READ ELSEWHERE

Neil Spencer of the Observer reviewed pianist Zoe Rahman’s new album, Colour of Sound photo above by Melody McLaren at the 2021 EFG LJF – read more

Tony Coe is remembered by Brian Clover in the Guardian – read more

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John Fordham wrote the Guardian obituary of Peter Brotzmann – read more

The Scotsman reviewed vibraphonist Jonny Mansfield’s new album, The Air in Front of You (scroll down) – read more

The Guardian’s feature about Blossom Dearie has an interesting insight from Spike Wells – read more

Gwen Ansell reviewed Nicky Schrire’s new album, Nowhere Girl – read more

John Bungey went to North Sea Jazz in Rotterdam (£-wall) – read more

The first single from Joshua Redman’s Blue Note Records album, Chicago Blues with singer Gabrielle Cavassa, is out today – listen here

Rob Adams reports on this year’s Royal Conservatoire of Scotland jazz student awards – read more

Ronnie Scott’s has acquired its own Hammond B-3 – read more

Roger Wright announced that he will step down as Chief Executive of Britten Pears Arts this July after 10 years at the helm of the organisation – read more

The National Youth Jazz Collective (picture above) are telling us about three courses at Benenden, Kent:

• NYJC’s Vocal Camp 9th-11th August directed by Pete Churchill – read more
• NYJC’s Composition Summer School 10th-15th August lead by Issie Barratt – read more
• NYJC’s Summer School Taster Days 15^th and 16^th August – read more

And we have round-ups of Montreal (Go Herbie!!! – above) from:

• Sebastian at theartsdesk – read more
• Ted Panken at Downbeat – read more
• Joanne Shurvell at Forbes – read more
• David Beckett at Rock and Roll Globe – read more

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

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 – Blue town Trio with Zoe Francis and Jim Mullen are at the Vortex
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 – Dylan Bates Penge Triangle is at the Vortex
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 – Something Else Big Band are at the Wood St Festival near Guildford
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 – Beyond the Blue are at the Vortex
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 – Tobie Medland’s The Aviary are at the Vortex
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 – Tom Cawley and Seb Rochford are at the Vortex
Thursday 20 July – Jean Toussaint is at Ronnie Scotts
Thursday 20 July – Miles Mindlin /Lorenzo Morabito are at Karamel , 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 20 July – Mike Wills on reeds and Jezz Cook on guitar are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
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 – Tony Kofi plays Monk at the Vortex

Saturday 22 July Bireli Lagrene is at Kings Place (solo)
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
Monday 24 July – The 606 have Clement Regert’s GAB Trio -a new jazz/groove group, led by guitarist Clement Regert (Wild Card) & featuring Basque vocalist Bea Asurmendi
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 – At the 606 the BASCA-award-winning sax player Tori Freestone & Parliamentary Jazz Award nominee, pianist Alcyona Mick & their quartet
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 – Winner of the Riga Jazz Stage international jazz voice competition, Louise Balkwill & her quartet are at the 606
Wednesday 26 July – West Coast Jazz at the Pavilion in Guildford
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 – Tomorrow’s Warriors Kagura are at Karamel , 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 27 July – Mark Bassey is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 27 July – One of the UK’s premier jazz sax players Tim Whitehead (Loose Tubes) –& his band ft. singer/songwriter & jazz vocalist Hattie Whitehead are at the 606
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
Friday 28 July – Australian jazz & groove singer Lily Dior & her band ft. saxophonist Dave Lewis & pianist Tim Lapthorn are at the 606
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
Saturday 29 July – The 606 have sax great Dave O’Higgins & BBC Radio 3 Next Generation artist, guitarist Rob Luft & their band play music from their new album “Pluto”
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 – Vocal/piano-led jazz/Latin 4tet led by singer/songwriter Joanna Eden ft. Guille Hill-guitar are at the 606
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 – The 606 have modern jazz led by award-winning saxophonist Martin Speake (Ethan Iverson, Django Bates) & his quartet feat. guitarist Mike Outram
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
Tuesday 1 August – Adrian Cox & Joe Webb are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
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 – Simon Fernsby Organisation featuring Brandon Allen 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
Monday & Tuesday 7 & 8 August – Luke Smith & band, PizzaExpress Holborn
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
Saturday 12 August – Nina Kristofferson’s ‘Timeless’ is at the Pheasantry , 152 Kings Rd Sloane Square
Monday 14 August – JD Allen is at Pizza Express
Tuesday 15 August – Roger Beaujolais Quartet are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
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 – Tinvall Trio are at Ronnie Scotts
Thursday 17 August – Andy Panayi Quartet are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Thursday 17 August – Margomool and Akin Soul are aprt of the queer jazz series at Woolwich Works
Friday 18 August – Simon Spillett is at Pizza Express Soho
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

Tuesday 22 August – Deschanel Gordon Trio are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 22 August – Frank Griffith Nonet are at Morley Green Club, Mobberly Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5NT
Wednesday 23 August – The Drawtones ft Rod Pooley and Alex Clarke are at The Icknield Centre, Icknield Way, Letchworth, Hertfordshire SG6 1EF
Thursday 24 August – Paul Higgs presents Cool School at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Tuesday 29 August – Mark Nightingale’s Brass Generations with Freddie Gavita are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
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.

Sunday 9 July – Bill Evans is streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Friday 14 July – George Cables is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Saturday 15 July -Mike Stern is streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Wednesday 19 July – Lakecia Benjamin is streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Friday 28 July – Charles McPherson is streaming from 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
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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