Our weekly companion to the Wednesday Breakfast Headlines email newsletter
At the youthful age of just 82… Norma Winstone (photo above from ECM) has a new German booking agent – read more
Sebastian’s regular column at JAZZTHETIK (in German) focuses on Kit Downes – read more
And he gave 5 stars to the new Zara McFarlane Sarah Vaughan album in a review on the Arts Desk – read more
Richard Williams of the Blue Moment reviewed Amina Claudine Myers & Wadada Leo Smith’s new duo album,
Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens – read more
Jazzviews reviewed Simon Lasky’s new album, “bold and full of interest” – read more
…and Clara Haberkamp’s “hugely impressive” new album – read more
Kyiv Post had a feature about the bandura – read more
IQ Magazine interviewed the Director of Live Nation’s North Sea Jazz Festival – read more –
Lance Liddle reviewed a performance marking Wally Fawkes’ centenary from Alan Barnes at the Lit & Phil (scroll down) – read more
Tony Dudley-Evans writes about the final two gigs in the Fizzle and TDE Promotions summer season: Alex Bonney, Paul Dunmall and Mark Sanders trio; Suzie Purkis and Steve Tromans duo – read more
Connects Music profiled Scottish duo New Focus and their Classical Connection presentation – read more
Ian Mann of the JazzMann reviewed Martin Speake’s duo album Tendrils with saxophonist Alyson Cawley – read more
Arts Reviews Edinburgh reviewed Ant Law and Alex Hitchcock’s Same Moon in the Same World at the Queen’s Hall – read more
Wednesday 26 June – Simon Bates (sax) with Alex Eberhard Trio are at Worthing Pavilion Atrium (on the Pier), Marine Parade, BN11 3PX
Wednesday 26 June – Shireen Francis’ Island Project are at Eastbourne – Splash Point Jazz Club, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Wednesday 26 June – Hammond organist Paul Moran (Van Morrison) & his SB3 Jazz Organ Trio are at the 606
Wednesday 26 June – Tereza Catarov downstairs , Noah Stoneman Trio upstairs at the Vortex
Wednesday 26 June – Jazz Vespers A Love Supreme, American International Church
Wednesday 26 June – Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’ at Twickenham Jazz Club at the Cabbage Patch, 67 London Road, Twickenham TW1 3SZ
Thursday 27 June – Jazz Sisters are at Karamel , 4 Coburg Rd , Wood Green N22
Thursday 27 June – Pianist John Law & his Re-Creations Quartet ft Parliamentary Jazz Award winner Sam Crockatt, sax are at the 606
Thursday 27 June – Glasshopper have an album launch at Servant Jazz Quarters in Dlaston
Thursday 27 June – Eriko Ishihara (keys/vcl) with Steve Fishwick (tpt), Andrew Cleyndert (bs) and Dave Ohm (dms) at Hugh and Marion’s (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, London, SE9 2PE
Thursday 27 June – Dominic Ashworth is at Matthews Hall, Fore Street, Topsham, EX3 0HF
Thursday 27 June – Matt Seddon Sinfonietta & Cameron Scott Jazz Orchestra fr Steve Williamson are at the Vortex
Thursday 27 June – Louise Dodds & Elchin Shirinov are at Marryat Hall, Dundee
Thursday 27 June – John Edwards/Binker Golding/Steve Noble are at The Jazz Sanctuary , Turks Head , Twickenham , TW1 1LF
Thursday 27 June – Anthony Kerr is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 27 June – Radhika de Saram Quartet (feat Ivo Neame) is at the SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 27 June – Capo Sings Trio Manouche a fresh new take on the UK’s premier Gypsy Jazz & Swing ensemble over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 27 June 27 – Mark Lockheart’s Dreamers are at Hidden Rooms, 7b Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA
Friday 28 June – Miguel Gorodi Quintet are at the Vortex
Friday 28 June – Brazilian/jazz quintet Samara ft. Francesca Confortini-vocals; Steve Rubie-sax/flute & Neil Angilley-piano are at the 606
Friday 28 June – CJC All-Stars with Hannah Horton & Tommaso Starace at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Friday 28 June -Marta Gornitzka Quartet: Poetry of Poland – Jonasz Kofta at Jazz Cafe POSK, 238-246 King Street London W6 0RF
Saturday 29 June -Eleonora Claps: Eleonora Goes 80’s! at Jazz Cafe POSK, 238-246 King Street London W6 0RF
Saturday 29 June -Janette Mason is at the Vortex
Saturday 29 June – Ivo Neame’s Dodeka are at NAC (Newhampton Arts Centre) in Wolverhampton
Saturday 29 June – The Katriona Taylor Quintet celebrate the music of the great Nina Simone over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Saturday 29 June – Award-winning jazz Saxophonist Mornington Lockett (New Jazz Couriers) & his quintet ft Alistair Martin-trumpet & Will Barry-piano are at the 606
Saturday 29 June – The Music of Ellington with the Syd Lawrence Orchestra narrated and lead by Chris Dean are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Sunday 30 June lunchtime – QOW Trio featuring Riley Stone-Lonergan are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 30 June – A Night of Requests, Heidi Vogel and Lauren Lucille with Daniel Hewson (piano), The Pheasantry
Sunday 30 June – the 606 have a benefit for Anita Wardell featuring Norma Winstone MBE, Claire Martin OBE, Cleveland Watkiss MBE, Jacqui Dankworth MBE, Georgia Mancio, Ian Shaw, Daniela Clynes and many more
Sunday 30 June – Nette Robinson’s Little Big Band are at The Hampton Hub, Ashley Road, Hampton
Sunday 30 June: Jazz On The Plaza feat. Dom Pusey with Terence Collie & Nick Lenner-Webster. Café Yukari, Kew
Monday 1 July Sam Braysher – That’s Him: The Music of Kurt Weill album launch, Pizza Express Soho
Monday 1 July – Joabe Reis is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Monday 1 July – Award-winning jazz pianist Will Barry & his Quartet are at the 606
Tuesday 2 July – Magpie ft George Crowley are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 2 July – Enrico Tomasso Quartet is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 2 July -Alan Barnes and Al Nicholls with Richard Busiakiewicz, Simon Thorpe and Matt Fishwick are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 2 July – Up-and-coming jazz guitarist Francis Tulip & his Trio are at the 606 in Chelsea
Tuesday 2 July – Jack Kendon Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
Tuesday 2 – 4 July – John Lloyd Young is at Crazy Coqs , Soho
Wednesday 3 July – Nicole Zuraitis is at the Pheasantry (Chelsea) including an interview with Nigel Williams
Wednesday 3 July – Freddie Gavita plays Freddie Hubbard at Guildford Jazz
Wednesday 3 July – Italian jazz & soul vocalist Francesca Confortini is at the 606
Wednesday 3 July – Vortex have downstairs Kit Downes / Tom Challenger / Tara Cunningham / Caius Williams – Double Bass / Andrew Lisle – Drums and upstairs Ackerley, Wallace and Ghezzi
Thursday 4 July – Liane Carroll is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 4 July – Jon Regen is at Pizza Express Soho including an interview with Nigel Williams
Thursday 4 July – Two of the UK’s most celebrated jazz musicians, saxophonist Tim Garland & pianist Jason Rebello are at the 606
Thursday 4 July – Alan Barnes and Al Nicholls with Richard Busiakiewicz, Simon Thorpe and Alfonso Vitale are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 4 July – Dave Jones’ Funk Affinity classic jazz funk & Latin featuring Dave Jones, bass, Sandra Mae-Lux, vcls & sax, Mike Outram, gtr, Chris Eldred, keys, Tristan Maillot, drms & Demi Garcia Sabat perc over at the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV. W4
Friday 5 July – Liane Carroll is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Friday 5 July – Pianist Joe Webb (Kansas Smitty’s) & his band ft. Alec Harper-sax & Dave Archer-guitar are at the 606
Saturday 6 July – Malta-based jazz saxophonist Carlo Muscat & his Quartet are at the 606
Sunday 7 July lunchtime – The Tony Kofi Organisation are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 7 July 2pm – Equinox Quartet are at Map Studio Cafe 47 Grafton Road NW5 3DU
Sunday 7 July 3pm – Saxophonist Terry Quinney pays tribute to the legendary Stan Getz from breezy Bosa Nova to West Coast cool at Caryford Hall, Castle Cary, Somerset
Sunday 7 July – Parliamentary Jazz award-winning singer/pianist Liane Carroll & her Trio is at the 606 in Chelsea
Sunday 7 July: Riverside Arts Jazz – The Duncan Lamont Songbook with Esther Bennett, Terence Collie, Richard Sadler, Paul Cavacuiti + Janet McCunn
Monday 8 July – Harken! by Threeway, (Waterman, Lodder and Crosland), Buxton International Festival with special guest John Etheridge (album launch)
Monday 8 July – Jacqui Hicks & Neal Richardson Trio are at Splash Point Jazz Club, The View, Southdown Rd BN25 4JS
Monday 8 July – Emile Hinton with Strings is at Pizza Express Soho
Monday 8 July – Known for her improvisational style, vocalist Aitzi Cofre Real & her jazz quartet ft. pianist Scottie Thompson is at the 606
Tuesday 9 July – Joe Farnsworth & Sarah Hanahan Quartet is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 9 July – Modern jazz/hard-bop saxophonist Dan Reinstein & his quartet
Tuesday 9 July – Mark Winkler The Rules Don’t Apply album launch, Pizza Express Soho (featuring Jim Watson, Adam King, Ian Thomas, Nigel Price & Claire Martin OBE)
Tuesday 9 July -From the USA Greg Abate with John Pearce, Simon Thorpe and Alfonso Vitale are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 9 July – Simon Savage/Roy Hilton Quintet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 10 July – London-born, US-based pianist/composer Simon Lasky launches his new album ‘For the Dreamers’ ft. Ant Law-guitar & Paul Booth-sax are at the 606
Thursday 11 July – Simon Spillett is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 11 July – From the USA Greg Abate with John Pearce, Julian Bury and Alfonso Vitale are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 11 July – Giovanni Guidi has a solo concert at the gallery rosenfeld , 37 Rathbone St, W1T 1NZ, London
Thursday 11 July – Vocalist/Hammond organist John East & his band ft. guitarist Nigel Price play their final farewell show at the 606
12 – 14 July – Swanage Jazz Festival
Friday 12 July – Zara McFarlane is celebrating Sarah Vaughan at Ladbroke Hall
Friday 12 July – Nicolas Meier Quartet with Alex Hutton are at Guildford Jazz
Friday 12 July – Cosimo Matassa Project exciting mix of soul jazz & R&B with a touch of the Mambos over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Saturday 13 July – Footprints are at MAP Studio Cafe 46 Grafton Rd, London NW5 3DU
Sunday 14 July lunchtime – Fourcast featuring Dave O’Higgins and Mike Outram are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 14 July lunchtime – Jazz standards, songs from musical theatre and originals with vocalist Rachel Sutton & her quartet at the 606
Sunday 14 July evening – Parliamentary Jazz Award-winning vocalist & lyricist Georgia Mancio & her quintet ft. Gareth Lockrane-flute are at the 606
Monday 15 July – UK-born pianist now based in New York Simon Mulligan & his quartet ft. saxophonist Frank Walden are at the 606
Monday 15 July – David Kayode is at the Pizza Express
Tuesday 16 July 12 – 2 -Howl Quartet are at Out to Lunch , Cadogan Hall
Tuesday 16 July – Greg Abate Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
Tuesday 16 July – Roger Beaujolais Quintet with ‘The Story of the Vibes in Jazz’ at Marlow Jazz Club Royal British Legion Hall, SL7 1 NT
Tuesday 16 July – Alina Bzhezhinska and Tony Kofi are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 16 July – Anaïs Reno Quartet is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 16 July – Instrumental jazz standards with a modern twist -Interphase Quartet ft saxophonist Sean Khan & pianist Tomasz Zyrmont are at the 606
Tuesday 16 July – Mick Foster with Dominic Ashworth, Tom Farmer and Tristan Maillot are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 17 July – Empirical are at Pizza Express Soho
Wednesday 17 July – Award-winning jazz pianist & composer Kate Williams & her Trio is at the 606
Thursday 18 July 12 – 2 – Nat Steele Quartet are at Out to Lunch , Cadogan Hall
Thursday 18 July – Dominic Ashworth is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Friday 19 July – James Taylor Quartet at the Lincoln Jazz Festival hosted by Lincoln Cathedral
Friday 19 July – Ant Law and Brigitte Beraha are the Pheasantry
Friday 19 July – Latin & Brazilian jazz quintet Samara ft. Carolina Lelis-vocals and Steve Rubie- sax/flute are at the 606
Saturday 20 July – Kinetika Bloco Legacy Band, Antonio Forcione Trio, Ian Shaw, Joe Locke Quartet at the Lincoln Jazz Festival hosted by Lincoln Cathedral
Saturday 20 July – Pete Lay’s Gambit Jazzmen are at National Jazz Archive at Loughton Methodist Church
Saturday 20 July – Dave O’Higgins ‘Monkin’ Around’ Quartet – Leading UK saxophonist Dave O’Higgins & his quartet pay their respects to the music of Thelonious Monk are at the 606
Sunday 21 July lunchtime – Gary Wilcox Quartet featuring Chris Biscoe are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 21 July lunchtime – singer/pianist Tony O’Malley (Kokomo) plays jazz standards from his albums “My Foolish Heart” and “Mansarde Sessions” are at the 606
Sunday 21 July – Lighthouse Trio (Tim Garland/Gwilym Simcock/Asaf Sirkis), Jay Phelps Sextet, Tom Cawley and Gareth Lockrane, Hejira are at the Lincoln Jazz Festival hosted by Lincoln Cathedral
Tuesday 23 July 12 – 2 -Vertigo with Julian Costello are at Out to Lunch , Cadogan Hall
Tuesday 23 July – Huw Warren’s Chorro Chorro Chorro Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 23 July – Pete Long Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
Tuesday 23 July – Greg Abate/Steve Fishwick Quintet is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 23 July – Sarah Moule with Simon Wallace, Alec Dankworth and Paul Robinson are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
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
Wednesday 24 July – Xhosa Cole is at Pizza Express Soho
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 – Tristan Banks is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
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
Sunday 28 July lunchtime – Jonathan Gee Quartet featuring Denys Baptiste are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 28 July – Basil Hodge Quartet ft Tony Kofi is at Pizza Express Soho
Tuesday 30 July – Mike Soper Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 30 July – Mark Bassey/Charlotte Glasson Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 30 July 12 – 2 -Sam Dunn’s Grant Green Project featuring Dave O’Higgins are at Out to Lunch , Cadogan Hall
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
Thursday 1 August – Matt Wates Sextet are at Guildford Jazz
Sunday 4 August lunchtime – Tracey Mendham Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
16 – 18 August Herne Bay Jazz Festival
Thursday 27 June – Radhika de Saram Quartet (feat Ivo Neame) is streaming from the SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Thursday 27 June – Michelle Willis is at Playtime – https://www.facebook.com/playtimemusic1
Friday 28 June – Steve Turre Sextet are streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Friday 28 June – The Heavy Hitters w/ Mike LeDonne, Eric Alexander are streaming from Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
Monday 1 July 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewd subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Tuesday 9 July – Charles LLoyd 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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