READ ELSEWHERE

RIP trad clarinettist Bernie Holden (above), probably the oldest person to graduate from a jazz course (Middlesex Uni in the 2000’s at the age of 69) – read more

Saxophonist and free jazz pioneer Peter Brötzmann is remembered in the Guardian – read more

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…Tony Dudley-Evans also pays tribute to Brötzmann – read more

Neil Spencer reviewed Samuel Blaser’s Routes in the Observer – read more

Drummer Terry Clarke talk to EverythingJazz about the time he sat in with John Coltrane in 1965 – read more

Sebastian’s latest column in the German magazine JAZZTHETIK is on the theme of career progression: bassist Mark Lewandowski’s amazing year in NYC, and also the team at newly-formed company ECN MUSIC (above) – read more

The Scotsman previewed Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival’s Norwegian programme – read more

…The Scotsman also reviewed Pat Metheny’s new album, Dream Box (scroll down) – read more

The Edinburgh Reporter noted a local connection with the reissues of the late Irish guitarist Louis Stewart’s music – read more

Ukrainian saxophonist Andrey Chmut is the latest guest on the Jazz Podcast – listen

Richard Williams writes about the book launch of Richard Morton Jack’s new biography Nick Drake: The Life – read more

The French Le Jazz et la Salsa blog wrote about Jacques Schwartz-Bart and Ricardo Izquierdo – read more

Melody McLaren shared photos from Norma Winstone’s recent Oxford / Iffley concert with Frank Harrison, Mark Hodgson and Marin France at Frank & Mark’s – read more

And Nikki Iles’s set with the NDR Big Band from Jazz Baltica was shown on German national TV – watch

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

Wednesday 28 June – Dave O’Higgins and Rob Luft are at Guildford Jazz
Wednesday 28 June – Branco Stoysin launches his Whispers from the Sun album at KINO, Rye, Lion Street, TN31 7LB
Wednesday 28 June – Andy Panayi’s ‘Flute to the Power of Four’ Album Launch Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 28 June – Asha Parkinson’s Kalpadruma are at the Vortex
Wednesday 28 June – Contemporary indie jazz with Saxophonist Kaidi Akinnibi (Tom Misch, Black Midi) & his quintet at the 606
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 – David Kayode is at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 29 June – Al Nicholls on reeds and James Fenn on guitar are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 29 June – Deschanel Gordon is at the the Vortex with the TJLO playing George Russell’s Living Time
Thursday 29 June – Cleveland Watkiss VocalSuite is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Thursday 29 June – Atlanticus are at Cambridge Modern Jazz at Gonville Hotel
Thursday 29 June – Peter Jones is at St Nicholas Methodist Church, Fore Street, Topsham, EX3 0HQ

Thursday 29 June – Jazz from the 50’s & 60’s with Alex Webb’s ‘Quintet Blue’ ft. Denys Baptiste & Rosie Turton at the 606
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
Thursday 29 June – The Liz Owen Band play the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV W4
Friday 30 June – The Bruce “Mississippi” Johnson Band play the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Friday 30 June – Soulful, bluesy jazz standards led by saxophonist Dave Lewis & his Quintet are at the 606
Friday 30 June – Linley Hamilton Quintet are at the Vortex plus a late night with Jaz Kayser
Friday June 30 : Roger Carey & John Harriman at the Bell at Iden, Rye TN31 7PU
Friday 30 June – Jazz At The Tree – Mood Indigo Events Summer Jazz Jam for instrumentalists and vocalists hosted by Janet McCunn with house trio Terence Collie, Nick Lenner-Webster & Stephane Booroff. The Talking Tree, Staines
Friday 30 June – La Bouche Manouche feat. Irene Serra are at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 30 June – The Bruce “Mississippi” Johnson Band play the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Friday 30 June – The Fabulous Red Diesels are at Toulouse Lautrec , Kennington
Friday 30 June – RNCM Big Band are at Royal Northern College of Music Manchester
Friday 30 June – Sarah L King Quartet is at Piano Smithfield London EC1
Saturday 1 July 10:00am – Neal Richardson’s 7piece Band are at Eastbourne Tennis Finals , Eastbourne – Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club, BN21 4JJ
Saturday 1 July 1pm – Pizza Express Dean St have the Julian Costello Quartet with David Gordon – piano Andy Hamill- double bass and Tom Hooper – drums
Saturday 1 July – Jazz violinist Chris Garrick & his ‘classic quartet’ feat. pianist David Gordon are at the 606 in Chelsea
Saturday 1 July – Ineza is at the Vortex
Saturday 1 July 7:00pm – Neal Richardson and Miles Danso at Seaford – The Old Plough, 20 Church St, BN25 1HG
Saturday 1 July – Julian Joseph is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 1 July – Jakub Cywinski Quartet feat. Isobel Gathercole are at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Sunday 2 July lunchtime – Derek Nash Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 2 July lunchtime – Mike Austin Quartet with Sarah Jane Hassell are at The City Wall, in Rochester High Street
Sunday 2 July – The vortex have Mojo Big Band in the afternoon and the Vortex jam in the evening
Sunday 2 July – BBC & Parliamentary Jazz Award winner, singer/pianist Liane Carroll & her Trio are at the 606
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
Monday 3 July – Blues/Americana pianist & singer Arthur Lea (Coalminers) & his Bootleg Trio are at the 606
Tuesday 4 July – At the 606 saxophonist Dan Reinstein & his Quintet play jazz standards by Miles, Hancock, Silver and more
Tuesday 4 July – Andy Panayi’s Flute to the Power of 4 is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 4 July – Lily Dior, Jonathan Gee, Geoff Gascoyne, Tristan Maillot are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Tuesday 4 July – Alessio Menconi / Nigel Price Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 4 July – Atlanticus with Peter Fraize at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 4 July – Dee Byrnes Outlines are at the Vortex
Wednesday 5 July – Italian jazz guitar virtuoso Alessio Menconi & his special guest, UK guitarist Nigel Price are at the 606
Wednesday 5 July – Ethan Iverson is at the Vortex
Wednesday 5 July – Mark Kavuma is at Ronnie Scotts Late Show
Thursday 6 July to 6th August – Battersea Jazz Festival has many free gigs including Sean Fyfe , Five-Way Split , Nigel Price
Thursday 6 July – 12-2pm – Atlanticus are at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 6 July – Phil Robso is upstairs Maddy Coombs downstairs at the Vortex
Thursday 6 July – Ian Shaw (vcl) with John Pearce, Dave Green and Dave Ohm is at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, SE9 2PE
Thursday 6 July – Latin Jazz with pianist John Crawford & his quintet ft guitarist Guille Hill are at the 606
Thursday 6 July – Simon Spillett is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 6 July – Duncan Lamont on reeds and Mike Innes on trombone are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 6 July – Al Nicholls, Paul Eldridge, Oz Dechaine, Rod Brown are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 6 July – Mornington Lockett is at Karamel , 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Friday – Sunday 7 – 9 July – Swanage Jazz Festival
Friday 7 July – New Orleans-influenced jazz & R&B with the Coalminers Big Band are at the 606
Saturday 8 July – Modern Jazz with Saxophonist Alex Hitchcock & his band at the 606
Saturday 8 July – Katriona Taylor Quintet play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Sunday 9 July lunchtime – Tristian Mailliot Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 9 July lunchtime – Atlanticus with Terry Seabrook and Peter Fraize are at The City Wall, in Rochester High Street
Sunday 9 July – The Fabulous Red Diesels are Upstairs at Ronnies
Sunday 9 July – The Rigmarollers at Paper Moon (with dance floor) Hargrave Hall, Archway N19 5SP.
Sunday 9 July – Parliamentary Jazz Award winner, vocalist Georgia Mancio & her quintet ft. Gareth Lockrane at the 606
Sunday 9 July: Riverside Arts Jazz feat. Tim Rose with Terence Collie, Graeme Flowers, Phil Donnelly and John Humphrey. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury
Monday 10 July – Melissa Errica is with the Ronnie Scott Jazz Band at Crazy Coqs in Soho
Monday 10 July – Tommy Smith is at the Lichfield Music Festival
Monday 10 July – Alex Scheuerer & Najwa Ezzaher ‘La Vie En Soul’, Pizza Express Jazz Club
Tuesday 11 July – Atlanticus Quartet ft US saxophonist Peter Fraize are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 11 July – Melissa Errica is with the Ronnie Scott Jazz Band at the Lichfield Music Festival
Tuesday 11 July – Julian Nicholas Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
Tuesday 11 July -Women’s Words,Sister Stories with Ineza is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 11 July – Pianist Alex Bryson & his Trio play a mix of ‘French chanson, Bebop, Afro-Cuban folk & the blues’ at the 606
Tuesday 11 July – Sam Braysher, Linus Eppinger, Dave Green, Steve Brown are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 12 July – Emma Rawicz is at Ronnie Scotts Late Show
Wednesday 12 July – Zoe Schwarz ,Rob Koral with Neal Richardson Trio are at Splash Point Jazz Club, The View, Southdown Rd BN25 4JS
Wednesday 12 July – Jazz/crossover Trio Birdland ft pianist Dian Gasper at the 606
Thursday 13 July – 12-2pm – Matt Wates , Nigel Price and Julian Bury are at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 13 July – Sam Braysher, Linus Eppinger, Dave Green, Steve Brown are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 13 July – Queer Jazz are putting on Isobella Burnham and Jelly’s Jams at Woolwich Works
Thursday 13 July – Fiona Ross is at Karamel , 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 13 July – Trudy Kerr, John Harriman, James Sunney, Dave Ohm at The Middle House, Mayfield TN20 6AB nr Tunbridge Wells
Thursday 13 July – Australian vocalist Lauren Lucille & her quintet play a mix of jazz & Latin (and take audience requests) at the 606

Thursday 13 July – John Etheridge is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 13 July – Branco Stoysin launches his Whispers from the Sun album at ST MARY’S CHURCH, Frinton-on-Sea, Old Road, CO13 9BX
Thursday 13 July – BBC Big Band, Cadogan Hall
Friday 14 July – BAFTA, Emmy & Golden Globe winning composer, arranger & saxophonist John Altman & his band is at the 606
Friday 14 July – 606 Club presents Jazz on the Lawn at Fulham Palace featuring ‘The Wonder of Stevie’ with Derek Nash & Noel McCalla
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
Saturday 15 July – Ant Law and Alex Hitchcock are at the Pizza Express in Soho
Saturday 15 July – 606 Club presents Jazz on the Lawn at Fulham Palace featuring saxophonist Tony Kofi & special guest, vocalist Vimala Rowe
Saturday 15 July – Tenor sax player Alec Harper & his band with repertoire from the hard bop and post-bop eras are at the 606
Sunday 16 July lunchtime – Julian Costello Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 16 July lunchtime – Geoff Mason Quartet are at The City Wall, in Rochester High Street
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
Monday, 17 July – Steve Waterman (tpt) with Alex Hutton, Rob Statham and Marc Cecil are at Bexley Jazz Club, The King’s Head PH, Bexley Village, DA5 1AA
Tuesday 18 July – Thiery Maillard’s Moog Project is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 18 July – Maddy Coombs Quartet ft Sultan Stevenson are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 18 July – Nicolas Meier, Tom Mason, Eric Ford are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 18 July – Karen Sharp & Art Themen Marlow Jazz Club Royal British Legion Hall SL7 1NT
Wednesday 19 July – Jamie Murray is at Ronnie Scotts Late Show
Thursday 20 July – 12-2pm – Julie McKee , Nigel Price and Amy Baldwin are at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 20 July – Jean Toussaint is at Ronnie Scotts
Thursday 20 July – Nat Steele is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 20 July- Trish Clowes (sax) with Mike Outram, Isaac Burland and Dave Ohm is at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, SE9 2PE
Friday 21 July – The Art Themen Quartet play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head Barnes, SW13
Saturday 22 July – Soulfunks play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13

Sunday 23 July lunchtime – Simon Spillett All Star Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 23 July lunchtime – Roberto Manzin Quartet are at The City Wall, in Rochester High Street
Tuesday 25 July – Renato D’Aiello Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 25 July – Big Band Metheny is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 25 July – Gabriel Garrick Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 26 July – Leo Richardson is at Ronnie Scotts Late Show
Wednesday 26 July – Brandon Allen Quartet is at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Thursday 27 July – Leo Richardson is at Ronnie Scotts Late Show
Thursday 27 July – Mark Bassey is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 27 July – Clark Tracey, Alex Clarke, Emily Masser, Dave Newton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 27 July – 12-2pm – Fraser Smith is at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Saturday 29 July – Jazz Re:Fest have a one day festival at the Roundhouse
Saturday 29 July – Mick Foster, Tom Farmer, Rob Brown are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Sunday 30 July lunchtime – Clare Hirst / Claude Deppa are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 30 July lunchtime – Simon Spillett Quartet are at The City Wall, in Rochester High Street
Sunday 30 July – Papa George Band play the Lunchtime Session over at the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Sunday 30 July: Jazz On The Plaza feat. Karen Sharp with Terence Collie, and Jakup Cywinski Cafe Yukari, Kew.
Monday 31 July – Wilma Baan, Pizza Express
Tuesday 1 August – Alex Wilson Trio are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Wednesday 2 August – Roger Carey, Andy Williams , Paul Cavaciuti + Neal Richardson at the Seaford – Splash Point Jazz Club, The View, Southdown Rd BN25 4JS
Thursday 3 August – Luiz Morais Homage to Brazilian Guitar with Geoff Gascoyne and Adriano Adewele is at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, SE9 2PE
Friday 4-5 August – Courtney Pine is at the Jazz Cafe
Sunday 6 August lunchtime – Tony Kofi Organisation are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 6 August lunchtime – Sarah Bolter Quartet are at The City Wall, in Rochester High Street
Tuesday 8 August – Tom Barford Quintet ft James Copus are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Monday 14 August – JD Allen is at Pizza Express
Tuesday 15 August – Gary Crosby Quartet ft Sultan Stevenson are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Saturday & Sunday, August 19 & 20, 2023. Herne Bay Jazz and Swing Festival featuring Clare Teal , Jim Mullen ,Dennis Rollins , Geoff Mason amonst many others at Herne Bay, Kent.

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

Friday 23 June – Orrin Evans is streaming fro Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Friday 23 June – Mary Stallings is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 26 June – Azymuth 50 are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming

Thursday 29 June- Wang / Luft / Fält Trio – Closeness are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://soundcellar.org/event/livestream-wang-luft-falt-trio-closeness/
Friday 30 June – Kenny Garrett is streaming fro Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Sunday 2 July – Magnus Ostrom Group 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
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.
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 now gets a worldwide audience (even Kyle Eastwood!) 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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