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It’s been a busy week for jazz in the Guardian:
Richard Williams of the Blue Moment writes about a new biography of Don Cherry – read more
Ethan Iverson marks what would have been Ornette Coleman’s 95th birthday by looking back at Science Fiction (1972), which he describes as the saxophonist’s ‘greatest’ studio album – read more
Version Standard flagged up the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s upcoming tour with percussionist Trilok Gurtu – read more
Sebastian reviewed Bonhoeffer, a biopic of would-be Hitler assassin Dietrich Bonhoeffer, for the Arts Desk – read more
Wednesday 12 March – Piano in The Elms: Alberto L. Ferro – Piano Introspections is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Wednesday 12 March – ‘Funk My Life’: Stage Star Philippa Healey & Special Guests: Including Jamiroquai’s Paul Turner & Derrick McKenzie, Crazy Coqs, London
Wednesday 12 March – Vortex have the George Johnson Quartet downstairs and a John-Paul Muir album launch upstairs
Wednesday 12 March – Carshalton Jazz presents Steve Waterman’s Latin Jazz Quartet (Steven Waterman, tpt and flugel, John Donaldson, pno, Rob Statham, b, Marc Cecil, d) at Cryer Arts, Carshalton SM5 3BB
Wednesday 12 March – Francesca Confortini is at the 606
Thursday 13 March – Pete Neighbour, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Bobby Worth are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 13 March – Josh Kemp is at Googlies Jazz Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 13 March – Aurora Nealand and Liam Noble are at the Vortex
Thursday 13 March 7.30pm, – Guildhall Jazz Orchestra: Dankworth Seven are at Milton Court Theatre
Thursday 13 March – KAIYO 3 with Achille Succi, Marta Raviglia and Paul Clarvis are at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 13 March – Sara Oschlag Quartet is at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BP
Thursday 13 March- Lester Brown on trumpet with James Fenn on guitar are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 13 March – 606 Club Special – Ethan Iverson ‘Into the Dark’ is at the 606
Thursday 13 March– The Hip Breakers: hot mix of jazz, blues & neo-soul from the former rhythm section of the Mississippi Swamp Dogs, Paul Miller, keys & vcls, Dan Redding, gtr, Jonno Lee, drms with special guest Duncan Eagles, sax over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 13th March – Soho Jazz Jam ft. Andy Davies is at Alfie’s Soho
Friday 14th March – Pablo Barrios’ A Night in Havana is at Piano Bar Soho
Friday 14th March – Koko Collective is at Alfie’s Soho
Friday 14 March – Joe Webb’s 5 a Side are at the 606
Friday 14 March – Marcina Arnold: EVOLUTION – album launch is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 14 March – Fini Bearman album launch is at the Vortex
Friday 14 March – Piano in The Elms: Julian Joseph is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Friday 14 March – Zhenya Strigalev is at Ladbroke Hall, 79 Barlby Road, London, W10 6AZ
Saturday 15 March – Tony Kofi and The Organisation celebrate Lou Donaldson at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 15 March – Sarah L King with Jim Watson and Laurence Cottle at Hampstead Jazz Club
Saturday 15 March – Alex Hitchcock Quartet are at the Vortex plus a late from Huw V Williams
Saturday 15 March – Benn Clatworthy is at the 606
Saturday 15th March – Olly Mux Trio is at Piano Bar Soho
Saturday 15th March – Ineza Jazz Quartet is at Alfie’s Soho
Saturday 15 March – The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln host the Alison Rayner Quintet (ARQ) Led by bassist and Ivor Novello-winning composer Alison Rayner. Line-up is Alison Rayner, bass’ Buster Birch, drums, Deirdre Cartwright guitar. Diane McLoughlin, saxophone
Sunday 16 March lunchtime – Tracey Mendham Quartet is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 16 March 5pm – Jim Mullen is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ
Monday 17 March -Barry Green is at the 606
Monday 17 March – Devon Gates is at the Bull and Gate 389 Kentish Town Rd, London NW5 2TJ
Monday 17 March – Olivia Murphy Jazz Orchestra are at Pizza Express Soho
Monday 17 – 19 March – Avishai Cohen Trio present Brightlight at Ronnie Scott’s
Tuesday 18 March – Benn Clatworthy is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 18 March – Al Nicholls Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 18 March – Andy Panayi Quintet plays Cannonball at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 18 March – Satchmo’s Legacy – Pete Horsfall Swings for Louis Armstrong is at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BP
Tuesday 18 March – RMQ are at the 606
Tuesday 18 March – Luke Rattenbury Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 19 March – Benn Clatworthy is at Guildford Jazz
Wednesday 19 March – Almanaque are at the 606
Wednesday 19th March – Reuben Goldmark Trio in Session is at Alfie’s Soho as part of Duke’s Discovery Week
Thursday 20th March – Nathan Britton’s Duke Reworks is at Piano Bar Soho as part of Duke’s Discovery Week
Thursday 20 March –Echo Engine with Theo Travis are at SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 20 March – Martin Shaw is at Googlies Jazz Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 20 March – Freddie Benedict sings the American Songbook is at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BP
Thursday 20 March- Vasilis Xenopoulos on sax is at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 20 March – Nikki Iles & Kate Williams / Robert Mitchell & Richard Fairhurst at Pizza Express Soho
Thursday 20 March – Women in Jazz Media presents: Devon Gates at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 20 March – Rachael Calladine is at the 606
Thursday 20 March 6:15-8pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles Neal Richardson with Miles Danso at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB
Thursday 20th March – Soho Jazz Jam ft. Andy Davies as part of Duke’s Discovery Week
Friday 21st March – James Browne Trio is at Piano Bar Soho as part of Duke’s Discovery Week
Friday 21st March – Nico Widdowson’s “Love You Madly”: a Tribute to Duke Ellington is at Alfie’s Soho as part of Duke’s Discovery Week
Friday 21 March – James Allsopp Quartet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Friday 21 March – Greg Spero & Spirit Fingers are at Jazz Cafe
Friday 21 March – Femi Tomowo is at Ladbroke Hall, 79 Barlby Road, London, W10 6AZ
Friday 21 March – Elsden Music Showcase with Julian Costello & Vertigo, Juliet Wood, and Natalie Rozario and Friends… at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 21 March – Katriona Taylor Quintet “Jazz And Its Romance With The Silver Screen”: over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Saturday 22 March – Gosia Janek Quintet are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 22nd March – Kezia Abuoma Trio: Celebrating Duke Ellington is at Piano Bar Soho as part of Duke’s Discovery Week
Saturday 22nd March – Andy Davies Quartet is at Alfie’s Soho as part of Duke’s Discovery Week
Saturday 22 March – Frank Griffith w/Richard Wetherall- piano, Grant Russell- bass, Eryl Roberts-drums are at Heron Theatre. Stanley Street, Beetham, Milnthorpe, LA7 7AS
Saturday 22 March – Jason Rebello is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ
Saturday 22 March – Listen! are putting on Strange Meeting: The Music of Bill Frisell with Chris Batchelor , Margrit Hasler , John Parricelli and Dave Whitford at Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Saturday 22nd March – Binker Golding is at the 606
Sunday 23 March lunchtime – Simon Spillett All Star Quartet is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 23 March 2025 – Tom Millar/Matt Sulzmann Quartet Turk’s Head Twickenham
Monday 24 March – Ashley Bonfante Quintet is at the Bull and Gate 389 Kentish Town Rd, London NW5 2TJ
Tuesday 25 March – Brand Nu Dolla Play Abdullah Ibrahim at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 25 March – Vasilis Xenopoulos and Paul Edis Quartet are at the Trafalgar Arms 148-156 Tooting High St, London SW17 0RT
Tuesday 25 March – Mornington Lockett: All Aboard – the music of John Coltrane is at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BP
Tuesday 25 March – Tim Whitehead Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 25 March – Eddie Parker’s ‘Airborn’ with Rob Luft are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Wednesday 26 March – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Alan Barnes (saxes) and Dave Newton (keys) Duo, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Thursday 27 March – Mick Foster, Rob Barron, Dave Mannington, Tristan Mailliot are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 27 March – Louise Messenger’s “Swing Thing” is at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BP
Thursday 27 March – TOMORROW’S WARRIORS presents Kezia Abuoma Trio at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 27 March – Huw Warren Choro Choro Choro is at Guildford Jazz
Thu 27th March – Bourbon & Blues top Canadian vocalist Dom Durner and Italian guitar maestro Giulio Romano Malaisi over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George !V, W4
Thursday 27th March – Soho Jazz Jam: Vocal Edition is at Alfie’s Soho
Thursday 27 March – Julian Stringle & Pete Neighbour are at Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Friday 28 March – Five-Way Split is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Friday 28 March – Billy Marrows’ Grande Familia are at Crookes Social Club Sheffield
Friday 28 March – Mark Kavuma & The Banger Factory is at Ladbroke Hall, 79 Barlby Road, London, W10 6AZ
Friday 28 March 2025 – WOW presents Ellington/Strayhorn at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 28th March – Arran Kent Trio is at Piano Bar Soho
Friday 28th March – Olivia Cuttill is at Alfie’s Soho
Saturday 29th March – Koko Collective is at Alfie’s Soho
Saturday 29th March – Stu Barker Trio is at Piano Bar Soho
Saturday 29 March 2pm – Dave and Alice Black, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Dave Pack are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 29th March – Becky Alice Quintet are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 29 March 2025 – ‘The Brandon Allen Quartet’, featuring Brandon Allen (saxophone), Tim Lapthorn (piano), Jeremy Brown (bass) and Chris Higginbottom (drums), are appearing for Burrough Jazz at Twyford Village Hall, LE14 2HU
Sunday 30 March lunchtime – John Donaldson Quartet is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 30 March 5pm – Alex Clarke is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ
Monday 31 March – The W with Bruno Heinen and Heidi Vogel plus Maria Chiara Argirò are at Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre London, NW8 8EH
Monday 31 March – Matt Holborn is at the Bull and Gate 389 Kentish Town Rd, London NW5 2TJ
Tuesday 1 April – The Miguel Gorodi Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 1 April – Chris Ingham Quintet -Steely Jazz is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Thursday 3 April – Gary Willcox Quartet are at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
Friday 4 April – Jazzlive at The Crypt, St. Giles Church, Camberwell Church Street, London SE5: Coltrane and Hartman on Impulse! feat. Denys Baptiste and Marvin Muoneké
Friday 4 April – Christian Vaughan’s Repertoire Dogs are at Jazz Cofe POSK, 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 5 April – Perfect Stranger are at Jazz Cofe POSK, 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Sunday 6 April lunchtime – Basil Hodge Quartet featuring Ed Jones is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Monday 7 April – The Jazz Café, 5 Parkway, Camden, London NW1 7PG: to celebrate Billie Holiday’s birthday, Riketté Genesis and Alex Webb present ‘Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall
Tuesday 8 April – Amina Figarova Quintet is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 8 April – The Gary Willcox’ drummers/composers project is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone featuring George Crowley and Quentin Collins
Wednesday 9 April – The Concorde Club, Stoneham Lane, Eastleigh S)50 9HQ: The Pocket Ellington, a seven-piece celebration of the Ellington repertoire play this prestigious out-of-town jazz spot with Alan Barnes and Tony Kofi
Thursday 10 April – Remi Harris Hot Club Trio are at Crazy Coqs
Friday 11 April – Daniel John Martin (violin), Mick Shoulder (guitar) and Dan Lowndes-Smith (guitar) are performing Gypsy jazz for Burrough Jazz at St Mary’s church, Burrough, LE14 2JQ
Friday 11 April – Nette Robinson Quartet: Chat Baker Project are at Jazz Cofe POSK, 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 12 April – NICOLAS MASSON + ROB LUFT + VALENTIN LIECHTI are at Jazz Cofe POSK, 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 12th April – Iain Ballamy and Huw Warren are at Listen! Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Sunday 13 April 6.30 pm Ralph Moore ON TOUR FROM THE USA, with Vasilis Xenopoulos and Simon Woolf Trio at Imber Court, KT8 0BT
Tuesday 15 April – Scott Hamilton & Nat Steele Play the Music of John Lewis & MJQ-Album launch at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 15 April – The Niklas Lukassen Quartet is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone featuring Emma Rawicz , Ivo Neame and James Maddren
Wednesday 16 April – Donovan Haffner is at Pizza Express Soho
Saturday 19 April – The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln LN1 3BU. host Clark Tracey’s Champions of Jazz (Clark Tracey, Drums, Art Themen & Simon Allen, saxes. Dave Newton, piano, Andy Cleyndert, bass) in a tribute to Roy Haynes
Sunday 20 April 2025 – Pete Hurt is at Turk’s Head Twickenham
Monday 21 April, 6-8PM – Frank Griffith trio are at The Crown Pub- High Street, Nantwich part of Nantwich Jazz and Blues Festival
Tuesday 22 April – The Jon Lloyd Quartet featuring John Law is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Thursday 24 April – The Jazz Mondays: West London based 13 piece ‘Little Big Band’ famous for their wall of saxes – from Dizzy Gillespie to Amy Winehouse and more over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George !V, W4
Thursday 24 April – Gary Willcox Quartet are at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
Friday 25 April – Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent are at Crookes Social Club Sheffield
Friday 25 April – Hans Koller: Rejoicing Ensemble feat. John O’Gallagher are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD.
Saturday 26 April 1pm – Sarah L King Quartet plus guests at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho
Sunday 27 April – Aaron Liddard Nylon Man are at Yalm Food Court , 23–24 Royal Arcade, Castle Street, Norwich NR2 1NQ
Tuesday 29 April – Sounds of Scandinavia- Benjamin Koppel, Jacob Karlzon & Jasper Høiby at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 29 April – The Finn Genockey International Quartet is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Wednesday 30 April – It Takes Two: Lulu Pierre and Marvin Muoneké revisit the great jazz duets at Soul Mama the Gantry Hotel , 40 Celebration Ave, East Village, Stratford, London, E20 1DB
2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.
Thursday 6 March – John Law’s Congregation are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Friday 7 March – Terri Lyne Carrington is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 10 March 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Thursday 20 March –Echo Engine with Theo Travis are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Thursday 27 March – The Perhaps Jazz Trio – Julian Costello (saxophone) Natalie Rozario (cello/vocals) Patrick Naylor (guitar) are streaming from St Mary’s Perivale https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-001.shtml
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,
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
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
Explore the World of Jazz with Al Giddings on White Horse Radio every Tuesday evening at 9pm, with classic tracks, unexpected gems and jazz you didn’t know you liked until you heard it. www.whitehorseradio.net
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)
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
July 26 -29 GMF Valencia Jazz Workshop https://www.gmfjazzsummit.com/gmf-valencia-jazz-workshop-2025-eng
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