Our weekly companion to the Wednesday Breakfast Headlines email newsletter
RAM tell us that “online booking [for the concert above] will open to the public on Thursday 18 July at 10am.” – HERE
“I may not understand jazz – but I know enough to know it’s wonderful” Broadcaster Adrian Chiles wrote an opinion piece about jazz in The Guardian – read more
“I’m delighted to be joining the Edition family. ” Sultan Stevenson’s next album will be on Edition Records – read more
The Observer New Review reviewed the new Blue Note album from Nduduzo Makhathini – read more
Yale News previews a Vijay Iyer premiere – read more
…and Hugh Morris has interviewed him (paywalled) – read more
hr-BigBand (Frankfurt Radio Big Band) announced Darcy James Argue will be taking over from Jim McNeely as their Composer in Residence later this year – read more
Jazz Journal reviewed saxophonist Phil Bancroft’s duo album with Indian percussionist Gyan Singh, Birth & Death – read more
Dave Sayer enjoyed Julian Costello’s album with Vertigo – read more
The fundraiser for pianist Richie Beirach has passed €12k – read more
Julia Glöckner wrote a superb preview of the Ludwigshafen-based Jazz am Rhein festival, which took place over the weekend, in the Wochenblatt Reporter (in German) – read more
Congratulations to our friends at London Music Fund, whose recent fundraising lunch with Simon Cowell forms the cover of HELLO! magazine’s 8 July edition – read more
“Did you know there were around 20 string arrangements written for Charlie Parker that weren’t recorded?”: Marc Meyers of JazzWax writes about Unheard Bird, a new album from clarinettist and saxophonist Ken Peplowski featuring some of those arrangements – read more
Trumpeter Steven Nichols’ new album From Dust, covered in an interview by Sebastian HERE, was reviewed by VerhoovensJazz (scroll down for English) – read more
Simon Spillett’s “Dear Tubby H” big band album, which Denny Ilett reviewed for us HERE, is now available on vinyl – read more
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 – Vortex have Asha Parkinson Kalpadruma downstairs , John J Williamson’s Northern Sea album launch upstairs
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 – Coco Mbassi is at the Vortex
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 – Niklas Lukassen’s Fertile Ground ft Will Vinson is at the Vortex
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 – Vortex have the LJO in the afternoon and Gilad Hekselman in the evening
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 – Judith Owen is at Wilton’s Music Hall
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 and 10 July – At Boisdale Belgravia, Eccleston St, London SW1: ‘Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall’ with Riketté Genesis and the Alex Webb Quartet
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
Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th July
Boisdale Belgravia, Eccleston St, London SW1: ‘Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall’ with Riketté Genesis comes to this well-known jazz restaurant. The show, which revisits Lady Day’s legendary 1956 Carnegie Hall appearance, features the Alex Webb Quartet
Wednesday 10 July – Caroline Kraabel ONE_Orchestra New is at the Vortex
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 – Loz Speyer’s Inner Space upstairs at the Vortex , Shirley Smart downstairs
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 – Ferg Ireland Quartet are at the Vortex
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
Saturday 13 July – Jim Mullen Organ Trio is at the Vortex
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 – Kurt Rosenwinkel and Christian McBride are at the Wigmore Hall
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 – Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, London SE11 4RN: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’
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 – African Concert Series at the Wigmore Hall
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 3pm- 5.30pm Garden Jazz at The Fishermen’s Club with Sara Oschlag (vox) Trio with Matt Wall (gtr), Arnie Somogyi (bass) and Andy Panayi (sax) Royal Parade Eastbourne , BN22 7AA
Eastbourne – The Fishermen’s Club, Royal Parade BN22 7AA
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
Friday 26 July – Abel Selaocoe is at the Wigmore Hall
Friday 26th July – at Oliver’s Jazz Bar, 9 Nevada Street, London SE10 9JL: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’
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
Monday 29 July – Tomorrow’s New Quartet and Tom Ford are at Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre
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
Thursday 1 August – Kai Hoffman, John Harriman, James Sunney, Rod Brown at The Middle House, Mayfield TN20 6AB nr Tunbridge Wells
Sunday 4 August lunchtime – Tracey Mendham Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Monday 5 August – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Deirdre Cartwright (gtr), with Neal Richardson (piano/vox), Nigel Thomas (bass), Alex Eberhard (drums)
Tuesday 6 August – David Angol Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Thursday 8 August – Andy Panayi Quartet – Jazz in a Circus Tent – overlooking the sea at Helen Gardens, Dukes Drive Eastbourne BN20 7XH
Friday 9 August – David Beebee Bop Band – Jazz in a Circus Tent – overlooking the sea at Helen Gardens, Dukes Drive Eastbourne BN20 7XH
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
Tuesday 13 August – Karim Saber Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
16 – 18 August Herne Bay Jazz Festival
Wednesday 28 August – Adam Glasser Quintet are at Splash Point Jazz Club, Fishermen’s Club Eastbourne BN22 7A
Monday 19 August – Pizza Express, Dean Street, Soho London W1: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’
Friday 5 July – Cannonball & Coltrane featuring the Vincent Herring & Eric Alexander Quintet are streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 8 July 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed 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
Thursday 11 July – Rachel Duns is at Playtime – https://www.facebook.com/playtimemusic1
Friday 12 July – Charles McPherson is streaming from Baltimore https://www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com/calendar
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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