1) Live gigs November

Wednesday 13 November 1pm – Free – Lucy Joy & Thomas Sladdenare at The Jazz Social, City Point, Ropemaker Street EC2V 9HT

Wednesday 13 November – Steve Waterman Quartet are at Growler & Cans, 24 Chertsey Street Guildford GU1 4HD

Wednesday 13 November – Mike Soper Quartet, Scott Stroman directing, American International Church

Wednesday 13 November – Skylla are at the Vortex

Wednesday 13 November – Nat Steele Quartet Nat Steele (vibraphone), Matyas Gayer (piano), Simon Read (double bass) drums tbc are at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP

Wednesday 13 November – The Gordon Wellard Septet play Art Blakey at the The Electric Theatre , Onslow St , Guildford

Thursday 14 November 1pm – Free – Lior Solomons-Wise & George Johnson, Sam Plackett Duo are at The Jazz Social, City Point, Ropemaker Street EC2V 9HT

Thursday 14 November – Nicols / Camatta / Kraabel are at the Vortex

Thursday 14 November – Tom Thorp & ILUMETRIS are at the Tung Auditorium in Liverpool

Thursday 14 November – Alex Bryson Trio are at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP

Thursday 14 November- John Hinch on trumpet with Darren Lamont on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 14 November – Nigel Price is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 14 November – Guitar maestros Antionio Forcione & Georgio Serci – jazz, blues & world concert over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Thursday 14 November – Album Launch: Carlo Muscat (Malta/Ukraine) at the 606

Thursday 14 November – Greg Abate Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 14 November- John Hinch on trumpet with Duncan Lamont on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Friday 15 November – Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio are at Poole, Lighthouse Theatre , 21 Kingland Rd, Poole BH15 1UG

Friday 15 November – Secret Night Gang is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD

Friday 15 November – Stefan Redtenbacher’s Funkestra are at the Boileroom in Guildford

Friday 15 November – Elliot Galvin is at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge

Friday 15 November – Spice Jazz Soho: Denys Baptiste Quartet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Friday 15 November – Spice Jazz Soho: Bea Asurmendi is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Friday 15 November – Tina Carr and Band are at HOXTON HALL, London, N1 6SH

Friday 15 November – Imaani & Special Guest Raphael Tate are at the 606

Friday 15 November – Queer Jazz is at the Vortex

Friday 15 November – Jakub Klimiuk Quintet (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 16 November – Florian Arbenz is at Hidden Rooms, Cambridge (2.00pm)

Saturday 16 November – Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio are at Rochester Cathedral Festival (& Britten Sinfonia)

Saturday 16 November – Django Bates is at the Vortex

Saturday 16 November 12 – 2pm – at St John’s Leytonstone, E11 1HH EFG London Jazz Festival: Sonic Pieces: Deaf Center, Erik K Skodvin + Sumie

Saturday 16 November – Spice Jazz Soho: Royal Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra and Ensemble is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Saturday 16 November – Omar with Quentin Collins/ Brandon Allen is at Cambridge Junction

Saturday 16 November – Mark Lockheart and Kaiyo3 are at Karamel in Wood Green

Saturday 16 November – Spice Jazz Soho Presents: Equal Spirits is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Saturday 16 November – The Peter King Memorial Sax Summit ft. Mornington Lockett with Binker Golding, Allison Neale, Alec Harper & the Robin Aspland Trio at the 606

Saturday 16 November – Georgia Mancio Quartet (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 16 November – NYJO comes to Carshalton! Carshalton Jazz is proud to bring the brilliant National Youth Jazz Orchestra to All Saints Church, Carshalton SM5 3AG, with their tribute to Blue Note records. Note start time – doors, 6pm, music 6.30

Saturday 16 November – DESCHANEL GORDON (piano) is the special guest with Tom Ridout (tenor sax), Luca Stine (trumpet), Guy Dempsey (bass) and Lester Ridout (drums) playing Herbie Hancock’s “Takin’ Off” in the EFG London Jazz festival at sYp, 19 Bevis Marks, London, EC3A 7JA

Saturday 16 November – Orlando Le Fleming & Romantic Funk + Asa Martinson (opening) (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Sunday 17 November lunchtime – Sam Dunn Quartet featuring Dave O’Higgins are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 17 November lunchtime – World Heart Beat & the Julian Joseph Academy Present “Together We Go Forward” at the 606

Sunday 17 November 5pm – Mark Lockheart is at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London

Sunday 17 November – Norman Willmore and Corrie Dick are at Kings Place

Sunday 17 November – Ky Osbourne is at Karamel in Wood Green

Sunday 17 November – Caroline Cooper’s Pulse Quartet play the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV, W4 as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival

Sunday 17 November – John Escreet is at the Vortex

Sunday 17 November – Greg Heath Trio ft John Donaldson + Simon Thorpe at Barnaby’s Lounge in Hastings

Sunday 17 November – Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio are at Leeds, Jazz at Howard Assembly Rooms

Sunday 17 November – Threeway (Steve Waterman, Steve Lodder & Ben Crosland) are at Ashburton Arts Centre, Newton Abbott

Sunday 17 November – Mark Kavuma & The Banger Factory are at the QEH, South Bank Centre (EFG London Jazz Festival.

Sunday 17 November – Thad Jones Centennial featuring Dick Oatts (alto sax), Gary Smulyan (baritone sax) and Joe Magnarelli (trumpet) + special guest Dave O’Higgins at The Music Box, London College of Contemporary Music (EFG London Jazz Festival)

Sunday 17 November – Below the Bassline: Celebrating the music of Ernest Ranglin (EFG London Jazz Festival) featuring Femi Temowo on guitar, Jason Rebello on keys at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Sunday 17 November evening – Susanna Aleksandra: Tribute to Sarah Vaughan with Special Guest Quentin Collins are at the 606

Sunday 17 November – ALEX GARNETT (tenor sax) is the special guest with Tom Ridout’s House band (Milena Granci – piano, Guy Dempsey -bass, Lester Ridout – drums) playing Dexter Gordon’s “Go” in the EFG London Jazz Festival at sYp, 19 Bevis Marks, London, EC3A 7JA

Sunday 17 November – Spice Jazz Soho: Blues and Roots Ensemble ft. Tara Minton is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Sunday 17 November – Spice Jazz Soho: Tara Minton Quintet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Sunday 17 November – Below the Bassline: Celebrating the music of Ernest Ranglin (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Sunday 17 November – Caroline Cooper’s Pulse Quartet play the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV, W4 as part of the London Jazz Festival

Sunday 17 November – Zara McFarlane Celebrates Sarah Vaughan at the Jazz Cafe

Sunday 17 November – Dennis Rollins & Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra are at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Sunday 17 November – Chiminyo Presents: Uniri, A Project Embracing Collaborationare at The Cockpit Theatre , Gateforth St , London NW8 8EH

Monday 18 November – Germana La Sorsa, Round About Two Thirty Series, Cadogan Hall Culford Room 2.30pm

Monday 18 November – Cameron Scott Jazz Orchestra (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Monday 18 November – Threeway (Steve Waterman, Steve Lodder & Ben Crosland) are at North Devon Jazz, The Beaver Inn, 95 Irsha Street, Bideford

Monday 18 November -Teis Semy is at the Vortex

Monday 18 November – Tom Barford Quintet is at the Parakeet on Kentish Town Rd

Monday 18 November – James Pearson/ Tim Boniface Quartet are at Girton College, Cambridge

Monday 18 November – Spice Jazz Soho: Nikol Bokova Quartet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Monday 18 November – Spice Jazz Soho: The Lydian Collective is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Monday 18 November – Trish Clowes is at the 606

Tuesday 19 November – Nicholas Meier World Group, Round About Two Thirty Series, Cadogan Hall, 2.30pm

Tuesday 19 November – Olie Brice , George Crowley , Alex Bonney and Will Glaser are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 19 November – Matt Skelton’s Blackhawk Quintet-a celebration of Shelly Manne and his music at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Tuesday 19 November – Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio are at London, EFG London Jazz Festival (& Britten Sinfonia) Milton Court, 1 Milton Street EC2Y 9BH

Tuesday 19 November – Threeway (Steve Waterman, Steve Lodder & Ben Crosland) are at St Ives Jazz Club The Western Hotel, St Ives, Cornwall

Tuesday 19 November – Beware of the Bear at are Pizza Soho

Tuesday 19 November – JITR @ LJF Bridget Walsh, Isobella Burnham, Sofia Grant, Momoko Gill & Inês Loubet Songwriters in the round, Cockpit theatre

Tuesday 19 November – Tim Berne is at the Vortex

Tuesday 19 November – Chris Coull Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 19 November – Greg Abate Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Tuesday 19 November – A Night of Brazilian Delights with “Samara” at the 606

Tuesday 19 November – Elaine Delmar is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Tuesday 19 November – Robert Mitchell is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Tuesday 19 November – Charles Tolliver presents Max Roach @ 100, Brighton Dome Corn Exchange

Tuesday 19 November – Rosie Frater-Taylor (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Wednesday 20 November – Ayo Vincent Trio + Deelee Dubé Quintet (Double bill) (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Wednesday 20 November – Miguel Gorodi Quintet is at the Parakeeet on Kentish Town Rd

Wednesday 20 November – A tribute to the iconic BBC TV Series Jazz 625 with Robert Mitchell , Jean Toussaint , Larry Bartley and Rod Youngs is at The Cockpit Theatre , Gateforth St , London NW8 8EH

Wednesday 20 November – Sarah Moule & Simon Wallace “Songs For Scarlett Women” – ‘Jazz Cabaret’ celebrating the femme fatale over the ages in the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13 (part of the EFG London Jazz Festival)

Wednesday 20 November – Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi Duo ft. Joel Prime are at the 606

Wednesday 20 November – Sarah Moule & Simon Wallace “Songs For Scarlett Women” – ‘Jazz Cabaret’ celebrating the femme fatale over the ages in the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, W13 as part of the London Jazz Festival

Wednesday 20 November – JITR @ LJF: Jazz On The Box, Robert Mitchell and band present a tribute to the iconic BBC TV Series Jazz 625, Jazz In The Round, Cockpit Theatre

Wednesday 20 November – John Etheridge & Vimala Rowe are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Wednesday 20 November – Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio are at Cambridge Jazz Festival (& Britten Sinfonia) West Road Concert Hall, 11 West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DP

Wednesday 20 November – From 1pm at Milton Court Guildhall SMD have a whole day of free concerts with Helena Kay headlining

Wednesday 20 November – Ban Bam showcase at the Vortex

Wednesday 20 November – Kate Williams Quartet featuring Mike Outram, Round About Two Thirty Series, Cadogan Hall Culford Room 2.30pm

Wednesday 20 November – Rachael Cohen is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Wednesday 20 November – Way Out West celebrates its 20th Anniversary at River House Barn, Walton as part of EFG London Jazz Festival

Wednesday 20 November – Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio & Britten Sinfonia are at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Wednesday 20 November – Jim Mullen Quartet Jim Mullen (guitar), Liam Dunachie (piano), Shane Forbes (drums) bass tbc are at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP

Thursday 21 November – Allison Neale is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 21 November – The Katriona Taylor Quintet – “The Best of 80s Jazzed” over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13 (part of the EFG London Jazz Festival)

Thursday 21 November – South Of Broadway – Jazz Choir over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4 (part of the EFG London Jazz Festival

Thursday 21 November – Adrian Cox Quintet with special guest Dan Higham: “Remembering the Great Sidemen of Louis Armstrong: Edmond Hall & Trummy Young” are at the 606

Thursday 21 November – From 1pm at Milton Court Guildhall SMD have a whole day of free concerts with Giacomo Smith & Mozes Rosenberg headlining

Thursday 21 November – JITR @ LJF: Bridge The Gap Take-over w/ Myele Manzanza & MADELEINE, Cockpit Theatre

Thursday 21 November – David Gordon Trio, Round About Two Thirty Series, Cadogan Hall Culford Room 2.30pm

Thursday 21 November – Josh Morrison Trio Gabriel Latchin (piano), Jeremy Brown (double bass), Josh Morrison (drums)are at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP

Thursday 21 November – Laura Jurd Trio are at the Vortex

Thursday 21 November – Lana Shelley Jazz Quartet, Piano Smithfield

Thursday 21 November- Lester Brown on trumpet with Alam Nathoo on tenor sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 21 November – Emilia Martensson & Matt Robinson are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Thursday 21 November – Mathis Picard is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Thursday 21 November – Art Themen is at Matthews Hall, Fore Street, Topsham, EX3 0HF

Thursday 21 November – Synergy Mike Outram / Gareth Fowler / Chris Attwell and Andy Chapmanare SoundCellar at the Grasshopper at the Grasshopper in Poole

Thursday 21 November – Lester Brown on trumpet with Alam Nathoo on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 21 November – Zoe Rahman Trio (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Thursday 21 November – The Katriona Taylor Quintet – “The Best of 80s Jazzed” over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, W13 as part of the London Jazz festival

Friday 22 November – Soul Time! Play the Music of Bobby Timmons, Round About Two Thirty Series, Cadogan Hall Culford Room 2.30pm

Friday 22 November – Julian Joseph’s ‘Atmospheres in Audio Theatre’ (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Friday 22 November – Art Themen’s New Directions Quintet feat Art tnr sax, Gareth Willians, pno, Steve Fishwick, trp, Arnie Somogyi, d bass & Winston Clifford, drms play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13 (part of the EFG London Jazz Festival)

Friday 22 November – Nik Bärtsch piano; Tania Giannouli piano at Wigmore Hall

Friday 22 November – Shez Raja ft Guthrie Govan at 606 Club

Friday 22 November – Nikki Iles Orchestra are at the Vortex

Friday 22 November – Imogen Ryall sings the Charles Mingus/ Joni Mitchell songbook is at Storey’s Field Centre, Cambridge

Friday 22 November – Tomasz Bura is at The Cockpit Theatre , Gateforth St , London NW8 8EH

Friday 22 November – Gary Crosby Quartet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Friday 22 November – Soothsayers Feat. Akin Soul are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Friday 22 November – Rob Luft Quartet (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Friday 22 November – Alexandra Ridout (trumpet) Quartet with Wilfie Williams (piano), Will Sach (bass) and Marc Michel (drums) at Vortex Lates (Downstairs from 11pm at The Vortex Jazz Club,11 Gillett Square London, N16 8AZ) for The EFG London Jazz festival

Saturday 23 November 5.30 free – Junior Guildhall Big Band, Jazz Choir are at Milton Court

Saturday 23 November 8pm free – NYJO & Cleveland Watkiss Present: Sun Ra Reimagined at Milton Court

Saturday 23 November 12 – 2pm – at St John’s Leytonstone, E11 1HH EFG London Jazz Festival: Goldsmiths Improviser Collective, SlowWormHole, Fahaka + Mathew Follis

Saturday 23 November – Lulu Pierre & Tony Kofi: CELEBRATING BILLIE HOLIDAY AND BEN WEBSTER! (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 23 November – Bag of Bones are at the Vortex

Saturday 23 November – Chris Dowding is at The Cockpit Theatre , Gateforth St , London NW8 8EH

Saturday 23 November – ALEXANDRA RIDOUT (trumpet) is the special guest with TOM RIDOUT (alto sax), Harry Ashworth (piano), Guy Dempsey (bass) and Lester Ridout (drums) playing “The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at The Lighthouse” in the EFG London Jazz Festival at sYp, 19 Bevis Marks, London, EC3A 7JA

Saturday 23 November – Jay Phelps Band is at the 606

Saturday 23 November – Rob Luft Quartet and Amika String Quartet are at Cambridge Junction

Saturday 23 November – David Preston: Purple/Black (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Saturday 23 November – Elaine Delmar is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Saturday 23 November – Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio are at Nottingham, Peggy’s Skylight , 3 George St, Nottingham NG1 3BH

Saturday 23 November – Barb Jungr is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Sunday 24 November – From 1pm at Milton Court Guildhall SMD have a whole day of free concerts with Sultan Stevenson headlining

Sunday 24 November – Esther Bennett Quartet are at Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1NF

Sunday 24 November – John Ellis is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Sunday 24 November – Deschanel Gordon is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Sunday 24 November lunchtime – Basil Hodge Quartet featuring Riley Stone Lonergan are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 24 November lunchtime – The Divas: Jo Harrop (above), Rachel Sutton, Eileen Hunter at the 606

Sunday 24 November – Trio Manouche “A Swinging Affair”: Gypsy Jazz & Swing with special guests vocalist Francesca Confortini & trumpeter Quentin Collins play the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV, W4 as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival

Sunday 24 November – Golding / Edwards / Noble at The Cockpit Theatre , Gateforth St , London NW8 8EH

Sunday 24 November – Gabriel Prokofiev’s GBRL PRKFV Ensemble ((EFG London Jazz Festival) at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Sunday 24 November – Liane Carroll Trio are at the 606

Sunday 24 November – Pablo Held Trio are at Pizza Soho

Sunday 24 November – Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio are at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, St. Mary’s Square, Gateshead Quays, NE8 2JR

Sunday 24 November – NIGEL PRICE (guitar) is the special guest with Tom Ridout (baritone sax), Harry Ashworth (piano), James Owston (bass)and Lester Ridout (drums) playing “The George Benson Cookbook” in the EFG London Jazz Festival at sYp, 19 Bevis Marks, London, EC3A 7JA

Sunday 24 November – Guido Spannocchi Quartet are at Nextdoor Records Two 182 Stoke Newington Road N16 7UY

Sunday 24 November – Jazz On The Plaza feat. Renato D’Aiello with Terence Collie & Nick Lenner-Webster

Sunday 24 November 5pm – Paul Booth Quintet feat. Ross Stanley are at Jazz at the Horsebridge in Whitstable

Sunday 24 November 5pm – Brandon Allen and Gareth Williams Quartet are at St Michael’s Church in Blewbury OX11 9PY

Sunday 24 November – Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott, Acker Bilk, George Shearing with Strings, Cadogan Hall

Sunday 24 November – EFG London Jazz Festival – NTJO at Hampton Hub, Hampton

Monday 25 November – Pete Horsfall is at the Parakeet on Kentish Town Rd

Monday 25 November – Christos Stylianides and Big Massive at The Cockpit Theatre , Gateforth St , London NW8 8EH

Tuesday 26 November – Georgia Mancio Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 26 November – Alan Barnes Sextet are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Tuesday 26 November – Will Gardner Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 26 November – World Heart Beat Jazz Club Suppers is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Wednesday 27 November – World Heart Beat Jazz Club Suppers is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Wednesday 27 November Christian Garrick and David Gordon, The Paper Jam Duo, The Clock Tower, St Pancras 8pm

Wednesday 27 November -Way Out West presents Larry Bartley/Bruno Heinen/ Winston Clifford at the Turk’s Head, Twickenham

Wednesday 27 November – Nina Kristofferson Sings Jazz at The Pheasantry

Wednesday 27 November – Mitch Winehouse is swinging with the Denmark St Big Band at the Spice of Life in Soho

Wednesday 27 November – Pete Allen Celebrating 45 years of band leading, Pizza Express Jazz Club (Soho)

Wednesday 27 November – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne Neal’s Imaginary Friends! feat. Rob Palmer (gtr), Al Swainger (bass), Buster Birch (drums)

Wednesday 27 November – Pete Roth Band ft Bill Bruford are at the 606

Wednesday 27 November – Emily Saunders is at the Tung Auditorium in Liverpool

Thursday 28 November – Marco Natalie-Miles is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 28 November – Bezique are at The Old Church, Stoke Newington, N16 9ES

Thursday 28 November – Lester Brown on trumpet with Martin Dunston on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 28 November – Al Nicholls Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 28 November – The Jazz Mondays: 13-piece ‘Little Big Band’ play the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Thursday 28 November – Matyas Gayer Trio, Matyas Gayer (piano), Stephen Keogh (drums), Jeremy Brown (double bass)are at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP

Friday 29 November – QCBA PLAYS BLUE NOTE! with Quentin Collins & Brandon Allen at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Friday 29 November – Monkin’ Around with Dave O’Higgins & Billy Pod at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester.

Saturday 30 November 2pm – Alex Garnett Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2

Saturday 30 November – ALICE ZAWADZKI TRIO: “Hanging on the Comet’s Tail” (SET1) and “Za Górami & more”… (SET2) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 30 November Jazz Samba! (Mark Crooks Tenor Sax, Nigel Price Guitar, John Cervantes Piano, Demi Garcia Sabat Precussion, MarianneWindom Double Bass) at The Blue Room at the Lawn, Lincoln LN1 3BU

Saturday 30 November – Shabaka, Southbank Centre

Saturday 30 November – Hrjira celebrate Joni Mitchell at The Tung Auditorium in Liverpool

Live Gigs December

Sunday 1 December lunchtime – Will Barry Quartet featuring Alex Harper are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 1 December 5pm – Adam Glasser is at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London

Sunday 1 December – Equinox Jazz Quartet are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town

Tuesday 3 December – Reiss Ellis Beckles Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 3 December – Laura Klain, Nigel Price, Nat Steele, Lorenzo Morabito are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Thursday 5 December – Stuart Henderson on trumpet with Frank Walden on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 5 December – Sara Oschlag is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 5 December Cover to Cover present KIND OF BLUE with Dolan Jones – Trumpet, Jamie O’Donnell – Alto Saxophone, Jac Jones – Tenor Saxophone , Alcyona Mick – Piano, Dave Manington – Double Bass . Winston Clifford – Drums at Mildmay Club Great Hall , 33-34 Newington Green , N16 9PR

Thursday 5 December – Laura Klain, Nigel Price, Nat Steele, Lorenzo Morabito are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Friday 6 December – Magdalena Supeł Quartet are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Friday 6 December – Rob Luft and Elena Duni are at St Jude’s Church Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb London NW11 7AH

Friday 6 December – A Jazzy Xmas with Jo Harrop , Paul Edis nd special guests at St John’s Church. Farncombe

Saturday 7 December – John Donegan Sextet + Guests: “We Will Meet Again Sometime” – album launch at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 7 December – 12 – 2pm at St Mary Magdalene Church 15th Year Big Birthday Christmas Festive Fuzzy Feeling Fundraiser

Sunday 8 December – Lydian Collective at Off the Rails Grand Reopening, Richmond TW9 2NQ

Sunday 8 December – Laura Jurd & the Dorset Youth Jazz Orchestra are at the SoundCellar in Poole

Monday 9 December – Julian Bliss Septet is at Wigmore Hall

Monday 9 December – Mark Bassey (trombone) with the Neal Richardson Trio are at Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford

Tuesday 10 December – Renato D’Aiello Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 10 December – Emmet Cohen Trio are at Wigmore Hall

Tuesday 10 December – Christmas Party with Alan Barnes and Al Nicholls, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Matt Skelton at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Thursday 12 December – Pete Long is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

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

Friday 13 December – Alan Barnes’ Christmas Fare at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester

13 Dec RNCM Big Band with Madeline Bell (vocals), Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester

Friday 13 December – Meier/Cywinski Electric Fusion Experience are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 14 December – JAZZ CHRISTMAS: Jazz Christmas Around the World! at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

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

Wednesday 18 December – The Andy Panayi Big Band are at Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne

Thursday 19 December – John Etheridge is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

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

Saturday 21 December – Tori Freestone & Alcyona Mick Duo at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 21 December 8.30pm – Soner Erson Trio ft Amy Hollingsworth at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London

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

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

Friday15 November – George Cables Quartet is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/

Monday 18 November 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams

Monday 18 November – Vincent Peirani ‘Living Being’ is streaming from Porgy and Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming

Thursday 21 November – Synergy Mike Outram / Gareth Fowler / Chris Attwell and Andy Chapmanare at SoundCellar at the Grasshopper in Poole https://soundcellar.org/events/

Monday 25 November – Lukas DeRungs Quintet are streaming from NQ Jazz in Manchester https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on

Monday 2 December – Tim Berne – Hank Roberts – Aurora Nealand ‘Oceans And’ is streaming from Porgy and Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming

Monday 16 December – NQ Jazz Orchestra are streaming from NQ Jazz in Manchester https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on

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

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