barnes, SW13
Sunday 19 March – Dameronia’s Legacy All-Stars will be performing at Ronnie Scott’s
Sunday 19 March – Jam session at the Vortex
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
Monday 20 March – bassist Phil Mulford’s ‘Thunderthumbs’-vocal-led funk/jazz & groove are at the 606
Monday 20 March – Tom Challenger / Alex Bonney / Mark Sanders are downstairs at the Vortex

Tuesday 21 March – Michael Becker is being celebrated by San Franciscan band Charged Particles with Tod Dickow their only London gig at East Side Jazz Club, Leytonstone, London
Tuesday 21 March – Marlow Jazz Club, Royal British Legion Hall SL7 1NT Simon Spillett and Bruce Adams
Tuesday 21 March – Julian Nicholas Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 21 March – Trichotomy are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 21 March – Lauren Lucille and all-star band Jo Caleb, Tony Kofi, Larry Bartley and Vince Dunn: Bossas, Ballads & Blues at the Pheasantry in Chelsea
Tuesday 21 March – Renato d’Aiello Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club, Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 21 March – The music of Art Blakey is being played at the Vortex
Tuesday 21 March – Pianist David Gordon & his Trio play music from his latest album “Pachyderm” at the 606
Tuesday 21 March – Leo Sidran (son of Ben) is at Crazy Coqs Brasserie Zedel
Wednesday 22 March – Saxophonist Tim Garland & pianist Jason Rebello play music from their new album ‘Life to Life’ at the 606
Wednesday 22 March – Shirley Smart Sextet are at the Vortex
Wednesday 22 March – Kurt Rosenwinkel is at the Jazz Cafe
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 – Dave Smith , Robin Ficker and Simon Jermyn are at the Vortex
Thursday 23 March – Trio Manouche are over at the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 23 March – Steve Waterman is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 23 March – Jazz FM award winner, drummer Jas Kayser & her Trio are at the 606
Thursday 23 March – Jakub Klimiuk Quintet are at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 23 March – Louise Balkwill is at Guildford Jazz
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 – Marcus Joseph is at the Vortex
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 – Groove/R&B with saxophonist Dave Lewis 1 UP ft. vocalist Lizzie Deane are at the 606
Friday 24 March – Tom Sochas, Thodoris Ziarkas and Filippo Galli at Woolwich Works

Friday 24 March – Shez Raja at Oliver’s Jazz Bar, Greenwich
Saturday 25 March – Norwegian band WAKO are at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 25 March – Listen! are putting on Dee Byrne’s Outlines at Unitarian Hall, Victoria Street, Cambridge CB1 1JW
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
Saturday 25 March – Aaron Liddard is at the Verdict Jazz Club Brighton
Saturday 25 March – Georgia Mancio Quartet are at the Vortex
Saturday 25 March – Swinging jazz featuring trumpeter James Davison with special guest Mark Nightingale, trombone at the 606
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 – Singer Noel McCalla & saxophonist Derek Nash present ‘The Wonder of Stevie’ at the 606
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 – RMQ feat. flautist Steve Rubie (Samara) & trombonist Geoff Mason (Ronnie Scott’s Big Band) are at the 606
Tuesday 28 March – Xosha Cole’s Rhythm-a-ting are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 28 March – Nighthawks with Matt Wates at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 29 March – Jazz & Latin music with pianist Neil Angilley (Down to the Bone) & his Trio at the 606
Wednesday 29 March – Elaine Delmar is in Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 29 March – Emilia Martesnsson is at the Vortex
Thursday 30 March – Sean Foran’s Trichotomy are at the Vortex
Thursday 30 March – The Fallen Heroes – swinging jazz, boogie and N Orleans R&B over at the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 30 March – Nigel Price is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 30 March – Tomorrow’s Warriors presents Mali Sheard Quintet at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
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
Friday 31 March – Roger Carey & John Harriman at the Bell at Iden, Rye TN31 7PU
Friday 31 March – Annie Whitehead Quartet are at the Vortex
Friday 31 March – Latin jazz quintet Samara ft vocalist Carolina Lelis are at the 606
Saturday 1 April – Lunchtime show at St John’s in Leytonstone with Matthew Bourne
Saturday 1 April – Gianluca De Martini Quartet are at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 1 April – Neal Richardson is in Seaford – The Old Plough, 20 Church St, BN25 1HG
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
Sunday 2 April – Lunchtime show at The Hot Tin in Faversham with Matthew Bourne

Monday 3 April – John Williamson Trio (Alex Hitchcock, Jay Davis) + Jonny Mansfield are at Jazz at the Oxford (now The Parakeet pub), Kentish Town
Tuesday 4 April – Alina Bzhezhinska Quartet is with Tony Kofi at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 4 April – Pete Neighbour Quartet is at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM144TJ
Wednesday 5 April – Frank Griffith Nonet are at Frederiks Bar. 32 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BX
Wednesday 5 April – Kate Williams Quartet pay tribute to Bill Evans and Emily Remler at Guildford Jazz
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
Thursday 6 April – Pete Whiiaker Quartet are at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 6 April – Pete Neighbour Quartet is at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 6 April – Bourbon & Blues – Easter Special featuring Canadian vocalist Dom Turner & Italian guitarist Giulio Romano’s atmospheric mix of swing jazz & blues with a touch of Motown over in the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 6 April – The Jazz Sanctuary have Mark Hurrell Quartet and John Williamson Trio (Alex Hitchcock, Jay Davis) 28 Winchester Rd, St Margarets, Twickenham TW1 1LF
Saturday 8 April – The Groove Warriors are over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head,, Barnes, SW13
Sunday 9 April – Deschanel Gordon Trio are at Off the Rails at One Kew Road, Richmond TW9 2NQ
Sunday 9 April – The Nantwich Jazz Festival has Frank Griffith Trio
Tuesday 11 April – Matt Ridley’s Antidote is at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 11 April – Dave O’Higgins Quartet is at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM144TJ
Wednesday 12 April – Neal Richardson Maximalist Album launch at Splash Point Jazz Club, The View, Southdown Rd Seaford BN25 4JS
Thursday 13 April – Shireen Francis & The Small Island Project integrate traditional jazz harmonies with the rhythms of the Caribbean over in the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 13 April – Simon Purcell Quartet are at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 13 April – Ted Beament Trio + Robert Fowler is at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 14 April – The Chris Ingham Quartet celebrate Dudley Moore at Cranleigh Arts Centre
Friday 14 April – Roger Beaujolais Quartet at Chichester Jazz Club – The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, PO19 1SY.
Sunday 16 April – The Julian Costello Quartet play the Lunchtime Session over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Tuesday 18 April – David Angol Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 18 April – Alex Garnett Quartet is at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM144TJ
Wednesday 19 April – Neal Richardson Maximalist are at Worthing Pavilion Lounge
Thursday 20 April – Noah Stoneman 6tet are at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
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
Thursday 20 April – “Piaf Remembered” with Oriana Curls over in the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Saturday 22 April 12 – 2pm at St Catherine’s, Pepys Road, SE14 5SG The Cautionary Tales – London Accordion Orchestra with Guildhall Saxophone Ensemble
Friday 21 April – Dave Jones’ 9- piece Nonet play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Friday 21 April – Moncado Trio are at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Tuesday 25 April – Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Thursday 27 April – Tomorrow’s Warriors presents Frontline at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 27 April – Hetty and the Jazzato Band are at the Pheasantry in Chelsea
Thursday 27 April – Syd Lawrence Orchestra is at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Saturday 29 April -2pm – Derek Nash/James Allsopp Quintet Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Sunday 30 April – Aaron Liddard is at the Ribble Valley Jazz Festival in Clitheroe

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

Thursday 16 March – Gunther ‘Baby’ Sommer is streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Friday 17 March – Jacky Terrasson is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Friday 17 March -Monty Alexander 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
Friday 24 March – Bobby Watson is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Thursday 30 March – Marius Neset is streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Friday 31 March – Stanley Clarke is streaming from Keystone Korner in Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar

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/
Join Oliver Weindling of the Vortex for a topical discussion on zoomevery Tuesday at 4.30 – https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/events/