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Life in the moment becomes eternal – a memorial being unveiled in Suleczyno, the site of the Jazz w Lesie Festival. to Jarek Smietana by his daughter Alicja – read in Polish / watch on Youtube

Saxophonist David Murray is interviewed on his latest project in the Washington Post – read more

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Richard Williams remembers an NYC appearance by Sinéad O’Connor – read more

Herbie Hancock’s recent performance at the Barbican was reviewed by Hugh Morris in the Guardian – read more

In advance of a week’s residency with his quartet at the Vanguard, drummer Billy Hart recalls his career with Ethan Iverson – read more

Alexander Hawkins…Keith Tippett… Evan Parker… all to be found in the August edition of a New York magazine – read more

Branford Marsalis did an extended interview with Max Raskin – read more

Full details for the Jazz Promotion Network Birmingham conference have been announced – read more

Presto Music talks to Elina Duni about her new album A Time to Remember – read more

Jazz-rock keyboardist Brian Aguer did a YouTube interview with Doctor Mix – watch

Augsburger Allgemeine reviewed Danish composer and pianist Katherine Windfeld’s big band at Augsburger Jazzsommers (in German with plenty of Anglicisms) – read more

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

Wednesday 2 August – Paul Edis Trio are at the Vortex
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 12-2pm – Jason Henson (guitar), Robbie Robson (trumpet), Simon Woolf (bass) are at at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday, 3 of August – Ella & Stuff: Louise Messenger & The Matt Holborn Quartet at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 3 August – Sophie Alloway Quartet featuring Mornington Lockett are at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Thursday 3 August – Alec Harper is at the Vortex
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 – Lester Brown on trumpet and Frank Walden on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
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 August – Gary Crosby Quartet are at the Vortex
Friday 4-5 August – Courtney Pine is at the Jazz Cafe
Saturday 5 August – Alex Garnett is at the 606
Saturday 5 August – John Etheridge’s Blue Spirits are at the Vortex
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 12:30pm – “The Buxted Jazz Lunch” – Neal Richardson (pno) with Jane Tuff (sax) are at Buxted – Buxted Park Hotel, Uckfield, TN22 4AY
Sunday 6 August 2pm – Equinox Jazz Quartet are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town
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 – Vortex jam session is led by Helena Kay
Sunday 6 August – Mark Edwards’ The Common Rooms Annie Edwards & Lou Beckerman – Enter The Now, Brighton Unitarian Church
Monday 7 August – Tom Ridout Quintet are at Jazz at the Parakeetn (fka the Oxford in Kentish Town Road
Monday 7 August – Parliamentary Jazz Award-winning guitarist Jim Mullen (Morrissey/Mullen, Brian Auger) & his Organ trio are at the 606
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 – Julian Costello Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 8 August – Inspired by modern jazz legends Cedar Walton & Bill Evans, Canadian pianist Sean Fyfe & his Trio are at the 606
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
Wednesday 9 August – Recipient of the 2017 Jazz Young Musician Award (Musicians’ Company), pianist Will Barry is at the 606
Wednesday 9 August – OK Aurora are at the Vortex
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 12-2pm – Martin Nickless (tenor), Sid Gault (trumpet), Chris Neale (keyboard), Julian Bury (bass) are at at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 10 August – Leo Richardson Quartet are at the Vortex
Thursday 10 August – Will Collier’s Chet Baker Projectat Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 10 August – Aaron Liddard Nylon Man are at Pizza Express
Thursday 10 August – Mike Wills on sax and Gary Wood on trumpet are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 10 August – Italian jazz & neo-soul vocalist Francesca Confortini & her sextet are at the 606
Thursday 10 August – Sam Mayne is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Friday 11 August – One of the singers with the Coalminers, Amy Bird & her groove/roots band are at the 606
Friday 11 August – Jon Onabowu is at the Vortex
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
Saturday 12 August – Expat Australian saxophonist Brandon Allen (Kyle Eastwood) and his jazz quartet are at the 606
Sunday 13 August lunchtime – Notes from the Underground – the Vladimir Miller Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Monday 14 August – London Django Project are at Jazz at the Parakeetn (fka the Oxford in Kentish Town Road
Monday 14 August – US-born keyboardist/organ player Ed Bentley & his Blue Note Quartet ft. guitarist Nigel Price & saxophonist Dave Lewis are at the 606
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 – Mark Bassey Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
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
Tuesday 15 August – Inspired by Dr John & Professor Longhair, New Orleans rhythm and blues led by pianist Dom Pipkin & his Trio are at the 606
Wednesday 16 August – Tinvall Trio are at Ronnie Scotts
Wednesday 16 August – Parliamentary Jazz Award-wining pianist & composer Kate Williams & her quartet ft. guitarist Mike Outram are at the 606

Thursday 17 August – Jazz saxophonist Duncan Eagles & his quartet play music from his latest album ‘Narrations’ arte at the 606
Thursday 17 August 12-2pm – Derek Nash (saxes), David Newton (keyboard) , Geoff Gascoine (bass) Sebastiaan de Krom (drums) are at at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
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
Thursday 17 August – Stuart Henderson on trumpet and Jonathan Lewis on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
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 19 August – Five-Way Split– modern jazz quintet ft. Vasilis Xenopoulos-sax, Quentin Collins-trumpet & Rob Barron-piano are at the 606
Saturday 19 August – Zoe Francis and Jim Mullen Quartet at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Saturday 19 August – Noella McCalla & Derek Nash’s Wonder of Stevie are at Guidford Jazz
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 lunchtime – Tim Richardson Trio are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
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
Monday 21 August – Gypsy Dynamite Sextet ft. Dom Durner & Francesca Confortini, vocals
Monday 21 August – Jo Harrop is at Jazz at the Parakeetn (fka the Oxford) in Kentish Town Road
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 – Dave Quincy Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 22 August – Australian Guitarist Carl Orr (Billy Cobham, Sting, George Duke) plays his final London gig before leaving the UK at the 606
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 – Harpist & singer Tara Minton joins up with saxophonist/composer Nick Willsher with their latest project, “Where the Ocean meets the Sky” are at the 606
Thursday 24 August 12-2pm – Jo Fooks (tenor), Terence Collie, (keyboard) Paul Morgan (bass) are at at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 24 August – Paul Higgs presents Cool School at the lunchtime Cadogan Hall’s Culford Room series
Thursday 24 August – Johnny Thirkel on trumpet and Duncan Lamont on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 24 August – Mercury & MOBO award-winning saxophonist Denys Baptiste with Sultan Stevenson-piano; Gary Crosby OBE-bass & Joel Barford-drums are at the 606
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
Friday 25 August – Liane Carroll is at Pizza Express Chelsea
Friday 25 August – Blue Lou’s Revueat Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Friday 25 August – Latin/jazz quintet ‘Samara’ feat. Carolina Lelis-vocals & the 606 Club’s own Steve Rubie- sax/flute are at the 606
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
Saturday 26 August – Mainstream Jazz with trumpet/cornet player Bruce Adams & multi-British Jazz Award winning saxophonist Alan Barnes are at the 606
Sunday 27 August lunchtime – Renato D’Aiello Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 27 August – Jazz On The Plaza feat. Simon Spillett with Terence Collie & Stuart Barker. Café Yukari, Kew
Sunday 27 August – Italian-born vocalist Viviana Zarbo & her band celebrate “some of the most important women in jazz, cinema and music” are at the 606
Monday 28 August lunchtime – Pete Long’s Jazz Philharmonic are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Monday 28 August – Jay Verma trio are at Jazz at the Parakeetn (fka the Oxford) in Kentish Town Road
Tuesday 29 August – Robbie Robson Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
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
Tuesday 29 August – Inspired by the jazz trio aesthetic, Djangada Trio bring a funkier take to traditional Brazilian rhythms at the 606
Wednesday 30 August – Anita Wardell Quartet are at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA

Wednesday 30 August – A duo performance by two of the UK’s finest musicians, saxophonist Tim Garland & pianist Jason Rebello at the 606
Thursday 31 August 12-2pm – Eddie Myer (bass), Riley Stone-Lonergon (tenor) Spike Wells (drums) are at at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 31 August – Al Nicholls on sax and James Fenn on guitar are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 31 August – US-born blues & soul vocalist Bruce “Mississippi” Johnson & his band is at the 606
Sunday 3 September 12:00pm- Lunch Jazz – Jo Fooks (sax) with Neal Richardson (pno/vox) are at Crawley – The Hawth, Hawth Ave, Crawley. RH10 6YZ
Sunday 3 September lunchtime – Vasilis Xenopoulos is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Tuesday 5 September – Steve Fishwick’s Nonet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Wednesday 6 September – Respair: New-Age Jazz Meets Psychedelic Soundscape at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 7 September – Fraser Smith Quartet are at Guildford Jazz
Thursday 7 September – Corrie Dick’s Sun Swells are at the Sound Cellar in Poole
Thursday 7 September 12-2pm – Oliver Wilby (tenor), Colin Oxley (guitar), Simon Woolf (bass) are at at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Friday 8 September – Atom String Quartet are at Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, London SE11 4RN
Saturday 9 September – Caroline Loftus & Dave Oliver at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Sunday 10 September – The LP Swing Orchestra live in concert with Ben Holder – The Warren, Hayes, Kent
Tuesday 12 September – Richard Fairhurst Quintet inc Julian Siegel and Chris Batchelor play Wayne Shorter at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 12 September – Peter Golding’s Cafe Django at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Wednesday 13 September – Jo Fooks (sax) & Buster Birch (drums) with Nigel Thomas (dbl bass) + Neal Richardson (pno/vox) at Seaford – Splash Point Jazz Club, The View, Southdown Rd BN25 4JS. 01323 890139
Wednesday 13 September – Joe Thompson at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 14 September 12-2pm – Georgia Mancio (vocals), Garath Lockrane (keyboard/flute), Andrew Cleyndert (bass), Dave Ohm (drums) are at at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 14 September – Big Mama’s Door at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Friday 15 September – The Southbank Centre as part of the Nicholas Daley presents Woven Rhythms have Nu Civilisation Orchestra with Nubya Garcia plus other events
Tuesday 19 September – Olli Martin Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 19 September – Sam Jewison at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 21 September – Nick Malcolm’s Out Front are at the Sound Cellar in Poole
Thursday 21 September 12-2pm – Dave Warren (guitar), Mark Crooks (tenor), Jim Mullen (guitar) are at at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 21 September – Deschanel Gordon Trio at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Sunday 24 September – Mike Westbrook ‘Band of Bands’ is at Pizza Express Soho
Tuesday 26 September – Chris Barchelor / Mark Lockheart Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Wednesday 27 September – The Nighthawks George Trebar (bass), Roy Hilton (keys), Matt Wates (sax), Joe Edwards (drums) are at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Thursday 28 September 12-2pm – Chris Coull (trumpet), Andi Panayi (sax), Jason Henson (guitar), Dan Shepard (bass) are at at Croydon Clocktower Cafe , 9, Katherine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Thursday 28 September – Lulu Pierre and The Alex Webb Trio at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Friday 29 September – Ian Shaw at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

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

Friday 4 August – Steve Turre Sextet are streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Friday 11 August – Cindy Blackman Santana is streaming from Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Thursday 7 September – Corrie Dick’s Sun Swells are at the Sound Cellar in Poole https://soundcellar.org/event/livestream-corrie-dick-sun-swells/
Thursday 14 September – Alex von Schlippenbach/Barry Altschul Quartet feat. RudiMahall & Joe Fonda are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Thursday 21 September – Nick Malcolm’s Out Front are at the Sound Cellar in Poole https://soundcellar.org/event/livestream-nick-malcolms-out-front/

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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