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Sad to hear of the death in the past few days of guitarist Phil Lee, b.1943 – read more
And more sadness: RIP drummer Doug Sides (photo above Daniel Cano Amaro/ Creative Commons), b. 1942 – read more
Jazz for Kamala in NYC is this Sunday – read more
Live Nation’s NN North Sea Jazz Festival has a new director – read more
Miranda Sawyer interviewed Ezra Collective for The Observer ahead of UK live dates – read more
LCCM (London College of Contemporary Music) is in partnership with the EFG LJF for a series of events – read more
…and here is an events listing –read more
Gilles Peterson is hosting a series of Fender Rhodes trio sessions, the first with Amaro Freitas – read more
1) Live gigs – October
Wednesday 16 October – Monkin’ Around (Dave O’Higgins – tenor saxophone, Luke Fowler – double bass & Billy Pod – drums) are at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho (album launch)
Wednesday 16 October - Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at The Vortex, London
Wednesday 16 October – SMIODAIR Robin Fincker / Simon Jermyn / Dave Smith are at Flute and Tankard Carfdiff
Wednesday 16 October - World Heart Beat's Fundraising Jazz Club Supper is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD Wednesday 16 October- Stuart Henderson (tpt) and Karen Sharp (sax) bring their ‘Partners in time’ celebration of the great sax+trumpet partnerships in jazz to Carshalton Jazz, at Cryer Arts, High Street, Carshalton
Thursday 17 October – Dino Baptise’s Night Train Trio – swinging jazz, blues & boogie in the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 17 October – Bill Laurence is at the University of Surrey
Thursday 17 October - Tim Whitehead is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 17 October - Duncan Lamont on reeds with Mike Innes on trombone are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 17 October - Mike De Souza's Chrysalis group are at the Vortex Thursday 17 October - Slowly Rolling Camera is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD Thursday 17 October – SMIODAIR Robin Fincker / Simon Jermyn / Dave Smith are at Midlands Art Centre Birmingham Friday 18 October - Shez Raja ft Guthrie Govan at 606 Club
Friday 18 October - Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) have a Workshop and Gig at Leeds College of Music Friday 18 October - SMIODAIR Dave Smith, Robin Finker & Simon Jermyn are at the Vortex plus a late with Will Glaser
Friday 18 October - The Art Themen Quartet feat Art on tnr sax, John Donaldson on pno, Tim Wells on d bass & Spike Wells on drms play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Friday 18 October – Enrico Tomasso & Alex Garnett Quintet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester.
Friday 18 October - Noemi Nuti Quartet are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 18 October - Barnaby's 'Bones' ft Chris Valentine, James Wade-Sired + Matt Seddon at Barnaby's Lounge in Hastings
Saturday 19 October - Tom Ollendorf Quartet ft Will Vinson are at the Vortex plus a late with Dee Byrne
Saturday 19 October - Benn Clatworthy is at the 606
Saturday 19 October - Dan Waldman 4tet ft Gareth Lockrane are at Oliver's Jazz Bar Greenwich 9 Nevada Street, London, SE10 9JL
Sunday 20 October lunchtime - Nicolas Meier Quartet at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 20 October - Vortex have Mopomoso imn the afternoon , jam in the evening
Sunday 20 October 5pm - Jam Session feat Jim Mullen at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London
Sunday 20 October 5pm adm free - Tim Richards TRIO (Tim Richards – piano, Alex Keen – bass, Daniel Howard – drums) are at MUSIC ROOM LONDON, 116 New Cross Road SE14 5BA
Sunday 20 October - Hutch Miller Duo ft Vlad Miller + Hutch Demouilpied at Barnaby's Lounge in Hastings
Sunday 20 October - Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at 7Arts, Leeds
Sunday 20 October - Madekine Bell and Ian Shaw are at the 606
Sunday 20 October - Ollie Usiskin Quartet are at The Priory Tavern 250 Belsize road , Kilburn NW6 Sunday 20 October 2024 - Nick Mills Blue Note Project with Dave O'Higgins , Martin Shaw and Leon Greening is at the Turk's Head Twickenham Monday 21 October -Josephine Davies is at the Parakeet on Kentish Town Rd Monday 21 October - Connolly Hayes is at the 606
Tuesday 22 October – Smokin at the East Side with Nigel Price and the Leon Greening Trio at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 22 October – Ted Beament Trio with Alec Dankworth, drums tba are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 22 October – Tori Freestone / Alcyona Mick Quartet are at the 606
Tuesday 22 October – Equal Spirits are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 22 October – Matt Wates Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 22 October – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at The Flute & Tankard, Cardiff
Tuesday 22 October – Nana Rashid is at Ronnie Scotts
Tuesday 22 October – Harold López-Nussa: Timba a la Americana is at Wigmore Hall
Wednesday 23 October – The Jonny Ford Jazz Orchestra at The Vortex Jazz Club
Wednesday 23 October – Jazz Vespers, American International Church on Tottenham Court Road
Wednesday 23 October – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at The Tung Auditorium, Liverpool
Wednesday 23 October – The Zealots album launch is at the 606
Thursday 24 October – Dave Black, Alice Black, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Dave Tandy are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 24 October- Lester Brown on trumpet with Frank Walden on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club, Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 24 October – Derek Nash is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 24 October – Farida Amadou and Caius Williams upstairs at the Vortex , an new Whirlpool series starts downstairs
Thursday 24 October – Zena James’ Jazz Groove Quartet play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Thursday 24 October – Emily Masser is at Matthews Hall, Fore Street, Topsham, EX3 0HF
Thursday 24 – 26 October – John Butcher celebrates his 70th birthday with 3 nights at Cafe Oto with Sophie Agnel , Rhodri Davies , Gino Robair , Angharad Davies, Sophie Agnel , Mark Sanders , Isabelle Duthois, Pat Thomas & Ståle Liavik Solberg
Thursday 24 October – At Crazy Coqs, Sherwood St London W1 an album launch for Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’ with Alex Webb (piano), Charlie Pyne (bass), Katie Patterson (drums) and Laura Impallomeni (trombone).
Friday 25 October – Electric harpist fronted The Harper Trio are at SoundCellar in Poole
Friday 25 October – Amber Leafe Jazz Trio ft John Donaldson and Andy Williams at Barnaby’s Lounge in Hastings
Friday 25 October – Tom Ridout’s ‘A Handel on Jazz Trio’ (Tom Ridout, Billy Marrows and Flo Moore). 6pm at the Jimi Sessions, Handel Hendrix House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB
Friday 25 October -Samara are at the 606
Friday 25 October – Marta Carillon Quintet: Broadway Jazz Night – A Tribute to The Greats! are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 25 October – Vince Dunn & The Medicine Band are at Tropic 68 , 68 Brigstock Rd, Thornton Heath CR7 7JA
Friday 25 October – Ilario Ferrari Trio – Above The Clouds is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD.
Friday 25 October – Perfect Stranger are at Progress Theatre , The Mount, Christchurch Road, Reading, RG1 5HL
Friday 25 October – Leo Richardson upstairs at the Vortex plus a late with Rebecka Edlund and Immy Churchill
Saturday 26 October 2.30 – Art Themen is at Loughton Methodist Church 260 High Road, Loughton, Essex IG10 1RB
Saturday 26 October – Joe Webb’s 5 a side are at the 606
Saturday 26 October – Denys Baptiste is with singer Marvin Muoneke at the Vortex plus a late with Rick Simpson
Saturday 26 October 2pm – Vasilis Xenopoulos, Paul Edis, Simon Thorpe, Billy Pod are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 26 October – Vasilis Xenopoulos/Paul Edis: Feels Like Home are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 26 October – Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio are at RWCMD , Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff
Sunday 27 October lunchtime – Vasilis Xenopoulos Quintet at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 27 October, 5-7pm – Jazz at the Horsebridge, Whitstable have Louise Cookman Quartet
Sunday 27 October – Jazz On The Plaza feat. Dave O’Higgins with Terence Collie & Esther Ng. Café Yukari, Kew
Sunday 27 October – Ollie Usiskin Quartet are at The Priory Tavern 250 Belsize road , Kilburn NW6
Sunday 27 October The Wonder of Stevie with Derek Nash and Noel McCalla are at the 606
Sunday 27 October – Elaine Delmar, Sevenoaks, Ship Theatre
Monday 28 October – Rik van der Made Group is at the Parakeet on Kentish Town Rd
Monday 28 October – 137 | Iain Ballamy | Mali Sheard’s Homestead are at Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre
Tuesday 29 October – Bruno Heinen Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 29 October – Andy Urquhart Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 29 October – Elaine Delmar is launching an album at Pizza Express Soho
Tuesday 29 October – Joe Locke, Ronnie Scott’s
Tuesday 29 October – Andy Urquhart Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 29 October – Solo concert by Nitai Hershkovits at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Wednesday 30 October – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Hoagy! – The Chris Ingham Quartet
Wednesday 30 October – Joe Locke is at Zeffirellies in Ambleside
31 October – 3 November – Jazz Fest Berlin
Thursday 31 October – Louise Cookman is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 31 October – Threeway (Steve Waterman, Steve Lodder & Ben Crosland) are at Davenham Jazz, Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich , Cheshire
Thursday 31 October- Mark Aston on reeds with Alex Corlett on guitar are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 31 October to Sunday 3 November – JazzFest Berlin
NOVEMBER
Friday 1 November – Chris Batchelor Quintet: REMEMBERING TOMASZ STAŃKO at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 1 November – Perfect Stranger album launch at Karamel N22
Friday 1 November – Nat Steele and Mark Crooks play Stan Getz and Cal Tjader at Cranleigh Arts Centre 1 High Street Cranleigh , GU6 8AS
Saturday 2 November – Irene Serra & Luca Boscagin Quartet: THE GREAT BRITISH SONGBOOK at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 2 November – Threeway Steve Waterman , Steve Lodder and Ben Crosland are at St Gabriel’s Church Aldersbrook, London, E12 5HH
Saturday 2 November – WOW Presents Neil Hamilton Jazz Day RHACC, Richmond
Sunday 3 November lunchtime – Adrian Reid Quartet featuring Tony Kofi at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 3 November – Equinox Jazz Quartet are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town
Sunday 3 November – Riverside Arts Jazz – Celebrating Roy Hargrove with Simon Allen, Paul Jordanous, Terence Collie, Paul Michael and Joel Prime. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury
Tuesday 5 November – Trish Clowes is at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 5 November – Derek Nash Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 5 November – Mingus Sings! Celebrating Charles Mingus with Sara Oschlag & Arnie Somogyi are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Wednesday 6 November – SOULTIME! Steve Fishwick ana Leon Greening delve into Bobby Timmons at The Pavilion Guildford
Thursday 7 November – Matt Skelton Quintet play the music of Shelly Manne are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 7 November – Nicolas Meier World Group are at SoundCellar at the Grasshopper in Poole
Thursday 7 November – Barb Jungr’s ‘Hallelulah’ show celebrates the songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen in a jazz idiom over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 7 November – Karen Sharp is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 7 November- Peter Rudeforth on trumpet with Mark Aston on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Friday 8 November – Mátyás Gayer Trio at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester.
Friday 8 November – The Nat Steele Trio, featuring Nat Steele (Vibraphone), Sean Fyfe (Piano) and Simon Read (Double Bass), are appearing for Burrough Jazz at Twyford Village Hall, LE14 2HU
Friday 8 November – Emily Saunders: Moon Shifts Oceans is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 8 November – Judith Nijland Quartet: A Jazz Tribute to ABBA at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 9 November – Saturday 9th November – The Big Colors Big Band feat. Brandon Allen, Mark Armstrong & Jakub Klimiuk: PLAY THE MID-CENTURY COOL MUSIC OF MILES DAVIS, CHARLES MINGUS, JOHN COLTRANE AND MORE.. at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 9 November – Sarah L King is at Hampstead Jazz Club, Duke of Hamilton NW3
Saturday 9 November – John Butcher (saxophones), Mark Sanders (percussion) & Philipp Wachsmann (violin & electronics) are at Listen! Unitarian Hall, Victoria Street, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Sunday 10 November 5pm adm free – Tim Richards TRIO (Tim Richards – piano, Alex Keen – bass, Daniel Howard – drums) are at MUSIC ROOM LONDON, 116 New Cross Road SE14 5BA
Sunday 10 November at 3 pm – The Urban Big Band is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Monday 11 November – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Jane Tuff (sax) with the Neal Richardson Trio
Monday 11 November – Kim Cypher album launch, Pizza Express Soho
Tuesday 12 November – Pete Roth Trio featuring Bill Bruford are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 12 November – Mick Foster Quartet + Students are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 12 November – Robert Mitchell’s Epiphany3 are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Wednesday 13 November – The Gordon Wellard Septet play Art Blakey at the The Electric Theatre , Onslow St , Guildford
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 – 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 – Tina Carr and Band are at HOXTON HALL, London, N1 6SH
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 – Georgia Mancio Quartet (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
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 – 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
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
Tuesday 19 November – Olie Brice , George Crowley , Alex Bonny 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 – Greg Abate Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
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 – 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
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 – 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 – 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 – Nik Bärtsch piano; Tania Giannouli piano at Wigmore Hall
Friday 22 November – Shez Raja ft Guthrie Govan at 606 Club
Friday 22 November – Rob Luft Quartet (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
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 – 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
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 – Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott, Acker Bilk, George Shearing with Strings, Cadogan Hall
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 – 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 – Nina Kristofferson Sings Jazz at The Pheasantry
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)
Thursday 28 November – Al Nicholls Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 29 November – QCBA PLAYS BLUE NOTE! with Quentin Collins & Brandon Allen at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
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 – Shabaka, Southbank Centre
DECEMBER
Sunday 1 December – Equinox Jazz Quartet are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town
Monday 9 December – Julian Bliss Septet is at Wigmore Hall
Tuesday 10 December – Emmet Cohen Trio are at Wigmore Hall
Sunday 15 December – Riverside Arts Jazz Christmas Special feat. Tommaso Starace with Terence Collie, Richard Sadler & Winston Clifford
2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.
Wednesday 16 October – Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin are streaming from Porgy and Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/12076/
Friday 18 October – Cyrus Chestnut is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 21 October 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Thursday 7 November – Nicolas Meier World Group are at SoundCellar at the Grasshopper in Poole https://soundcellar.org/events/
Thursday 21 November – Synergy Mike Outram / Gareth Fowler / Chris Attwell and Andy Chapmanare at SoundCellar at the Grasshopper in Poole https://soundcellar.org/events/
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
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