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THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

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

Wednesday 10 April – Loz Speyer is at the Vortex

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

Thursday 11 April – Joel Ross Good Vibes at the Vortex

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 – Johnny Thirkle on trumpet with Sue Greenway on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

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 – The XPQ: Vasilis Xenopoulos / Nigel Price Quartet are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

Friday 12 April – Hannes Riepler Quartet are at the Vortex

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 – Gianluca De Martini Quartet: Love’s in Need of Love Today

are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

Saturday 13 April – Pigfoot are at Highams Park Jazz Club , County Arms E4 9PB

Saturday 13 April – Nikki Yeoh returns to the Vortex for an unmissable night with an incredible line-up featuring Olie Brice , Paul Dunmall & Mark Sanders

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 April – Ollie Usiskin Quartet The Priory Tavern , 250 Belsize road , Kilburn , NW6

Sunday 14 April – Tristan Banks Qt featuring Paul Booth, Davide Mantovani, John Crawford are at Off the Rails , Richmond , TW9 2NQ

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

Monday 15 April – Finn Genockey Quartet are at the Parakeet (FNA – The Oxford) on Kentish Town Rd

Monday 15 April – Anatole Muster is at the Vortex

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 – James Brandon-Lewis is at the Vortex

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 – Bruno Heinen Quartet downstairs , Shirley Smart Sextet upstairs at the Vortex

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

Wednesday 17 April – Carshalton Jazz present: Ewan Bleach Quintet with Joplin Parnell Piano, Lewis Taylor Trumpet, John Kelly Guitar, Harry Evans Bass are at Cryer Arts Centre

High Street Carshalton. SM53BB

Thursday 18 April – Ronan Guilfoyle downstairs , Di-Cysgodion upstairs at the Vortex

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

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

Thursday 18 April – Lester Brown on trumpet with Frank Walden on tenor sax are at the Hedsor Jazz club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

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 – Julian Costello Quartet with Georgia Mancio are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0R

Friday 19 April – Gareth Lockrane is at the Vortex

Friday 19 April – Sarah L King is at Piano Smithfield

Friday 19 April – Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi ‘Altera Vita’ Album Launch is at Kings Place

Friday 19 April – Pianist Joe Webb (Kansas Smitty’s) & his quintet ft Alec Harper-sax & Dave Archer-guitar is at the 606

Friday 19 April -Louise Messenger and her trio are at Crazy Coqs (Brasserie Zedel)

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

Friday 19 April – The Art Themen Quartet feat Art on tenor sax, Robin Aspland, pno, Tim Wells, d bass & Spike Wells, drms play the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, W4

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

Saturday 20 April – Modern jazz led by saxophonist Mornington Lockett (New Jazz Couriers) & his band ft. Will Barry, piano at the 606

Saturday 20 April – Lulu Pierre is at the Vortex

Saturday 20 April – Krzysztof Urbański Quartet are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0R

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

Sunday 21 April – Ollie Usiskin Quartet The Priory Tavern , 250 Belsize road , Kilburn , NW6

Sunday 21 April – Jam sssion with Zhenya Strigalev at Highams Park Jazz Club , County Arms E4 9PB

Sunday 21 April – Lunch: Jazz singer/pianist Eriko Ishihara & her quartet ft. Colin Oxley-guitar at the 606

Sunday 21 April – evening: “The Wonder of Stevie” ft. Noel McCalla/Derek Nash Celebrating Stevie Wonder at the 606

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

Monday 22 April – Mark Lockheart Trio are at the Parakeet (FNA – The Oxford) on Kentish Town Rd

Monday 22 April – Blues singer/pianist Dino Baptiste (Dana Gillespie) & Night Train ft. Cameron Rossi-sax are at the 606

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

Tuesday 23 April – Bassist Phil Mulford’s Thunderthumbs 10-piece jazz/funk band ft. vocalists Jacqui Hicks, Hazel Fernandes, Simon Foster are at the 606

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

Wednesday 24 April – Scottish Saxophonist Jo Fooks & her mainstream jazz quintet ft. Terence Collie-piano are at the 606

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 – Allison Neale is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

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

Thursday 25 April – One of the most popular jazz artists in Hungary, award-winning jazz/groove guitarist Attila Laszlo & his UK quartet ft Laurence Cottle-bass is at the 606

Friday 26 April – Brazilian/jazz quintet Samara ft. Carolina Lelis-vocals; Steve Rubie- sax/flute; Neil Angilley-piano are at the 606

Friday 26 April – Marta Carillon Quintet: Jazz Divas Reimagined are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

Friday 26 April – Denny Ilett & Rory Ingham with Joe Pettitt, Robin Aspland & Sebastiaan De Krom at Trinity School Jazz Club, Croydon

Saturday 27 April 10.30 am – LABYRINTH: British Jazz on Record 1960-75 Book Launch at The Jazz Hub , Loughton Library , Traps Hill , Loughton IG10 1HD

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 – Marcina Arnold Quartet: Celebrating the Jazz Voice are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

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

Saturday 27 April – Mainstream jazz with Trumpet/Cornet player Bruce Adams & Special Guest, saxophonist Alan Barnes are at the 606

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 – Brazilian jazz with singer/guitarist Kaw Regis & his quartet ft. pianist John Crawford are at the 606

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

Sunday 28 April evening – Brass Monkeys at Pizza Express Soho

Sunday 28 April – Ollie Usiskin Quartet The Priory Tavern , 250 Belsize road , Kilburn , NW6

Sunday 28 April -Jazz on the Plaza feat. Alex Garnett with Terence Collie and Stuart Barker. Cafe Yukari, Kew

Monday 29 April – As featured in the Paddington films, Calypso/Afro-Caribbean sextet Tobago and d’Lime at the 606

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 April – David Preston Trio are at the Parakeet (FNA – The Oxford) on Kentish Town Rd

Monday 29 April – Byron Wallen + Wonky Logic + Donnovan Haffner are at Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre

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

Tueday 30 April, Wed/Thu 1st & 2nd May: The Stacey Brothers “Royal Scammers”: Tribute to Steely Dan at the 606

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

Wednesday 1 May Jakub Klimiuk Quintet album launch, Vortex Jazz Club

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 – Geoff Mason is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

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

Thursday 2 May – Pete Neighbour, John Pearce, Simon Thorpe, Matt Skelton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

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

Friday 3 May – Heidi Vogel Quartet are at Jazz Cafe POSK W6 0RF

Friday 3 May – Zara McFarlane Presents the Music of Sarah Vaughan at Ronnie Scotts

Saturday 4 May – ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON feat. Tony Kofi and Marco Marzola Quartet are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

Saturday 4 May 1pm – Terence Collie Quartet with Terence Collie, Roberto Manzin, Nick Lerner-Websster and Ted Carrasco. Pizza Express Live, Dean Street

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

Sunday 5 May – Jam sssion with Jim Mullen at Highams Park Jazz Club , County Arms E4 9PB

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 – Marco Marzola Trio from Italy – Nico Menci, Marco Marzola, Alfonso Vitale are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Tuesday 7 May – Ben Creighton-Griffiths’ Chube is at Pizza Express Jazz Club

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

6 – 12 May Gypsy Jazz Festival of London

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 – Nigel Price is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 9 May – Marco Marzola Trio from Italy. Nico Menci, Marco Marzola, Alfonso Vitale are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

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

Friday 10 May – The Royal College of Music Jazz Orchestra are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

Saturday 11 May – The Darius Brubeck Quartet plays Brubeck Music and South African jazz! are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

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

Saturday 11 May – Tim Lapthorn Trio are at Highams Park Jazz Club , County Arms E4 9PB

Saturday 11 May – Rebecka Edlund’s Virgin Forest with Laura Jurd and Elliot Galvin are at Listen .. Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW

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 – Ben Webster is being celebrated at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf Club, Reigate Road, Dorking RH4 1NZ with Alex Webb ,Tony Kofi, Alan Barnes, Ben Cummings , David Lalljee , Dave Green , Clark Tracey and the J.A.M. String Collective

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

Tuesday 14 May – Pete Neighbour, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Matt Fishwick are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

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

Wednesday 15 May – Bill Frisell Trio are at Islington Assembly Halls

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

Thursday 16 May – Dave O’Higgins is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay EN2 8AS

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

Friday 17 May – Tomasz Bura Group with Rouhangeze and special guests plus JAM SESSION are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

Saturday 18 May – EXPERIENCE BECK: A Tribute to Jeff Beck are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

Saturday 18 May – Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, London SE11 4RN host : Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’ with the Alex Webb Quintet

Saturday 18 May – Nette Robinson and Tony Woods: Home Thoughts Soirée: The Water is Wide are at Sunbury-on-Thames, TW16 7BD

Sunday 19 May – Jam session with Duncan Eagles at Highams Park Jazz Club , County Arms E4 9PB

Sunday 19 May – Riverside Arts Jazz feat. Dave O’Higgins with Terence Collie, Matyas Honecker and Alfonso Vitale. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury.

Sunday 19 May – Tony Woods Project are at the Turk’s Head, Twickenham

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 – The Lily Dior Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

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

Thursday 23 May – Jacqui Hicks and the John Pearce Trio.are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 23 May – Shireen Francis’ Caribbean Island Jazz Trio feat Shireen, vcls, Dominis Grant, gtr & Mark Cherry, steel pan over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV W4

Thursday 23 May – Lulu Pierre is at Cambridge Modern Jazz Club, Hidden Rooms, 7b Jesus Lane CB5 8BA with Tony Kofi and the Alex Webb Trio

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

Friday 24 May – Chris Dean Quartet: “San Francisco” – Songs of Tony Bennett are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

Saturday 25 May – Agata Kubiak Quintet: History of Jazz Violin are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

Saturday 25 May 2pm – Sam Braysher, Sam Watts, Dave Green, Steve Brown are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2

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 31 May – Tristan Banks Quartet are at Jazz Cefe POSK W6 0RF

Saturday 1 June – Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’ is at Jazz Cafe POSK, 238-246 King Street London W6 0RF

Sunday 2 June – Tim Whitehead’s Personal Standards Quartet are at the Turk’s Head, Twickenham

Monday 3 June – The Music of Horace Silver. The soulful jazz of this musical legend is recreated by a stellar band led by saxophonist Pete Long with Mark Armstrong on trumpet and Robin Aspland on piano at the Spice of Life , Soho

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

Saturday 8 June – James Kitchman & Bruno Heinen are at Listen .. Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW

Monday 10 June – The Dean Masser Quintet. The Wigan Wonder returns with special guest Nigel Price on guitar at the Spice of Life , Soho

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

Saturday 15 June 17.30- 22.30 And evening of Jazz & Gin with “East of Meon” Jazz band , Wylds Farm Warren Rd, Liss hampshire GU33 7PF

Monday 17 June – The Hot Club of Jupiter. The fantastic young band led by violinist Kit Massey returns at last at the Spice of Life , Soho

Monday 24 June – Jack Honeyborne’s 96th Birthday Spectacular with a host of guests and chocolate cake for everyone! Fire extinguishers at the ready – there’s a heck of a lot of candles at the Spice of Life , Soho

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

2) Streamed…

Thursday 11 April – Christian McBride is streaming from KeyStoneKorner in Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Thursday 11 April – Al Swainger’s Pointless Beauty are at the SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Friday 12 April – George Coleman is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Saturday 13 April – Kurt Elling is streaming from KeyStoneKorner in Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Monday 15 April 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewd subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Tuesday 23 April – James Blood Ulmer is streaming from Porgy and Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
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)