Our weekly companion to the Wednesday Breakfast Headlines email newsletter
Pianist Helen Sung (photo above by Monika S. Jakubowska) is set to join the Guildhall Big Band for a project in March 2025 – read more
Lars Danielsson, Verneri Pohjola & John Parricelli’s new album Trio is John Fordham’s ‘album of the month’ in The Guardian – read more
(also mentioned : The Bad Plus, Sun Ra Arkestra and Paula Rae Gibson)
…also in The Guardian, pianist Pat Thomas is interviewed by Stewart Smith – read more
Vocalist Lauren Bush was interviewed by Jazz Journal – read more
RIP John Prescott: John Fordham interviewed the former deputy PM and Ken Clark about jazz for BBC’s Omnibus in 1989 – watch
Tim Cumming wrote a round-up of the 2024 EFG London Jazz Festival for the ArtsDesk – read more…
…and Sebastian also wrote a different EFG London Jazz Festival round-up – read more
Richard Williams’ of The Blue Moment reviewed Evan Parker & Matt Wright’s Transatlantic Trance Map and the BBC Concert Orchestra’s tribute to John Coltrane, both part of EFG LJF 2024 – read more
…he also recommends a new box set of albums by Vanilla Fudge – read more
The Europe Jazz Network Monthly Chart for Decembe – to which UKJN contributes – is out, and there is a Spotify playlist for it – listen
Belfast jazz club Scott’s Jazz is running a GoFundMe campaign – read more
John Batiste is interviewed about his new album of Beethoven Blues in the New York Times (£) – read more
1) Live gigs
Wednesday 27 November – World Heart Beat Jazz Club Suppers is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Wednesday 27 November Christian Garrick and David Gordon, The Paper Jam Duo, The Clock Tower, St Pancras 8pm
Wednesday 27 November -Way Out West presents Larry Bartley/Bruno Heinen/ Winston Clifford at the Turk’s Head, Twickenham
Wednesday 27 November – Vortex have Nikita Korzoun downstairs and Lukas DeRungs upstairs
Wednesday 27 November – Nina Kristofferson Sings Jazz at The Pheasantry
Wednesday 27 November – Mitch Winehouse is swinging with the Denmark St Big Band at the Spice of Life in Soho
Wednesday 27 November – Pete Allen Celebrating 45 years of band leading, Pizza Express Jazz Club (Soho)
Wednesday 27 November – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne Neal’s Imaginary Friends! feat. Rob Palmer (gtr), Al Swainger (bass), Buster Birch (drums)
Wednesday 27 November – Pete Roth Band ft Bill Bruford are at the 606
Wednesday 27 November – Emily Saunders is at the Tung Auditorium in Liverpool
Thursday 28 November – Marco Natalie-Miles is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 28 November – Mike Chillingworth Quartet are at the Vortex
Thursday 28 November – Bezique are at The Old Church, Stoke Newington, N16 9ES
Thursday 28 November – Lewis Cassar is at the 606
Thursday 28 November – Lester Brown on trumpet with Martin Dunston on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 28 November – Al Nicholls Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 28 November – The Jazz Mondays: 13-piece ‘Little Big Band’ play the Boston Room over at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 28 November – Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’ at Epsom Jazz Club, Comrades Club, Surrey, KT18 5BT
Thursday 28 November – Matyas Gayer Quartet Jocelyn Gould (guitar), Matyas Gayer (piano), Stephen Keogh (drums), Jeremy Brown (double bass)are at The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
Friday 29 November – Pete Horsfall is at the 606
Friday 29 November – QCBA PLAYS BLUE NOTE! with Quentin Collins & Brandon Allen at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 29 November – Annie Whitehead is at the Vortex
Friday 29 November – Pete Lukas Latin Band are at Hawkins Forge, 110 Battersea Rise, London SW11 1EJ
Friday 29 November – Guido Spanocchi Quartet ft Danny Keane, Andrea di Biase + Andee Lieu at Barnaby’s Lounge in Hastings
Friday 29 November – Monkin’ Around with Dave O’Higgins & Billy Pod at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester.
Saturday 30 November 2pm – Alex Garnett Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 30 November – Jean Toussaint Quartet plus Cleveland Watkiss are at the Vortex plus a late with Richard Foote
Saturday 30 November – The Jazz Champions ft Clark Tracey are at the 606
Saturday 30 November – ALICE ZAWADZKI TRIO: “Hanging on the Comet’s Tail” (SET1) and “Za Górami & more”… (SET2) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 30 November Jazz Samba! (Mark Crooks Tenor Sax, Nigel Price Guitar, John Cervantes Piano, Demi Garcia Sabat Precussion, MarianneWindom Double Bass) at The Blue Room at the Lawn, Lincoln LN1 3BU
Saturday 30 November – Shabaka, Southbank Centre
Saturday 30 November – Hrjira celebrate Joni Mitchell at The Tung Auditorium in Liverpool
Sunday1 December lunchtime – Will Barry Quartet featuring Alex Harper are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday1 December lunchtime – Gareth Lockraine’s Big Band are at the 606
Sunday 1 December 5pm – Adam Glasser is at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London
Sunday 1 December – Chris White Trio ft Robbie Robson + Simon Thorpe at Barnaby’s Lounge in Hastings
Sunday 1 December – Equinox Jazz Quartet are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town
Monday 2 December – Dom Pipkin is at the 606
Monday 2 December – Jay Davis Bad Trad are at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Rd
Tuesday 3 December – Reiss Ellis Beckles Quintet (above) are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 3 December – Laura Klain, Nigel Price, Nat Steele, Lorenzo Morabito are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 3 December -Anna Panzanelli is at the 606
Tuesday 3 December – Betty Accorsi Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 4 December – Gan Gemi and Beyond the Blue are at the Vortex
Wednesday 4 December – Jo Fooks is at the 606
Thursday 5 December – Stuart Henderson on trumpet with Frank Walden on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 5 December – Jamie Pye Quartet downstairs , Awale Jant Band & Kawson Band upstairs at the Vortex
Thursday 5 December – Sara Oschlag is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 5 December – Cover to Cover present KIND OF BLUE with Dolan Jones – Trumpet, Jamie O’Donnell – Alto Saxophone, Jac Jones – Tenor Saxophone , Alcyona Mick – Piano, Dave Manington – Double Bass . Winston Clifford – Drums at Mildmay Club Great Hall , 33-34 Newington Green , N16 9PR
Thursday 5 December – Hungarian muic exchange at the 606
Thursday 5 December – Laura Klain, Nigel Price, Nat Steele, Lorenzo Morabito are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 6 December – Magdalena Supeł Quartet are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 6 December – Rob Luft and Elena Duni are at St Jude’s Church Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb London NW11 7AH
Friday 6 December – Bruno Heinen’s the W are at the Vortex
Friday 6 December – A Jazzy Xmas with Jo Harrop , Paul Edis nd special guests at St John’s Church. Farncombe
Saturday 7 December – John Donegan Sextet + Guests: “We Will Meet Again Sometime” – album launch at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 7 December – Blue Town 4 with Jim Mullen and Zoe Francis are at the Vortex plus a late with Billy Marrows
Saturday 7 December – Tom Smith is at the 606
Saturday 7 December – 12 – 2pm at St Mary Magdalene Church 15th Year Big Birthday Christmas Festive Fuzzy Feeling Fundraiser
Sunday 8 December lunchtime – Art Themen All Stars Quartet featuring Clark Tracey are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 8 December – Lydian Collective at Off the Rails Grand Reopening, Richmond TW9 2NQ
Sunday 8 December – Laura Jurd & the Dorset Youth Jazz Orchestra are at the SoundCellar in Poole
Monday 9 December – Huw V Williams Trio are at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Rd
Monday 9 December – Julian Bliss Septet is at Wigmore Hall
Monday 9 December – Mark Bassey (trombone) with the Neal Richardson Trio are at Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford
Tuesday 10 December – Renato D’Aiello Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 10 December – Jo Fooks Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 10 December – Emmet Cohen Trio are at Wigmore Hall
Tuesday 10 December – Christmas Party with Alan Barnes and Al Nicholls, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Matt Skelton at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Thursday 12 December – Pete Long is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 12 December – Johnny Thirkle on trumpet with Sue Greenway on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club, Hedsor Bar, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 12 December – Christmas Party with Alan Barnes, and Chris Dean, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Matt Skelton at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 13 December – Alan Barnes’ Christmas Fare at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Friday 13 December – Meier/Cywinski Electric Fusion Experience are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 13 December – Sultan Stevenson is at the Vortex
Friday 13 December – RNCM Big Band with Madeline Bell RNCM 124 Oxford Road Manchester
Saturday 14 December 1pm – The story of the vibraphone with Orphy Robinson Septet at Loughton Baptist Church 92 High Rd Loughton IG10 4QU
Saturday 14 December – JAZZ CHRISTMAS: Jazz Christmas Around the World! at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 14 December – The Pocket Ellington, a seven-piece celebration of the Ellington repertoire featuring Alan Barnes and Tony Kofi are at the Vortex
Sunday 15 December lunchtime – Terry Seabrook Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 15 December 6pm – Jazz Carols at Methodist Central Hall Westminster
Sunday 15 December 5pm – David Jean-Baptiste is at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London
Sunday 15 December – The Phoenix Big Band with vocalist Robert Habermann is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Sunday 15 December – Riverside Arts Jazz Christmas Special feat. Tommaso Starace with Terence Collie, Richard Sadler & Winston Clifford
Monday 16 December – Dan McConkey Trio are at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Rd
Tuesday 17 December – Nat Steele Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 18 December – The Andy Panayi Big Band are at Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne
Thursday 19 December – John Etheridge is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 19 December- Duncan Lamont on sax with Lester Brown on trumpet and Sarah Jane Eveleigh on vocals are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 19 December – Hannah Horton/Tony Kofi: Two Baritones are at the Jazz Sanctuary Turks Head, The, 28 Winchester Rd, Twickenham TW1 1LF
Friday 20 December – Julian Nicholas & Emil Viklicky Quartet: “Food of Love” – album launch at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 20 December – ‘A Jazzy Christmas – Paul Edis, Jo Harrop and Friends’ and is at St. Gabriels’ Church, Pimlico
Saturday 21 December – Tori Freestone & Alcyona Mick Duo at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 21 December 8.30pm – Soner Erson Trio ft Amy Hollingsworth at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London
Sunday 22 December lunchtime – Jonathan Gee Quartet featuring Denys Baptiste are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 22 December – Jazz at the Horsebridge, Whitstable, Kent: Trudy Kerr & Geoff Gascoyne Quartet. Two shows. 2pm Jazz for Juniors family show. 5pm-7pm Jazz Quartet
Thursday 26 December lunchtime – Tracey Mendham Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Saturday 28 December 2pm – Derek Nash with Dominic Ashworth, Geoff Gascoyne, George Double are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 28 December – Swing Into Christmas, Down for the Count, Cadogan Hall
Sunday 29 December lunchtime – Dave Barry’s Fourcast featuring Dave O’Higgins are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Tuesday 31 December – See in the New Year with Ian Shaw at the Vortex
Sunday 5 January lunchtime – QOW trio are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Wednesday 8 January – Geoff Simkins Quartet featuring Tom Ollendorff, Corrie Dick and Conor Chaplin are at Pizza Express Soho
Sunday 12 January lunchtime – Ian East Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 19 January lunchtime – The Quartet featuring Vasilis Xenopoulos are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 26 January lunchtime – The Organisation Quartet featuring Roger Beaujolais are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 2 February lunchtime – Vladimir Miller Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.
Friday 29 November – Tierney Sutton with special guest Lenny White is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 2 December 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Monday 2 December – Tim Berne – Hank Roberts – Aurora Nealand ‘Oceans And’ is streaming from Porgy and Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Saturday 7 December – Eric Bibb is streaming from Porgy and Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Sunday 8 December – George Cables is streaming from Porgy and Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Monday 16 December – NQ Jazz Orchestra are streaming from NQ Jazz in Manchester https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on
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
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
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