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BBC Radio 3 has been a place for unexpected jazz things to happen this week:
Nate Chinen remembers trumpeter Jim Rotondi (RIP) for WRTI – read more
Ammar Kalia reviewed Outerstate, the debut recording by Kessoncoda (drummer Tom Sunney & keyboardist Filip Sowa), in the Observer – read more
Sebastian reviewed vocalist Catherine Russell’s new album with pianist Sean Mason, My Ideal, for the ArtsDesk – read more
The Press & Journal wrote about Scottish saxophonist-multi-instrumentalist Fraser Fifield’s upcoming album release, Second Sight – read more
Angel Bat Dawid was poorly treated in Berlin – read more
At the top of Stephen Graham’s “Top Ten Albums Jan-July” is …. (why spoil?!) … – read more
Ian Mann reviewed Phil Merriman’s new album – read more
Written in Music’s North Sea round-up concentrates on the Joshua Redman/ Christian McBride duo and Charles Lloyd – in Dutch – read more
Mark Stryker has an X (Twitter) thread highlighting Frank Sinatra’s 1957 LP Close to You, a lesser-known recording by the singer that Stryker describes as his ‘all-time favorite (sic) Sinatra LP’ – read more
“Mała Akademia Jazzu” from Gorzów comes to London .. where it becomes “Small Academy of Jazz”. A new initiative at POSK for 8-15 year olds – read more
Wednesday 17 July – Empirical are at Pizza Express Soho
Wednesday 17 July – OWL Quartet downstairs , Stablefolk upstairs at the Vortex
Wednesday 17 July – The Alan Barnes Octet play Alan’s fantastic Copperfield Suite with an amazing line-up: Alan Barnes, sax+cl, Bruce Adams, tpt, Mark Nightingale, tmb, Robert Fowler & Karen Sharpe, sax +cl, David Newton, pno Simon Thorpe, b, Clark Tracey, d. 7.30 at CryerArts, Carshalton SM5 3BB
Wednesday 17 July – Kurt Rosenwinkel and Christian McBride are at the Wigmore Hall
Wednesday 17 July – Award-winning jazz pianist & composer Kate Williams & her Trio is at the 606
Thursday 18 July 12 – 2 – Nat Steele Quartet are at Out to Lunch , Cadogan Hall
Thursday 18 July – Dominic Ashworth is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 18 July – Becca Wilkins is downstairs , Art Themen upstairs at the Vortex
Friday 19 July – James Taylor Quartet at the Lincoln Jazz Festival hosted by Lincoln Cathedral
Friday 19 July – Ant Law and Brigitte Beraha are the Pheasantry
Friday 19 July – Rachael Cohen is at the Vortex
Friday 19 July – Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, London SE11 4RN: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’
Friday 19 July – Latin & Brazilian jazz quintet Samara ft. Carolina Lelis-vocals and Steve Rubie- sax/flute are at the 606
Saturday 20 July – Georgia Mancio is at Highams Park Jazz Club , County Arms upstairs , 420 Hale End Road , E4 9PB
Saturday 20 July – Kinetika Bloco Legacy Band, Antonio Forcione Trio, Ian Shaw, Joe Locke Quartet at the Lincoln Jazz Festival hosted by Lincoln Cathedral
Saturday 20 July – African Concert Series at the Wigmore Hall
Saturday 20 July – Tom Challenger / Rick Simpson and Will Glaser are at the Vortex
Saturday 20 July – Pete Lay’s Gambit Jazzmen are at National Jazz Archive at Loughton Methodist Church
Saturday 20 July – Dave O’Higgins ‘Monkin’ Around’ Quartet – Leading UK saxophonist Dave O’Higgins & his quartet pay their respects to the music of Thelonious Monk are at the 606
Sunday 21 July lunchtime – Gary Wilcox Quartet featuring Chris Biscoe are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 21 July lunchtime – singer/pianist Tony O’Malley (Kokomo) plays jazz standards from his albums “My Foolish Heart” and “Mansarde Sessions” are at the 606
Sunday 21 July 3pm- 5.30pm Garden Jazz at The Fishermen’s Club with Sara Oschlag (vox) Trio with Matt Wall (gtr), Arnie Somogyi (bass) and Andy Panayi (sax) Royal Parade Eastbourne , BN22 7AA Eastbourne – The Fishermen’s Club, Royal Parade BN22 7AA
Sunday 21 July – At the Vortex Mopomoso in the afternoon , Jam in the evening
Sunday 21 July – Lighthouse Trio (Tim Garland/Gwilym Simcock/Asaf Sirkis), Jay Phelps Sextet, Tom Cawley and Gareth Lockrane, Hejira are at the Lincoln Jazz Festival hosted by Lincoln Cathedral
Monday 22 July – jazz/groove Trio No Big Deal with special guests Mattari are at the 606
Monday 22 July – Mike De Souza’s band are at the Parakett (fka Oxford) on Kentish Town Rd
Tuesday 23 July 12 – 2 -Vertigo with Julian Costello are at Out to Lunch , Cadogan Hall
Tuesday 23 July – Vertigo with Julian Costello album launch at Pizza Express Soho
Tuesday 23 July – drummer Jeremy Stacey & his jazz quartet are at the 606
Tuesday 23 July – Huw Warren’s Chorro Chorro Chorro Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 23 July – Pete Long Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
Tuesday 23 July – Greg Abate/Steve Fishwick Quintet is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 23 July – Sarah Moule with Simon Wallace, Alec Dankworth and Paul Robinson are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 24 July – contemporary jazz saxophonist/vocalist Kaidi Akinnibi & his band are at the 606
Wednesday 24 July – Xhosa Cole is at Pizza Express Soho
Wednesday 24 July – Basil Hodge Quartet are at the Vortex
Thursday 25 July – Zena James’ Jazz Groove Quartet play the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Thursday 25 July 12 – 2 – Lana Shelley Trio are at Out to Lunch , Cadogan Hall
Thursday 25 July – jazz violinist Benet McLean is at the 606
Thursday 25 July – Julian Woods and Caius Williams present a new improvising quintet, featuring Steve Beresford, Tom Challenger and Theo Guttenplan at the Vortex
Thursday 25 July -Sarah Moule with Simon Wallace, Alec Dankworth and Rod Young are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 25 July – Josh Kemp is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Friday 26 July – Saxophonist Dave Lewis’ “1UP’ ft Lizzie Deane are at the 606
Friday 26 July – Larry Bartley / Bruno Heinen and Winston Clifford are at the Vortex
Friday 26 July – Tristan Banks is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 26 July – Abel Selaocoe is at the Wigmore Hall
Friday 26 July – at Oliver’s Jazz Bar, 9 Nevada Street, London SE10 9JL: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’
Friday 26 July – The Art Themen Quartet ft Art on tenor sax, Tim Lapthorne, pno, Adam King d bass & Sebastian De Krom, drms over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Saturday 27 July – Zoe Rahman is at the Vortex
Saturday 27 July – The Groove Warriors 6-piece Jazz-Funk outfit play the Jazz room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Saturday 27 July – From the USA, Greg Abate with John Pearce, Simon Thorpe and Alfonso Vitale are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 27 July – Jazz Pianist John Cervantes ft. Nigel Price & Mark Crooks are at the 606
Sunday 28 July lunchtime – Jonathan Gee Quartet featuring Denys Baptiste are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 28 July lunchtime – Brazilian Jazz with–Kaw Regis are at the 606
Sunday 28 July 5pm – Lily Dior is at Highams Park Jazz Club at County Arms upstairs , 420 Hale End Road , E4 9PB
Sunday 28 July Evening – Australian singer Nina Ferro is at the 606
Sunday 28 July – Basil Hodge Quartet ft Tony Kofi is at Pizza Express Soho
Sunday 28 July: Jazz On The Plaza feat. Andy Panayi with Terence Collie & Stuart Barker. Cafe Yukari, Kew.
Monday 29 July – Magpie are at the Parakett (fka Oxford) on Kentish Town Rd
Monday 29 July – Tomorrow’s New Quartet and Tom Ford are at Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre
Monday 29 July – Ed Bentley Organ Trio ft. Dave Lewis & Rod Youngs are at the 606
Tuesday 30 July – Mike Soper Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 30 July – Mark Bassey/Charlotte Glasson Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 30 July 12 – 2 -Sam Dunn’s Grant Green Project featuring Dave O’Higgins are at Out to Lunch , Cadogan Hall
Tuesday 30 July – Adam Glasser Quartet are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday, 30 July at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street is the debut outing of the (Brubeck Institute and RAM alumnus) Jonny Ford Jazz Orchestra
Tuesday 30 July – Birdland Trio ft Dian Gasper, Lewis Cassar & James Morgan are at the 606
Wednesday 31 July- The Full Circle Quartet Josephine Davies (sax), Joss Peach (keys), Terry Pack (bass), Angus Bishop (drums) are at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 31 July – Italian jazz singer/pianist Anna Panzanelli is at the 606
Thursday 1 August – Matt Wates Sextet are at Guildford Jazz
Thursday 1 August – Mark Bassey is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 1 August – Vasilis Xenopoulos, Nigel Price, John Williamson, Alfonso Vitale are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 1 August – Kai Hoffman, John Harriman, James Sunney, Rod Brown at The Middle House, Mayfield TN20 6AB nr Tunbridge Wells
Thursday 1 August – Hannah Horton is at the 606
Friday 2 August – jazz saxophonist Alec Harper is at the 606
Saturday 3 August – Jazz on the Lawn at Fulham Palace – Adrian Cox Quintet ‘The New Orleans Clarinet’ with special guest Louise Balkwill
Saturday 3 of August – Aga Zaryan Quartet with Alicja Śmietana String Quartet: “Umiera piękno” (“Beauty is Dying”) are at Jazz Cafe POSK 238-246 King Street , Hammersmith , W6 0RF
Sunday 4 August lunchtime – Tracey Mendham Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 4 August – Riverside Arts Jazz Celebrating 65 Years of Kind of Blue – Miles Davies & 60 Years of Empyrean Isles – Herbie Handcock with Steve Waterman, Simon Allen, Terence Collie, Stuart Barker & Chris Nickolls
Monday 5 August – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Deirdre Cartwright (gtr), with Neal Richardson (piano/vox), Nigel Thomas (bass), Alex Eberhard (drums)
Tuesday 6 August – David Angol Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 6 August – Jonathan Gee Quartet featuring Denys Baptiste are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 6 August – Dave Black Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Thursday 8 August – Andy Panayi Quartet – Jazz in a Circus Tent – overlooking the sea at Helen Gardens, Dukes Drive Eastbourne BN20 7XH
Thursday 8 August – Ruchard Pite, Pete Long, Gunther Kurmayr, bass to be confirmed are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 8 August – Simon Allen is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club, EN2 8AS
Thursday 8 August – Sultan Stevenson is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 9 August – The Tara Minton Trio, featuring Tara Minton (harp, vocals), John Williamson (bass) and David Ingamels (drums) are appearing for Burrough Jazz at St Mary’s Church, Burrough, LE14 2JQ
Friday 9 August – David Beebee Bop Band – Jazz in a Circus Tent – overlooking the sea at Helen Gardens, Dukes Drive Eastbourne BN20 7XH
Sunday 11 August 5pm – Jim Mullen is at Highams Park Jazz Club at County Arms upstairs , 420 Hale End Road , E4 9PB
Sunday 11 August – Dave Williams Quartet – Jazz in a Circus Tent – overlooking the sea at Helen Gardens, Dukes Drive Eastbourne BN20 7XH
Sunday 11 August – Simon Spillett is at Pizza Express Soho
Tuesday 13 August – Karim Saber Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 13 August – Oddgeir Berg Trio are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 13 August – Leon Greening, Alex Garnett, Conor Chaplin, Steve Brown are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Thursday 15 August – Martin Shaw is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club, EN2 8AS
16 – 18 August Herne Bay Jazz Festival
Saturday 17 August – Simon Spillett is at Highams Park Jazz Club , County Arms upstairs , 420 Hale End Road , E4 9PB
Monday 19 August – Pizza Express, Dean Street, Soho London W1: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’
Tuesday 20 August – 5 Way Split with Quentin Collins and Vasilis Xenopoulos are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 20 August – Sam Braysher, Will Arnold-Forster, Simon Read, Dave Ingamells are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 20 August – Ian Shaw & Tony Kofi – An Adventurous Dream, the Music of Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Thursday 22 August – Kate Daniels, John Harriman, James Sunney, Rod Brown at The Middle House, Mayfield TN20 6AB nr Tunbridge Wells
Thursday 22 August – Vasilis Xenopoulos is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 22 August – Sam Braysher, Dave Warren, Simon Read, Dave Ingamells are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 22 – 26 August – Rye International Jazz Festival
Sunday 25 August 5pm – Tim Whitehead is at Highams Park Jazz Club at County Arms upstairs , 420 Hale End Road , E4 9PB
Tuesday 27 August – Sam Braysher Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 27 August – Mike Piggott’s Hot Club Quartet are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Wednesday 28 August – Adam Glasser Quintet are at Splash Point Jazz Club, Fishermen’s Club Eastbourne BN22 7A
Wednesday 17 July – Kirk Lightsey is streaming from Porgy and Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Saturday 20 July – Sylvia Courvoisier is streaming from Porgy and Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Saturday 20 July – Kenny Garrett is streaming from Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Tuesday 23 July – Bobby Watson is streaming from Porgy and Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Monday 22 July 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Friday 26 July – Cyrus Chestnut is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
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 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
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)
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