Our weekly companion to the Wednesday Breakfast Headlines email newsletter
Ronnie Scott’s are running their two-yearly instrument amnesty again, until Saturday week 25 Jan – read more
The 19th Francis Davis critics poll is published, and the winner, with 59 votes (from the 280 participants) was….(drumroll) – read more
John Fordham-devotees (we all are at UKJN) will note a rare sighting in his obituary of Barre Phillips: the first-person singular subject pronoun – read more
Poignant listening: Martin Hummel told his story in April 2024 to Rob Cope of the Jazz Podcast – listen
Lou Paley of Women in Jazz is looking forward to a busy 2025 – watch
John Fordham gave Jakob Bro’s new album on ECM, Taking Turns, a 5-star review in the Guardian and named it his ‘Jazz Album of the Month’ – read more
…also in the Guardian, Laurie Holloway (RIP) is remembered by Anthony Hayward – read more
Guitarist Julian Lage picks out records at Amoeba Music in Hollywood – watch
Funds are being raised to help Headhunters reedman Bennie Maupin rebuild his home after it burned in the California wildfires – read more
…a different fundraiser is running to help trumpeter Bobby Bradford, who also lost his home in California – read more
Richard Williams of the Blue Moment writes about newly discovered recordings of Charlie Parker from informal sessions in Kansas City – read more
Morgan Enos reports on Jazz Congress 2025 for JazzTimes – read more
There is still a week left for Scottish artists to apply for a jazzahead! bursary through Glasgow Jazz Festival – read more
The Edinburgh Reporter previewed SNJO’s upcoming concert with Fergus McCreadie and corto.alto at Usher Hall – read more
Chris Hodgkins is drawing to our attention the consultation on copyright and AI – read about the consultation (187 sections) / write to your MP
One Jazz now has over sixty different shows. They are all listed alphabetically, so our friends at ACT Music have pole position – read more
There is a new look to Saturday nights on Jazz FM (Chris Philips and Nikki Yeoh above) – read more
Wednesday 15 January – Carshalton Jazz presents funk/soul/ jazz from the Filthy Six at Cryer Arts, Carshalton High Street, SM5 3BB
Wednesday 15 January – MUSIC IS – CHRIS BISCOE PLAYS MIKE WESTBROOK with Kate Williams, Mike Outram, Dave Whitford and Jon Scott at Jazz825, Royal Hotel,1 High Street, Southend SS1 1SE
Wednesday 15 January – Songlines featuring Liane Carroll/Julian Siegel/Simon Purcell/Loz Garratt/Will Glaser are at Ronnie Scotts
Wednesday 15 January – Benet McClean is at the 606
Wednesday 15 January – Luís Vicente, Olie Brice, Mark Sanders plus special guest Philipp Wachsmann, at the Vortex
Thursday 16 January – Rick Simpson has a new project Future Myth at the Vortex
Thursday 16 January – Greg Coulson is @ Maroto Soho
Thursday 16 January – Georgia Mancio with Sam Dunn, Steve Watts and Dave Ohm, Eltham Jazz Club @ Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, London SE9 2PE
Thursday 16 January – Duncan Lamont on reeds with Peter Rudeforth on trumpet are at the Hedsor Jazz Club, at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 16 January – Rick Margitza Quartet isa t Pizza Express Soho
Thursday 16 January – The Blues Engineers: Jazz influenced Country & Urban Blues over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 16 January – Raw Odoni are at Karamel N22 | 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, N22 6UJ
Thursday 16 January – Duncan Eagles Quartet are at the 606
Thursday 16 January – Geoff Mason is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Friday 17 January – Lulu Pierre and The Copasetics: Tribute to Sarah Vaughan is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 17 January – Dave Limina & Ross Stanley world class, and a world first, sensational Hammond organ duo at The Stoke , Guildford Jazz
Friday 17 January – Daniel Casimir is at the the Lighthouse in Poole
Friday 17 January – Lizzie Dean is at the 606
Friday 17 January – Hannes Riepler Quartet are at the Vortex
Friday 17 January – Aria Soul @ The Piano Lounge Covent Garden
Friday 17 January – Dave Limina, Ross Stanley and Steve Brown are at the Stoke Guildford Jazz
Friday 17 January – Abass Dodoo is @ Pizza Express Holborn
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 2-4 – Mark Lockheart Trio are at The Jazz Centre UK , Beacroft Art Gallery , Victoria Ave Southend , SS2 6EX
Saturday 18 January – Arnaldo Cogorno is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 18 January – Ilario Ferrari Trio: Above the Clouds and Beyond is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 18 January – Trish Clowes is at the Vortex with a late from Marta Gornitska
Saturday 18 January – Alec Harper is at the 606
Saturday 18 January – The Katriona Taylor Quintet “Latin Experience” Bossa Nova, Rhumba & Salsa fusion – from Tania Maria, Astrud Gilberto, Sergio Mendes and more over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Saturday 18 January – Soul Mama, Gantry Hotel, 40 Celebration Ave, East Village, Stratford E20 1DB: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’
Sunday 19 – Monday 27 January – Ian Shaw + friends are at Pizza Express Soho
Sunday 19 January lunchtime – The Quartet featuring Vasilis Xenopoulos are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 19 January – 606 have Luna Cohen lunchtime , Joanna Eden in the evening
Sunday 19 January -Vortex have Mopomoso in the afternoon , jam with Jas Kayser in the evening
Sunday 19 January – Music Is – Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook at Riverhouse Barn, Manor Road, Walton on Thames KT12 2PF
Sunday 19 January – Benny Goodman Orchestra’s Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert, Cadogan Hall
Sunday 19 January 6.30 pm – Movie Music with David Newton, Jeremy Brown, Matt Skelton at Imber Court, Ember Lane, East Molesey KT8 0BT
Monday 20 January – Winston Clifford is at the 606
Monday 20 January – Emma Rawicz Trio feat. Jonny Mansfield & Niklas Lukassen are at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Rd
Tuesday 21 January – Byron Wallen Quintet are celebrating Andrew Hill 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 – Romeo’s Daughter @ Pizza Express Holborn
Tuesday 21 January – Gabriel Garrick Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 21 January – Kevin Hays & Jorge Rossy are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 21 January – Fleet Jazz Club – “Bird” – The Sue Richardson Quintet at The Harlington, 236 Fleet Road, Fleet GU51 4BY
Tuesday 21 January – Nadim Teimoori’s Hidden World Ensemble are at the 606
Wednesday 22 January – Kasper Rietkerk KRSIX are at the Vortex
Wednesday 22 January – Sam Behr @ Underbelly Soho
Wednesday 22 January – David Gordon Trio are at the 606
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
Thursday 23 January – Clark Tracey Quintet ‘Jazz Champions’ are at Cambridge Modern Jazz at Hidden Rooms, 7b Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA
Thursday 23 January – Richard Kellaway on reeds with Lester Brown on trumpet and Phil Brown on trombone are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 23 January – Mario Bakuna @ Maroto
Thursday 23 January – Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band are at the Vortex
Thursday 23 January – Ant Law / Chris Montague Quartet are at the 606
Thursday 23 January – Alan Barnes is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 23 January – 59 DeVille highly atmospheric jazz and blues from this highly regarded quartet over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 23 January – James Davison & Callum Au Quintet are at The Pavilion , Guilford Jazz
Thursday 23 January Cover to Cover present Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool played in full by 9 piece band led by Jac Jones at the Mildmay Club 33-34 Newington Green, London N16 9PR
Thursday 23 January 6:15-8pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles – Neal Richardson with Miles Danso at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB
Friday 24 January – Barry Green and Liselotte Ostblom are at the Vortex
Friday 24 January – Samara are at the 606
Friday 24 January – Jonny Liebeck Quintet: Influences – EP launch is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 24 January – Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, London SE11 4RN: The Pocket Ellington with Tony Kofi and Alan Barnes
Friday 24 January – Zena James’ Jazz Groove Quartet – rare jazz gems and soulful R&B mix over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Saturday 25 January 2pm – Ted Beaument, 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 – BURNS NIGHT JAZZ with Art Themen, Jim Mullen, Alcyona Mick, Steve Watts. Tim Giles, Henry Lowther at Karamel N22 | 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, N22 6UJ
Saturday 25 January – Mornington Lockett is at the 606
Saturday 25 January – Kris Davis Trio are at the Vortex with a late from James Allsopp
Saturday 25 January – Imperial College Big Band and Oxford University Jazz Orchestra are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
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)
Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 January – Romeo’s Daughter @ Barnoldswick Arts Centre
Sunday 26 January lunchtime – The Organisation Quartet featuring Roger Beaujolais are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 26 January – Tony O’Malley is at the 606 lunchtime and evening
Monday 20 January – Donovan Haffner Quartet are at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Rd
Monday 27 January – Empirical are at Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre Gateforth Street London, NW8 8EH
Tuesday 28 January – Tom Barford Quintet ft James Copus 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
Tuesday 28 January – Jason Henson Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 28 January – Birdcage launch @ Maroto. Industry Open Mic Night
Tuesday 28 January 3-7pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles – Neal Richardson is at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB
Wednesday 29th January – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne BN25 1HG have Rythme Futur – Led by bassist George Trebar, feat. Duncan Hemstock (clarinet), Nils Solberg (guitar and vocals) and Benoit Viellefon (guitar and vocals)
Thursday 30 January 3-7pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles – Neal Richardson is at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB
Thursday 30 January – Derek Nash with Dave Newton, Geoff Gascoyne and Dave Ohm, Eltham Jazz Club @ Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, London SE9 2PE
Thursday 30 January – Aria @ Maroto
Thursday 30 January – KAIYO 3 with Nigel Price and Winston Clifford are at Karamel N22 | 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, N22 6UJ
Thursday 30 January – Dominic Ashworth is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 30 January – The Blue Vanguard house trio is Craig Milverton (piano), Al Swainger (bass) and Coach York (drums) are at a new venue the Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter, EX2 4AZ
Thursday 30 January – Tim Penn & The Second Line: New Orleans flavoured jazz & roots from master pianist Tim and his band over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
.Friday 31 January – Georgia Mancio Quartet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Friday 31 January – Way Out West presents Miles & Monk: The Music of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 31 January – Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, London SE11 4RN: : It Takes Two: Lulu Pierre and Marvin Muoneké revisit the great jazz duets
Friday 31 January – Sultan Stevenson Trio are at Crookes Social Club Sheffield
Friday 31 January – Olly Hite @ The Piano Lounge
Saturday 1 February 1pm – Catherina Lima is at the Jazz Archives LOUGHTON BAPTIST CHURCH, LOUGHTON, IG10 4QU
Saturday 1 February – Elliot Frost – album launch at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Sunday 2 February lunchtime – Vladimir Miller Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 2 February – Equinox are at Map Studio in Kentish Town
Tuesday 4 February – James Allsopp Quartet celebrate Stan Getz at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 4 February- Jim Mullen and Mike Gorman with Georgia Mancio and Dave Ohm, Crystal Palace Jazz Club @ Hopscotch Taprooms, 54 Westow Hill, London SE19 1RX
Tuesday 4 February – Jay Phelps’ Kind of Blue Quintet is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 4 February – Richard Pite, Richard Exill, Julie Walkington, piano tba are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 5 February – Queer Jazz present Queen Kaltoum with support from Maya Law at the Vortex
Wednesday 5 February- Jim Mullen and Mike Gorman with Georgia Mancio and Dave Ohm, Crystal Palace Jazz Club @ Hopscotch Taprooms, 54 Westow Hill, London SE19 1RX
Thursday 6 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 6 February – Katriona Taylor Quintet “80’s Jazzed”: Outstanding jazz vocalist Katriona puts a unique jazz & Latin slant on some of the 80’s best known hits from Sade to Stevie Wonder through Blondie, Queen and more over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 6 February – The Ted Beament Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 7 February – Phil Merriman Trio: The Roots Beneath are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 7 February – The Art Themen Organ Trio plus special guest Denny Illet on guitar & vocals over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Friday 7 February – Tenor Madness – Preludes & Grooves: Bach reimagined at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 7 February – Jo Fooks / Paul Eldridge, Macknade Jazz, Faversham
Saturday 8 February – Marta Mathea Radwan Quartet: Polish Jazz Goes to the Cinema at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 8 February 2025 – ‘Me and Mr Jones’, featuring Rachel Foster (vocals), Paul Deat (piano) and Simon Paterson on bass, are appearing for Burrough Jazz at Twyford Village Hall, LE14 2HU
Saturday 8 February – Miguel Gorodi Quintet are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 8 February – Elliot Galvin The Ruin is at Listen! Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Sunday 9 February lunchtime – Simon Spillet Quartet play Tubby Hayes at Ronnie Scotts
Sunday 9 February 6.30 pm – Enrico Tomasso/Alex Garnett with John Pearce, Andrew Cleyndert, Bobby Worth at Imber Court, Ember Lane, East Molesey KT8 0BT
Tuesday 11 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 11 February – Jacqui Dankworth + Charlie Wood is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 11 February- Derek Nash, Dominic Ashworth, Andy Staples, Marc Cecil are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 12 February – Carshalton Jazz presents Ian Shaw and his ‘An Adventurous Dream’ project, celebrating the music of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. With Iain Ballamy (sax), Dave Green (bass) and Barry Green (drums). 7.30, Cryer Arts, Carshalton, SM5 3BB
Thursday 13 February – Sarah Moule & Simon Wallace “Songs For Scarlet Women” unique jazz cabaret celebrating the ‘femmes fatale’ over the centuries in the Boston Room over at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 13 February – Derek Nash, Dave Newton, Geoff Gascoyne, Sebastiaan de Krom are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 13t February – at Arts Depot, 5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, North Finchley, London N12 0GA its Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’
Thursday 13 February – JWS Big Band are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Thursday 13 February – Julian Costello with Sam Leak, Andy Hamill and Dave Ohm, Eltham Jazz Club @ Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, London SE9 2PE
Friday 14 February – AMY LIVES! With a Valentine twist! Celebrating the Music of Amy Winehouse featuring Original Members of Amy Winehouse Band at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 15 February – El Chamuyo Tango-Jazz Quartet feat. Kamila Bydlowska at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 15 February – Sam Braysher featuring Annie Majin: Kurt Weill and the American Songbook are at The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln LN1 3BU.
Sunday 16 February, 1pm: Terence Collie ‘Elements’ Alban Launch with Terence Collie – piano, Nick Lenner-Webster – bass, Ted Carrasco – drums, The London String Group Trio & Jim Trimmer – Reader are at Pizza Express Live, Dean Street
Tuesday 18 February – Eddie Gripper / Alex Clarke Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 18 February – Jo Harrap with the John Pearce Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 18 February – Art Themen Quintet is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Thursday 20 February – Richie Milton & The Lowdown feat top vocalist linda Hall: New Orleans influenced jazz, blues & soul over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 20 February – Jonathan Gee Trio are at Cambridge Modern Jazz at Hidden Rooms, 7b Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA
Thursday 20 February – Rosie Frater-Taylor is at SoundCellar in Poole
Friday 21 February – Chris Dean Quartet: Sliding through Jazz at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 21 February – Hampstead Jazz Club at The Duke of Hamilton, 23-25 New End, NW3 1JD: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories
Saturday 22 February 2pm – Mick Foster with Rob Barron, Colin Gourlay are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 22 February – Adam Dyer Quartet: Where the River Meets the Sea… at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 22 February – Georgia Mancio and Kate Williams, Hampstead Jazz Club, The Duke of Hamilton, 23-25 New End, London NW3 1JD
Saturday 22 February – Misha Mullov-Abbado ‘Effra’ Album Launch at Kings Place
Saturday 22 February – Nick Costley-White: Poncha Album Release are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 22 February – Asha Parkinson, Pizza Express Dean Street
Sunday 23 February 5-7pm – Jazz at the Horsebridge, Whitstable, feat. Julian Marc Stringle Quartet
Tuesday 25 February – Mauro Sigura Electric Quartet : Dunia is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 25 February – Jonny Liebeck, 606 Chelsea
Thursday 27 February – Elchin Shirinov Trio are at Firth Hall Sheffield
Friday 28 February – WAY OUT WEST Presents: West Side Story at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Thursday 27 February – Dave Jones’ Funk Affinity: Jazz Funk 6-piece feat bassist Dave Jones, pianist Chris Eldred, guitarist Dave Outram, drummer Tristan Maillot, vocalist & saxophonist Sandra-Mae Lux & Spanish percussionist Demi Garcia Sabat over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 27 February – Sarah Moule with The Simon Wallace Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 28 February – Georgia Mancio with Alex Hutton, Julie Walkington and Dave Ohm, 1215 Club, 12a High Street, Wraysbury, Staines-upon-Thames, TW19 5DB
Friday 28 February 7pm – Kings Hall, Herne Bay, Elaine Delmar Quartet, benefit for Herne Bay Jazz Festival
Friday 17 January – Al Foster Quintet feat. Chris Potter with very special guest Brad Mehldau is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Sunday 19 January – Music Is – Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook from the Riverhouse Barn Walton-on-Thames https://thelittleboxoffice.com/riverhouse/event/view/205286
Monday 20 January 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Thursday 23 January – Karen Sharp jazz quartet – Karen Sharp (saxophone) Nikki Iles (piano) Dave Green (bass) Steve Brown (drums) stream from Perivale – https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-001.shtml
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
Thursday 6 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Thursday 20 February – Rosie Frater-Taylor is at SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Friday 21 February 7.30 pm – Mim Grey (vocals) Elliott Rooney (piano) Steve Vintner (percussion) stream from Perivale – https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-001.shtml
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
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