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22 January 2025

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Global Music Foundation is inviting applications for a

A fundraiser has been set up to help bassist John Clayton, who lost his home and possessions in the California wildfires – read more

Tony Dudley-Evans of TDE Promotions breaks down some advantages and disadvantages of jazz venues in Birmingham – read more

Saxophonist Mark Brown is interviewed about his life since completing Guildhall on the school’s website – read more

Mark Stryker’s JazzTimes Chronology column, devoted to bassist Israel Crosby, ran in the 4/23 issue but never migrated online. New editor David Adler rectified this by publishing it on what would have been Crosby’s 106th birthday – read more

Neil Spencer reviewed Gaudí, a new album from fusion band Glebe (Kieran Gunter and Chris Bland), in the Observer – read more

Guitarist Greg Sanders is the latest guest on The Jazz Podcast – listen

A track from 100-year-old Marshall Allen’s solo debut is recommended in a New York Times playlist of new music (£-walled) – read more

 

Days and Weeks Ahead

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

1) Live gigs

Wednesday 22 January – Jazz Te Deum, Jazz Vespers, American International Church

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

Wednesday 22 January – Asha Parkinson, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho

Wednesday 22 January – Garland/Rebello ft. Brigitte Beraha, St Martins In The Fields

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 January at Brighton Dome, Gwilym Simcock in his trio with James Maddren /Conor Chaplin and the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra celebrate Ellington and Wayne Shorter plus new compositions by Gwilym Simcock

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 27 January – Donovan Haffner Quartet are at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Rd

Monday 27 January – Paul Stacey Band are at the 606

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 – Alexander Bryson Trio Live at Mike’s! Album launch, Pizza Express Jazz Club

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

Tuesday 28 January at Wilton’s Music Hall 7pm – Orchestra of the Swan present an immersive newly imagined Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with pianist David Gordon, uniquely adept in hs role as improviser and baroque co-composer

Wednesday 29 January – Adam Woodcock is downstairs Donovan Haffner Quintet upstairs at the Vortex

Wednesday 29 January – Guille Hill album launch at the 606

Wednesday 29 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- Bruce Adams on trumpet with Frank Walden on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 30 January- Emily Francis is at the 606

Thursday 30 January- Tom O’Brien doenstairs Shirley Smart upstairs at the Vortex

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 – Leon Foster Thomas is at the Vortex

Friday 31 January – Edgar Macias tribute to Bueno Vista Social Club at the 606

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

Saturday 1 February – The Vortex have Nick Costley-White plus a late from Tom Ridout

Saturday 1 February – Jonathan Gee Quartet with Denys Baptiste is at The Bear Club, Luton

Saturday 1 February – Derek Nash is at the 606

Saturday 1st February – Tom Ridout (sax and recorder) Trio with Lorenzo Morabito (bass) and Lester Ridout (drums) at Vortex Lates. Doors 10pm

at The Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London, N16 8AZ.

Sunday 2 February lunchtime – Vladimir Miller Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 2 February lunchtime – Kaew Regis is at the 606

Sunday 2 February lunchtime – Art Themen Organ Trio are at Pizza Express Soho

Sunday 2 February 3.30 – London Jazz Orchestra celebrate Kenny Wheeler at the Vortex

Sunday 2 February evening – The Filthy Six are at Pizza Express Jazz Club

Sunday 2 February – Polly Gibbons is at the 606

Monday 3 February – Thunderthumbs are at the 606

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 -Phil Robson Trio are at the 606

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 – Paul Moran Organ Trio are at the 606

Wednesday 5 February – Jo Fooks is at the Pavilion , Guildford

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 6:15-8pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles Neal Richardson with Miles Danso at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB

Thursday 6 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at SoundCellar in Poole

Thursday 6 February – Liane Carroll is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club ENS 8AS

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

Thursday 6 February – Sean Khan and the Modern Jazz and Folk Ensemble: are at the Rich Nix

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 – Denys Baptiste is at the 606

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 – Andrea Vicari Quartet featuring Mark Lockheart are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 9 February @ 3 pm – Big Band Metheny is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

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

Sunday 9 February – Chris Batchelor Quintet feat. Mark Lockheart and Liam Noble – Remembering Tomasz Stanko

Sunday 9 February lunchtime – Vivianna Zarbo is at the 606

Sunday 9 February evening – Noel McCalla and Derek Nash present the Wonder of Stevie

Monday 10 February – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Tony Kofi (sax) with the Neal Richardson Trio, at The View at Seaford Head Golf Club BN25 4JS

Monday 10 February – Mike Redfern is at the 606

Tuesday 11 February – Patrick Hayes Crusadrers tribute are at the 606

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 – Jason Rebello is at the 606

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 – Come join us for a night of mellow jazz and good vibes with WestSideJazz at Pizza House, Pitshanger Lane Ealing, W5 1QX

Thursday 13 February – Dave O’Higgins is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

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 – Shez Raja is with Guthrie Govan at the 606

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

Thursday 13 February – Christine Tobin with Phil Robson & Dave Whitford at Newhampton Arts Centre – NAC Dunkley Street Wolverhampton WV1 4AN

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

Friday 14 February – Dele Sosimi is at the Boileroom Guildford

Friday 14 February – Valentine’s Night with Louise Balkwill at the 606

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 – Rachel Sutton is at the 606

Saturday 15 February – Christine Tobin – A Thousand Kisses Deep at Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel 20 Sherwood Street London W1F 7ED

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 lunchtime – Fraser Smith Quartet featuring Jim Mullen are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

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 Harrop 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 6:15-8pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles Neal Richardson with Miles Danso at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB

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 – Steve Waterman is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 20 February – Rosie Frater-Taylor is at SoundCellar in Poole

Thursday 20 February – Sarah Oschlag and the Pete Long Quintet are at the Pavilion Guildford

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 is at 606 Chelsea

Wednesday 26 February – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Roy Hilton Quintet, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA

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 – Vasilis Xenopoulos is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

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

Sunday 2 March lunchtime – Tom Ridout Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 2 March 2pm – Equinox are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town

Sunday 2 March – ‘Some Kinda Mean’ the Music of David ‘Fathead’ Newman is at Pizza Express Soho

Monday 3 March – The Emily Masser Quintet are at Pizza Express Soho

Tuesday 4 March – QOW Trio are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone

Tuesday 11 March – The Emily Masser Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone

Tuesday 11 March – Craig Taborn / Peter Evans are at the Vortex

Thursday 20 March – Nikki Iles & Kate Williams / Robert Mitchell & Richard Fairhurst at Pizza Express Soho

2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.

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

Friday 24 January – The Eubanks Brothers Band is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/

Monday 27 January 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams

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

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

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)

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

July 26 -29 GMF Valencia Jazz Workshop https://www.gmfjazzsummit.com/gmf-valencia-jazz-workshop-2025-eng

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