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Adam Glasser celebrates last year’s Toots Thielemans centenary at Vortex this weekend – read more

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Wynton Marsalis was interviewed by ABC Australia – watch

Sebastian’s review of vocalist Malika Tirolien’s new album, Bokanté – History has now appeared in French in Le Monde – read more

Ian Mann enjoyed a new album from Montreal’s Francois Bourassa – read more

Stephen Graham enjoyed the newly released solo album from 2004 by Mulgrew Miller – read more

South African Don Laka has a series of UK dates in November – read more

“On Not Being a Jazzer; Jazz among the British” – Geoffrey Smith’s 2020 5-part essay for Radio 3 is being re-broadcast, minus one episode – read more

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

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
Wednesday 23 August – The Vortex have Alexandra Ridout then Matthew Bourne and Elliot Galvin
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 (above) , 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 – Tara Minton is at St Nicholas Methodist Church, Fore Street, Topsham, EX3 0HQ
Thursday 24 August – Denys Baptiste is at the 606
Thursday 24 August – Reiss Ellis Beckles group are at the Vortex
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 – Nick Costley-White trio are at the Vortex plus special guest Jason Rebello
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
Saturday 26 August – Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band feat the legendary singer & keyboardist along with his top band including John Altman, sax, Ronnie Foster, gtr, & Mark Fletcher drms over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Saturday 26 August – ACE Jazz trio, Sean Fyfe – Piano, Luke Fowler – Double Bass, Roland McCabe – Winds are at at The Plough Dulwich
Saturday 26 August – Adam Glasser celebrates Toots Thielemans centenary at the Vortex
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
Sunday 27 August – Mopomoso in the afternoon at the Vortex , jam in the evening
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 – Hannes Riepler Quartet are at the Vortex
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 – Josh Kemp is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club, EN2 8AS
Thursday August 31 – Kate Daniels, John Harriman, James Sunney, Rod Brown at The Middle House, Mayfield TN20 6AB nr Tunbridge Wells
Thursday August 31 – Jonny Wickham is at the Vortex
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

Saturday 2 September – Jean Toussaint is at the Vortex
Saturday 2 September – Saxophonist Tom Smith & his quintet play the music of Cedar Walton. Feat. Fergus McCredie, piano are at the 606
Saturday 2 September – Esther Bennett is at Toulouse Lautrec
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: Drummer Sophie Alloway’s birthday ft. Mornington Lockett, Paul Stacey, Will Barry, Laurence Cottle, Joe Thompson and a short set by the Lydian Collective Trio at the 606
Sunday 3 September lunchtime – Vasilis Xenopoulos is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 3 September – Zena James is at the Hampton Hub Club 3 ASHLEY ROAD, Hampton, TW12 2JA
Sunday 3 September – Riverside Arts Jazz – A Night of Latin Jazz with Clement Regert on guitar, Terence Collie on piano, Paul Michael on bass, Matt Hodge on percussion and Vancho Manoilovich on drums. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury

Monday 4 September – Saxophonist Kaidi Akinnibi (above – Tom Misch, Black Midi, Blue Lab Beats) & his band are at the 606
Tuesday 5 September – Steve Fishwick’s Nonet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 5 September – Modern Jazz/Hard Bop saxophonist Dr Dan Reinstein & his Quintet are at the 606
Tuesday 5 September- The Fabulous Red Diesel are at The Pheasantry Pizza Express, Chelsea.
Tuesday 5 September – Clark Tracey, Alex Clarke, Emily Masser, Graham Harvey, James Owston are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 5 September – Alan Barnes Quartet are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Wednesday 6 September – Respair: New-Age Jazz Meets Psychedelic Soundscape at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Wednesday 6 September – South African pianist & harmonica virtuoso Adam Glasser & his Quartet ft. guitarist Ant Law are at the 606
Thursday 7 September – Drummer Tristan Banks & his Quartet ft. saxophonist Paul Booth play music from his album ‘View from Above’ are at the 606
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 – Alan Barnes on sax with Lester Brown on trumpet and Alum Nathoo on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 7 September – Ted Beament Trio with Robert Fowler are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
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
Thursday 7 September – The Blues Engineers: Jazz tinged blues featuring slide & resonator guitarist John O’Reilly & multi-instrumentalist Nick Payn over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IVFriday 8 September – Atom String Quartet are at Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, London SE11 4RN
Friday 8 September – The Art Themen Quartet feat the award winning saxophonist, pianist John Pearce, bassist Paul Morgan & drummer Spike Wells over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes
Friday 8 September – Saxophonist Dave Lewis & his funky, jazzy groove band “1UP’ ft vocalist Lizzie Deane are at the 606
Saturday 9 September – Modern jazz supremos saxophonist Mornington Lockett, trumpeter Henry Lowther & their band are at the 606
Saturday 9 September – Caroline Loftus & Dave Oliver at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Sunday 10 September lunchtime – Matt Skelton’s Jazz Tendency featuring Julian Siegal is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 10 September – The LP Swing Orchestra live in concert with Ben Holder – The Warren, Hayes, Kent
Sunday 10 September – Jazz/R&B singer/songwriter Polly Gibbons and her quartet ft James Pearson, piano play music from her new album, “As It Is” are at the 606
Sunday 10 September – Shear Brass are at Ronnie Scott’s
Sunday 10 September – Down for the Count are at Cadogan Hall
Monday 11 September – Drummer Shane Forbes (Empirical) is joined by fellow band members Nat Facey & Tom Farmer, along with pianist Ivo Neame & guitarist Dave Preston are at the 606
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
Tuesday 12 September – Renowned jazz bassist & lately pianist Simon Woolf & his quartet ft. saxophonist Oliver Wilby (Ray Gelato, Pasadena Roof Orchestra) are at the 606
Tuesday 12 September – Zoe Rahman Octet are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 12 September – Karen Sharpe, Colin Oxley, Simon Thorpe, Josh Morrison are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
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
Wednesday 13 September – Rob Luft & his Quartet ft George Crowley-sax preview music from his new album on Edition Records, ‘Dahab Days’ at the 606

Thursday 14 September 12-2pm – Georgia Mancio (above / vocals), Gareth 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
Thursday 14 September – Alan Barnes is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 14 September – Singer, songwriter & ‘beat poet adventurer’ (MOJO) Sarah Gillespie & music from her latest album recorded in Berlin are at the 606
Thursday 14 September – Karen Sharp, Colin Oxley, Simon Thorpe, Josh Morrison are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 14 September – Origin ft Glenn Charles , Francis Tulip , Trevor Boxhall and Vlato Klemera are at Mildmay Jazz Club , 33-34 Newington Green , N16 9PR
Thursday 14 September – Katriona Taylor – new album launch Daring Dreams at Piano Smithfield
Thursday 14 September – Stuart Henderson on trumpet with Frank Walden on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES.

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
Friday 15 September – The Groove Warriors play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Saturday 16 September – Emily Saunders is at The Forge, Camden
Saturday 16 September – From Detroit, USA jazz pianist & composer David Janeway (the Supremes, Art Farmer, Michael Urbaniak, Tom Harrell) is at the 606
Saturday 16 September – JJ Savarino is at Nell’s West Kensington
Sunday 17 September lunchtime – Tracey Mendham Quartet is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 17 September – Award-winning, iconic vocalist/pianist Liane Carroll & her Trio is at the 606
Tuesday 19 September – Olli Martin Quintet with Tom Barford on sax are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 19 September – Sam Jewison at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Tuesday 19 September – Nigel Price, Alban Claret (from France), Mikele Montelli, Matt Fishwick are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 20 September – The Fallen Heroes New Orleans Jazz & Blues featuring the Martyn Bros along with Kansas City boogie pianist Dean Ross over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV
Thursday 21 September – Nick Malcolm’s Out Front are at the Sound Cellar in Poole
Thursday 21 September -Guitar virtuoso Nicholas Meier & his band celebrate his Birthday with special guests including Pete Oxley (guitar) & Lizzie Ball (violin) is at the 606
Thursday 21 September – Nigel Price is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
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 PiccadillyFriday 22 September – Sam Newbould Quintet are at the Bear Club in Luton
Friday 22 September – The Keith West Band: Jazz, blues & soul mix feat legendary singer/songwriter & guitarist West play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes
Friday 22 September – Beat: Tom Ford is at Guildford Jazz
Saturday 23 September – Sam Newbould Quintet are at the Vortex
Sunday 24 September lunchtime – The Gary Baldwin Band is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 24 September – Mike Westbrook ‘Band of Bands’ is at Pizza Express Soho
Sunday 24 September – Jazz On The Plaza featuring Stuart Henderson on trumpet, Terence Collie on piano and Richard Sadler on bass. Cafe Yukari, Kew
Tuesday 26 September – Chris Batchelor / Mark Lockheart Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 26 September – Clark Tracey Quintet are at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
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
Thursday 28 September – Chris Dean with the John Pearce Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 28 September – Bourbon & Blues swing jazz, Motown & blues mix featuring Italian guitar maestro Giulio Romano & top Canadian vocalist Dom Durner over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV
Thursday 28 September – Kirk Lightsey at the University of Surrey
Friday 29 September – Ian Shaw at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Saturday 30 September – Elaine Delmar ( voted vocalist of the year in the Parliamentary Jazz Wards 2023 with John Pearce, Simon Thorpe, Bobby Worth are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 30 September – The Katriona Taylor Quintet celebrate 60 years of Bossa Nova: From Astrud Gilberto to Eliane Elias, Tom Jobim, Ivan Lins and Sergio Mendes
Sunday 1 October lunchtime – Adrian Reid Quartet featuring Tony Kofi is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Saturday 7 October – Listen presents Out Front with Nick Malcolm , Jake McMurchie , Jason Yarde, Olie Brice and Dave Smith at Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1J
Saturday 14 October – Listen presents Airborn with Eddie Parker , Rob Luft , Dave Manington and Jay Davis at Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW

Saturday 21 October – Listen presents Trish Clowes & Louise McMonagle at Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW

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

Friday 25 August – Johnathan Blake Pentad are streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/

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/

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