Our weekly companion to the Wednesday Breakfast Headlines email newsletter
The most-shared Jazz meme of the week is (jazz fan / former SF Jazz Board Member /mother of Cole – after Coltrane – and Ella) Kamala Harris with newly-bought vinyl outside a record store from May 2023 – watch
Incidentally, we did explore Kamala Harris’s jazz leanings and affiliations back in 2020 – read more
Lance Liddle of Bebop Spoken Here has had a first go at establishing a British Jazz Hall of Fame/ Living Legends poll. One of the winners is above – read more
Richard Williams of The Blue Moment writes about Phil Freeman’s new biography of the seminal pianist Cecil Taylor – read more
The new host of Jazz FM’s Jazz Travels is Rouhangeze Baichoo, originally from Mauritius – read more
Rob Luft, Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren & Conor Chaplin were on BB3 Radio 3 – read more
Tomorrow’s Warriors co-founders Janine Irons OBE and Gary Crosby OBE received the Inspire Ambition Award from Morley College – read more
Germany has a Head of State who [appreciates / understands / gives speeches about] jazz, and welcomes it regularly into his official residence – this from Tuesday (in German) with Eva Klesse in the spotlight – read more
Luton-based jazz club The Bear will be staying put in its current location – read more
Robin Denselow remembers Malian kora master Toumani Diabaté in The Guardian – read more
Lance Liddle of Bebop Spoken Here reviewed The Dublin Concert, a posthumous release featuring guitarists Jim Hall and Louis Stewart (scroll down) – read more
“A hot favourite for album of the year 2024.” An incredible fifteen-minute eulogy (in German) to Norma Winstone and Kit Downes and their new ECM album “Outpost of Dreams” from all three completely awed and enraptured presenters of the award-winning programme “Hören wir Gutes und reden darüber” (above) – hear more
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 – Greg Abate is at Matthews Hall, Fore Street, Topsham, EX3 0HF.
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 SoFF Music Jazz Jam with Lauren Dalrymple is at the Thornbury Castle Marylebone 29A Enford St London W1H 1DN
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 – from 1pm: High Tide Festival Jazz Stage, Twickenham: Yetii featuring Jake McMurchie, Monty 6.88, Poppy Daniels Quintet, Bea Asurmendi, The Jazz Defenders.
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 Parakeet (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 – Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street have the Jinny Ford Jazz Orchestra
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 – 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
Wednesday 31 July – Phillip Dornbusch Quartet are at the Vortex
Thursday 1 August – Matt Wates Sextet are at Guildford Jazz
Thursday 1 August – Olli Soikkeli Trio are at the Vortex
Thursday 1 August – Mark Bassey is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 1 August- The Fallen Heroes is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
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
Friday 2 August – Sam Leak is at the Vortex
Saturday 3 August – Jazz on the Lawn at Fulham Palace – Adrian Cox Quintet ‘The New Orleans Clarinet’ with special guest Louise Balkwill
Saturday 3 August – Renowned saxophonists Brandon Allen & Alex Garnett “Tough Tenors” are at the 606 in Chelsea
Saturday 3 August -John Etheridge is at the Vortex
Saturday 3 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
Sunday 4 August – Smooth jazz & soul with the Mo Pleasure (Earth, Wind & Fire, Bette Midler) & his Band are at the 606
Sunday 4th August- Salena Jones and her Trio is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Monday 5 August – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Deirdre Cartwright (gtr), with Neal Richardson (piano/vox), Nigel Thomas (bass), Alex Eberhard (drums)
Monday 5 August – Iconic Guitarist Jim Mullen (Morrissey-Mullen, Brian Auger) & his Organ Trio are at the 606
Tuesday 6 August – David Angol Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 6 August – Contemporary jazz pianist Diarra Walcott-Ivanhoe & his quintet
Tuesday 6 August – Robbie Robson Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
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
Wednesday 7 August – Jazz & Latin with vocalist/harpist Tara Minton is at the 606
Wednesday 7 August – Elchin Shirinov Quartet are at the Vortex
Thursday 8th August- Neville Dickie is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
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 – PIanist Elio Rojas & his Jazz/Latin trio are at the 606
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 – The SoFF Music Jazz Jam with Lauren Dalrymple is at the Bird Cage Stoke Newington , 58 Stamford Hill N16 6XS
Friday 9 August – David Beebee Bop Band – Jazz in a Circus Tent – overlooking the sea at Helen Gardens, Dukes Drive Eastbourne BN20 7XH
Friday 9th August- Fiona Ross is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Saturday 10 August 1 pm – Nick Tomalin and the E17 Quintet play Shades of Shearing at National Jazz Archive @ Loughton Baptist Church 92 High Road, Loughton, Essex IG10 4QU
Saturday 10th August- Nicola Emmanuelle Quartet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Saturday 10th August – US/UK-based Jazz saxophonist Ruben Fox (Reuben James, Jon Batiste) is at the 606
Sunday 11 August lunchtime – Brandon Allen Band are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 11 August lunchtime – Soulful jazz singer/songwriter Sarah L King & her quartet is at the 606
Sunday 11 August evening – Soul, jazz & gospel with Raphael Tate & his band at the 606
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
Monday 12 August – Miles Davis – the Electric Years at Jazz Cafe
Monday 12 August – New Orleans R&B with pianist Dom Pipkin & his Trio are at the 606
Tuesday 13 August – Karim Saber Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 13 August – Simon Spillett Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
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
Tuesday 13 August – Jazz saxophonist Dan Reinstein & his quartet is at the 606
Wednesday 14 August – Binker Golding is at Pizza Express Soho
Thursday 15 August – Martin Shaw is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club, EN2 8AS
Thursday 15 August – Jo Oakley opens the Herne Bay Jazz Festival
Friday 16 August – Ray Gelato , Kai Kats and many others are at the Herne Bay Jazz Festival
Saturday 17 August – Maiuko Quarteto , Ronnie Scott’s All Stars , Emma Rawicz Sextet and many others are at the Herne Bay Jazz Festival
Sunday 18 August – the Herne Bay Jazz Festival has among many others Snowboy & the Latin Section / Elina Duni & Rob Luft / Leon Foster Thomas / Steve Waterman / Jo Fooks and a lot are free
Saturday 17 August – Simon Spillett is at Highams Park Jazz Club , County Arms upstairs , 420 Hale End Road , E4 9PB
Saturday 17th August- The Errol Linton Quintet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Sunday 18 August lunchtime – Basil Hodge Quartet featuring Riley Stone-Lonergan are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
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 – Matt Wates Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
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
Friday 23 August – The SoFF Music Jazz Jam with Lauren Dalrymple is at TAPPERS WEEK Thornbury Castle Marylebone 29A Enford St London W1H 1DN
Friday 23rd August- Polly Gibbons & James Pearson are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Friday 23rd August- Blue Lou’s Revue is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Saturday 24th August- The Sugar Kings is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Sunday 25 August lunchtime – Tristan Mailliot Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 25 August 5pm – Tim Whitehead is at Highams Park Jazz Club at County Arms upstairs , 420 Hale End Road , E4 9PB
Monday 26 August lunchtime – Nigel Price Quartet featuring Sam Braysher are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Tuesday 27 August – Sam Braysher Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 27 August – Like Rattenbury Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
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
Thursday 29th August- Leopold Benedict is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Sunday 1 September lunchtime – Tony Woods Project are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Tuesday 3 September – Adam Glasser Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
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 26 July – Cyrus Chestnut is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 29 July 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Sunday 28 July – Jonathan Kreisberg is streaming from Porgy and Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Wednesday 31 July – Vinicius Cantuaria is streaming from Porgy and Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
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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