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The Jerusalem post had a feature on drummer Anne Paceo – read more

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Nicky Schrire discusses her upcoming album on The Jazz Session with Jason Crane – listen

Neil Spencer reviewed the Joshua Jaswon Octet’s new release on Ubuntu, Polar Waters, in the Observer – read more

Samara Joy was interviewed by NPR’s Fresh Air podcast – read more

Tony Benjamin reviewed the 2023 Bristol Jazz Festival for B24/7 – read more

AJ Dehany wrote about trumpeters in Manchester for Jazzwise – contains “morphogenics” – read more

“Get ready to pay more for music.” (Ted Gioia) – read more

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

Wednesday 31 May – Alison Rayner Quintet are at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 31 May – the 606 debut of Italian jazz vocalist Francesca Mondi & her quartet ft. pianist Chris Bland

Wednesday 31 May – Rachael Cohen is at the Vortex
Thursday 1 June – 12-2pm – Louise Messenger (vocals), Liam Donnique (piano), Simon Read (bass) are at roydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 1 June – Anita Wardell Quartet are at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, SE9 2PE
Thursday 1 June – Young Lions and Old Tigers with Derek Nash, James Alsopp, Gunther Kurmayr, Rob Rickenberg and Pete Cater are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 1 June – a rare UK performance by Australian singer Victoria Newton at the 606
Thursday 1 June- Steve Fishwick Quartet are at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 1 June- Jake McMurchie is at St Nicholas Methodist Church, Fore Street, Topsham, EX3 0HQ
Thursday 1 June -Collette Cooper is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 1 June – World Music Big Band is at the Vortex
Thursday 1 June -James Kitchman Quartet are at Royal Albert Hall (Elgar Room)
Thursday 1 June – Ilario Ferrariis at Kings Place
Thursday 1 June – Bruce Adams is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 1 June – Ian Smith on trumpet and Denny Ilot on guitar are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Friday 2 june – Bruno Heinen & James Kitchman have an album launch at Kings Place (Hall 2)
Friday 2 June- The Fraser Smith Quinted is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Friday 2 June- Julie Campiche Quartet is at World Heart Beat
Friday 2 June- Sean Gibbs Big Band are at the Vortex
Friday 2 June- Sarah Tandy is at Ronnie Scotts
Saturday 3 June – 2x BBC Jazz Musician of the Year finalist, Saxophonist Tom Smith joins acclaimed up-and-coming trumpeter Tom Syson playing the music of Cannonball Adderley at the 606
Saturday 3 June – Andrew Bain’s Mosvatnet tf Angelica Sanchez is at the Vortex
Saturday 3 June- Catherina Lima is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Saturday 3 June – The Simon Spillett Quartet Play Tubby Hayes over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Saturday 3 June – Jump 66 Retro Swing & Rhythm & Blues 6-piece play the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV W4
Saturday 3 June- Angela Verbrugge is at the Pizza Express with the Ray Gallon Trio
Saturday 3 June- Andrew McCormack Trio are at Ronnie Scotts
Sunday 4 June lunchtime – Tony Woods Project is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 4 June lunchtime – jazz standards with singer Zoe Francis and her quartet ft. guitarist Jim Mullen at the 606
Sunday 4 June: Riverside Arts Jazz feat. Roger Beaujolais with Terence Collie, Matias Hofecker and Alfonso Vitale. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury
Sunday 4 June- Angela Verbrugge is at the Pizza Express with the Ray Gallon Trio
Sunday 4 June – Phelan Burgoyne Trio is at the Vortex in the afternoon , jam in the evening
Sunday 4 June evening -BBC & Parliamentary Jazz Award-winning vocalist Ian Shaw is at the 606
Sunday 4 June – James Kitchman Quartet are at Jazz Sanctuary
Sunday 4 June – The LP Swing Orchestra are at The Churchill Theatre, Bromley, BR1 1HA
Monday 5 June – at the 606 Australian R&B, funk & blues keyboardist Clayton Doley (Ian Moss, Steve Cropper, Jimmy Barnes) makes a one-off London appearance with Australian jazz & soul vocalist Lily Dior ft. Brandon Allen
Monday 5 June – New venue at The Fox , 413 Green Lanes N13 4JD with Byron Wallen ahouse band of Simon Purcell , Amy Baldwin , Jon Scott/Mark Taylor

Tuesday 6 June -Dave O’Higgins / Rob Luft Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 6 June – Matt Wates, Leon Greening, Julian Bury and Matt Skelton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 6 June – John Horler Trio: A tribute to Bill Evans are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 6 June – Geoff Simkins Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 7 June-Emma Rawicz is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Wednesday 7 June – Loz Speyer’s Time Zone is at the Vortex
Wednesday 7 June – Tristan are at Pizza Express Holborn
Wednesday 7 June – Jonathan Gee / Gaetano Partipilo Quartet are at Jazz 825 in the Royal Hotel in Southend
Wednesday 7 June – Award-winning saxophonist Mark Lockheart (Loose Tubes, Polar Bear) & his Quartet ft. pianist Liam Noble are at the 606
Thursday 8 June – 12-2pm – Al Nichols (tenor), Andrew Clancy (keyboard), Pete Clancy (bass), David Clancy (drums) are at C roydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 8 June – Mark Crooks, Matyas Gayer, Dave Chamberlain and Matt Home are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 8 June – In All Languages: The Music of Ornette Coleman by Martin Speake Quartet are at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 8 June – Frances Thomson & Fascinating Rhythm showcase the Great American Songbook over in the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV W4
Thursday 8 June – Mike Piggott is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 8 June – Percussionist Adriano Adewale & his band play music inspired by the classic Afro-Brazilian traditions of his native Brazil are at the 606
Thursday 8 June – Pete Case & Friends feat Jason Rebello & The Stacey Bros are at SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 8 June – Jonathan Gee / Gaetano Partipilo Quartet are at the Spin Club , Oxford
Thursday 8 June – Stuart Henderson on trumpet and Jonathan Lewis on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES.
Thursday 8 – 9 June – Perico Sambeat Quartet featuring Danny Grisset are at Pizza Express , Soho
Friday 9 June – Josephine Davies and Elliott Galvin plus Tom Cawley and Fini Bearman are at Morley College
Friday 9 June – Fergus McCreadie Trio are at the Lighthouse in Poole
Friday 9 June – Hannah Horton / Tony Kofi Quintet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant Chichester, PO19 1SY
Friday 9 June – The Groove Warriors play the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Friday 9 June – Binker Golding is at Guildford Jazz
Saturday 10 June – Tristan are at the Verdict in Brighton
Saturday 10 June-Polly Gibbons is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Saturday 10 June – Trumpeter James Davison & trombonist Callum Au’s ‘Quintet-a-Tete’ play swinging jazz standards are at the 606
Saturday 10 June – Jonathan Gee / Gaetano Partipilo Duo are at Plaquemine Lock, Islington for their jazz brunch
Sunday 11 June- Lunchtime – Paul Higgs Quartet are at The City Wall in Rochester
Sunday 11 June lunchtime – ACY Trio are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 11 June – Jonathan Gee / Gaetano Partipilo Quartet are at Ye Olde Cherry Tree, Southgate
Sunday 11 June – Sam Kelly’s Station House play the Lunchtime Session over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Monday 12 June – Mike Westbrook and the Uncommon Orchestra – Rossini Re-Loaded is at Ronnie Scotts
Monday 12 June-Barb Jungr is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Monday 12 June – Noga Ritter is at the Forge in Camden
Monday 12 June – Icelandic pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs is Upstairs at Ronnies with her trio
Tuesday 13 June -Basil Hodge Quartet ft Riley Stone-Lonergan are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 13 June – Young Lions and Old Tigers with Derek Nash, James Alsopp, Nick Weldon, Rob Rickenberg and Pete Cater are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 13 June – Mike Westbrook and the Uncommon Orchestra – Rossini Re-Loaded is at Ronnie Scotts
Tuesday 13 June – Lawrence Jones Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 13 June – Anthony Kerr / Sammy Mayne Quintet. Marlow Jazz Club, Royal British Legion Hall SL7 1NT​
Thursday15 June – 12-2pm – Terence Collie (keyboard), Duncan Eagles (tenor) , Jakub Cywinski (bass) are at roydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday15 June – Papa George & Alan Glen’s semi-acoustic Blues Showcase over in the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV W4
Thursday 15 June – Noah Stoneman is at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 15 June – Dave O’Higgins/Rob Luft Quartet are at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, SE9 2PE
Thursday 15 June- Digby Fairweather is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 15 June- Gary Crosby Quartet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Sunday 18 June- Lunchtime – Nigel Price Quartet are at The City Wall in Rochester
Sunday 18 June lunchtime – Basil Hodge Quartet ft Ed Jones are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Monday 19 June – Nikki Yeoh is at Ronnie Scotts
Monday 19 June – New venue at The Fox , 413 Green Lanes N13 4JD with Anita Wardell a house band of Simon Purcell , Amy Baldwin , Jon Scott/Mark Taylor
Monday 19 June – Dave Lewis Quartet are at Bexley Jazz Club, The King’s Head, Bexley Village
Tuesday 20 June -Duncan Eagles Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 20 June – Rory Ingham’s Trombone Assembly are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 20 June – Alan Barnes, John Pearce, Paul Morgan and Matt Home are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 20 June – Andy Williams Trio at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 21 June- Jazz Dynamos are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 22 June – 12-2pm – Alex Garnett (alto), Simon Woolf (bass), Fraser Urquhart (keyboard) are at roydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 22 June – Pete Long is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 22 June – The Lily Dior Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 22 June – Henry Lowther’s Still Waters are at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 22 June – The Katriona Taylor Trio present “An Evening of Jazz & Soul Divas” over in the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV W4
Thursday 22 June – Jazz Jamaica All Stars are at the Southbank Centre on Windrush Day
Thursday 22 – Sunday 25 June – Festival at The Naturist Foundation, Brocken Hurst Sheepcote Lane, Orpington, BR5 4ET
Friday 23 June – Jonathan Gee , Adam Glasser and Andy Hammill are at the Verdict in Brighton
Friday 23 June – Emma Rawicz Quintet are at the Lighthouse in Poole
Friday 23 June – Re-Birth Octet with Andy Panayi and Chris Coull at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant Chichester, PO19 1SY
Friday 23 June – Wang/Luft/Falt Trio – Closeness are at the Vortex
Friday 23 June- Kathy Kosins is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Saturday 24 June 2pm – Alan Barnes and James Davison with Trevor Brown, Simon Thorpe and Bobby Worth are at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 24 June- The Errol Linton Quintet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Sunday 25 June- Lunchtime – Jacob Wilson Quintet are at The City Wall in Rochester
Sunday 25 June lunchtime – Atlanticus are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 25 June – King Candy’s Great Eastern at Paper Moon (with dance floor) Hargrave Hall, Archway N19 5SP.
Sunday 25 June: Jazz On The Plaza feat. Art Themen with Terence Collie and Richard Sadler. Cafe Yukari, Kew
Sunday 25 June – Saxtivity (sax quartet ft Frank Griffith) have an album launch at Ullet Road Unitarian Church. 57 Ullet Road, Liverpool, L17 2AA
Tuesday 27 June -QOW Trio ft Riley Stone-Lonergan are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 27 June – Kate Williams Quartet featuring Mike Outram are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 27 June – Dave O’Higgins Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 28 June – Dave O’Higgins and Rob Luft are at Guildford Jazz
Thursday 29 June – 12-2pm – Steve Waterman (tpt), Terence Collie (keyboard) Marianne Windham (bass)) are at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET

Thursday 29 June – Karen Sharp is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 29 June- The Ellington Effect is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 29 June- Wang / Luft / Fält Trio – Closeness are at SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 29 June – Tomorrow’s Warriors LDN RISING: David Kayode 4tet are at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Friday 30 June – The Bruce “Mississippi” Johnson Band play the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Sunday 2 July lunchtime – Derek Nash Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Monday 3 July – New venue at The Fox , 413 Green Lanes N13 4JD with Julian Siegel a house band of Simon Purcell , Amy Baldwin , Jon Scott/Mark Taylor
Thursday 6 July – 12-2pm – Atlanticus are at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Friday – Sunday 7 – 9 July – Swanage Jazz Festival
Sunday 9 July – The Rigmarollers at Paper Moon (with dance floor) Hargrave Hall, Archway N19 5SP.
Sunday 9 July: Riverside Arts Jazz feat. Tim Rose with Terence Collie, Graeme Flowers, Phil Donnelly and John Humphrey. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury
Thursday 13 July – 12-2pm – Matt Wates , Nigel Price and Julian Bury are at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday July 13 – Trudy Kerr, John Harriman, James Sunney, Dave Ohm at The Middle House, Mayfield TN20 6AB nr Tunbridge Wells
Friday – Sunday 14/15/16 July – Lincoln Jazz Festival hosted by Lincoln Cathedral ft Clare Teal , Fergus McCreadie , Martin Taylor , Tim Garland and Jason Rebello
Monday 17 July – At The Fox , 413 Green Lanes N13 4JD with Dave O’Higgins a house band of Simon Purcell , Amy Baldwin , Jon Scott/Mark Taylor
Thursday 20 July – 12-2pm – Julie McKee , Nigel Price and Amy Baldwin are at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 27 July – 12-2pm – Fraser Smith is at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Sunday 30 July: Jazz On The Plaza feat. Karen Sharp with Terence Collie, bass tbc. Cafe Yukari, Kew.
Saturday & Sunday, August 19 & 20, 2023. Herne Bay Jazz and Swing Festival, Herne Bay, Kent.

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

Friday 2 June – George Coleman is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Friday 2 June – Bill Charlap Trio are streaming fro Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Monday 5 June – Graham Costello’s Strata are streaming from NQ Jazz in Manchester https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on
Monday 5 June – Elina Duni & Rob Luft ‘Songs of Love and Exile’ are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Wednesday 7 June – Tomeka Reid Quartet feat. Mary Halvorson are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Thursday 8 June – Pete Case & Friends feat Jason Rebello & The Stacey Bros are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://soundcellar.org/event/livestream-pete-case-friends-featuring-jason-rebello-and-the-stacey-bros/
Friday 9 June – Orrin Evans is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Friday 2 June – Samara Joy is streaming fro Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Thursday 29 June- Wang / Luft / Fält Trio – Closeness are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://soundcellar.org/event/livestream-wang-luft-falt-trio-closeness/

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

Global Music Foundation (GMF) Workshops are in Tuscany is in August

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