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RIP Mick Sexton, who worked for both Mary Greig’s Jazz in London and Sarah Chaplin’s Jazz London Live (image with Sarah above) – read more

RIP East German free saxophonist Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky – read more

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Nick Lea reviewed saxophone-piano duo Tommy Smith & Peter Johnstone for Jazz Views read more

Bebop Spoken Here previewed drummer Steve Gadd’s upcoming UK visit with Blicher Hemmer Gadd read more

The Scotsman previewed Scotland’s new jazz summer camp and the Edinburgh Fringe show Luminescence featuring saxophonist Tommy Smith   – read more

Scottish jazz – ” it all feels a bit polite and a little dated” (The Quietus/ paywalled) – read more

John Fordham’s Guardian album of the month was Elina Duni/Rob Luft’s ‘A Time To Remember’ on ECM… – read more

…the article also has honourable mentions for McLaughlin/ Shakti, Etheridge/ Soft Machine and bassist Johnny Wickham – read more

Trish Clowes and Ross Stanley have a duo album in preparation – read more

Leo Sidran’s podcasted reflections on the Montreal Festival (and on AI) – are worth hearing – listen here

Alex Hawkins music show, Break a Vase is already at Episode 18, and he has found his natural voice – read more

Tim Brennan has an important thread with reflections on the damage done to UK music professionals by the loss of free movement in Europe – read more

Jacqui Dankworth expressed her pleasure at being back at Cadogan Hall with Claire Martin, Ian Shaw and Emma Smith – read more

“You can’t really have a conversation about the future of jazz without mentioning Domi and JD Beck” – read more  

Jazzwise previewed the Brecon Festival – read more

..and also reviewed The Comet is Coming at Somerset House (the last appearance before disbanding?) – read more

Richard Williams wrote about the Northern Soul Prom – read more

…and Jane Birkin (and the album “Versions Jane” – read more

Sebastian reviewed Bokante’s album ‘History’ for The Arts Desk (5 stars) and met singer Malika Tirolien – read more

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

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 – Howl Quartet are at Pizza Express Soho
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 5pm – Lulu Pierre is on Open air stage, St Martins In The Fields, Trafalgar Square – free
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
Friday 21 July – Howl Quartet are at the Bear Club in Luton
Friday 21 July – Tom Barford is with Ivo Neame at the Vortex
Saturday 22 July 2pm – The Jazz Centre UK presents The Alan Barnes/Mark Nightingale Quintet at the Beecroft Gallery Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
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 – 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 – At the Vortex Mopomoso in the afternoon , jam in the evening
Sunday 23 July – Quintet Blue are at Pizza Express
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 – Sam Hogarth Trio are at the Vortex
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 – Dean Stockdale is with the Blue Vanguard Trio at St Nicholas Methodist Church, Fore Street, Topsham, EX3 0HQ
Thursday 27 July – Leo Richardson is at Ronnie Scotts Late Show
Thursday 27 July – Alan Grahame on vibes and Stuart Henderson on trumpet are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES.
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 -Vortex have an early show downstairs the Matt Jacobs Quartet follwed by Ant Law trio upstairs
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
Friday 28 July – Jazz At The Tree – World Jazz Collective with Martin Pyne. The Talking Tree, Staines

Saturday 29 July – ‘Laughter with a Swing’ feat. Bobby Davro, at The Spice of Life, London Soho (1:30pm)
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
Tuesday 1 August – Al Nicholls, Paul Eldridge, Simon Thorpe, Rod Brown are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 1 August – Dan Reinstein is at the 606
Wednesday 2 August – Roger Carey, Andy Williams , Paul Cavaciuti + Neal Richardson at the Seaford – Splash Point Jazz Club, The View, Southdown Rd BN25 4JS
Wednesday 2 August – Nigel Price is at the 606
Wednesday 2 – 3 August – Reuben James is at Ronnie Scotts
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 – Mark Crook’s Organ Quartet are at the 606
Thursday 3 August – Richard Pite, Chenara, Gunther Kurmayr, Simon Thorpe are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 3 August – Sara Oschlag vocalist is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
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 August – Freddie Benedict is at the 606
Friday 4-5 August – Courtney Pine is at the Jazz Cafe
Saturday 5 August – Alex Garnett is at the 606
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: Riverside Arts Jazz feat. Renato D’Aiello with Terence Collie, Matyas Hofecker & Afonso Vitale. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury
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
Tuesday 8 August – Elaine Delmar, John Pearce, Simon Thorpe, Bobby Worth are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Thursday 10 August – Elaine Delmar, John Pearce, Simon Thorpe, Bobby Worth are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
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
Thursday 10 August – Sam Mayne is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
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
Saturday 12 August – Quintet Blue are at the Vortex
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
Tuesday 15 August – Jo Fooks, Neil Cassey, Paul Morgan, Buster Birch are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
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
Thursday 17 August – Ineza is at Piano Smithfield
Thursday 17 August – Martin Shaw is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Friday 18 August – Simon Spillett is at Pizza Express Soho
Friday 18 August – Lulu Pierre is at Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, London SE11 4RN
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.
Sunday 20 August – Brecon London Day celebrating 40 Years of Brecon Jazz Festival feat. Zoë Gilby’s ‘Pannonica Project’ with the music of Thelonious Monk with Terence Collie, Richard Sadler & Gaetano Di Giacomo. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury
Tuesday 22 August – ARQ – Alison Rayner Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 22 August – Tori Freestone Trio are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Tuesday 22 August – Vasillis Xenopoulos, Nigel Price, Simon Thorpe, Matt Fishwick are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
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
Thursday 24 August – Vasilis Xenopoulos, Nigel Price, Matt Fishwick, Simon Thorpe are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 24 August – Andy Panayi is at Googlies Jazz Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Saturday 26 August – Clark Tracey, Emily Masser, Dave Newton, Josh Vadiveloo are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Sunday 27 August – Jazz On The Plaza feat. Simon Spillett with Terence Collie & Stuart Barker. Café Yukari, Kew
Tuesday 29 August – Brandon Allen Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
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.

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 21 July – Louis Hayes is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
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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