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“My favourite new artist”: Rick Beato interviewed and recommended London-based singer-songwriter Hohnen Ford (Ella Hohnen-Ford) – watch
“They’re an excellent, excellent big band”: Kurt Elling is interviewed in The Scotsman about his upcoming concerts with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – read more
…Jazz in Europe previewed the full tour – read more
Marc Myers of JazzWax pays tribute to fellow critic and historian Dan Morgenstern (RIP) – read more
Bassist and veteran sideman Herbie Flowers (RIP): John Keenan’s obituary for the Guardian – read more
…also in the Guardian, Chris Welch wrote the obituary of keyboardist and British R&B pioneer Zoot Money (RIP) – read more
Bill Milkowski’s latest Milkman’s Musing is about jazz’s by-gone entertainers, from Fats Waller and Cab Calloway to Slim Gaillard, Louis Jordan and more – read more
Author of Jazz from Detroit Mark Stryker shared an update on his documentary adaptation The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit – read more
Michel Tucker’s review of the new Norma Winstone/ Kit Downes album for Jazz Journal recalls eg her self-financed Amoroso album with Bobby Wellins and Stan Tracey from 2006 – read more–
Jazz Views reviews a “strong debut album” from Artie Zaitz – read more
The Oxford Mail previewed Tom Thorp’s Illumetris concert with Neil Yates at St Giles – read more
Jane Cornwell’s feature for the 300th edition of Jazzwise asks how much has improved for W
Wednesday 18 September ECM pianist Giovanni Guidi is at Gallery Rosenfeld 37 Rathbone Street London W1T 1NZ
Wednesday 18 September- Steve Fishwick & Robbie Ellison Quintet ft. Frank Basile is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Wednesday 18th September- Trevor Mires’s The Rools is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Wednesday 18th September – Iain Ballamy is at the 606
Wednesday 18th September – the Brian Clemens Jazz Orchestra ft. Francesca Confortini are at Wilton’s Music Hall
Wednesday 18th September- Vortex have Creations downstairs , Sandler / Woods 5tet upstairs
Thursday 19 September – Kasper Rietkerk’s KRSIX are at SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 19 September -Aidan Pope is at the Birmingham Conservatoire
Thursday 19 September – Robert Mitchell solo at the Vortex
Thursday 19 September – Lester Brown on trumpet, Sue Greenway and Duncan Lamont on reeds perform a tribute to the late Mike Wills. at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 19 September – Arlo and Manuel Humaran Trio are at the Jazz Sanctuary Turks Head, The, 28 Winchester Rd, Twickenham TW1 1LF
Thursday 19 September – Bourbon & Blues: Highly accessible mix of Swing Jazz, Blues & Motown from Italian guitar maestro Giulio Romano & Canadian vocalist Dom Durner over at the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 19 September – Ingrid James and Pete Churchill launch an album at the 606
Thursday 19 September – Olly Hite is at Rhythm & Booze Battersea
Thursday 19 September- Karen Sharp (sax) with Colin Oxley (gtr), dave Green (b) and Dave Ohm (d) are at Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, SE9 2PE
Thursday 19 September – Art Themen is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club, EN2 8AS
Friday 20 September – Phoebe Katis is at Pizza Express Holborn
Friday 20 September – Lekan Babalola and the Sacred Funk Quartet are at the Vortex plus Will Glaser and Pando Pando for a late show
Friday 20th September- Mark Kavuma is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Friday / Saturday 20 -21 Sept – Jazz Conversations, The Place
Saturday 21 September – James Davison and Duncan Hemstock are at the 606
Saturday 21 September – Denys Baptiste’s new quartet are at the Vortex plus Heidi Vogel late show
Sunday 22 September lunchtime – The Exceptions with Clark Tracey, Art Themen and Andy Cleyndert are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 22 September lunchtime – Pamela Knowles is at Ronnie Scott’s
Sunday 22 September 3pm – Henry Mancini Centenary special show at The Pizza Express in Soho
Sunday 22 September 3pm – The Julian Costello Quartet “And All The Birds Were Set Free” feat Costello, sax, John Turville, pno, John Jones, d bass & tom Hooper, drms playing music from their new album over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Sunday 22 September 5pm – Jam Session feat Patrick Clahar at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London
Sunday 22 September 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 22 September – Polly Gibbons is at the 606
Monday 23 September – Gabrielle Stravelli is at the Parakeet in Kentish Town
Monday 23 September – Mark Cherrie has an album launch at the 606
Tuesday 24 September – Sarah Moule and the Simon Wallace Trio are at the 606
Tuesday 24 September – Donovan Haffner Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 24 September – Lawrence Jones Quartet at The Hare & Hounds PH, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 24 September – Tomorrows Warriors present Kezia Abouma Quartet and the Ky Osbourne Quartet at the Vortex
Tuesday 24 September – Arbenz/Neame/Churchill/Hart/Pursglove:Conversation are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Wednesday 25 September- Adrian Cox Trio is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Wednesday 25 September- Mornington Lockett is at the 606
Wednesday 25 September- Ewan Hastie Trio are at the Vortex
Wednesday 25 September – The Crypt at St Martins In The Fields, Trafalgar Square WC2N 4JJ are: Celebrating the Sarah Vaughan Centenary with a show starring Lulu Pierre and Marvin Muoneke
Wednesday 25 September – Iago Banet, a virtuoso Spanish guitarist is at Pizza Express Live, Holborn
Wednesday 25 September – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne Nicola Farnon Quartet Nicola Farnon (vox, bass), Mark Edwards (keys), Andy Panayi (sax/flute) and Phil Johnson (drums) – Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 25 September -Tomorrows Warriors present Maddy Coombs at the Pizza Express Soho
Thursday 26 September – Antonio Forcione and Giorgio Serci are at The 606 Club
Thursday 26 September – Al Nicholls on sax with Jezz Cook on guitar are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 26 September – The Vortex have Reuben Goldmark Trio downstairs and James Allsopp’s new quintet at the Vortex
Thursday 26 September – Jason Rebello and Gwilym Simcock are at the University of Surrey
Thursday 26 September – Derek Nash, David Newton, Geoff Gascoyne, Sebastiaan de Krom are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 26 September – Monkin’ Around (Dave O’Higgins – tenor saxophone, Luke Fowler – double bass & Billy Pod – drums) are at Hampstead Jazz Club , London
Thursday 26 September – 59 Deville: Jazz & blues mix feat Jeremy Robinson, trmpt, Jamie Royan, d bass, Russ Varakuta, vcls & gtr & Jerry Claydon, drms in the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Friday 27 September – The Nigel Price Organ Trio, featuring Nigel Price (Guitar), Ross Stanley (Hammond Organ) and Joel Barford (Drums) are appearing for Burrough Jazz at Twyford Village Hall, LE14 2HU
Friday 27 September – Nicholas Adema Quartet – UK Debut at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Friday 27 September –Samara are at the 606
Friday 27 September – Vortex have Laubrock / Rainey / Hunter / Pope with a late with Rebecka Eflund and Immy Churchill
Friday 27 September – Asha Parkinson album launch at Toulouse Lautrec
Saturday 28 September – Ted Beament, Alec Dankworth, Winston Clifford are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 28 September – The Katriona Quintet “An Evening of Jazz & Soul Divas” over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Saturday 28 September – Ray Gelato and Simon Spillett are at the 606
Saturday 28 September – David Preston is at the Vortex with Olly Chalk on the late show
Sunday 29 September lunchtime – Fraser Smith Quartet at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 29 September – Jazz in New York: The 1930s at Cadogan Hall
September 29 September 2.30 – 6 – Refugee Tales presents Jazz and Stories
Sunday 29 September, 5-7pm – Jazz at the Horsebridge, Whitstable have Kai Hoffman Quartet
Sunday 29 September – Louise Balkwill is at the 606
Sunday 29th September – Jazz On The Plaza feat. Sam Walker with Terence Collie & Mark Rose. Café Yukari, Kew
Monday 30 September – Lorenzo Bellini is at the Parakeet in Kentish Town
Monday 30 September – Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre have Million Seller | J.A.M. String Collective | Final Act TBC
Tuesday 1 October – Gordon Wellard Septet play Art Blakey at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 1 October – Mark Crooks, Colin Oxley, Simon Thorpe, Matt. Skelton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 1 October – Pete Bernstein / Jim Mullen are at the 606
Tuesday 1 October – Georgia Mancio and Gareth Lockrane are at Crystal Palace Jazz Club , Hopscotch Taproom 54 Westow Hill SE19
Tuesday 1 October – Pete Long presents the music of Benny Goodman at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 1 October – Mood Indigo Events October Piano Series featuring Terence Collie. 1901 Arts Club, 7 Exton Street, London SE1 8UE
Wednesday 2 October – Trish Clowes is at the Birmingham Conservatoire
Wednesday 2 October – Pete Bernstein / Jim Mullen are at the 606
Thursday 3 October – Alex Garnett, Leon Greening, bass tba, Matt Skelton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 4 October – The POSK Festival of Jazz Voice! (DAY ONE): Set 1 – POLISH JAZZ VOICES SPOTLIGHT; Set 2 – ALICE ZAWADZKI JAZZ TRIO; Set 3 – NORMA WINSTONE QUARTET: “INSPIRATIONS…” Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 4 October – Pump House Theatre, 5 Local Board Rd, Watford WD17 2JP are celebrating the Sarah Vaughan Centenary with a show starring Lulu Pierre and Marvin Muoneke
Saturday 5 October – The POSK Festival of Jazz Voice! (DAY TWO): Set 1 – Rouhangeze with Tomasz Bura; Set 2 – SAM MERRICK WITH JAZZ TRIO; Set 3 – HEIDI VOGEL WITH JAZZ TRIO; Set 4 – EMMA SMITH QUARTET! Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 5 October – Tony Kofi and Tim Boniface are at All Saints , Brudenell Rd , Tooting
Sunday 6 October lunchtime – Renato D’Aiello Quartet at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 6 October 5pm – Jam Session feat Julian Nicholas at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London, United Kingdom
Sunday 6 October – Equinox Jazz Quartet are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town
Sunday 6 October – new venue Soul Mama, 40 Celebration Ave, East Village, Stratford E20 1DB have Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’
Sunday 6 October – Riverside Arts Jazz feat. Zoe Francis and Jim Mullen with Terence Collie, Nick Lenner-Webster & Tristan Mailliot. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury.
Tuesday 8 October – Basil Hodge Quartet ft Tony Kofi at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 8 October – Richard Pite, Chris Parish, Lorenzo Evans, Harry Evans are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 8 October – Mood Indigo Events October Piano Series featuring Jason Rebello. 1901 Arts Club, 7 Exton Street, London SE1 8UE.
Wednesday 9 October – Alyn Shipton’s Gerry Mulligan Quartet are at Guildford Jazz
Thursday 10 October – Richard Pite, Chris Parish, Lorenzo Evans, Harry Evans are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 11 October – Jazz Samba feat. Mark Crooks & Nigel Price are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 12 October – Kate Williams Quartet feat. Mike Outram are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 12 October – Hannah Horton Quartet The Blue Room at the Lawn Lincoln LN1 3BU
Saturday 12 October 8.30pm – Benet Mclean Quintet at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London
Monday 14 October – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Julian Marc Stringle with the Neal Richardson Trio
Tuesday 15 October – The John Horler Trio play Bill Evans at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 15 October – The Music of Shelley Manne – Matt Skelton, James Davison, Mark Crooks, piano and bass tba are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 15 October – Iiro Rantala’s HEL Trio are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 15 October – Mood Indigo Events October Piano Series featuring Nikki Iles + bass tbc. 1901 Arts Club, 7 Exton Street, London SE1 8UE..
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)
Thursday 17 October – Bill Laurence is at the University of Surrey
Friday 18 October – Shez Raja ft Guthrie Govan at 606 Club
Friday 18 October – Noemi Nuti Quartet are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
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
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 – Equal Spirits are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
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
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 – Perfect Stranger are at Progress Theatre , The Mount, Christchurch Road, Reading, RG1 5HL
Saturday 26 October – Denys Baptiste is with singer Marvin Muoneke at the Vortex
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
Wednesday 26 October – Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio are at RWCMD , Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff
Sunday 27 October, 5-7pm – Jazz at the Horsebridge, Whitstable have the Paul Booth Quintet feat. Ross Stanley.
Tuesday 29 October – Bruno Heinen Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
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
Thursday 31 October – Threeway (Steve Waterman, Steve Lodder & Ben Crosland) are at Davenham Jazz, Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich , Cheshire
Saturday 9 November – John Butcher (saxophones), Mark Sanders (percussion) & Philipp Wachsmann (violin & electronics) are at Listen! Unitarian Hall, Victoria Street, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Sunday 20 October 5pm adm free – Tim Richards TRIO (Tim Richards – piano, Alex Keen – bass, Daniel Howard – drums) are at MUSIC ROOM
Wednesday 13 November – The Gordon Wellard Septet play Art Blakey at the The Electric Theatre , Onslow St , Guildford
Wednesday 27 November – Pete Allen Celebrating 45 years of band leading, Pizza Express Jazz Club (Soho)
Thursday 19 September – Kasper Rietkerk’s KRSIX are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Thursday 19 September – Gunther Baby Sommer is streaming from Porgy & Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Monday 23 September 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Friday 27 September – Christian Sands 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 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,
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
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/
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)
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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