Our weekly companion to the Wednesday Breakfast Headlines email newsletter
Sebastian Rochford’s Finding Ways is John Fordham’s ‘Jazz Album of the Month’ in the Guardian (release date 7 Nov) – he also mentions Emma Rawicz, Dog Soup and Donny McCaslin – read more
Mike Flynn remembers the great bass guitarist Anthony Jackson (RIP) in Jazzwise – read more
There is also a quite beautiful tribute to Anthony Jackson from John Patitucci – read more
Bebop Spoken Here reviewed Alone Together, the latest in Livia Records’ series of guitarist Louis Stewart reissues, with flautist Bran Dunning – read more
Trumpeter Byron Wallen previewed his upcoming performance of Black Flag at the NCEM (this Friday) in an interview with Charles Hutchinson – read more
Kit Downes has joined the major, mainly classical, artist management agency Askonas Holt – read more
Stephen Graham names his top 10 European albums of 2025 so far (2 German, 2 Belgian, 2 Italian + 1 each from Holland, Denmark, France, Austria – read more
Ethan Iverson of Transitional Technology saluted three recent losses in the world of music: D’Angelo, Hermeto Pascoal & Eddie Palmieri – read more
Richard Williams of the Blue Moment wrote about two visits to the London Palladium, first to hear Patti Smith doing ‘Horses’ and then to hear Al Stewart on his farewell tour – read more
Bassist Huw V Williams is the latest guest on the Jazz Podcast – listen
Philip Watson wrote a piece for the Irish Times: “What’s Gone Wrong at the Cork Jazz Festival (paywalled) – read more
He has also shared it on Instagram, where it can be read – read more
…and he has also previewed a trio tour of Ireland and Wales by Nils Kavanagh, having loved the CD, which is surely a contender for most self-effacing album title of the year: “No Expectations – read more
1) Live gigs
Wednesday 22nd October at The Woodman, Highgate from 8pm (free) John Parricelli Quartet, featuring John Parricelli, Guitar – Sean Hargreaves, Keys – Steve Pearce, Bass – Ian Thomas, Drums
Wednesday 22 October – Louis and Duke in London 1932 – 33, Cadogan Hall
Wednesday 22 October – Kat Williams piano trio, Jazz Vespers, American International Church
Wednesday 22 October – Roland Perrin is at the 606
Wednesday 22 October – Emanuele Filippi downstairs , Dunajska Kapelye upstairs at the Vortex
Wednesday 22 October – JaRon is coming to London during his EU Tour. His concert is at Hootananny, Brixton
Wednesday 22 October – Larry Bartley / Bruno Heinen / Winston Clifford are at Ealing Jazz Club Drayton Court Hotel West Ealing
Wednesday 22 October – Dave Keech – TOKYO EP Launch with Binker Golding (sax), Rob Luft (guitar), Nikolaj Torp Larsen (Hammond), Corrie Dick (drums), Nim Sadot (bass), and Andre Espeut (vocals) at the 100 Club
Wednesday 22 October – Ian Shaw is at Darby’s, 3 Viaduct Gardens, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7AY
Thursday 23 October – J.A.M String Collective are at The Rose Hill, Brighton
Thursday 23 October – Lior Solomons-Wise Quartet are at Karamel in Wood Green
Thursday 23 October – Anna Chai Quartet at The Jazz Sanctuary, Turks Head, Twickenham, TW1 1PD
Thursday 23 October – ARSHID AZARINE TRIO, Elgar Room Royal Albert Hall,
Thursday 23 October – Josephine Davies’ Satori are at the Grasshopper in Poole
Thursday 23 October – Dave O’Higgins and Alan Barnes with Graham Harvey, Luke Fowler, Matt Skelton are at Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 23 October – Pete Kelly & Nicolas Meier (g) are at Ristorante Sorrento from 7:00 pm. 34 Heath Road, Twickenham TW1 4BZ
Thursday 23 October – ARQ are in Torbay
Thursday 23 October – Lenore Raphael at Guildford Jazz at the University of Surrey, Stag HillGU2 7XH
Thursday 23 October – Steinway artist Lenore Raphael plays a tribute to Oscar Peterson at University of Surrey Guildford
Thursday 23rd October – Alex Clarke on saxophone, with the house trio of Craig Milverton (piano) with Al Swainger (bass) and Coach York (drums) at the Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter, EX2 4AZ
Thursday 23 October – Cover to Cover Presents A Night with Blue Note Records at Mildmay Club Main Hall
Thursday 23 October – Gwilym Jones debuts a new piano trio featuring visionary pianist Bruno Heinen and master bassist Larry Bartley at the Vortex
Thursday 23 October – Arshad Azarine Trio at Elgar Room Royal Albert Hall, London
Thursday 23 October – ‘Chet Meets Sarah’: A recreation of Chet Baker & Sarah Vaughn’s favourite songs with the Retro Chet Quartet feat Caroline Cooper, pno, Geoff Varrall, tpt, Rog Thompson, d bass & Max Holm-Radford, perc together with vocalist Katrina Likhtman over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday, 23rd October, Jeremy Sassoon is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Thursday, 23rd October – Matti Klein is at MANCHESTER Matt & Phreds Jazz Club
Friday 24 October – Matti Klein is at NOTTINGHAM Peggy’s Skylightv
Friday 24 October – Tim Berne , Gregg Belisle-Chi and Tom Rainey at the Vortex
Friday, 24th October, Flight Call is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Friday 24 October: Mark Buckingham BIG BAND: The Kings of the Clarinet! at Jazz Café POSK , 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 24 October – ARQ are at Lerryn Memorial Hall in Cornwall
Friday 24 October – Harben Kay Quartet are at Crookes Social Club, Sheffield.
Saturday 25 October 1.30 – Gary Crosby plays Mingus at Loughton Baptist Church
Saturday 25th October 2pm – Matt Wates, Leon Greening, Julian Bury, Matt Fishwick are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday, 25th October, Rikette Genesis is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Saturday 25 October – James Allsopp Group with James Allsopp (tenor saxophone & mellotron), Chris Batchelor (trumpet), Tom Herbert (bass), Zands Duggan (percussion), Dave Storey (drums) are at Listen! Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Saturday 25 October – Webb / Harper and Sach are at the 606
Saturday 25 October – ARQ are at Calstock Arts
Saturday 25 October – Jean Toussaint is at the Vortex
Sunday 26 October – Fraser Smith Quartet, lunchtime at the Oval Tavern, Croydon, lunchtime at the Oval Tavern, Croydon are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime
Sunday 26 October – Derek Nash at Jazz at the Horsebridge Arts Centre Whitstable 5-7pm, tickets at horsebridge.org.uk/jazz
Sunday 26 October – Matti Klein is at NORTHAMPTON The Garibaldi (afternoon) , NORTHAMPTON The Lab (evening)
Sunday 26th October – Jazz On The Plaza feat. Stefanos Tsourelis on guitar with Terence Collie on piano. Cafe Yukari, Kew
Sunday 26 October – Harben Kay is at the Vortex
Sunday 26 October 5pm – Patrick Clahar is at Highams Park Jazz Club , All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, E4 9QZ London
Monday 27 October -Libor Smoldas/Nigel Price Quartet are at the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town
Monday 27 October – Matti Klein is at Pizza Express Soho
Monday 27 October – J.A.M String Collective are at mu, Dalston, ALBUM LAUNCH with MC Kayes Mensah & Rosie Turton
Monday 27 October – Kezia Abuoma + Alex Ward + ?? at Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre
Tuesday 28 October – Jonny Liebeck Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 28 October Nigel Price Organ Trio are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 28 October – Diarra Walcott-Ivanhoe is at the 606
Tuesday 28 October – Will Gardner Organ Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 29th October at The Woodman, Highgate from 8pm (free) Rory Ingham Quartet featuring Rory Ingham, Trombone – Nick Costley-White, Guitar – Will Sach, Double Bass – Shane Forbes, Drums
Wednesday 29 October – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Matt Skelton (drums) Band’s “Shelly Manne Tribute”, feat. Leon Greening (keys), Mark Crooks (clari/sax), James Davison (tpt), Conor Chaplin (bass); at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 29 October – Filippo Ieraci Trio downstairs , Ineza Quintet upstairs at the Vortex
Wednesday 29 October – Season of the Song: Marc Ribot: Map of a Blue City is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3, Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Thursday 30 October- Lester Brown on trumpet with Alam Nathoo on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
30 Oct – 2 Nov – Berlin Jazz Festival
Thursday 30 October – Kate Williams Quartet are at Karamel in Wood Green
Thursday 30 October – Frank Walden is at the 606
Thursday, 30th October, Claire Martin and Rob Barron are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday, 30th October, Ruth Brown is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Thursday 30 October – Pete Kelly & Ben Croft (p) at Ristorante Sorrento from 7:00 pm. 34 Heath Road, Twickenham, TW1 4BZ
Thursday 30 October – Season of the Song: Marc Ribot: Map of a Blue City is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3, Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Thursday 30 October – Tim Penn & The Second Line New Orleans jazz & blues feat Penn, pno & vcls, Chris Proctor, gtr, Ayo Odia, sax, Nigel Appleton, drms & Francis Booth, bass over in the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 30 October – Pete Kelly & TBC are at Ristorante Sorrento from 7:00 pm. 34 Heath Road, Twickenham TW1 4BZ
Friday 31 October – The Groove Warrior’s 6-piece Jazz Funk & soul outfit play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Friday 31 October: Gary Willcox Quartet at Jazz Café POSK , 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 1 November – PIOTR WYLEŻOŁ & SZYMON MIKA PLAY MUSIC OF POLISH JAZZ LEGENDS: TOMASZ STAŃKO, KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA, ZBIGNIEW NAMYSŁOWSKI, JAROSŁAW ŚMIETANA, AND MANY MORE are at Jazz Café POSK , 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 1 November – Riley Stone-Lonergan is at the 606
Saturday 1 November 6 and 8.30 – Laura Jurd (trumpet), Cori Smith (viola), Ruth Goller (bass), Corrie Dick (drums) are at Listen! Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Sunday 2 November – NOXQQ Quartet on tour from the Netherlands and featuring Phil Scragg on bass, lunchtime at the Oval Tavern, Croydon, lunchtime at the Oval Tavern, Croydon are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime
Sunday 2 November – EJQ at MAP Studio Cafe from 2PM
Monday 3 November – Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis at Guildford Jazz at The Guildford Institute, Ward St, GU1 4LH
Tuesday 04 November – Andy Panayi Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 4 November – Chris Biscoe’s Profiles Quintet ft Tony Kofi are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 4 November – Pete Allen album launch Pizza Express Soho
Tuesday 4 November – Jakub Klimiuk Quintet plus Mark Lockheart are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 4 November – Mick Foster Quarter are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 5 November – At The Crypt, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square WC2N 4JJ: It Takes Two, with Marvin Muoneké and Lulu Pierre
Wednesday 5 November – Nigel Price & Alessio Menconi: Special showcase featuring award-winning British guitarist Nigel Price and Italian guitarist Alessio Menconi over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Wednesday 5 November – Tim Whitehead is at the 606
Thursday 6 November – John Crawford is at the 606
Thursday 6 November – Stuart Henderson on trumpet with Alam Nathoo on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 6 November – Antionio Forcione & Georgio Serci: Special concert featuring the award winning guitar maestros Antonio Forcione and the Sardinian guitarist Serci with their highly innovative mix of jazz, blues, Flamenco & World music over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 6 November – Adam Glasser (piano and harmonica), Mark Ridout, Andy Cleyndert, Matt Skelton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday, 6th November, Mario Bakuna and Roberto Manzin are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 6 November – Pete Kelly & Dan Hewson (p) are at Ristorante Sorrento from 7:00 pm. 34 Heath Road, Twickenham, TW1 4BZ
Friday 7 November – Jo Harrop Quintet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester. PO19 1SY
7th November Josh Kemp & Ruth Applin at Macknade, Faversham Jazz and Aperitivo 7pm
Friday 7 November – CHRIS DEAN QUARTET: JAZZ MEETS BRAZIL are at Jazz Café POSK , 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 7 November – Allexa Nava Quartet are at Crookes Social Club, Sheffield
Friday 7 November – Bill Laurance at Guildford Jazz at The University of Surrey, Stag Hill, GU2 7XH
Saturday 8 November – The Harper Trio are at Jazz Centre UK , Southend-on-Sea
Saturday 8 November – DOROTA MIŚKIEWICZ QUARTET are at Jazz Café POSK , 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 8 November – Pinner Parish Church, Church Lane, Pinner HA5 3AA has The Pocket Ellington
Saturday 8 November – The James Allsopp Quartet featuring James Allsopp (sax), Colin Oxley (guitar), Oli Hayhurst (bass) and Dave Storey (drums) are appearing for Burrough Jazz at Twyford Village Hall, LE14 2HU
Saturday 8 November – J.A.M String Collective are at Sacred Heart Church, Berkhamsted
Saturday 8 November – The Harper Trio are at Jazz Centre UK , Southend-on-Sea
Saturday 8 November – Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis Quartet are at The Blue Room at the Lawn Lincoln
Sunday 9 November – Gary Wilcox Quartet with Tim Lapthorn (piano) – lunchtime at the Oval Tavern, Croydon
Sunday 9 November 5pm – Adam Glasser is at Highams Park Jazz Club , All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, E4 9QZ London
Monday 10 November – The Melody Brooker band – Watlington Sports and Social Club – Watlington, Norfolk PE33 OEH
Monday 10 November – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Mike Piggott (violin) with Neal Richardson (pno/vox) Trio feat. Marianne Windham (dbl bass) and Alex Eberhard (drums)
at The View at Seaford Head Golf Club BN25 4JS
Tuesday 11 November – Dave Mannington’s Riff Raff are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 11th November – Ryan McCaffrey Quartet with Julian Landymore, John Porter & Graeme Cullham at Swaffham Jazz Club – Swaffham, Norfolk PE37 7DD
Tuesday 11 November – Adam Glasser (piano and harmonica), Jim Mullen, Andy Cleyndert, , Matt Fishwick are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 11 November – Harper Trio are at Southampton Jazz Club
Tuesday 11 November – Janette Mason Acoustic Trio are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 11 November – Art Themen Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 12th November – Carshalton Jazz presents Andy Cleyndert’s ‘Straight ahead Brazil’ quartet with Andy Cleyndert (bass), Paul Booth (tnr), Mark Edwards (pno) at Cryer Arts, Carshalton SM5 3BB
Thursday 13 November – Mick Foster Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 13 November – Laura Jurd Quintet are at Firth Hall, Sheffield
Thursday 13 November – Pete Kelly & Deirdre Cartwright (g) are at Ristorante Sorrento from 7:00 pm. 34 Heath Road, Twickenham, TW1 4BZ
Friday 14 November – THE BIG COLORS BIG BAND feat. Brandon Allen, Mark Armstrong, Jakub Klimiuk, Kate Williams and Special Guest vocalist, Jo Harrop! (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2025) are at Jazz Café POSK , 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 14 November – Hossein Alizadeh and Rembrandt Trio Cadogan Hall, London
Friday, 14th November, The GAB Trio ft. Bea Asurmendi is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Saturday, 15th November, the Academy Jazz Ensemble, featuring Jason Yarde and Nick Smart, is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Saturday, 15th November, Five Way Split is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Saturday 15 November – L’ANTIDOTE TRIO are at Kings Place
Saturday 15 November – Allison Neale Trio at Guildford Jazz at The Guildford Institute, Ward St, GU1 4LH
Saturday 15 November – Evil Evil are at Highams Park Jazz Club , All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, E4 9QZ London
Saturday 15 November – Daylight Music at the EFG London Jazz Festival: Nightports with Matthew Bourne 12 – 2pm at St John’s Leytonstone, E11 1HH
Saturday 15 November – ROB LUFT QUARTET (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2025) are at Jazz Café POSK , 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 15th November – Hampstead Jazz Club, 23-25 New End Rd, Hampstead NW3 1JD: Marvin Muoneké with the Alex Webb Trio
Saturday 15 November – SoundCellar 5 are at SoundCellar @ Mowlem Theatre, Swanage
Sunday 16 November – Adrian Reid Quartet with Tony Kofi (sax) – lunchtime at the Oval Tavern, Croydon
Sunday 16 November – Mark Nightingale and James Davison with David Newton, Andrew Cleyndert & Sebastiaan de Krom 6.30 pm at Imber Court KT8 0BT. £20
Sunday 16 November – EFG London Jazz Festival 2025: Anthony Kerr Quartet are at Off the Rails, Richmond TW9 2NQ, feat. Anthony Kerr (vibes), Martin Shaw (trumpet), Lorenzo Morabito (bass), Matt Fishwick (drums)
Sunday 16 November Faarjam Saidi at Kings Place, London
Sunday, 16th November, Treyja is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Sunday, 16th November, Lorna Reid is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Monday, 17th November, Devon Gates is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Monday 17 November Arsen Patrosyan, Mehdi (and Adib) Rostami National Centre for Early Music, York
Monday, 17th November, Miguel Gorodi Quintet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Tuesday, 18th November Guildhall Jazz Festival x EFG London Jazz Festival
All events take place in Milton Court Concert Hall (Guildhall School of Music & Drama). Admission free. www.gsmd.ac.uk/jazzfest
3pm – Workshop with The Alexandra Ridout Quartet
6pm – Fabian Almazan in conversation with Jo Lawry
7pm – Sara Dhillon Group + Guests
7.45pm – Lester Ridout Trio
8.45pm – The Alexandra Ridout Quartet
Tuesday, 18th November, Sam Braysher ft. Annie Majin is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Tuesday 18th November 8pm Sarah L King with Watson, Cottle and Murray at Hampstead Jazz Club, London EFG Jazz Festival 2025
Tuesday, 18th November, Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Tuesday 18 November – Greg Abate, John Pearce, Simon Thorpe, Alfonso Vitale are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 18 November – ARQ-Alison Rayner Quintet are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 18 November – Nick Costley-White Quartet ft Julian Siegel are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
18-23 November – Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s Jazz Festival, taking place
Tuesday 18 November – Arsen Patrosyan, Mehdi (and Adib) Rostami at Rich Mix, London
Tuesday 18 November – Tomasso Starace Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 19 November – Alexandra Ridout New York Quartet at The Guildford Pavilion, Woodbridge, GU1 4RP
Wednesday, 19th November, Giacomo Smith and Mozes Rosenberg are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Thursday, 20th November – Guildhall Jazz Festival x EFG London Jazz Festival
All events take place in Milton Court Concert Hall (Guildhall School of Music & Drama). Admission free. www.gsmd.ac.uk/jazzfest
1pm – Oskar Jones Quintet
2pm – Beyond the Blue
3pm – Happy Garden
7.30pm – Fabian Almazan with Guildhall Jazz Orchestra
Thursday, 20th November, Kelly Green Trio is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Thursday, 20th November, Aria with Chris and Montagueat are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Thursday 20 November – Liane Carroll is at Darby’s, 3 Viaduct Gardens, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7AY
Thursday 20 November – Pete Kelly & Paul Weinreb (p) are at Ristorante Sorrento from 7:00 pm. 34 Heath Road, Twickenham, TW1 4BZ
Thursday 20th November – Oh Voyage at Rich Mix, London
Thursday 20 and Friday 21 November – Ayra with Janette Mason and Juliet Roberts, Pizza Express Live (Holborn)
Thursday 20 November – Donovan Haffner Quintet are at the Grasshopper in Poole
Thursday 20 November – Ayra, Janette Mason and Juliet Roberts, Pizza Express Holborn
Thursday 20 November – Nina Kristofferson Sings Jazz EFG London Jazz Festival Season at The Pheasantry
Friday 21 November – Guildhall Jazz Festival x EFG London Jazz Festival
All events take place in Milton Court Concert Hall (Guildhall School of Music & Drama). Admission free. www.gsmd.ac.uk/jazzfest
2pm – Lucy Joy & Thomas Sladden
3pm – Olesa Quintet
4pm – Lior Solomons-Wise Quartet
5pm – Jacqui Dankworth
7pm – The Joe Garland Band
8pm – Linda May Han Oh with Guildhall Improvisers Ensemble
Friday 21st November – Laurie Jacobs with Alex Moore,Tim Lapthorn,Laurence Evans & Dave Jackson at The Ship Inn, West St. Oundle, PE8 4EF
Friday 21 November – Ayra, Janette Mason and Juliet Roberts, Pizza Express Holborn
Friday 21 November – Tina Carr Trio at the Puppet Barge, Blomfield Rd, London W9 2PF
Friday 21 November – Tommaso Starace Quintet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester. PO19 1SY
Friday 21 November – DEELEE DUBE AND TONY KOFI CELEBRATE NANCY WILSON & CANNONBALL ADDERLEY! (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2025) are at Jazz Café POSK , 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 21 November – Sam Newbould Quintet at Crookes Social Club, Sheffield
Friday 21 November – SHEZ RAJA ft JOHN ETHERIDGE & DENNIS ROLLINS at 606 Club
Saturday 22 November – Guildhall Jazz Festival x EFG London Jazz Festival
All events take place in Milton Court Concert Hall (Guildhall School of Music & Drama). Admission free. www.gsmd.ac.uk/jazzfest
5.30pm – Junior Guildhall Big Band
7.30pm – National Youth Jazz Orchestra with Sam Eastmond
9pm – London Intercollegiate Jazz Orchestra with Finn Genockey
Saturday 22 November – Daylight Music at the EFG London Jazz Festival: Tereza Catarov, Rothko Collective + CHAINES 12 – 2pm at St John’s Leytonstone, E11 1HH
Saturday 22 November – Alan Barnes is at Highams Park Jazz Club , All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, E4 9QZ London
Saturday 22 November – Harper Trio are at Brompton Community Centre Brompton
Saturday 22 November – THE DARIUS BRUBECK QUARTET! (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2025) are at Jazz Café POSK , 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 22 November Behdad Babaei and Navid Afghah at Rich Mix, London
Saturday 22 November – James Taylor Quartet are playing Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury
Saturday 22 November 2025 Persian Jazz Night incl Kourosh Kananu duo at Rich Mix, London
Saturday, 22nd November, Martha D Lewis is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Saturday, 22nd November, Frances Madden is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Sunday 23 November – Guildhall Jazz Festival x EFG London Jazz Festival
All events take place in Milton Court Concert Hall (Guildhall School of Music & Drama). Admission free. www.gsmd.ac.uk/jazzfest
3.30pm – Guildhall Jazz Orchestra: Kaleidoscope of Rainbows
7pm – Kinetika Bloco @ 25 8.15pm Transpört
9pm – Harry Trevillion’s Cityscape feat. Intalekt
Sunday 23 November – Monkin’ Around Quartet with Dave O’Higgins (sax) – lunchtime at the Oval Tavern, Croydon
Sunday, 23rd November, Sam Jewison is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Sunday, 23rd November, Little Black Book is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly.
Sunday 23 November 2025 – Peyman Yazdanian at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, London
Sunday 23 November 5pm – Alex Clarke is at Highams Park Jazz Club , All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, E4 9QZ London
Sunday 23rd November – The Clark Tracey Jazz Champions at Upwell Jazz Club – Christchurch Community Centre, Cambs PE14 9LL
Sunday 23 November – Doncaster Jazz Alumni are at Crookes Social Club, Sheffield
Sunday 23 November – Karen Sharp All Stars are at BLEWBURY, ST. MICHAEL’S CHURCH
Tuesday 25 November is the first of four nights at Crazy Coqs for Ann Hampton Callaway (above)
Tuesday 25 November – Josef Stout Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 25 November – Syd Lawrence Orchestra are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 25 November – Coltrane and Hartman ft Marvin Monueke and Mark Lockhaart are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 25 November – John Altman Quintet with special guest Ray Gelato, Pizza Express Holborn
Wednesday 26 November – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Tommaso Starace (sax) with Terry Seabrook (keys), Nigel Thomas (bass), Joe Edwards (drums); at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA.
Thursday 27 November – Jacqui Hicks Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 27 November – Harper Trio are at the Bear Club Luton
Thursday 27 November – Pete Kelly & Mark Ridout (g) are at Ristorante Sorrento from 7:00 pm. 34 Heath Road, Twickenham, TW1 4BZ
Thursday 27 November – Ian Shaw sings Stephen Sondheim album launch, Kings Place
Thursday 27 November – Ribbons Quartet are at Crookes Social Club, Sheffield.
Friday 28 November – Alice Zawadzki, Fred Thomas, Misha Mullov-Abbado are at SoundCellar @ Lighthouse Poole
Friday 28 November – NOMADS: London Scots Jazz Collective are at Jazz Café POSK , 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 29 November 2pm – Alan Barnes, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Matt Skelton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 29th November (2-5pm) – Corner Corner, Maritime Street London SE16 7LL (Canada Water tube): the Tony Kofi Quartet and ‘Remembering Ben’.
Saturday 29 November – Fabienne Ambuehl Quartet are at Jazz Café POSK , 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Sunday 30 November – Clare Hirst (sax) and Claude Deppa (trumpet) – lunchtime at the Oval Tavern, Croydon
Sunday 30th November: Jazz On The Plaza feat. Jac Jones on sax, Terence Collie on piano and Ryan Trebilcock on double bass. Cafe Yukari, Kew
Sunday 30 November Tim Richards Trio Album Launch The Old Library Bar, New Cross Rd, London 5 – 7 pm
Thursday 4 December – Pete Kelly & Dan Hewson (p) are at Ristorante Sorrento from 7:00 pm. 34 Heath Road, Twickenham, TW1 4BZ
Saturday 6 December – Levy/Robson International Quartet, Vortex Jazz Club
Sunday 7 December – Quentin Collins Quartet – lunchtime at the Oval Tavern, Croydon
Sunday 7 December 5pm – Rob Townsend is at Highams Park Jazz Club , All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, E4 9QZ London
Sunday 7 December – Levy/Robson International Quartet are at the Grasshopper in Poole
Sunday 7 December – Cafe Oto have “Music for Contra Bass Clarinet, Electric Guitar & Electronics”
Monday 8 December Xmas Special – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Jo Fooks (sax) & Sue Richardson (tpt/vox) with Neal Richardson (pno/vox) Trio feat. Miles Danso (dbl bass) and Rod Youngs (drums)
at The View at Seaford Head Golf Club BN25 4JS
Thursday 11 December – Pete Kelly & Caroline Cooper (p) are at Ristorante Sorrento from 7:00 pm. 34 Heath Road, Twickenham, TW1 4BZ
Saturday 13 December – Mark Lockheart’s Shapeshifter Trio is at Highams Park Jazz Club , All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, E4 9QZ London
Sunday 14 December – Rebecca Nash with the Dorset Youth Jazz Orchestra are at the Mowlen in Swanage
Wednesday 17 Dec Xmas Special – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have the Andy Panayi Big Band! Featuring the late Duncan Lamont’s “Sherlock Holmes” suite, with Alan Barnes and Duncan Lamont Jnr (saxes/narration), Christian Garrick (vln), Mike Lovatt (tpt) and many more!; at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA.
Sunday 21 December 5pm – John Etheridge is at Highams Park Jazz Club , All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, E4 9QZ London
Sunday 21 December – Jazz Carols, Methodist Central Hall Westminster
LIVE STREAMED EVENTS
Friday 17 October – Thelonious Monk Festival Week I: Orrin Evans, Melissa Aldana, Robert Hurst & Terri Lyne Carrington is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 20 October 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://youtube.com/@therecordingclubsantamonica
Monday 20 October – Harben Kay Quartet stream from NQ Jazz – https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on
Monday 10 November -Laura Jurd streams from NQ Jazz – https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on
Saturday 15 November – SoundCellar 5 (SoundCellar @ Mowlem Theatre, Swanage) https://soundcellar.org/event/
Monday 17 November -Alexandra Ridout’s New York Quintet streams from NQ Jazz – https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on
Sunday 7th December – Levy/Robson International Quartet https://soundcellar.org/event/
RESIDENCIES
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 first Thursday from 7 30 pm. Jake Goss and friends downstairs at the Washington, Englands Lane, NW3
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 final Tuesday of each month, 7.30pm-10pm, Hammersmith Jazz Jam at The Distillers, 64 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 9PH
Every second Sunday of each month at 1.30pm Equinox are at Map Studio in Kentish Town
Every Sunday 8 – 12 – Ollie Usiskin Quartet 4 Ferdinand street . London
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 temporarily stopped the weekly stream on Monday nights from his place, and is starting again in a new venue from December: https://www.facebook.com/heyemmet/
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
RADIO
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
COURSES
15 November – The Jazz Singer’s Workshop at the 606 Club
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