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The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama gave Stevie Wonder a Cymrodoriaeth er Anrhydedd (honorary fellowship) – watch
Jazz FM’s summer includes a new “Legends” series hosted by Leo Green, and a label focus series – read more
This months announcement from the EFG London Jazz Festival adds Nubya Garcia, Omou Sangaré, Mulatu Astatke, Shabaka Hutchings, Camilla George… – read more
Vernon Duke’s memoir “Passport to Paris” has been republished (H/T Ted Gioia) – read more
Roisin O’Connor reviews Raye at the Montreux Jazz Festival for The Independent – read more
Find Your Sounds has published the press release for the new album from Canadian guitarist and friend of UKJN Mike Rud “The Lonely Sea Monster of Pigeon Lake, Alberta” – read more
Ethan Iverson previews a concert he will perform of piano music by James P. Johnson set to new choreography by Mark Morris – read more
…Marina Harss writes about the 45th season of the Mark Morris Dance Group, which the concert is part of, in the New York Times – read more
Ammar Kalia reviewed London collective Kokoroko’s album Tuff Times Never Last in the Guardian – read more
…Peter Quinn also reviewed it for theartsdesk – read more
Pascal Dorban covered Jazz à Vienne for JazzJournal – read more
There is a new scholarship at London Met University named after Ayanna Witter-Johnson – read more
Tomorrows Warriors have “a ground-breaking new national touring initiative supporting the next generation of jazz innovators” supported by three foundations – read more
Wednesday 16 July – Carshalton Jazz presents the Phil Allen Quartet – Phil Allen, d, Mark Lockheart, sax, Dave Whitford bass, Simon Purcell, pno – at Cryer Arts, High Street, Carshalton SM5 3BB
Wednesday 16 July – Leopold Benedict is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Wednesday 16 July – Queer Jazz present Matters Unknown at the Vortex
Thursday 17 July – Kate Daniels, John Harriman, James Sunney, Rod Brown are at The Middle House, Mayfield TN20 6AB nr Tunbridge Wells
Thursday 17 July lunchtime – Michael Sutton Trio are at Cadogan Hall
Thursday 17 July – BruMing featuring Jake McMurchie, David Gordon, Sandy Burnett and Paul Cavaciuti plays the music of Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus at The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, Epsom KT19 8NP
Thursday 17th July, Anaïs Reno is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 17 July – Greg Abate with the Blue Vanguard house trio at the Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter, EX2 4AZ
Thursday 17 July – Alex Hitchcock / Ant Law Quartet are at the 606
Thursday 17 July – Jacub Klimiuk downstairs , Janette Mason upstairs at the Vortex
Thursday 17 July – Shane Hampsheir is at The Drawing Room at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle St, W1
Thursday 17 July- Steve Waterman on trumpet with Gill Cook vocals are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 17 July – Blue Lou’s Revue is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 17 July – Pete Kelly & Eddy White at Ristorante Sorrento, 34 Heath Road, Twickenham, TW1 4BZ
Thursday 17 July – WestSideJazz – Come join us for a night of mellow jazz and good vibes at Pizza House, Pitshanger Lane Ealing, W5 1QX
18-20th July Inntone Festival, Austria
Friday 18 July – Madeline Bell and Ian Shaw are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Friday 18 July – Olie Brice Quartet are at the Vortex
Saturday 19 July – Thokozile + Bossa Definitiva Trio are at SoundCellar at Sandy Hill Arts Sandy Hill Lane, Corfe Castle, Dorset, United Kingdom
Saturday 19 July – Bruno Heinen / Tom Challenger Quartet are at the Vortex
Saturday 19 July – award-winning baritone saxophonist Hannah Horton will appear with her long-standing quartet at Swinging Cat Jazz Club (Haverhill Arts Centre)
Saturday 19 July – Norma Winstone and Kit Downes are at the 606
Saturday 19 July – Dinner Jazz – Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club – Neal Richardson & Miles Danso (bass)
Saturday 19/ Sunday 20 July – Christine Tobin, Irish Cultural Centre , Hammersmith
Saturday 19 July, Madeline Bell and Ian Shaw are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Sunday 20 July – Terry Seabrook Organ Band featuring Simon Spillett (sax) are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime
Sunday 20 July – 5pm – Dani Teal plus a jam session are at Highams Park Jazz Club , All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, E4 9QZ London
Sunday 20 July – Vortex have Mopomoso in the afternoon and a jam in the evening
Sunday 20 July 2pm – Frank Griffith w/ Ahmed Harfoursh Band at Arab Arts Festival- Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool
Sunday 20 July – Jazz Repertory Company’s Miles Davis concert, Cadogan Hall
Sunday 20 July 6.30 pm – Art Themen Organ Trio with Pete Whittaker & George Double at Imber Court KT8 0BT
Monday 21 July – Vortex start off Vortex Unplugged with Dunajska Kapelye
Monday 21 July – Lee Ritenour, Band on the Wall, Manchester
Monday 21 July – Jonny Liebeck is at the 606
Monday 21 July – Will Cleasby Four Card Molly is at the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town
22 – 27 July Sligo Jazz Festival, Ireland
Tuesday 22 July lunchtime – Georgia Mancio Quartet are at Cadogan Hall
Tuesday 22 July – Alcyona Mick / Tori Freestone Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 22 July – The sound of Phil Woods with Alex Clarke at The Drawing Room at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle St, W1
Tuesday 22 July – Tara Minton is at the 606
Tuesday 22 July – Big House at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 22 July – Yuri Goloubev Trio featuring Simone Locarni are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 22 July -Sarah Moule and the Simon Wallace Trioare at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 23 July – Boisdale Canary Wharf, Cabot Square, Canary Wharf E14 4QT: The Pocket Ellington with special guest Marvin Muoneké
Wednesday 23 July – Inner Space play Sun Ra at the Vortex
Wednesday 23 July – Dave Ital’s birthday bash are at the 606
Thursday 24 July lunchtime – Emily Masser and Alex Clarke are at Cadogan Hall
Thursday 24 July – Kurt Rosenwinkel and Gerald Clayton are at the Jazz Cafe
Thursday 24 July – Betty Accorsi is at Toulouse Lautrec
Thursday 24 July – Jo Harrop is at The Drawing Room at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle St, W1
Thursday 24 July-Stuart Henderson on trumpet with Martin Dunston on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 24 July – Laura Jurd, James Allsopp and Dave Storey plus Norwegian special guest Magne Thormodsæter are at the Vortex
Thursday 24 July – Alex Garnett Quartet are at Spine’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 24th July, Paul Hazel Quartet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 24th July, KHAYA and Freddie Lennox are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Friday 25 July – Tony KInsey Memorial Concert – The Exchange -Twickenham
Friday 25 July – Zena James’ Jazz Groove Quartet: Soulful jazz singer Zena James along with Dominic Ashworth, guitar, Andy Hamill, bass and Mike Bradley, drums over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Friday 25 July – Sarim Kaber is at the Vortex
Saturday 26 July 2pm – Greg Abate tenor saxophone, John Pearce piano, Lorenzo Morabito bass, Alfonso Vitale drums are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 26 July – Celebrate Tap dancing at Highams Park Jazz Club , All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, E4 9QZ London
Saturday 26 July – 59 de Ville presents +++ Bebop and Blues +++ Dinner and Drinks +++ from 7.30pm at The Red Lion, Ealing, W5 5RA
Saturday 26 July – Niklas Lukassen is with Ben Van Gelder , Ivo Neame and Francesco Ciniglio at the Vortex
Saturday 26 July – Rob Luft (guitar) and Rebecka Edlund (voice) Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, CB1 1JW
Sunday 27 July – QOW Trio featuring Riley Stone-Lonergan are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime
Sunday 27 July – Tim Whitehead is at the Turk’s Head Twickenham
Sunday 27 July, 1.00-7.30pm – High Tide Festival Jazz Stage, Orleans Gardens, Twickenham Riverside: David Mrakpor & Friends, Rod Youngs Quintet feat. Byron Wallen, Mr Kicks, Luna Cohen, Cenk Esen Trio. Free entry
Sunday 27 July = Jazz On The Plaza feat. Simon Spillett on tenor sax w. Terence Collie on piano & Andrew Robb on double bass. Café Yukari, Kew.
Sunday, 27 July Cameron Bernard Jones & The Luke Bacchus Trio are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Sunday 27 July – Jazz On The Plaza feat. Simon Spillett on tenor sax w. Terence Collie on piano & Andrew Robb on double bass. Café Yukari, Kew.
Monday 28 July – Cahmeron Bernard Jones & The Luke Bacchus Trio are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Monday 28 July – Larry Stabbins , Alexander Hawkins and Mark Sanders are at the Vortex
Monday 28 July – Zoe Rahman is at the Cockpit Theatre
Monday 28 July – Brigitte Beraha is at the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town
Tuesday 29 July lunchtime – Monkin Around with Dave O’Higgins are at Cadogan Hall
Tuesday 29 July – Swinging with the Sidewinder: Mike Soper’s tribute to Lee Morgan at The Drawing Room at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle St, W1
Tuesday 29 July – Soultime with Leon Greening and Steve Fishwick are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 29 July – Clark Tracey’s Jazz Champions are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 29 July – Dave O’Higgins Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
Wednesday 30 July – Boisdale Canary Wharf, Cabot Square, Canary Wharf E14 4QT: Riketté Genesis and Alex Webb present ‘Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall’
Wednesday 30 July – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have “When Peggy met Ella” feat. Shireen Francis (vox) and Sarah Moule (vox) with Simon Wallace (keys) and Paul Whitten (bass). At the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 30 July – Wildflower quintet celebrate Wayne Shorter at Guildford Jazz
Thursday 31 July-Bruce Adams on trumpet with Duncan Lamont on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 31 July lunchtime – Paul Higgs presents Jeepers Creepers are at Cadogan Hall
Thursday 31 July – Shireen Francis’ Caribbean Jazz Trio: Jazz swing meets the rhythms of the Caribbean with the much acclaimed vocalist Shireen, the celebrated guitarist Dominic Grant & steel pan maestro Mark Cherrie over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV. W4
Friday 1 August – The Wonder of Stevie ft Noel McCalla & Derek Nash are at Jazz on the Lawn at Fulham Palace
Friday 1 August – WestSideJazz – Come join us for a night of fabulous Swing, Blues, Ballads and Latin numbers at The Red Lion, Ealing, W5 5RA
Saturday 2 August – Liane Carroll -is at Jazz on the Lawn at Fulham Palace
Sunday 3 August – Geoff Mason (Trombone) Quintet are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime
Tuesday 5 August – Giorgio Serci and Paul Booth are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 5 August – Richard Fairhurst Trio are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 5th August – Mark Crooks, Graham Harvey, Simon Thorpe, Mark Taylor are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 6 August – Harben Kay Quartet is at Pizza Express
Thursday 7 August – Frank Griffith Quartet are at Carlisle Jazz Club. Carlisle Rugby Club, Warwick Road, CA1 1LW
Thursday 7 August – Marc Cecil Quartet Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
8-10 August – Brecon Jazz Festival
Saturday 9 August 2pm – Khiyo : Falle Nioke at Broadstairs Folk Week, Queen’s Road Baptist Church, Broadstairs CT10 1NU
Sunday 10 August 5pm – Ian Shaw – sings Joni Mitchell & More Broadstairs Folk Week, Sarah Thorne Theatre, Broadstairs CT10 2BN
Sunday 10 August 6.30 pm – Soul Time – Remembering Bobby Timmons with Leon Greening, Matyas Hofecker, Matt Home, Steve Fishwick at Imber Court KT8 0BT
Monday 11 August 11am – Sam Brown – Broadstairs Folk Week, Queen’s Road Baptist Church, Broadstairs CT10 1NU
Monday 11 August – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Neal’s Imaginary Friends feat. with Neal Richardson (pno/vox), Rob Palmer (gtr) , Al Swainger (bass), Paul Cavaciuti (drums) at The View at Seaford Head Golf Club BN25 4JS
Tuesday 12 August – Mark Lockheart / Huw V Williams and Jay Davis are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 12 August – Matt Wates, Leon Greening, Julian Bury, Matt Fishwick are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 12 August – Misha Mullov-Abbado Group are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Thursday 14 August – Derek Nash, Dave Newton, Geoff Gascoyne, Sebastiaan de Krom Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 15 August – 11am – Rob Luft & Alice Zawadzki Broadstairs Folk Week, Queen’s Road Baptist Church, Broadstairs CT10 1NU
Tuesday 19 August – Hannes Riepler Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 19 August – Mark Nightingale and Callum Au – The Sound of Jay & Kai are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 19 August – Derek Nash, Dave Newton, Geoff Gascoyne, Marc Cecil are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Thursday 21 August – The Lily Dior Quartet Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 21 August – Heads South featuring Steve Waterman, Live at the Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 5TD
Saturday 23 August – Shirley Smart’s Bezique Trio are at SoundCellar @ Sandy Hill Arts, Corfe Castle
Tuesday 26 August – Jean Toussaint Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 26 August – Jim Rattigan Quintet are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Wednesday 27 August – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Chris Coull’s Septet “Blues & The Abstract Truth” At the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA.
Saturday 30 August – Elaine Delmar, John Pearce, Alec Dankworth, Bobby Worth Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Thursday 4th – Sunday 7th September – Ambleside Days with John Etheridge , Tim Garland , Gwilyn Simcock etc at Zefferelli’s Ambleside
Tuesday 5 August – Richard Fairhurst Trio are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Sunday 7 September – Elchin Shirinov / Jeremy Stacey are at SoundCellar Poole
Friday 12th September – Jo Harrop is at SoundCellar @ Mowlem Theatre, Swanage
Thursday 18th September – Mark Lockheart / John Parricelli is at SoundCellar Poole
2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.
Friday 18 July – Jane Monheit is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Saturday 19 July – Thokozile + Bossa Definitiva Trio are streaming from SoundCellar in Corfe Castle https://soundcellar.org/events/
Monday 21 July 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://youtube.com/@therecordingclubsantamonica
Saturday 23rd August – Shirley Smart’s Bezique Trio are streaming from SoundCellar @ Sandy Hill Arts, Corfe Castle https://soundcellar.org/events/
Sunday 7 September – Elchin Shirinov / Jeremy Stacey are streaming from SoundCellar Poole https://soundcellar.org/events/
Friday 12th September – Jo Harrop is streaming from SoundCellar @ Mowlem Theatre, Swanage https://soundcellar.org/events/
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
26-29 July – GMF Valencia Jazz Workshop https://www.gmfjazzsummit.com/gmf-valencia-jazz-workshop-2025-eng
14-20 August – GMF Tuscany Jazz Workshop, Certaldo, Italy
15 November – The Jazz Singer’s Workshop at the 606 Club
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