Our weekly companion to the Wednesday Breakfast Headlines email newsletter
RIP Susan Alcorn (1953-2025). Ann Braithwaite’s tribute – read more
The sale of the label Mack Avenue to Exceleration Music is reported on in DownBeat – read more
Richard Williams of the Blue Moment writes about the one thing missing from a 19-CD retrospective of the late, great Laura Nyro’s career – read more
…he also writes about Empirical and others at Monday’s Jazz in the Round: “the most intimate of environments for listening to live jazz” – read more
Ammar Kalia reviewed Mississippi Goddamn: A Celebration of Nina Simone at the Royal Festival Hall in the Guardian – read more
Dalya Alberge reports in the Observer about a new book that uncovered Louis Armstrong’s difficult upbringing – read more
Ethan Iverson writes in the February edition of the Nation about the LES club that became a 1960s jazz haven – read more
The line-up for the Aberdeen Jazz Festival is announced – read more
Hannah Zwick reports on the Branford Marsalis Quartet’s upcoming Blue Note Records debut for Udiscovermusic – read more
Alyn Shipton’s Quartet was reviewed in Watlington just by the M40… without the other musicians being named – read more
Mike Hobart reviewed Ambrose Akinmusire’s Honey From a Winter Stone in the Financial Times (£) – read more
Jacob Collier will be Artist in Residence at LiveNation’s North Sea Jazz Festival – read more
..and will be headlining Saturday night at Love Supreme – read more
Welcome back to the UK Vanessa Reed, new CEO of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic – read more
Jenni Roditi has spaces on her Sunday afternoon Vocal Tai Chi workshops in Crouch End – read more
Leicester-based National Youth Jazz Collective is recruiting a new CEO – read more
(Until 22 February) – Lyric Hammersmith have the Play On! which is set in the jazz scene of New York’s Cotton Club.
Wednesday 5 February -Dave O’Higgins and Rob Luft are at Pizza Express Soho
Wednesday 5 February – Queer Jazz present Queen Kaltoum with support from Maya Law at the Vortex
Wednesday5 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet with Ben van Gelder are at The Lescar, Sheffield
Wednesday 5 February – Paul Moran Organ Trio are at the 606
Wednesday 5 February – Jo Fooks is at the Pavilion , Guildford
Wednesday 5 February- Jim Mullen and Mike Gorman with Georgia Mancio and Dave Ohm, Crystal Palace Jazz Club @ Hopscotch Taprooms, 54 Westow Hill, London SE19 1RX
Thursday 6 February 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 6 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 6 February – Fabienne Ambuehl Quartet are at the Vortex Bigger Picture downstairs
Thursday 6 February – Liane Carroll is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club ENS 8AS
Thursday 6 February – Katriona Taylor Quintet “80’s Jazzed”: Outstanding jazz vocalist Katriona puts a unique jazz & Latin slant on some of the 80’s best known hits from Sade to Stevie Wonder through Blondie, Queen and more over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 6 February – The Ted Beament Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 6 February – Sean Khan and the Modern Jazz and Folk Ensemble: are at the Rich Nix
Thursday 6 February- Stuart Henderson on trumpet with Alam Nathoo on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Friday 7 February – Phil Merriman Trio: The Roots Beneath are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 7 February – The Art Themen Organ Trio plus special guest Denny Illet on guitar & vocals over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Friday 7 February – Tenor Madness – Preludes & Grooves: Bach reimagined at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 7 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at the Verdict in Brighton
Friday 7 February – Finn Carter Quartet are at the Vortex
Friday 7 February – Jo Fooks / Paul Eldridge, Macknade Jazz, Faversham
Saturday 8 February – Marta Mathea Radwan Quartet: Polish Jazz Goes to the Cinema at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 8 February – Denys Baptiste is at the 606
Saturday 8 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at The Bear Club, Luton
Saturday 8 February – Niklas Lukassen Quartet with Will Vinson are at the Vortex plus a late from Riley Stone-Lonergan
Saturday 8 February 2025 – ‘Me and Mr Jones’, featuring Rachel Foster (vocals), Paul Deat (piano) and Simon Paterson on bass, are appearing for Burrough Jazz at Twyford Village Hall, LE14 2HU
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
Sunday 9 February lunchtime – Andrea Vicari Quartet featuring Mark Lockheart are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 9 February @ 3 pm – Big Band Metheny is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Sunday 9 February lunchtime – Simon Spillett Quartet play Tubby Hayes at Ronnie Scotts
Sunday 9 February 6.30 pm – Enrico Tomasso/Alex Garnett with John Pearce, Andrew Cleyndert, Bobby Worth at Imber Court, Ember Lane, East Molesey KT8 0BT
Sunday 9 February – Chris Batchelor Quintet feat. Mark Lockheart and Liam Noble – Remembering Tomasz Stanko are at Off the Rails, Richmond
Sunday 9 February lunchtime – Vivianna Zarbo is at the 606
Sunday 9 February evening – Noel McCalla and Derek Nash present the Wonder of Stevie
Sunday 9 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at The Globe, Newcastle
Sunday 9 February – Mike Westbrook’s Band of Bands are at the Marine Theatre Lyme Regis
Monday 10 February – Fraser Urquhart is at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Rd
Monday 10 February – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Tony Kofi (sax) with the Neal Richardson Trio, at The View at Seaford Head Golf Club BN25 4JS
Monday 10 February – Mike Redfern is at the 606
Tuesday 11 February – Patrick Hayes Crusaders project are at the 606
Tuesday 11 February – Andy Williams Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 11 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 11 February – Jacqui Dankworth + Charlie Wood is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 11 February- Derek Nash, Dominic Ashworth, Andy Staples, Marc Cecil are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Wednesday 12 February – Jason Rebello is at the 606
Wednesday 12 February – Carshalton Jazz presents Ian Shaw and his ‘An Adventurous Dream’ project, celebrating the music of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. With Iain Ballamy (sax), Dave Green (bass) and Barry Green (drums). 7.30, Cryer Arts, Carshalton, SM5 3BB
Thursday 13 February – Sarah Moule & Simon Wallace “Songs For Scarlet Women” unique jazz cabaret celebrating the ‘femmes fatale’ over the centuries in the Boston Room over at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 13 February – Come join us for a night of mellow jazz and good vibes with WestSideJazz at Pizza House, Pitshanger Lane Ealing, W5 1QX
Thursday 13 February- Lester Brown on trumpet with Mark Aston on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 13 February – Tori Freeestone has a birthday gig at the Vortex
Thursday 13 February – Dave O’Higgins is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 13 February – Derek Nash, Dave Newton, Geoff Gascoyne, Sebastiaan de Krom are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 13t February – at Arts Depot, 5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, North Finchley, London N12 0GA its Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’
Thursday 13 February – Shez Raja is with Guthrie Govan at the 606
Thursday 13 February – JWS Big Band are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Thursday 13 February – Julian Costello with Sam Leak, Andy Hamill and Dave Ohm, Eltham Jazz Club @ Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, London SE9 2PE
Thursday 13 February – Christine Tobin with Phil Robson & Dave Whitford at Newhampton Arts Centre – NAC Dunkley Street Wolverhampton WV1 4AN
Friday 14 February – Valentine’s Night at the Vortex with Heidi Vogel , Bruno Heinen and James Kitchman
Friday 14 February – AMY LIVES! With a Valentine twist! Celebrating the Music of Amy Winehouse featuring Original Members of Amy Winehouse Band at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 14 February – Jazz@TheAlex in Faversham, Kent, presents Valentine’s Day jazz with “Threeway at 20”. Steve Waterman on trumpet, Ben Crosland on bass, and Steve Lodder on keyboards plus John Etheridge and Kim Collman
Friday 14 February – Dele Sosimi is at the Boileroom Guildford
Friday 14 February – Valentine’s Night with Louise Balkwill at the 606
Saturday 15 February – El Chamuyo Tango-Jazz Quartet feat. Kamila Bydlowska at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 15 February – Rachel Sutton is at the 606
Saturday 15 February – A Hologram Maze are at the Vortex with a late from Alcyona Mick
Saturday 15 February – Christine Tobin – A Thousand Kisses Deep at Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel 20 Sherwood Street London W1F 7ED
Saturday 15 February – Sam Braysher featuring Annie Majin: Kurt Weill and the American Songbook are at The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln LN1 3BU.
Sunday 16 February lunchtime – Fraser Smith Quartet featuring Jim Mullen are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 16 February, 1pm: Terence Collie ‘Elements’ Alban Launch with Terence Collie – piano, Nick Lenner-Webster – bass, Ted Carrasco – drums, The London String Group Trio & Jim Trimmer – Reader are at Pizza Express Live, Dean Street
Sunday 16 February – Kate Williams Band Featuring Special Guest Art Themen are at The Turk’s Head, Twickenham
Monday 17 February – Monking Around are at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Rd
Monday 17 February – Simon Woolf’s New Master’s Quintet are at the 606
Tuesday 18 February – Eddie Gripper / Alex Clarke Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 18 February – Dan Reinstein is at the 606
Tuesday 18 February – Jo Harrop with the John Pearce Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 18 February – Dan Cartwright Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 18 February – Art Themen Quintet is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Wednesday 19 February – Tom Niblock Big Band are at the Vortex
Wednesday 19 February – Emily Masser is at the 606
Thursday 20 February 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 20 February – Richie Milton & The Lowdown feat top vocalist linda Hall: New Orleans influenced jazz, blues & soul over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 20 February – Jonathan Gee Trio are at Cambridge Modern Jazz at Hidden Rooms, 7b Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA
Thursday 20 February- Frank Walden on sax with James Fenn on guitar are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Steve Waterman
Thursday 20 February – Steve Waterman is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 20 February – Rosie Frater-Taylor is at SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 20 February – Jossef Balacs is with Mornington Lockett at the 606
Thursday 20 February – Sarah Oschlag and the Pete Long Quintet are at the Pavilion Guildford
Friday 21 February – Yetii + Jake at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Friday 21 February – Chris Dean Quartet: Sliding through Jazz at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 21 February – Hampstead Jazz Club at The Duke of Hamilton, 23-25 New End, NW3 1JD: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories
Saturday 22 February 2pm – Mick Foster with Rob Barron, Colin Gourlay are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 22 February – Adam Dyer Quartet: Where the River Meets the Sea… at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 22 February – Georgia Mancio and Kate Williams, Hampstead Jazz Club, The Duke of Hamilton, 23-25 New End, London NW3 1JD
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
Saturday 22 February – Asha Parkinson, Pizza Express Dean Street
Sunday 23 February lunchtime – NOXQQ Quartet with Phil Scragg are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 23 February 5-7pm – Jazz at the Horsebridge, Whitstable, feat. Julian Marc Stringle Quartet
Sunday 23 February – Simon Spillet Quartet have album launch at Pizza Express Soho
Sunday 23 February – jazz On The Plaza featuring Piers Green on sax, Terence Collie on piano & Esther Ng on bass. Café Yukari, Kew
Monday 27 February – James Allsopp Quintet are at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Rd
Tuesday 25 February – Mauro Sigura Electric Quartet : Dunia is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 25 February – Jonny Liebeck is at 606 Chelsea
Tuesday 25 February – Grooveyard with Simon Savage & Roy Hilton at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 26 February – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Roy Hilton Quintet, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Thursday 27 February – Ivo Neame Trio @ Peggy’s Skylight, Nottingham, UK
Thursday 27 February – Elchin Shirinov Trio are at Firth Hall Sheffield
Thursday 27 February – Cover to Cover Present Wayne Shorter’s Speak No Evil with Jac Jones , Dolan Jones , Alcyona Mic , Dave Mannington , Jay Davis are The Mildmay Club , N16 9PR
Friday 28 February – WAY OUT WEST Presents: West Side Story at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Thursday 27 February – Vasilis Xenopoulos is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 27 February – Dave Jones’ Funk Affinity: Jazz Funk 6-piece feat bassist Dave Jones, pianist Chris Eldred, guitarist Dave Outram, drummer Tristan Maillot, vocalist & saxophonist Sandra-Mae Lux & Spanish percussionist Demi Garcia Sabat over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 27 February – Sarah Moule with The Simon Wallace Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 28 February – Georgia Mancio with Alex Hutton, Julie Walkington and Dave Ohm, 1215 Club, 12a High Street, Wraysbury, Staines-upon-Thames, TW19 5DB
Friday 28 February 7pm – Kings Hall, Herne Bay, Elaine Delmar Quartet, benefit for Herne Bay Jazz Festival
Saturday 1 March – Tomasz Zyrmont Quartet are at at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Sunday 2 March lunchtime – Tom Ridout Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 2 March 2pm – Equinox are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town
Sunday 2 March 5pm – John Etheridge is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ
Sunday 2 March – ‘Some Kinda Mean’ the Music of David ‘Fathead’ Newman is at Pizza Express Soho
Monday 3 March – The Emily Masser Quintet are at Pizza Express Soho
Tuesday 4 March – QOW Trio are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 4 March – Sullivan Fortune Trio are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 4 March – Ruben Fox is at the Pizza Express Soho
Tuesday 4 March – Jonathan Gee is at The Spin Jazz Club, Oxford
Wednesday 5 March Jonathan Gee is at the 606 Club, Fulham, London
Thursday 6 March 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 6 March – John Law’s Congregation are at SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 6- 9 March – Afro Futures Festival is at Rich Mix, London
Friday 7 March – Espen Eriksen Trio with Andy Sheppard at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Friday 7 March – Jonathan Gee is at Derby Jazz
Friday 7 March – Elvira Rey Trio are at at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 8 March – CLAIRE COPE’S ENSEMBLE C: “Every Journey” – album launch is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 8 March – SoundCellar are putting on Iain Ballamy & Gareth Williams at The Mowlem Theatre, Swanage
Sunday 9 March lunchtime – Jonathan Gee is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 9 March – Alison Rayner Quintet are at Pizza Express Soho
Monday 10 March – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Ben Holder (violin/vox) with the Neal Richardson Trio, at The View at Seaford Head Golf Club BN25 4JS
Tuesday 11 March – The Emily Masser Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 11 March – Craig Taborn / Peter Evans are at the Vortex
Tuesday 11 March – Zhenya Strigaley Quartet are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Friday 14 March – Marcina Arnold: EVOLUTION – album launch is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 15 March – Tony Kofi and The Organisation celebrate Lou Donaldson at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 15 March – The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln host the Alison Rayner Quintet (ARQ) Led by bassist and Ivor Novello-winning composer Alison Rayner. Line-up is Alison Rayner, bass’ Buster Birch, drums, Deirdre Cartwright guitar. Diane McLoughlin, saxophone
Sunday 16 March 5pm – Jim Mullen is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ
Monday 17 – 19 March – Avishai Cohen Trio present Brightlight at Ronnie Scott’s
Tuesday 18 March – Benn Clatworthy is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Thursday 20 March –Echo Engine with Theo Travis are at SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 20 March – Nikki Iles & Kate Williams / Robert Mitchell & Richard Fairhurst at Pizza Express Soho
Thursday 20 March 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 21 March – James Allsopp Quartet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester
Friday 21 March – Greg Spero & Spirit Fingers are at Jazz Cafe
Friday 21 March – Elsden Music Showcase with Julian Costello & Vertigo, Juliet Wood, and Natalie Rozario and Friends… at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 22nd March – Gosia Janek Quintet are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 22 March – Jason Rebello is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ
Sunday 23 March 2025 – Tom Millar/Matt Sulzmann Quartet Turk’s Head Twickenham
Tuesday 25 March – Eddie Parker’s ‘Airborn’ with Rob Luft are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Wednesday 26 March – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Alan Barnes (saxes) and Dave Newton (keys) Duo, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA
Friday 28 March 2025 – WOW presents Ellington/Strayhorn at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 29th March – Becky Alice Quintet are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 29 March 2025 – ‘The Brandon Allen Quartet’, featuring Brandon Allen (saxophone), Tim Lapthorn (piano), Jeremy Brown (bass) and Chris Higginbottom (drums), are appearing for Burrough Jazz at Twyford Village Hall, LE14 2HU
Sunday 30 March 5pm – Alex Clarke is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ
Friday 4 April – Jazzlive at The Crypt, St. Giles Church, Camberwell Church Street, London SE5: Coltrane and Hartman on Impulse! feat. Denys Baptiste and Marvin Muoneké
Monday 7 April – The Jazz Café, 5 Parkway, Camden, London NW1 7PG: to celebrate Billie Holiday’s birthday, Riketté Genesis and Alex Webb present ‘Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall
Wednesday 9 April – The Concorde Club, Stoneham Lane, Eastleigh S)50 9HQ: The Pocket Ellington, a seven-piece celebration of the Ellington repertoire play this prestigious out-of-town jazz spot with Alan Barnes and Tony Kofi
Saturday 12th April – Iain Ballamy and Huw Warren are at Listen! Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Saturday 19 April – The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln LN1 3BU. host Clark Tracey’s Champions of Jazz (Clark Tracey, Drums, Art Themen & Simon Allen, saxes. Dave Newton, piano, Andy Cleyndert, bass) in a tribute to Roy Haynes
Sunday 20 April 2025 – Pete Hurt is at Turk’s Head Twickenham
Friday 25 April – Hans Koller: Rejoicing Ensemble feat. John O’Gallagher are at World Heart Beat
2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.
Thursday 6 February – Tomorrow’s New Quartet featuring Ben van Gelder are at SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Thursday 6 February – Julie Sassoon is streaming from Porgy and Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Friday 7 February – Jacky Terrasson Trio are streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 10 February 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Monday 10 February – Bobo Stenson Trio are streaming from Porgy and Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming
Thursday 20 February – Rosie Frater-Taylor is at SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Friday 21 February 7.30 pm – Mim Grey (vocals) Elliott Rooney (piano) Steve Vintner (percussion) stream from Perivale – https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-001.shtml
Thursday 6 March – John Law’s Congregation are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Thursday 20 March –Echo Engine with Theo Travis are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
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
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
Explore the World of Jazz with Al Giddings on White Horse Radio every Tuesday evening at 9pm, with classic tracks, unexpected gems and jazz you didn’t know you liked until you heard it. www.whitehorseradio.net
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
July 26 -29 GMF Valencia Jazz Workshop https://www.gmfjazzsummit.com/gmf-valencia-jazz-workshop-2025-eng
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