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Saxophonist Christine Jensen (above with Jim Doxas, Steve Amirault, Adrian Vedady and discusses her new album Day Moon with CanadianBeats – read more

RIP Mo Foster at the age of 78 – read more

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…which reminds us of a lovely live review which the late Brian Blain wrote – read more

Richard Williams has a new Blue Moment piece, this time a review of an evening of Duke Ellington’s music at an English country house, with a symphony orchestra arranged by Ethan Iverson – read more

…he also reviewed a recent performance by Rickie Lee Jones at the Jazz Café – read more

Sebastian reviewed singer Barb Jungr’s album My Marquee for ArtsDesk – read more

The Dictionary of Irish Biography published a short history of Irish jazz (with cameo appearances by Louis Stewart, Jon Hendricks and Keith Jarrett) – read more

AllAboutJazz reviewed Shakti’s new album This Moment – read more

Ayatori, a collective involving several disciplines, are crowdfunding for a new project creating live audio-visual-AI immersive environments – read more

Jane Cornwell was in Essaouira for Jazzwise – read more

Dave Sumner of Bandcamp has produced his June best of jazz playlist – read more

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

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 Robson 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
Friday 7 July – Aerial ft Iain Ballamy and Scott Stroman at the Vortex
Saturday 8 July – Mike Chillingworth Quartet are at the Vortex
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 – Alex Scheuerer La Vie En Soul, Pizza Express
Monday 10 July – Tommy Smith is at the Lichfield Music Festival
Monday 10 July – Sam Braysher, Linus Eppinger , Dave Green and Steve Brown are at Jazz at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Road
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 – Noah Stoneman Trio are at the Vortex
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 – Surrender with Harry Pope and Loz Keystone at the Vortex
Wednesday 12 July – Gary Crosby and Denys Baptiste celebrate Wayne Shorter at Pizza Express Soho
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 – Shirley Smart is downstairs a the Vortex followed by the Calum Gourlay Big Band upstairs
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 – Ed Benstead on trumpet and Nick Mills on trombone are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
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
Friday 14 July – Momentum – 6-piece eclectic Jazz-fusion & World ensemble play the Jazz room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
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 – The Groove Warriors play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
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
Sunday 16 July – “Jazz on a Summer’s Eve”: vocalist Jo Harrop ft. special guest, Tony Kofi at the 606
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
Monday 17 July – Tardo Hammer .Nat Steele , Lorenzo Morabito and Steve Brown are at Jazz at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Road
Monday 17 July – Bassist Phil Mulford & his jazz/funk/soul band “Thunderthumbs” at the 606
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 – Simon Robinson Trio at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 18 July – Phil Veacock with Jim Watson & George Double are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Tuesday 18 July – Critically acclaimed jazz vocalist Sarah Moule & her quartet ft. pianist Simon Wallace are at the 606
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
Wednesday 19 July – UK pianist (now based in NY) Simon Mulligan returns to London for a rare Club show with his jazz quartet ft. Frank Walden are at the 606
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 – Nick Costley-White Trio are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Thursday 20 July – Vocalist & Hammond organ player John East & his band ft. Nigel Price-guitar, Dave Lewis-sax & Freddie Gavita-trumpet are at the 606
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
Friday 21 July – Latin Jazz quintet Samara ft. Steve Rubie-flute & Carolina Lelis-vocals are at the 606
Saturday 22 July – Soulfunks play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Saturday 22 July – Two British modern jazz greats, saxophonist Mornington Lockett & trumpeter Henry Lowther with their quintet are at the 606
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
Sunday 23 July – Award-winning Australian jazz & soul singer Naomi Eyers (The Fabulous Singlettes) & fellow Australian, cabaret & West End performer Alison Jiear are at the 606
Monday 24 July – Will Arnold-Forster , Sam Braysher , Conor Chaplin and Steve Brown are at Jazz at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Road
Tuesday 25 July – Oxley-Meier Guitar Project are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
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 – Phil Merryman Trio are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
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 1.00-7.15pm – High Tide Festival at Diamond Jubilee Gardens, Twickenham, TW1 3DX have Yolanda Charles Project PH, Rob Luft Quintet, Zoöphyte, Pyjaen, Maddy Coombs Quartet
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 – James Kitchman is at Jazz in the Round Cockpit Theatre NW8 8EH

Monday 31 July – Wilma Baan, Pizza Express
Monday 31 July – George Crowley , Oli Hayhurst and James Maddren are at Jazz at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Road
Tuesday 1 August – Rob Barron Trio are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
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 – Sophie Alloway Quartet featuring Mornington Lockett are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Thursday 3 August – Dan Forshaw ‘Our Music in Paris is at the Pizza Express Soho
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
Sunday 6 August – Frank and Ella with Nicola Emmanuelle and Stephen Triffitt with the LP Swing Orchestra are at- The Congress Theatre, Eastbourne
Sunday 6 August – Mark Edwards’ The Common Rooms Annie Edwards & Lou Beckerman – Enter The Now, Brighton Unitarian Church
Tuesday 8 August – Joanna Eden: Embraceable Ella are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Tuesday 8 August – Tom Barford Quintet ft James Copus are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Thursday 10 August – Tara Minton is at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Thursday 10 August – Aaron Liddard Nylon Man are at Pizza Express
Saturday 12 August – 100 Years of Big Bands with Matt Ford and Nicola Emmanuelle and the LP Swing Orchestra are at Warner Holme Lacy House
Monday 14 August – JD Allen is at Pizza Express

Tuesday 15 August – Lulu Pierre Quartet with special Guest Tony Kofi are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Tuesday 15 August – Gary Crosby Quartet ft Sultan Stevenson are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Wednesday 16 August – TinvallTrio are at Ronnie Scotts
Thursday 17 August – Andy PanayiQuartet are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
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.
Tuesday 22 August – Tori Freestone Trio are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Thursday 24 August – Paul Higgs presents Cool School at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Sunday 10 September – The LP Swing Orchestra live in concert with Ben Holder – The Warren, Hayes, Kent

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

Wednesday 5 July – Fred Hersch Trio are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Friday 7 July – Warren Wolf is streaming fro Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Friday 7 July – Miguel Zenon is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Sunday 9 July – Bill Evans is streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Friday 15 July – Billy Harper is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/

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

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
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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