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Polly Gibbons and Reuben James (above) perform ‘O Holy Night’ – watch
Stephen Graham’s album of the year is Tutu Puoane’s “Wrapped in Rhythm Vol 1” – read more
Peter Hum’s list of the dozen top Canadian albums of 2024 has Christine Jensen’s “Harbour” at No. 1 – read more
Dave Sumner’s 2024 list for Bandcamp has Rebecca Trescher, Sylvaine Helary and Cassie Kinoshi – read more
(late in the day, admittedly…) we caught up with Maria Schneider’s poetic Commencement Speech at Eastman College – watch
The (UK) Times profiled bassist Bill Crow at 97 years old (£-wall) – read more
Laufey answers (her) critics – read more
UKJN contributor Dan Paton shares his new music recommendations from 2024 – read more
Kitty Empire picks her top 10 albums of 2024, including Cassie Kinoshi and Shabaka, in The Observer – read more
Richard Williams wrote the obituary of Chic singer Alfa Anderson for The Guardian – read more
Jimmy Carter had quite some jazz party on the White House Lawn in 1978 – Listen
Tuesday 31 December – See in the New Year with Ian Shaw at the Vortex
Tuesday 31 December -Samara see in the New Year at the 606
Wednesday 1 January – Pizza Express , Soho have the Scott Hamilton Trio with Mark Nightingale and Alan Barnes
Wednesday 1 January -The Procrastinators are at the Vortex
Thursday 2 January – Pizza Express , Soho have the Scott Hamilton Trio with Mark Nightingale and Alan Barnes
Thursday 2 January – Jo Harrop Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 2 January – Roella Orolo Trio are at the Vortex
Thursday 2 January – Liane Carroll is at the 606
Friday 3 January – Miles Mindlin is at the Vortex
Friday 3 January – Pizza Express , Soho have the Scott Hamilton Trio with Alex Clarke and Allison Neale
Friday 3 January – Beverley Skeete is at the 606
Saturday 4 January – Miguel Gorodi is at the Vortex
Saturday 4 January – Pizza Express , Soho have the Scott Hamilton Trio with Alex Clarke and Allison Neale
Saturday 4 January – James Davison / Callum Au are at the 606
Sunday 5 January lunchtime – QOW trio are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 5 January lunchtime – Greg Davis Trio with Vanessa Rowe are at the 606
Sunday 5 January evening -The Wonder of Stevie with Noel McCalla and Derek Nash are at the 606
Sunday 5 January – Pizza Express , Soho have the Scott Hamilton Trio with Robert Fowler and Karen Sharp
Monday 6 January – Pizza Express , Soho have the Scott Hamilton Trio with Robert Fowler and Karen Sharp
Monday 6 January – Dino Baptiste is at the 606
Tuesday 7 January – Kaidi Akinnibi is at the 606
Tuesday 7 January – Monking Around Quintet ft DaveO’Higgins are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 7 January – Lily Dior Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 7 January – Pizza Express , Soho have the Scott Hamilton Trio with Robert Fowler and Nat Steele
Wednesday 8 January – Jack Wilson Quartet downstairs , vocalist and vibraphone player Amy Hollingsworth and pianist Will Hobson upstairs at the Vortex
Wednesday 8 January – Geoff Simkins Quartet featuring Tom Ollendorff, Corrie Dick and Conor Chaplin are at Pizza Express Soho
Wednesday 8 January – Adan Glasser is at the 606
Thursday 9 January – Tom Chant (saxophone), John Edwards (double bass) & Eddie Prévost are upstairs at the Vortex , Alistair Martin is downstairs
Thursday 9 January – Jakub Klimiuk Quintet with guest Mark Lockheart is at the SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 9 January – Richard Pite, Chinara, Jerome Davies, Gunther Kurmayr are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 9 January – Ricky Ford is at Pizza Soho
Thursday 9 January – Leo Richardson is at the 606
Thursday 9 January 6:15-8pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles – Neal Richardson with Miles Danso at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB
Thursday 9 January- Alum Nathoo on reeds with Stuart Henderson on trumpet are at the Hedsor Jazz Club, at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Friday 10 January – Julian Siegel Quartet are at the Vortex
Friday 10 January – Scott Hamilton Quartet with Nat Steele at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Friday 10 January – Duncan Lamont Songbook with Duncan Lamont Jr, Esther Bennett and Daniela Clynes are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 10 January – Bruce Adams / Mark Nightingale are at the 606
Saturday 11 January -Tony Kofi and the Organisation celebrate Lou Donaldson at the Vortex
Saturday 11 January – Five Way Split ft Quentin Collins and Vasilis Xenopoulos are at the 606
Saturday 11 January – Mark Lockheart & John Parricelli are at Listen! Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Saturday 11 January – Laura Jurd is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Sunday 12 January lunchtime – Ian East Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 12 January lunchtime – Eriko Ishihara is at the 606
Sunday 12 January evening – Georgia Mancio is with Nigel Price at the 606
Sunday 12 January – Nicolas Meier World Group are Off the Rails, Richmond TW9 2NQ
Monday 13 January – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Derek Nash (saxes) with the Neal Richardson Trio at The View at Seaford Head Golf Club BN25 4JS
Monday 13 January – Latin Underground are at the 606
Monday 13 January – Jakub Klimiuk Quintet feat. Mark Lockheart at Pizza Express Soho
Tuesday14 January – Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson Quartet with Robert Mitchell , Larry Bartley and Mark Mondesir are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 14 January – Jo Fooks, Neil Casey, Andy Cleyndert, Buster Birch are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Dan Reinstein is at the 606
Tuesday14 January – Cathy Jordan , Liam Noble and Paul Clarvis are at the Vortex
Wednesday 15 January – Carshalton Jazz presents funk/soul/ jazz from the Filthy Six at Cryer Arts, Carshalton High Street, SM5 3BB
Wednesday 15 January – MUSIC IS – CHRIS BISCOE PLAYS MIKE WESTBROOK with Kate Williams, Mike Outram, Dave Whitford and Jon Scott at Jazz825, Royal Hotel,1 High Street, Southend SS1 1SE
Wednesday 15 January – Benet McClean is at the 606
Thursday 16 January – Rick Simpson has a new project Future Myth at the Vortex
Thursday 16 January – Duncan Lamont on reeds with Peter Rudeforth on trumpet are at the Hedsor Jazz Club, at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 16 January – Rick Margitza Quartet isa t Pizza Express Soho
Thursday 16 January – Duncan Eagles Quartet are at the 606
Friday 17 January – Lulu Pierre and The Copasetics: Tribute to Sarah Vaughan is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 17 January – Dave Limina & Ross Stanley world class, and a world first, sensational Hammond organ duo at The Stoke , Guildford Jazz
Friday 17 January – Daniel Casimir is at the the Lighthouse in Poole
Friday 17 January – The Elchin Shirinov Quartet are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 18 January – Arnaldo Cogorno is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 18 January – Ilario Ferrari Trio: Above the Clouds and Beyond is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Sunday 19 January lunchtime – The Quartet featuring Vasilis Xenopoulos are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 19 January – Music Is – Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook at Riverhouse Barn, Manor Road, Walton on Thames KT12 2PF
Tuesday 21 January – Byron Wallen Quintet are celebrating Andrew Hill at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 21 January – Vasilis Xenopoulos Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 21 January – Kevin Hays & Jorge Rossy are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 21 January – Fleet Jazz Club – “Bird” – The Sue Richardson Quintet at The Harlington, 236 Fleet Road, Fleet GU51 4BY
Thursday 23 January – Trish Clowes/Mike Outram/Calum Gourlay/Joel Barford is at the SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 23 January – Alex Garnett Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 23 January – Clark Tracey Quintet ‘Jazz Champions’ are at Cambridge Modern Jazz at Hidden Rooms, 7b Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA
Thursday 23 January – James Davison & Callum Au Quintet are at The Pavilion , Guilford Jazz
Thursday 23 January 6:15-8pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles – Neal Richardson with Miles Danso at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB
Friday 24 January – Jonny Liebeck Quintet: Influences – EP launch is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 25 January 2pm – Ted Beaument, Robert Fowler, Alec Dankworth, Rod Brown are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 25 January – Kris Davis Trio are at the Vortex
Saturday 25 January – Imperial College Big Band and Oxford University Jazz Orchestra are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 25 January – The Bryan Corbett Quintet play ‘Blue Note’ at the Blue Room at the Lawn, Union Road, Lincoln LN1 3BU (Bryan Corbett – Trumpet/Flugelhorn, Chris Bowden – Sax, Paul Deats – Piano, Tom Hill – Bass, Andrew Wood – Drums)
Sunday 26 January lunchtime – The Organisation Quartet featuring Roger Beaujolais are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Tuesday 28 January – Tom Barford Quintet ft James Copus and Ivo Neame are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 28 January – Adrian Cox Trio – ‘Makin’ Runs’ are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Wednesday 29th January – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne BN25 1HG have Rythme Futur – Led by bassist George Trebar, feat. Duncan Hemstock (clarinet), Nils Solberg (guitar and vocals) and Benoit Viellefon (guitar and vocals)
.Friday 31 January – Georgia Mancio Quartet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Friday 31 January – Way Out West presents Miles & Monk: The Music of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 1 February – Elliot Frost – album launch at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Sunday 2 February lunchtime – Vladimir Miller Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Tuesday 4 February – James Allsopp Quartet celebrate Stan Getz at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Thursday 6 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at SoundCellar in Poole
Friday 7 February – Phil Merriman Trio: The Roots Beneath are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 8 February – Miguel Gorodi Quintet are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 8 February – Elliot Galvin The Ruin is at Listen! Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Tuesday 11 February – Eddie Gripper / Alex Clarke Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Thursday 20 February – Jonathan Gee Trio are at Cambridge Modern Jazz at Hidden Rooms, 7b Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA
Thursday 20 February – Rosie Frater-Taylor is at SoundCellar in Poole
Saturday 22 February – Misha Mullov-Abbado ‘Effra’ Album Launch at Kings Place
Saturday 22 February – Nick Costley-White: Poncha Album Release are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 3 January – Tenor Titans” Wayne Escoffery / Jimmy Greene Quintet featuring Buster Williams and Lenny White is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 6 January 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Thursday 9 January – Jakub Klimiuk Quintet with guest Mark Lockheart is streaming from the SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Sunday 12 January – Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano), Evan Parker (saxophone) and Paul Lytton (percussion) are streaming from Cafe Oto https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/schlippenbach-parker-lytton-2/#
Sunday 19 January – Music Is – Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook from the Riverhouse Barn Walton-on-Thames https://thelittleboxoffice.com/riverhouse/event/view/205286
Thursday 23 January – Trish Clowes/Mike Outram/Calum Gourlay/Joel Barford is streaming from the SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Tuesday 28 January – Tord Gustavsen Trio are streaming from Porgy and Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Thursday 6 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Thursday 20 February – Rosie Frater-Taylor is at SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
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,
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
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
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)
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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