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The public voting round for the 2023 Parliamentary Jazz Awards is open – read more

We have links to several tributes to Ahmed Jamal on our news item – read more

The Julian Siegel Quartet at Vortex was reviewed by Mike Hobart in the Financial Times – read more

The Pharoah Sanders Quartet’s posthumous release on Jazzline, Live at Fabrik, Hamburg: 1980, was reviewed by Keiron Tyler for ArtsDesk – read more

Reductive jazz stereotypes are go: “A supergroup of superstar jazz musicians might bring all sorts of supersized soloing to mind, but Dinner Party […] have a more egoless, less noodlesome ethos.” – maybe don’t bother to read more

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Neil Spencer reviewed Lonnie Liston Smith’s new album, JID017, in the Observer – read more

Chris May of AllAboutJazz reviewed Jazz in Britain’s release of the late drummer Trevor Tomkins’ Sextant: For Future Reference album – read more

…Also for AllAboutJazz, Chris May reviewed the new biography of the late composer and author Neil Ardley by his widow, Vivien, and Roger Farbey’s updated discography of trumpeter Ian Carr – read more

Trumpeter Dave Douglas will be featured with Trish Clowes’ My Iris at their upcoming 606 concert – read more

Chris Baber reviewed Keith and Julie Tippett’s Couple in Spirit: Sound on Stone for JazzViews – read more

Radio France has released unpublished concerts by Ahmad Jamal in Seattle from the mid-60s – read more

Plenty of tickets are STILL available for Fred Hersch’s upcoming concert at Wigmore Hall – read more

And thank you for GOOD news to Jazz a Juan (photo above from EJN).The festival is inviting bands to participate in a Jammin’ a Juan showcase. The conditions state that candidates “must live in a European country”… So we checked: Might that include the UK??? Here’s the answer “Yes, for us it’s still Europe…” – APPLY HERE!!!

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

Wednesday 19 April – Neal Richardson Maximalist are at Worthing Pavilion Lounge
Wednesday 19 April – Alex Western-King is at Ronnie Scotts Late Show
Wednesday 19 April – Heidi Vogel is at the Vortex
Thursday 20 April 12-2pm – Henry Lowther , Mike Gorman and Steve Watts are at the Clocktower Cafe 9 Katherine St , Croydon, CR9 1ET
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 – Roger Beaujolais is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN28AS
Thursday 20 April – Tom Ridout Quintet are at the Vortex
Thursday 20 April – The Vein Trio are at Cambridge Modern Jazz @ Gonville Hotel.
Thursday 20 April – “Piaf Remembered” with Oriana Curls over in the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 20 April – Mike Wills on reeds and Lester Brown on trumpet are at Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES.
Thursday 20 April – Judi Jackson is with Jamie Safir at The The Jazz Sanctuarty @ The Turks Head , Twickenham
Thursday 20 April – The Tristan Banks Quartet are at the Sound Cellar in Poole
Thursday 20 April – James Wade-Sired + Tom Sheen Trio are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Thursday 20 April – Zena James is at the Bull’s Head in Barnes
Friday 21 April – Leo Sidran is at Crazy Coqs / Brasserie Zedel
Friday 21 April – The Vortex have rebecka edlund, christos stylianides & olly chalk + Swiss skaterjazz trio UASSYN
Friday 21 April – Leo Sidran is at Crazy Coqs / Brasserie Zedel
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
Friday 21 April – Saxophonist Alec Harper (Kansas Smitty’s) & his 5tet play swinging hard-and-post bop at the 606
Friday 21 April – Betty Accorsi Quartet are at Cafe Posk
Friday 21 April – Dave Lewis is at Guildford Jazz
Friday 21 April – Yessaï Karapetian is at Ronnie Scott’s
Friday 21 April – Susana Baca is at the Jazz Cafe
Saturday 22 April 12 – 2pm at St Catherine’s, Pepys Road, SE14 5SG The Cautionary Tales – London Accordion Orchestra with Guildhall Saxophone Ensemble
Saturday 22 April – New York City based vibraphonist & composer Simon Moullier is at the Vortex
Saturday 22 April – Alex Wilson and Omar Puente are at Ronnie Scotts
Saturday 22 April – Saxophonist Dave O’Higgins, pianist Graham Harvey & their quartet ar at the 606
Saturday 22 April – Yolanda Charles’ Project PH Instra-Mentals are at the SoundCellar in Poole
Saturday 22 April – Roger Carey & John Harriman at the Bell at Iden, Rye TN31 7PUPic of Andrea Superstein
Saturday 22 April – Andrea Superstein is at Jazz Cafe Posk
Sunday 23 April – lunchtime -Alan Barnes Quartet are at The City Wall, Rochester High Street
Sunday 23 April lunchtime – Just East featuring Jeremy Shoham is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 23 April lunchtime at the 606 singer/pianist Eriko Ishihara in the evening The Wonder of Stevie ft. vocalist Noel McCalla & saxophonist Derek Nash
Sunday 23 April lunchtime Melbury Music and Poco Loco the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Monday 24 April – Immy Churchill is at Jazz at the Oxford (now The Parakeet pub), Kentish Town
Monday 24 April – Sean Fyfe is at Pizza Express Soho
Monday 24 April – Shirley Smart and Robert Mitchell are at Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre
Monday 24 April – Nina Kristofferson’s ‘Timeless’ at The Pheasantry
Monday 24 April – Paula Rae Gibson is at the Pizza Express
Monday 24 April – Martin Speake / Alcyona Mick Quartet are at the Vortex

Tuesday 25 April – Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 25 April – Martin Speake Quartet are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 25 April – Chris Coull Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 25 April – Mainstream jazz singer/trumpet player Freddie Benedict & his band make their 606 debut
Tuesday 25 April – Tristan Banks is at Pizza Express Jazz Club with an album launch
Wednesday 26 April – Guitarist John Etheridge (Soft Machine) & his Blue Spirits Organ Trio are at the 606
Wednesday 26 April – Xhosa Cole is at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 26 April – Gabriel Latchin Viewpoint album launch is at Pizza Express Jazz Club
Wednesday 26 April – Karin Saber Quintet are at the Vortex
Thursday 27 April 12-2pm – Julian Costello , David Beebee and Andy Hamill are at the Clocktower Cafe 9 Katherine St , Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 27 April – Plumm are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Thursday 27 April – Vasilis Xenopoulos is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN28AS
Thursday 27 April – Matt Carmichael , Rob Luft , Noah Stoneman , Corrie Dick and Steve Watts are at the Vortex
Thursday 27 April – Fiona Ross is at the Pizza Express Jazz Club
Thursday 27 – 30 April – Jazzahead festival
Thursday 27 April – Tomorrow’s Warriors presents Frontline at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 27 April – Zoot Money is at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Thursday 27 April – Czech pianist Emil Viklicky ft. saxophonist Julian Nicholas & vocalist Imogen Ryall are at the 606
Thursday 27 April – Alexander Bryson Trio is at Toulouse Lautrec
Thursday 27 April – Ian Smith on trumpet and Ollie Wilby on sax are at Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 27 April – Karen Sharp is at St Nicholas Methodist Church, Fore Street, Topsham, EX3 0HQ
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
Thursday 28 April – Fiona Ross THOUGHTS, CONVERSATIONS AND TO DO LISTS ALBUM LAUNCH! – PIZZA EXPRESS SOHO
Friday 28 April – HIS’N’HERS Quintet feat. Judith O’Higgins (tenor sax) & Dave O’Higgins (tenor sax) are at Jazz Cafe Posk
Friday 28 April – Jazz At The Tree – ‘Monk & Motian’ with Philippe Guyard, David Beebee, Marianne Windham & Martin Pyne. The Talking Tree, Staines upon Thames
Friday 28 April – at the 606 Latin/jazz quintet Samara feat. Carolina Lelis-vocals and Steve Rubie- sax/flute
Friday 28 April – The Brigitte Beraha trio with Matt Robinson and Iain Ballamy plus Robert Mitchell are at Morley College
Friday 28 April – The LP Swing Orchestra are at Trinity Concert Hall in Croydon
Friday 28 April – David Preston’s Purple/ Black tour with Kit Downes , Seb Rochford and Kevin Glasgow are at the Hot Tin in Faversham
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
Saturday 29 April- 2.30pm Basil Hodge Quintet ft Tony Kofi at the National Jazz Archive at Loughton Methodist Church IG10 1TB
Saturday 29 April – Scottish Drum hero Corrie Dick performs his new album ‘Sun Swells’ at Edibles, Marsden
Saturday 29 April – At Jazz Cafe Posk its Alle Choir London & Nordic Blue (Norway): A Night of A Capella Jazz!
Saturday 29 April – The Philip Clouts Quartet is at Burrough Jazz in Twyford Village Hall , LE14 2HU
Saturday 29 April – Drummer Clark Tracey and special guest, pianist Dominic Galea featuring Alan Barnes, sax & Mark Nightingale, trombone are at the 606

Saturday 29 April – David Preston’s Purple/ Black tour with Kit Downes , Seb Rochford and Kevin Glasgow are at the Vortex
Sunday 30 April lunchtime – Sam Dunn Quartet featuring Dave O’Higgins is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 30 April Lunch at the 606 an International Jazz Day Brunch special with Shireen Francis’s Small Island Project (vocal-led Jazz/Caribbean quintet)
Sunday 30 April – and in the evening at the 606 R&B/Soul singer/keyboardist Tony O’Malley (Kokomo) & his band
Sunday 30 April – Billie Bottle’s Temple of Shibboleth are at The Space, Isle of Dogs, as part of the Mending Tour
Sunday 30 April 2.30 – Christian Garrick and Dave gordon at Cafe Yukari Kew
Sunday 30 April – Jazz On The Plaza – Celebrating International Jazz Day with Steve Waterman, Terence Collie & Marianne Windham. Café Yukari, Kew.
Sunday 30 April – David Preston’s Purple/ Black tour with Kit Downes , Seb Rochford and Kevin Glasgow are at Twenty One Southend
Sunday 30 April – Aaron Liddard is at the Ribble Valley Jazz Festival in Clitheroe
Sunday 30 April – Scottish Drum hero Corrie Dick performs his new album ‘Sun Swells’ at Seven Arts, Leeds
Sunday 30 April -The Filthy Six are at The Turks Head Twickenham TW1 1LF
Monday 1 May – At the 606 an atmospheric mix of jazz, soul and groove with singer/songwriter Natalie Duncan
Monday 1 May – David Preston’s Purple/ Black tour with Kit Downes , Seb Rochford and Kevin Glasgow are at Stapleford Granary , Cambridge
Tuesday 2 May – David Preston’s Purple/ Black tour with Kit Downes , Seb Rochford and Kevin Glasgow are at Rose Hill Brighton
Tuesday 2 May – Mighty Like the Blues ft Jim Mullen , Sam Braysher , Pete Horsfall , Mike Gorman , and Shane Forbes is at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 2 May – Scottish Drum hero Corrie Dick performs his new album ‘Sun Swells’ at The Spotted Dog, Birmingham
Tuesday 2 May – Italian jazz vocalist Marta Capponi previews new music from her upcoming record ‘Shaking the Blue at the 606
Tuesday 2 May – Georgia Mancio, Kate Williams, Julie Walkington and Dave Ohm are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 3 May – Scottish Drum hero Corrie Dick performs his new album ‘Sun Swells’ at The Lescar, Sheffield
Wednesday 3 May – Laura Lantano has an album launch at 1901 Arts Club
Wednesday 3 May -Dave Storey Trio ft James Allsopp and Conor Chaplin are at the Vortex
Wednesday 3 May – At the 606 new music from French jazz vocalist & songwriter Mina Agossi & her Trio ft. Eric Jacot & Marc Charrière (Peter Gabriel)
Thursday 4 May 12-2pm – Geoff Mason , John Horler and Tim Wells are at the Clocktower Cafe 9 Katherine St , Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 4 May – Mark Crooks/Pete Whittaker Quartet are at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Bexley Toad, SE9 2PE
Thursday 4 May – Italian jazz pianist Marco Marconi ft. award-winning young saxophonist Emma Rawicz at the 606
Thursday 4 May – Matt Wates, Leon Greening, Julian Bury and Matt Skelton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 4 May – Catherine Lima is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 4 May – Alum Nathoo and Frank Walden both on reeds are at he Hedsor Jazz club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 4 May – Wilf Diamond Quartet & ramnastax are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Thursday 4 May – The Helen Theophanous Quintet “Embraceable Ella” are in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 4 May – Scottish Drum hero Corrie Dick performs his new album ‘Sun Swells’ at Capstone Theatre, Liverpool
Friday 5 May – John Crawford Latin Quintet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant Chichester, PO19 1SY
Friday 5 May – The Groove Warriors play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Saturday 6 May – Rising star, jazz sax player Ruben Fox & his quartet are at the 606
Saturday 6 May – Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’ with the Alex Webb trio are at the Bear Club in Luton
Sunday 7 May lunchtime – Sammy Mayne Quartet is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 7 May – lunchtime -Phil Brown Quartet are at The City Wall, Rochester High Street
Sunday 7 May – There is a Festival of Percussion at the Royal College of Music
Sunday 7 May – Hannah Horton Quartet are at The The Jazz Sanctuarty @ The Turks Head , Twickenham
Sunday 7 May – The 606 have Iconic blues vocalist Dana Gillespie & the London Blues Band
Sunday 7 May – The Filthy Six are at The Pelton Arms in Greenwich SE10 9PQ
Sunday 7 May – JT4tet + Nazarene Upstairs at Ronnie Scott’s in Frith Street
Tuesday 9 May – Steve Waterman’s Latin Jazz Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 9 May – Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 9 May – Marks Crooks, Pete Whitaker, Colin Oxley and Matt Fishwick are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 9 May – Jazz saxophonist Dan Reinstein & his Quintet is at the 606
Wednesday 10 May – Alex Clarke is with the Neal Richardson Trio at Seaford – Splash Point Jazz Club, The View, Southdown Rd BN25 4JS
Wednesday 10 May – Italian jazz/neo soul vocalist Francesca Confortini & her band is at the 606
Thursday 11 May 12-2pm – Mark Aston , Dave Chamberlain , Andrew Cleyndert and Rod Brown are at the Clocktower Cafe 9 Katherine St , Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 11 May – Alex Garnett, John Pearce, Paul Morgan and Alfonso Vitale are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 11 May – Julian Stringle is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 11 May – Hungarian pianist Janos Egri Jnr & his quartet ft. saxophonist Julian Siegel are at the 606
Thursday 11 May –Ashaine White is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 12 May – Scottish Drum hero Corrie Dick performs his new album ‘Sun Swells’ at The Verdict, Brighton
Friday 12 May – Robbie Robson Quintet are at Morley College
Friday 12 May – Award-winning straight-ahead sax player Karen Sharp featuring saxophonist Andy Schofield are at the 606

Saturday 13 May – Scottish Drum hero Corrie Dick performs his new album ‘Sun Swells’ at Unitarian Hall, Cambridge
Saturday 13 May – Ruth Fisher’s Prosecco Jazz Brunch featuring John Altman
Saturday 13 May – Brandon Allen Quartet are at the 606
Sunday 14 May lunchtime – John Donaldson Quartet is at The City Wall, Rochester High Street
Sunday 14 May lunchtime – Fraser Smith Quartet is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 14th May – Riverside Arts Jazz with Alex Clarke, Alan Barnes, Terence Collie, Stuart Barker & Clark Tracey. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury on Thames.
Monday 15 May – Mick Foster/ Karen Sharp Quintet is at Bexley Jazz Club, Bexley Village, DA5 1AA
Tuesday 16 May – Rick Simpson /Riley Stone-Lonergan Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 16 May – Ray Gelato and Enric Peidro and The Richard Busiakiewicz Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 17 May – Acoustic Triangle are at Guildford Jazz
Wednesday 17 May – Guildhall Big Band play Harlem Renaissanceat Milton Court
Wednesday 17 May – Bassist Phil Mulford & his 14-piece band jazz/groove band Thunderthumbs are at the 606
Thursday 18 May 12-2pm – Simon Spillett , Sam Dunne and Alec Dankworth are at the Clocktower Cafe 9 Katherine St , Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 18 May- Dubbed the ‘Godfather of Swing’ vocalist & sax player Ray Gelato with special guest, Spanish saxophonist Enric Peirdro are at the 606
Thursday 18 May – The Jo Harrop Trio celebrate the Billie Holiday Songbook with Alex Hutton. pno & Brandon Allen, sax over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Friday 19 May – The Art Themen Quartet play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Friday 19 May – Emma Rawicz Jazz Orchestra is at Pizza Express Soho
Friday 19 May – Bruce Adams & Alan Barnes are at the 606
Saturday 20 May – UK modern jazz legends, saxophonist Mornington Lockett & trumpeter Henry Lowther are at the 606
Sunday 21 May lunchtime – Dave Barry Quartet featuring Tim Whitehead is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 21 May – Big Swing Band play the Lunchtime Session over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Sunday 21 May lunchtime – James Allsopp Quartet is at The City Wall, Rochester High Street
Sunday 21 May- Australian singer/pianist Frances Madden & the UK launch of her album, ‘Beautiful World’ is at the 606
Sunday 21 May – The Filthy Six are at East Dulwich Tavern SE22 8EW
Tuesday 23 May – John Horler Trios ‘A Tribute to Bil Evans’ is at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 23 May – Tineke Postma’s ‘Aria’ is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 23 May – Ted Beament, Robert Fowler, Rod Brown are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 24 May – Lulu Pierre is with Tony Kofi and Alex Webb at The Cabbage Patch, 67 London Road, Twickenham TW1 3SZ
Wednesday 24 May – Neal Richardson’s Maximalist Band is at St Martin’s in the Field Crypt
Thursday 25 May 12-2pm – Tony Kofi , Larry Bartley and Rod Youngs are at the Clocktower Cafe 9 Katherine St , Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 25 May – Momentum – eclectic 6-piece jazz fusion ensemble over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 25 May – Georgia Mancio, Gareth Lochrane, Andy Cleyndert and Dave Ohm are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 26 May – Unknown to Known are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 26 May – Thane and the Villeins at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant Chichester, PO19 1SY
Friday 26 May – Jazz At The Tree Vocal Night with Janet McCunn, Diane Slater, Laraine Phillips, Terence Collie & Nick Lerner-Webster. The Talking Tree, Staines.
Saturday 27 May 2pm – Mark Crooks, John Pearce, Simon Thorpe and Matt Fishwick are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, SS2 6EX2
Saturday 27 May – Byron Wallen & Nick Ramm are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 27 May – Elaine Hallam Trio “Jazzish” play the Jazz Room over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Sunday 28 May lunchtime – Art Themen All Stars Quintet are is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 28 May lunchtime -Richard Rozze/Gary Baldwin Trio is at The City Wall, Rochester High Street
Monday 29 May lunchtime – Nigel Price Organ Trio is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Tuesday 30 May – Adam Glasser’s South African Sextet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 30 May – Duncan Eagles Quartet is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Wednesday 31 May – Alison Rayner Quintet are at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Sunday 4 June lunchtime – Tony Woods Project is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Friday 9 June – Josephine Davies and Elliott Galvin plus Tom Cawlley and Fini Bearman are at Morley College
Monday 12 June – Noga Ritter is at the Forge in Camden
7 – 9 July – Swanage Jazz Festival

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

Thursday 20 April – The Tristan Banks Quartet are streaming from the Sound Cellar in Poole https://soundcellar.org/event/livestream-the-tristan-banks-quartet/
Friday 21 April – Wayne Escoffery is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Saturday 22 April – Yolanda Charles’ Project PH Instra-Mentals are streaming from the SoundCellar in Poole https://soundcellar.org/event/livestream-yolanda-charles-project-ph-instra-mentals/
Sunday 23 April – Lucian Ban , Mat Maneri and John Surman are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Monday 24 April – Richard Jones Trio are streaming from NQ Jazz in Manchester https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on/richardjones

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.
Every second Sunday of each month at 1.30pm Equinox are at Map Studio in Kentish Town

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

Nigel Williams on JazzFM has Lois Levin on 27 April
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 zoom every Tuesday at 4.30 – https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/events/

5) Courses etc

Grand Union Orchestra are after singers this May . Check it out https://www.grandunion.org.uk/if-music-could

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