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7 May 2025

Read Elsewhere

Ina Dittke is co-producing a major James Moody at 100 celebration in NYC on 27 May – read more

Billy Cobham is interviewed by Garth Cartwright in the Guardian – read more

…also in the Guardian, Sun-Mi Hong’s Fourth Page is John Fordham’s ‘jazz album of the month’ (also mentioned are albums from Georgia Mancio/Alan Broadbent, Raph Clarkson/Chris Williams/Riaan Vosloo & Satoko Fujii) – read more

…and vocalist Barbara Underwood is remembered by her husband, Simeon – read more

Champian Fulton writes about memories of Clark Terry from LeMars, Iowa, where her father directed the Clark Terry Institute of Jazz Studies – read more

“Chet Baker’s music lives on”, writes John Bungey in a feature for The Times (£-wall) ahead of the Blue Note release of “Chet Baker Re:imagined” – read more

The Pulitzer Prize for music goes to Susie Ibarra, former member of the David S Ware Quartet alongside William Parker and Matthew Shipp – read more

Lance Liddle at Bebop Spoken Here reviewed guitarist Louis Stewart’s I Thought About You with Sam Jones, Billy Higgins and John Taylor – read more

Sebastian reviewed Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent’s A Story Left Untold album launch at Pizza Express for theartsdesk – read more

…and Tony Coe – ‘The Buds of Time’, rec. 1980, also for theartsdesk – read more

Hilary Seabrook reviewed Scottish saxophonist Phil Bancroft’s solo album, Testimony – read more

The belated premiere at the New School of Carla Bley’s 1971 album Escalator Over the Hill is reported on in the New York Times – read more

Interesting thread on X/Twitter: “Did Charlie Parker ever play on a minor blues?”, asks Ethan Iverson – read more

Help this Natalie Williams Soul Fam video  from 2014 go up through 8 million views – watch

Days and Weeks Ahead

Wednesday 7 May – Vasilis Xenopoulos and Paul Edis Quartet are at the Vortex

Wednesday 7 May – David Gordon Trio are at the 606

Wednesday 7th May- Robert Meadmore and Jamie Safir are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Thursday 8 May- George Webster and Suzanne Noble are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Thursday 8 May- Francesca Confortini Quintet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Thursday 8 May – Lester Brown on trumpet with Duncan Lamont on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 8 May – Lior Solomon-Wise Quartet are at the Karamel 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ

Thursday 8 May – Filomena Campus is at the Vortex

Thursday 8 May – At the 606 **Album Launch** Imogen Ryall/Chris Coull 4tet: ‘On The Roof’ (the music of Tom Harrell)

Thursday 8 May – Matt Wates alto sax, Leon Greening piano, Adam King bass, Matt Skelton drums are at Spine’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 8 May – Pete Kelly & Jules Cowie are at Ristorante Sorrento, 34 Heath Rd, Twickenham, TW1 4BZ

Thursday 8 May – Nel Begley s is at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, W1

Thursday 8 May – Julian Joseph: Unfolding Space at Heart Beat, Embassy Gardens

Thursday 8 May – Diz & The Doormen: The legendary swing & boogie pianist & R&B vocalist Diz ‘Honeybear’ Watson and his 6-piece band celebrate the release of his new album, ‘Diz-Connected’ feat Diz, keys & vcls, Jo’ Buddy, gtr, Matt Radford, bass, Jonno Lee, drms & the two Nicks, Payn & Pentelow on horns over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Friday 9 May – Motet & The Joe Garland Band – Jazz Funk Double Bill are at Guildford Jazz

Friday 9 May – US saxophonist David Binney is at the Vortex

Friday 9 May – Misha Mullov-Abbado Group are at Crookes Social Club Sheffield

Friday 9 May – Jazz in The Gardens: Artie Zaitz Quartet is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3, Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD

Friday 9th May- Polly Gibbons and James Pearson are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Friday 9 May – Royal College of Music Jazz Orchestra are at Jazz Cafe Posk, Hammersmith

Saturday 10 May – Clark Tracey Quartet: Tribute to Stan Tracey are at Jazz Cafe Posk, Hammersmith

Saturday 10 May – Ray Gelato and Hannah Horton will perform live at Swinging Cat Jazz Club, Haverhill Arts Centre

Saturday 10 May – Pete Horsfall is at the 606

Saturday 10th May- John Etheridge and Vimala Rowe are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Saturday 10 May – Ezo Sarici’s Trio Kamen present the story of the violin at National Jazz Archive at Loughton Baptist Church 92 HIGH ROAD, LOUGHTON, IG10 4QU

Saturday 10 May – Héloise Werner (voice) & Colin Alexander (cello) are at Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW

Saturday 10 May -Tony Kofi Tentet play Monk at the Vortex plus a late with James Allsopp

Saturday 10 May – Rosie Frater-Taylor is at the Mowlem Theatre Swanage

Saturday 10 May at Watford Palace Theatre, Watford Jazz Junction Festival starts with Vanessa Haynes presenting an Aretha Franklin Queen of Soul programme

Sunday 11 May – P+P+S+S (Pete Cater, Pete Whittaker, Sam Dunn & Sam Mayne) are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime

Sunday 11 May 5-8 – Jam session with Andy Davies will be performing at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ

Sunday 11th May- The Billie Holiday Story are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Sunday 11th May-Henry Patterson is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Sunday 11 May 6.30 pm Five-Way Split (Quentin Collins, Vasilis Xenopoulos, Rob Barron, Matyas Hofecker, Matt Home) at Imber Court KT8 0BT. £20

Sunday 11 May – Nette Robinson is at Turk’s Head Twickenham

Sunday 11 May – Adam Glasser Quartet at Off the Rails, Richmond TW9 2NQ, feat. Ant Law, Steve Watts, Corrie Dick

Sunday 11 May – The Pocket Ellington feat. Alan Barnes & Tony Kofi are at Pizza Express, Dean Street, Soho London W1

Monday 12 May – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Sue Richardson (tpt/vox) Quartet with Neal Richardson (pno/vox), Andy Hamill (bass) and Sam Glasson (drums) at The View at Seaford Head Golf Club BN25 4JS

Monday 12 May- Olly Chalk Trio are at the Bull and Gate 389 Kentish Town Rd

Monday 12 May – Pizza Express – Dean St, Dave Manington’s Riff Raff’s will launch their third album “Weightless”

Monday 12 May – Paul Stacey is at the 606

Monday 12 May – Billy Marrows is at NQ Jazz, Container 121, 15 Pollard St E Manchester, M40 7QX

Tuesday 13 May – Nigel Price Trio at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 13 May – Petra Haller is at the Vortex

Tuesday 13 May – Steve Fishwick: Quiet Fire – Celebrating Kenny Dorham is at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, W1

Tuesday 13 May – Dan Reinstein is at the 606

Tuesday 13 May – Tim Whitehead’s Personal Standards Quartet is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone

Tuesday 13 May – Matt Wates alto sax, Leon Greening piano, Julian Bury bass, Matt Fishwick drums are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Wednesday 14th May – Carshalton Jazz presents the Alan Barnes Quartet, with Dave Newton, pno, Andrew Cleyndert, b, Alphonso Vitale, d, at CryerArts, Carshalton SM 5 3BB

Wednesday 14 May – Andy Baker + Mark Lockheart Quintet are at Guildford Jazz

Wednesday 14 May – Queer Jazz at the Vortex

Wednesday 14 May at Watford Pump House Theatre Gwilym Simcock and Tim Garland are part of the Watford Jazz Junction Festival

Wednesday 14 May – Janette Mason, Pizza Express Dean St, ReWired album launch

Thursday 15 May – Niklas Lukassen ft. Gwilym Simcock; James Maddren – a unique new Trio project ft. German bassist Lukassen on bass cello along with two of the UK’s premier jazz artists are at the 606

Thursday 15 May Mark Kavuma is at Watford Pump House Theatre  as part of the Watford Jazz Junction Festival

Thursday 15 May- Frank Walden on sax with Ollie Weston on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 15 May – Rachael Calladine Quartet are at the SoundCellar in Poole

Thursday 15 May – Kaiyo 3 + Iain Ballamy are at the Karamel 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ

Thursday 15 May – Riley Stone-Lonergan / George Crowley Quartet are at the Vortex

Thursday 15 May – Vocal Nights – James Hudson is at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, W1

Thursday 15 May – Oh La La French Jazz Quintet: Swing jazz, Chanson & more feat Fifi La Mer, vcls & accordion, Alex Garnett, sax, Ollie Wilby, clarinet, Simon Picton, gtr & Julian Bury, d bass over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Friday 16 May – Jazz in The Gardens: Yolanda Charles’ Project PH Album Launch is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3, Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD.

Friday 16 May – Big Mamas Door: Highly distinctive mix of jazz, blues and soul feat vocalist Fiona McElroy, guitarist Andy Knight, pianist Stephen Walsh and drummer Brad Shaw over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13

Friday 16 May – Julian Siegel Quartet are at the Vortex plus a late with Matt Hurley

Friday 16 May – Ivo Neame Trio are at Crookes Social Club Sheffield

Friday 16th May Barb Jungr is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Friday 16 May – Clark Tracey’s Champions of Jazz at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester. PO19 1SY

Irene Serra. Photo credit: Karolina Amberville

Friday 16 May – Irene Serra’s ISQ are at Jazz Cafe Posk, Hammersmith

Saturday 17 May – Alcyona Mick Trio are at Jazz Cafe Posk, Hammersmith

Saturday 17 May – Reis Ellis Beckles is at the Vortex

Saturday 17 May – Jazz Triple Bill: Tom Sheen Quintet, E.T.C and Sula is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3, Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD

Saturday 17th May Adrien Brandeis is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Saturday 17th May Jo Harrop is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Sunday 18 May – Clare Hirst (sax) and Claude Deppa (tp) are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime

Sunday 18 May Neville Dickie is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Sun 18 May 1:30pm – Sarah L King Quartet at 606 Club, Chelsea.

Sunday 18 May – Deirdre Cartwright, Jazz at the Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, Kent 5-7pm

Monday 19 May- Rick Simpson’s Future Myth Project are at the Bull and Gate 389 Kentish Town Rd

Tuesday 20 May – Joan Fort Trio featuring Vincent Herring. are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Tuesday 20 May – Elaine Delmar, John Pearce piano, Simon Thorpe bass, Bobby Worth drums are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Tuesday 20 May – Clark Tracey’s Jazz Champions with Art Themen , Simon Allen , Dave Newton and Andy Cleyndert are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone

Tuesday 20 May – Chris Coull Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 20 May – Riley Stone-Lonergan: The Cool Sound of Lester Young is at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, W1

Wednesday 21 May – Donovan Haffner – up and coming young jazz saxophonist Donovan & his Quintet play music from his debut album, “Alleviate” at the 606

Thursday 22 May – Vasilis Xenopoulos Quartet is at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 22 May Mario Bakuna and Roberto Manzin are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Thursday 22 May – Sultan Stevenson Trio are at Hidden Rooms, 7b Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA

Thursday 22 May – Heidi Vogel is at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, W1

Thursday 22 May – Aet Themen / Henry Lowther Quintet are at the Karamel 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ

Thursday 22 May – RTP (The Roberts/Taylor Project): Atmospheric crossover jazz and soul blues combo feat Any Roberts, vcls & keys, Jon T- Bone Tayor, gtr, Rob Statham, bass & Ed Spevock, drms over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, SW13

Friday 23 May – the Guildhall Jazz Orchestra celebrates the music of pianist and composer Nikki Iles, including music from her latest album ‘Face to Face’, at Milton Court Concert Hall – 7.30pm

Friday 23 May – The Art Themen Organ Quartet feat Art, tenor sax, organist Pete Whittaker and drummer Sebastiaan de Krom together with guitarist and vocalist Denny Ilett the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13

Friday 23 May – Tango and Argentine folklore: Federico D`Attellis and Ana-Josefina Nickelé is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3, Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD

Friday 23 May – Jakub Cywinski Quartet with Monika Lidke are at Jazz Cafe Posk, Hammersmith

Saturday 24 May – Coltrane and Hartman on Impulse! feat. Denys Baptiste and Marvin Muoneké are at Jazz Cafe Posk, Hammersmith

Saturday 24 May – Joanna Eden Quartet are at The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln LN1 3BU

Sunday 25 May – Will Barry Quartet featuring Alex Harper (sax) are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime

Sunday 25 May 5-8 – Jam session with Nigel Price will be performing at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ

Sunday 25 May – Jazz On The Plaza – Dominic Ashworth on guitar & Terence Collie on piano. Cafe Yukari, Kew.

Sunday 25 May – Mo Pleasure Band – perhaps best known as the Music Director for Earth Wind & Fire, multi-instrumentalist Mo has also worked with Ray Charles, George Duke, Natalie Cole, Dianne Reeves, Michael McDonald, Roberta Flack & many other legends is at the 606

Sunday 25 May – Luciana Souza and Trio Corrente – Cometa is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3, Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD

Monday 26 May – Dave Barry’s Fourcast featuring Dave O’Higgins are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime

Monday 26 May – Empirical play NQ Jazz, Container 121, 15 Pollard St E Manchester, M40 7QX

Monday 26 May- Andrea Rinciari Quartet are at the Bull and Gate 389 Kentish Town Rd

Monday 26 May – Jackson Mathod + Joe Herbert at the Jazz in the Round , Cockpit Theatre

Tuesday 27 May – The Simon Spillett Quartet is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone

Tuesday 27 May – Gabriel Latchin Trio plays Gershwin are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Tuesday 27 May – Celebrating Cedar Walton with the Rob Barron Quartet is at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, W1

Tuesday 27 May – Robbie Robson Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.

Wednesday 28 May – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Freddie Gavita (tpt) Quartet with Mark Edwards (pno), Oz Dechaine (bass) and Mez Clough (drums) at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA Re-creating the sounds of US trumpet legend Freddie Hubbard

Thursday 29 May – Klara Devlin is at the Karamel 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ

Thursday 29 May – Acrobat are at the SoundCellar in Poole

Thursday 29 May – Nicolas Meier Wordl Group are at Guildford Jazz

Thursday 29 May – Vocal Nights – Louise Balkwill is at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, W1

Thursday 29 May – Andrew McCormack and Noemi Nuti Duo are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Thursday 29 May – Julieta Iglesias and Julian Rowlands are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Thursday 29 May – Katie Bradley & John Harriman are at The Middle House, Mayfield TN20 6AB nr Tunbridge Wells

Thursday 29 May – At the 606 **Album Launch** Sandra-Mae Lux – Canadian-born award-winning songwriter, vocalist and saxophonist Sandra plays songs from her new album “Seasons in Jazz”

Friday 30th May Randolph Matthews and Cleveland Watkiss are at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly

Friday 30 May – – Regen Sound are at Poplar Union

Friday 30 May – Jazz in the Gardens: Jean Toussaint + Emile Hinton Trio (opening) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3, Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD

Friday 30 May – Way Out West presents: The Music of Keith Jarrett are at Jazz Cafe Posk, Hammersmith

Saturday 31 May – Finn Genockey International Quartet are at Jazz Cafe Posk, Hammersmith

Saturday 31 May – Jo Harrop vocals, John Pearce piano, Matyas Hofecker bass, Matt Home drums are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2. 2pm start

Sunday 1 June – Pete Long Quartet are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime

Sunday 1 June – Equinox Jazz Quartet MAP 2 PM Studio Cafe Kentish Town NW5 3DU

Tuesday 3 June – The John Bennett Big Band is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone

Tuesday 3 June – Ted Beament – piano, Jerome Davies – bass, Rod Brown – drums are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Thursday 5 June – Jo Harrop, vocals, John Pearce piano, Andy Cleyndert bass, Matt Home – drums are at Spine’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Friday 6 June – Vidya & Rob Luft are at Jazz Cafe Posk, Hammersmith

Monday 9 June – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Jo Fooks (sax) and Buster Birch (drums), with Neal Richardson (pno/vox) and Miles Danso (bass) at The View at Seaford Head Golf Club BN25 4JS

Tuesday 10 June – ARQ Alison Rayner Quintet is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone

Tuesday 10 June – Vasilis Xenopoulos – tenor sax, Nigel Price – guitar, Simon Thorpe – bass, Billy Pod – drums are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Wednesday 11 June – Biscoe/Moore/Turner at the Vortex

Thursday 12 June – Jo Fooks – tenor sax, John Pearce – piano, Andy Cleyndert – bass, Bobby Worth drums are at Spine’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Friday 13 June – Ute Lemper is at Cadogan Hall

Saturday 14 June 8pm – The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln LN1 3BU. Fini Bearman/Tom Cawley Quartet.Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Fini Bearman joins Lincoln’s own Tom Cawley. Original songs, unexpected standards and a little magic

Tuesday 17 June – Mick Foster – tenor sax, Dominic Ashworth – guitar, Dave Manington – bass, Tristan Maillot – drums are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Thursday 19 June – Alina Bzhezhinska and Tony Kofi are at Hidden Rooms, 7b Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA

Friday 20 June – Gary Willcox Quartet – Turk’s Head

Saturday 21 June – Celebrating Sammy Davis, Jr. with the 30-piece Down for the Count Swing Orchestra at Cadogan Hall

Sunday 22 June 5.00 pm Surrey County Youth Jazz Orchestra, M.D. John Whelan at Imber Court KT8 0BT. £12

Wednesday 25 June – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have drummer Clark Tracey’s Jazz Champions feat. Art Themen (sax), Simon Allen (sax), Dave Newton (keys) and Andy Cleyndert (bass) at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA

Thursday 26 June – Richard Pite – drums,- Chinara – violin, Gunther Kurmayr – piano, Jerome Davies – bass are at Spine’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Friday 27 June – The Complete Mingus Ah Um – Jazz Cafe Posk, Hammersmith

Friday 27 June – Celebrating Sammy Davis, Jr. with the 30-piece Down for the Count Swing Orchestra at Cambridge – West Road Concert Hall

Saturday 28 June 2pm – Al Nicholls – tenor sax, Paul Eldridge – piano, Sandy Brown – bass, Rod Brown – piano are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2

Sunday 29 June – Gary Willcox is at the Turk’s Head Twickenham

Friday 25 July – Tony Kinsey Memorial Concert – The Exchange -Twickenham

Sunday 27 July – Tim Whitehead is at the Turk’s Head Twickenham

2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.

Thursday 1 May – The Bossa Definitiva Trio with Roger Beaujolais are streaming from the SoundCellar in Poole

Friday 2 May – Something Else! featuring Vincent Herring is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/

Monday 5 May 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams

Saturday 10 May – Rosie Frater-Taylor is streaming from Mowlem Theatre Swanage www.soundcellar.org

Monday 12 May – Billy Marrows Grande Familia are streaming from NQ Jazz Manchester – https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on

Thursday 15 May – Rachael Calladine Quartet are streaming from the SoundCellar in Poole

Monday 26 May – Empirical are streaming from NQ Jazz Manchester – https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on

Thursday 29 May – Acrobat are streaming from the SoundCellar in Poole www.soundcellar.org

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

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

26-29 July – GMF Valencia Jazz Workshop https://www.gmfjazzsummit.com/gmf-valencia-jazz-workshop-2025-eng

14-20 August – GMF Tuscany Jazz Workshop, Certaldo, Italy

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