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27 March 2024

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The World Premiere of a new work by Vince Mendoza (above) for Joshua Bell, Douglas Marriner and the Acad. of St Martin in the Fields just happens to be in Santa Barbara.. so local resident/ music correspondent Joe Woodard interviewed Vince Mendoza about it – read more

(it is being performed in London on 18 April and we will also have a feature)

Bill Milkowski honours legendary drummer Roy Haynes on his 99th birthday – read more

The Soulhouse has reported on the latest wave of artists announced for North Sea Jazz in Rotterdam – read more

Vintage Guitar carried an in-depth profile of Irish guitar virtuoso Louis Stewart – read more


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The Bear Club in Luton has issued a promising message about its future – read more

Vocalist Ganavya’s new album Like the Sky, I’ve Been Too Quiet, featuring Shabaka Hutchings & Leafcutter John, is Ammar Kalia’s ‘Global Album of the Month’ in the Guardian – read more

Marc Myers of JazzWax covered the reissue of Joe Henderson’s 1969 album Power to the People on 180-gram vinyl – read more





THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

Wednesday 27 March – “Thane & The Villeins” with Art Themen, Peter Whittaker, George Double at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA

Wednesday 27 March – Rory Ingham (Trombone), Dave Green (Double Bass), Steve Brown (Drums) are at The Woodman, 414 Archway Road, London N6 5UA

Wednesday 27 March – Olly Hite is at The Pheasantry

Wednesday 27 March – Ali Watson Quartet are at the Vortex

Wednesday 27 March – Season 4 of George Nelson’s curated Moment’s Notice starts at Amp Studios, Old Kent Road, London, SE15 1NL with Saied Silbak/Alex Hitchcock and Hanna Mbuya/Sultan Stevenson/Sam Jones

Wednesday 27 March – Jazz singer/songwriter Aitzi Cofre Real & her Trio ft Scottie Thompson-piano; Isaac Burland-bass are at the 606

Wednesday 27 March – Cloudmakers Trio is at the Verdict in Brighton

Thursday 28 March – Al Nicholls, Richard Busiakewicz, Sandy Burnett. Rid Brown are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 28 March – The Verdict Jazz Jam is at the Verdict in Brighton

Thursday 28 March – The Eddie Gripper Trio are at the SoundCellar in Poole

Thursday 28 March – Jazz & world music with virtuoso Italian guitarists Antonio Forcione & Georgio Serci are at the 606

Thursday 28 March – Duncan Lamont on reeds with Jenny Howe vocals are at the Hedsor Jazz club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 28 March – Rebecka Edlund’s Virgin Forest is at the Vortex

Thursday 28 March – Tim Whitehead is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 28 March – Haringey Young Musicians Stage Band are at Collage Arts @ Karamel 4 Coburg Road N22 6XJ

Friday 29 March – Nina Kristofferson sings Billie Holiday at The Eric Morecambe Centre Harpenden

Friday 29 March – Charlotte Gasson is at the Verdict in Brighton

Friday 29 March – Latin/jazz quintet Samara ft. Brazilian vocalist Carolina Lelis & Steve Rubie- sax/flute are at the 606 in Chelsea

Friday 29 March – US jazz flautist, Kim Scott is at Pizza Express Holborn

Friday 29 March – Sun Mi-Hong Quintet are at the Vortex

Saturday 30 March – Leon Greening Plays The Music of Bobby Timmons with Steve Fishwick, Matyas Hoefecker, Matt Home at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2

Saturday 30 March – Stacey Kent and Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro are at London’s Southbank Centre

Saturday 30 March – The 606 have Ivor Novello-nominated jazz saxophonist Alex Hitchcock & his quintet

Saturday 30 March – Ray Gelato Quartet is at the Verdict in Brighton

Saturday 30 March – Georgia Mancio Quartet are at the Vortex

Sunday 31 March lunchtime – Adrian Reid Quartet featuring Tony Kofi are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 31 March lunchtime at the 606 Shireen Francis’s Caribbean Island Project – vocal-led Jazz/Caribbean quintet

Sunday 31 March 4pm – The Filthy Six at The Turk’s Head 28 Winchester Road Twickenham TW1 1LF – Free

Sunday 31 March evening at the 606 Award-winning vocalist and pianist Liane Carroll & her Trio

Sunday 31 March – Jam at the Vortex

Sunday 31 March – Jazz On The Plaza with Alban Claret and Terence Collie at Cafe Yukari, Kew.

Sunday 31 March – Ollie Usiskin quartet with guest Aled Thomas is at The Priory Tavern , 250 belsize road,kilburn,NW6 4BT

Monday 1 April – ‘The Goddess of Groove’ (JazzFM) Sophie Alloway & her jazz quintet are at the 606

Monday 1 April – Frank Griffith Trio are at Nantwich Festival.Crown Hotel, Nantwich High Street, CW5 SAS

Monday 1 April – The Jack Honeyborne Trio with special guests Art Themen; tenor sax and Denny Illett; guitar and vocals are at the Spice of Life , Soho

Tuesday 2 April – Calum Gourlay Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 2 April – Dave O’Higgins Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 2 April – Leon Greening Trio with Nigel Price are Smokin’ at the Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Tuesday 2 April – Trumpet player Ray Butcher (Dr John, Mica Paris) & his “Butcher’s Brew” band are at the 606

Tuesday 2 April – James Allsopp, Colin Oxley, Mirko Scarcia, Tim Giles are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Wednesday 3 April – The Filthy Six are at Crazy Coq’s

Wednesday 3 April – Jazz fusion & 70’s-influenced electronic jazz with keyboardist Emily Francis & her Trio are at the 606

Wednesday 3 April – Liam Noble and Geoff Simkins are at the Vortex

Wednesday 3 April – Ben Shankland is at Cafe Yukari, 110 North Road, Kew, Richmond TW9 4HJ

Thursday 4 April – Jonathan Gee solo is at Pizza Express, Piano Lounge at St Martin’s Lane

Thursday 4 April – Adam Glasser is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 4 April – Vortex have Chris Montague and Ted Morcaldi downstairs and Dunajska Kapelye upstairs

Thursday, 4 April – Liz Fletcher with Leon Greening, Julie Walkington and Dave Ohm are at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club, Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, SE9 2PE

Thursday 4 April – Mark Aston on reeds and Lester Brown on trumpet are at the Hedsor Jazz club at the Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 4 April – Sarah Moule & Simon Wallace “Songs For Scarlet Women”: Jazz Cabaret celebrating the role of the femmes fatale over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Thursday 4 April – Mark Crooks, Jeremy Brown, Matt Skelton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 4 April – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (inspired by Chick Corea’s ‘Return To Forever’ & Keith Jarrett’s ‘European Quartet’) are at the 606

Thursday 4 April – Nick Costley-White Quartet are at Collage Arts @ Karamel 4 Coburg Road N22 6XJ

Friday 5 April – Paula Rae Gibson albumlaunch at the Vortex

Friday 5 April – Tony Kofi and the Organisation is at the Verdict in Brighton

Friday 5 April – The Jazz Café, 5 Parkway, Camden, London NW1 7PG have ‘Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall’ with Riketté Genesis

Friday 5 April – Jazzy funk & R&B with saxophonist Dave Lewis & his band 1UP are at the 606

Friday 5 April – Mike Austin sax / Dan Banks piano, Jazz & Aperitivo Night at Macknade, Faversham, Kent ME13 8XF

Saturday 6 April – Tristan Banks Quartet is at the Verdict in Brighton

Saturday 6 April – Award-winning jazz saxophonist Dave O’Higgins & his quartet ft. Sean Fyfe, piano are at the 606

Saturday 6 April – Mark Lockheart’s Smiling album launch is at the Vortex

Saturday 6 April – Haverhill Arts Centre, 42 High St Haverhill, CB9 8AR: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’

Sunday 7 April lunchtime – Clare Hirst and Claude Deppa are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 7 April lunchtime at the 606 acclaimed flautist, arranger & bandleader Gareth Lockrane and his Big Band

Sunday 7 April evening at the 606 Lulu Pierre with the Alex Webb Trio & Special Guest, saxophonist Denys Baptiste

Sunday 7 April – Equinox Jazz Quartet at MAP Studio cafe NW5 3DU from 2PM.

Sunday 7 April – Mo Pleasure is at Pizza Express Holborn

Sunday 7 April – Riverside Arts Jazz – Celebrating Grant Green feat. Edison Herbert with Terence Collie, Richard Sadler & Gaetano Di Giacomo. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury

Monday 8 April – Sarah Spencer’s Transatlantic Band. The very best of New Orleans jazz are at the Spice of Life , Soho

Monday 8 April- Nils Solberg (gtr/vox) with Neal Richardson (pno/vox), George Trebar (bass), Alex Eberhard (drums) Seaford – Splash Point Jazz Club, The View, Southdown Rd BN25 4JS

Monday 8 April – Award-winning Hungarian jazz pianist Krisztian Olah & his Quartet plus special guest, saxophonist Paul Booth is at the 606

Monday 8 April & Tuesday 9 April – Lynne Ariale Trio is at PizzaExpress Soho

Tuesday 9 April – Grifton Forbes-Amos Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 9 April – Jazz saxophonist Dan Reinstein is at the 606

Tuesday 9 April – Julian Marc Stringle Quartet are at the Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Tuesday 9 April – QOW with Riley Stone-Lonergan at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 9 April – Alan Barnes and Marc Cecil with Spike’s Academy are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Wednesday 10 April – Italian jazz & neo soul vocalist Francesca Confortini is at the 606

Wednesday 10 April – Footprints Jazz Quartet at MAP NW5 3DU from 8PM

Thursday 11 April – Al Swainger’s Pointless Beauty are at the SoundCellar in Poole

Thursday 11 April – Hot Jazz Vagabonds “Paris In A Jazz Age”: Songs from the Roaring Twenties feat Vocalist Airlie Scott & her swinging Jazz Vagabonds over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Thursday 11 April – Vocalist & Hammond organist John East & his band ft. Nigel Price, guitar & Dave Lewis, sax is at the 606

Thursday 11 April – Art Themen is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 11 April – Alison Balsom gives the UK premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ Trumpet Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican

Thursday 11 April -Ted Beament, Jerome Davies, Marc Cecil are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 11 April – Alan Barnes / Paul Clarvis Trio are at Collage Arts @ Karamel 4 Coburg Road N22 6XJ

Friday 12 April – Sarah Gillespie is at Ropetackle Arts Centre

Friday 12 April – Jim Mullen Organ Trio are at Guildford Jazz

Friday 12 April – Mark Lockheart & Chris Batchelor Quintet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester

Friday 12 April – Liane Carroll is at the Verdict in Brighton

Saturday 13 April – Rob Luft Quartet are at the Verdict in Brighton

Saturday 13 April – trumpeter James Davison with special guest, clarinettist Giacomo Smith (Kansas Smitty’s) is at the 606

Saturday 13 April – Steve Waterman’s Latin Jazz Quartet at The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln LN1 3BU

Sunday 14 April lunchtime – Nicolas Meier Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 14 April @ 3pm – THE URBAN BIG BAND is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Sunday 14 & Monday 15 April – Singer/guitarist & songwriter Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) & the Hamish Horns are at the 606

Monday 15 April – Michael Feinberg Trio ft. Aaron Goldberg are at the Pheasantry in Chelsea

Monday 15 April – The Bruce Adams/Alan Barnes Quintet. Celebrating thirty years of this peerless musical partnership are at the Spice of Life , Soho

Tuesday 16 April – Alan Barnes Quintet celebrate Ben ,Bean and Bird at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 16 April – Micky Ball and Montuno at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 16 April – Pianist & singer Dom Pipkin & his All Star New Orleans Trio is at the 606

Tuesday 16 April – Goldings,Bernstein,Stewart are at the Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Tuesday 16 April – Matt Skelton, James Davison, Mark Crooks, Leon Greening, Conor Chaplin are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Tuesday 16 April – Enrico Tomasso & Denny Ilett Jnr’s ​’Tribute to Louis Armstrong & Frank Sinatra’. Marlow Jazz Club, Royal British Legion Hall SL7 1NT

Wednesday 17 April – Pianist/arranger Kate Williams & her jazz quartet ft. guitarist Mike Outram are at the 606

Thursday 18 April – Denny Ilett & Chris Ingham Trio are at Guildford Jazz

Thursday 18 April – Art Themen with Pete Whittaker and Dave Ohm are at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club, Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, SE9 2PE

Thursday 18 April – Louise Cookman is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 18 April – The Remi Harris Hot Club Trio are at Crazy Coqs (Brasserie Zedel)

Thursday 18 April – Kaiyo 3 with Helena Kay are at Collage Arts @ Karamel 4 Coburg Road N22 6XJ

Thursday 18 April – Momentum: Exciting six-piece contemporary Jazz Fusion & World ensemble over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Thursday 18 April – Pianist John Crawford & his Quintet plus special guests launch their new album, “Room for Dancing” is at the 606

Friday 19 April – Sarah L King is at Piano Smithfield

Friday 19 April – Shez Raja at Oliver’s Jazz Bar

Saturday 20 April – Herne Bay Jazz Festival CIC Benefit Concert featuring John Etheridge Trio (opening guests including Kai Hoffman, Geoff Mason, Frances Knight and more). The King’s Hall, Herne Bay, Kent £20. 7:30pm

Sunday 21 April lunchtime – NOXQQ Quartet (on tour from the Netherlands) are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 21 April – Nette Robinson’s Little Big Band is at the Turk’s Head, Twickenham

Monday 22 April – Graham Hughes and his Sunshine Kings. A delightful mélange of swing and vintage jazz put together by this fine trombonis are at the Spice of Life , Soho

Tuesday 23 April – Sean Gibbs Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 23 April – Julian Nicholas Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 23 April – Jo Fooks, Dominic Ashworth, Andy Cleyndert, Buster Birch are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Wednesday 24 April – Julian Marc Stringle / Dominic Ashworth Quartet is at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA

Wednesday 24 April – Tony Kofi and Ian Shaw at Pizza Express Soho

Thursday 25 April – The Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AP: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’

Thursday 25 April -The Syd Lawrence Orchestra play the music of Duke Ellington at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 25 April – Laura Impallomeni Trio are at Collage Arts @ Karamel 4 Coburg Road N22 6XJ

Thursday 25 April – Tim Penn & The Second Line: Singer/ pianist Tim Penn & his band celebrate the swinging jazz & blues of New Orleans & more over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Thursday 25 April – Jonathan Gee / Tommy Remon duo are at Hampstead Jazz Club

Saturday 27 April – Pianist John Law’s new ensemble FUJAZZ are at the SoundCellar in Poole

Saturday 27 April 2.30 – Nick Smart & the Royal Academy of Music Jazz Conservatoire present indojazz fusions: revisited at Loughton Methodist Church, Loughton High Rd IG10 1RB

Saturday 27 April – The Katriona Taylor Quintet “ Jazz & Its Romance With The Silver Screen” over at the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13

Saturday 27 April – Pete Neighbour, Gunther Kurmayr, Andy Cleyndert, Matt Skelton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2

Sunday 28 April lunchtime – Terry Seabrook Quartet featuring Josephine Davies are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 28 April lunchtime – John Laws Re-Creations at Pizza Express Soho

Sunday 28 April evening – Brass Monkeys at Pizza Express Soho

Monday 29 April – Pete Neighbour and Julian Stringle’s Clarinet Summit featuring the Nick Dawson Trio are at the Spice of Life , Soho

Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 April – Antonio Forcione Quartet are at Ronnie Scott’s

Tuesday 30 April – Art Themen Trio are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 30 April – Fraser Smith Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 30 April – Shirley Smart Trio are at the Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Wednesday 1 May – Shez Raja ft John Etheridge and Guthrie Govan at Ronnie Scott’s

Wednesday 1 May- Yetii Ft. Jake McMurchie is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Thursday 2 May – The Cosimo Matassa Project: Jazz flavoured Rhythm and Blues of the late 1940’s & early 1950’s from Dai Price’s highly atmospheric 4-piece play the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV W4

Thursday 2 May – Adrian Cox with Dave Archer, Simon Reed and Dave Ohm are at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club, Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, SE9 2PE

Friday 3 May – Jazz Samba with Mark Crooks & Nigel Price at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester

Saturday 4 May – Melissa James is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Saturday 4 May – Equal Spirits – Wise and Waiting Album Launch, Rich Mix, London

Monday 6 May – The Five Nickels. Keeping the memory of the great Keith Nichols alive with Thomas “Spats” Langham, Enrico Tomasso and Richard Pite are at the Spice of Life , Soho

Sunday 5 May lunchtime – Dave Barry Quartet featuring Tim Whitehead are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Monday 6 May- Seonaid Aitken’s ‘Rose Room’ is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Tuesday 7 May – Mark Lockheart / John Parricelli Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 7 May- Richard Shelton is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

7 – 12 May – Stacey Kent is at Ronnie Scott’s

Wednesday 8 May- Chris Rand’s The Gathering is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Wednesday 8 May – The Filthy Six at Crypt Lates St Martin in the Fields Trafalgar Square WC2N 4JJ

Thursday 9 May- JT4tet & Nazarene are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Thursday 9 May- Barb Jungr is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Friday 10 May- Barb Jungr is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Saturday 11 May- Barb Jungr is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Sunday 12 May – Jonathan Gee is at the Cherry Tree in Southgate

Monday 13 May – Jonathan Gee / Gaetano Partipilo Quartet are at Cheltenham Jazz

Monday 13 May – Splash Point Jazz Club have Byron Wallen (tpt/flgl) “The Twilight Jaguar” at Seaford – Splash Point Jazz Club, The View, Southdown Rd BN25 4JS

Monday 13 May – Battle of the Saxes: Featuring Robert Fowler and Jo Fookes with the Ted Beament Trio at the Spice of Life , Soho

Tuesday 14 May – Dave Manington Sextet recreate Mingus Ah Um 65 since it was recorded at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 14 May – Jonathan Gee Quintet feat Denys Baptiste and Gaetano Partipilo are at 606

Wednesday 15 May – Jonathan Gee is at Jazz 825 in Southend

Thursday 16 May – Katriona Taylor’s Latin Connection play the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV W4

Thursday 16 May – Lily Dior with Gareth Williams and Geoff Gascoyne are at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club, Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, SE9 2PE

Friday 17 May Strictly Smokin’ Big Band, Fire Station, Sunderland

Friday 17 May – Julian Siegel Quartet, Ronnie Scott’s

Monday 20 May – The T.J. Johnson Quintet. The ever-popular singer/pianist returns with his mix of jazz, blues and a potpourri of country, gospel and more at the Spice of Life , Soho

Tuesday 21 May – Hannes Riepler Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 21 May – Daniel Erdmann’s Thérapie de Couple are at the Carlton Club in Manchester

Friday 24 May – Clark Tracey & Alex Clarke Quintet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester

Monday 27 May – Paula Jackman’s Jazz Masters. A six-piece New Orleans and Dixie line-up featuring Paula on clarinet, Mike “Magic” Henry on trumpet and stride piano virtuoso Hugh Crozier at the Spice of Life , Soho

Tuesday 28 May – Julian Costello Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Wednesday 29 May – Terry Quinney’s Sound of Blue Note is at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA

Thursday 30 May – Tim Garland, Kings Place

Friday 7 June – Alison Rayner Quintet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester.

14 June Anthropometricks by Trio HLK featuring Dame Evelyn Glennie, Natalie Clein & Varijashree Venugopal launch concert at Kings Place

Friday 28 June – CJC All-Stars with Hannah Horton & Tommaso Starace at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester

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

Thursday 28 March – The Eddie Gripper Trio are at the SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar

Friday 29 March – Mary Stallings is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/

Thursday 28 March – Brandee Younger Trio are streaming from Porgy & Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming

Saturday 30 March – The Cookers are streaming from KeyStoneKorner in Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar

Monday 1 April 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewd subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams

Thursday 11 April – Al Swainger’s Pointless Beauty are at the SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar

Saturday 27 April – Pianist John Law’s new ensemble FUJAZZ are at the SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar

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 Tuesday – Alec Harper Quartet are at Eastcheap Records 20 Eastcheap, London, EC3M 1EB

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

Every Sunday 6.30-8.30 Ollie Usiskin Quartet at The Priory Tavern 250 Belsize road north maida vale kilburn london NW6 4BT

Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday 3pm-7pm Neal Richardson plays at Afternoon Tea Jazz in The Drawing Room Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall,

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/

Sands Film Studios concerts from the EFG London Jazz Festival are still available – https://sandsfilms.co.uk/music-room-past-streams-watch-now.html

The weekly jam at Tiny Room’ Studio in Los Angeles, with all kinds of local luminaries showing up, has a live stream every Monday at 8pm PST / 4am GMT . Previous sessions are on Youtube at : https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams

4) Radio etc

On each Tuesday in November, the Cinema Club at Sands Film Studios 82 Marychurch St SE16 4HZ will screen documentaries on the theme of Jazz in Europe

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)

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)

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