Our weekly companion to the Wednesday Breakfast Headlines email newsletter
Sad to report the death of drummer/engineer producer Damon Sawyer (photo above uncredited in Facebook profile) – read tributes
The 9th Rhythm Changes Conference in Amsterdam has put out a call for papers – read more
This never happens: four out of five of Presto Music’s jazz albums of the year have UK artists involved – read more
“Now there is new ownership, the lights are back on.” JazzTimes is back, with David Adler as Editor – read more
Xhosa Cole talks to Sammy Stein of Kind of Jazz about the importance of Monk, the Birmingham jazz scene and more – read more
Opportunity for northern artists – applications for a £3k touring bursary and showcase at Manchester Jazz Festival 2025 are open – read more
Richard Williams of the Blue Moment salutes the Intakt label and its founder, Patrik Landolt – read more
Hank Shteamer picks his best jazz albums of 2024 in the New York Times (£) – read more
New name have been added to the line-up for the 2025 Brick Lane Jazz Festival – read more
Robin Phillips talks to The Jazz Podcast about his new single “I’m Coming Home” – read more
Mike Hobart reviewed Motion I, the debut album from Blue Note supergroup Out of/Into (Gerald Clayton, Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, Kendrick Scott, Matt Brewer) [£] – read more
Tina Edwards is sitting in for Soweto Kinch all this week on BBC Radio 3’s Round Midnight – listen
The release of Josephine Davies’s new big band album is imminent – read more
Wednesday 11 December – John Butcher (saxophones), Dominic Lash (double bass), Steve Noble (drums), and Pat Thomas (piano) are at the Vortex
Wednesday 11 December – Robin Aspland Quartet is at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
Wednesday 11 December – Carshalton Jazz presents Alan Barnes and Art Themen with Clark Tracey, Andy Cleyndert and Dave Newton at CryerArts, Carshalton. SOLD OUT
Wednesday 11 December – Tim Whitehead (above) is at the 606
Thursday 12 December – Pete Long is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 12 December – (K)now Straition – Katy Jungmannis at XYZ 5 Gray’s Inn Rd
Thursday 12 December – Johnny Thirkle on trumpet with Sue Greenway on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club, Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 12 December – Leo Green Quartet is at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
Thursday 12 December – Christmas Party with Alan Barnes, and Chris Dean, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Matt Skelton at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 12 December 6:15-8pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles – Neal Richardson with Miles Danso at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London
Friday 13 December – Alan Barnes’ Christmas Fare at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Friday 13 December – Meier/Cywinski Electric Fusion Experience are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 13 December – Ben Martin Quartet ‘Swinging around the Christmas Tree’ at Stamford Arts Centre 27 St Mary’s Street Stamford PE9 2DL
Friday 13 December – Joe Webb’s 5-a-side are at the 606
Friday 13 December – Sultan Stevenson is at the Vortex
Friday 13 December – RNCM Big Band with Madeline Bell RNCM 124 Oxford Road Manchester
Saturday 14 December 1pm – The story of the vibraphone with Orphy Robinson Septet at Loughton Baptist Church 92 High Rd Loughton IG10 4QU
Saturday 14 December – JAZZ CHRISTMAS: Jazz Christmas Around the World! at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 14 December – The Pocket Ellington, a seven-piece celebration of the Ellington repertoire featuring Alan Barnes and Tony Kofi are at the Vortex plus a late with the Bruno Heinen Trio
Saturday 14 December – Pete Lukas Latin Band are at Hawkins Forge, 110 Battersea Rise, London SW11 1EJ
Sunday 15 December lunchtime – Terry Seabrook Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 15 December – MOJO Xmas party at the Vortex plus the jam in the evening
Sunday 15 December 6pm – Jazz Carols at Methodist Central Hall Westminster
Sunday 15 December 5pm – David Jean-Baptiste is at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London
Sunday 15 December – The Phoenix Big Band with vocalist Robert Habermann is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Sunday 15 December – Riverside Arts Jazz Christmas Special feat. Tommaso Starace with Terence Collie, Richard Sadler & Winston Clifford
Sunday 15 December – Hamish Stuart is at the 606
Monday 16 December – Dan McConkey Trio are at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Rd
Tuesday 17 December – Emma Smith Quartet is at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
Tuesday 17 December – Nat Steele Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 18 December – Alex Clarke Quartet is at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
Wednesday 18 December – Mo Pleasure Band are at the 606
Wednesday 18 December – Jazz Carols, American International Church
Wednesday 18 December – Diarra Walcott-Ivanhoe Quintet downstairs , Andrew Linham Jazz Orchestra upstairs at the Vortex
Wednesday 18 December – The Andy Panayi Big Band are at Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne
Thursday 19 December – Art Themen Quartet is at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
Thursday 19 December 6:15-8pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles – Neal Richardson with Miles Danso at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London
Thursday 19 December – Alex Ridout is at the Vortex
Thursday 19 December – John Etheridge is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 19 December- Duncan Lamont on sax with Lester Brown on trumpet and Sarah Jane Eveleigh on vocals are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 19 December – Karamel in Wood Green are having a Xmas party with Kaiyo and Brandon Allen 4 Coburg Road London, England N22 6XJ
Thursday 19 December – Hannah Horton/Tony Kofi: Two Baritones are at the Jazz Sanctuary Turks Head, The, 28 Winchester Rd, Twickenham TW1 1LF
Friday 20 December – Julian Nicholas & Emil Viklicky Quartet: “Food of Love” – album launch at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 20 December – Josephine Davies Enso Ensemble have an album launch at the Vortex
Friday 20 December – ‘A Jazzy Christmas – Paul Edis, Jo Harrop and Friends’ and is at St. Gabriels’ Church, Pimlico
Saturday 21 December – Tori Freestone & Alcyona Mick Duo at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Sunday 22 December lunchtime – Jonathan Gee Quartet featuring Denys Baptiste are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 22 December – Jazz at the Horsebridge, Whitstable, Kent: Trudy Kerr & Geoff Gascoyne Quartet. Two shows. 2pm Jazz for Juniors family show. 5pm-7pm Jazz Quartet
Thursday 26 December lunchtime – Tracey Mendham Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Friday 27 December – Nick Etwell Trio are at Oriole , St Martin’s Courtyard , WC2E 9AB
Saturday 28 December 2pm – Derek Nash with Dominic Ashworth, Geoff Gascoyne, George Double are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 28 December – Swing Into Christmas, Down for the Count, Cadogan Hall
Saturday 28 December – John Etheridge and Vimala Rowe are at the Vortex
Sunday 29 December lunchtime – Dave Barry’s Fourcast featuring Dave O’Higgins are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 29 December 5pm – Richie Garrison is at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London
Tuesday 31 December – See in the New Year with Ian Shaw (photo above by Lisa Wormsley) at the Vortex
Thursday 2 January – Jo Harr0p Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 2 January – Roella Orolo Trio are at the Vortex
Thursday 2 January – Liane Carroll is at the 606
Sunday 5 January lunchtime – QOW trio are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Tuesday 7 January – Monking Around Quintet ft DaveO’Higgins are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 7 January – Lily Dior Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 8 January – Jack Wilson Quartet downstairs , vocalist and vibraphone player Amy Hollingsworth and pianist Will Hobson upstairs at the Vortex
Wednesday 8 January – Geoff Simkins Quartet featuring Tom Ollendorff, Corrie Dick and Conor Chaplin are at Pizza Express Soho
Thursday 9 January – Jakub Klimiuk Quintet with guest Mark Lockheart is at the SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 9 January – Richard Pite, Chinara, Jerome Davies, Gunther Kurmayr are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 9 January – Ricky Ford is at Pizza Soho
Thursday 9 January- Alum Nathoo on reeds with Stuart Henderson on trumpet are at the Hedsor Jazz Club, at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Friday 10 January – Julian Siegel Quartet are at the Vortex
Friday 10 January – Scott Hamilton Quartet with Nat Steele at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Saturday 11 January – Mark Lockheart & John Parricelli (photo above by Brian Homer) are at Listen! Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Sunday 12 January lunchtime – Ian East Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Monday 13 January – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Derek Nash (saxes) with the Neal Richardson Trio
Tuesday14 January – Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson Quartet with Robert Mitchell , Larry Bartley and Mark Mondesir are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 14 January – Jo Fooks, Neil Casey, Andy Cleyndert, Buster Birch are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 15 January – Carshalton Jazz presents funk/soul/ jazz from the Filthy Six at Cryer Arts, Carshalton High Street, SM5 3BB
Friday 17 January – Daniel Casimir is at the the Lighthouse in Poole
Friday 17 January – The Elchin Shirinov Quartet are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 18 January – Arnaldo Cogorno is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Sunday 19 January lunchtime – The Quartet featuring Vasilis Xenopoulos are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Tuesday 21 January – Byron Wallen Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 21 January – Vasilis Xenopoulos Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 21 January – Kevin Hays & Jorge Rossy are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Thursday 23 January – Trish Clowes/Mike Outram/Calum Gourlay/Joel Barford is at the SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 23 January – Alex Garnett Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Saturday 25 January 2pm – Ted Beament, Robert Fowler, Alec Dankworth, Rod Brown are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 25 January – Kris Davis Trio are at the Vortex
Saturday 25 January – The Bryan Corbett Quintet play ‘Blue Note’ at the Blue Room at the Lawn, Union Road, Lincoln LN1 3BU (Bryan Corbett – Trumpet/Flugelhorn, Chris Bowden – Sax, Paul Deats – Piano, Tom Hill – Bass, Andrew Wood – Drums)
Sunday 26 January lunchtime – The Organisation Quartet featuring Roger Beaujolais are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Tuesday 28 January – Tom Barford Quintet ft James Copus and Ivo Neame are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 28 January – Adrian Cox Trio – ‘Makin’ Runs’ are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Friday 31 January – Georgia Mancio Quartet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Sunday 2 February lunchtime – Vladimir Miller Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.
Friday 13 December – Ravi Coltrane is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 16 December 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Monday 16 December – NQ Jazz Orchestra are streaming from NQ Jazz in Manchester https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on
Sunday 22 December – radio.string.quartet are streaming from Porgy and Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Thursday 9 January – Jakub Klimiuk Quintet with guest Mark Lockheart is streaming from the SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Sunday 12 January – Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano), Evan Parker (saxophone) and Paul Lytton (percussion) are streaming from Cafe Oto https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/schlippenbach-parker-lytton-2/#
Sunday 19 January – Music Is – Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook from the Riverhouse Barn Walton-on-Thames https://thelittleboxoffice.com/riverhouse/event/view/205286?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3qS1MfEyZylShaB4-btnMu1MBgiJ6UOL5w143hbzTPRotrzluxmrah-xg_aem_nRBIhkLA5HDO3DRQ37mGiA
Thursday 23 January – Trish Clowes/Mike Outram/Calum Gourlay/Joel Barford is streaming from the SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Tuesday 28 January – Tord Gustavsen Trio are streaming from Porgy and Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
3) Residencies
Every third Sunday of each month at 7pm at the Queen’s Head, Denman Street, Jake Goss and friends
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 Wednesday at The Plough 381 Lordship Lane SE22 8JJ starting at 8.30 p.m. a jam session. Resident piano trio. Bring your horns along and play from 8.30 p.m.
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
Alan Musson’s ‘Jazz Kaleidoscope’ airs on Sanctuary Radio on Sunday nights 8-9pm and from 15 December will be extended to two hours 7-9pm. https://www.sanctuaryradio.co.uk
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 www.mykindamusic24.com
Liverpool Community Radio – “The Jazz Cavern” 106.7 FM. 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)
5) Courses etc
The Jazz Singer’s Workshop – 606 Club November 23rd 10am-4pm
LightSounds Audiovisual Art Festival and workshops 23-24.11.2024 at The Stage, Richmix, 35-37 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA London
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