Our weekly companion to the Wednesday Breakfast Headlines email newsletter
The Mayor of London is making positive moves on night-time opening: “Mayor could overturn council bans on late venues” says the BBC (photo PXhere/creative commons) – read more
Stephen Graham has given 5 stars to the new Joe Lovano/ Marcin Wasilewski album on ECM – read more
Jazziz previews the Kenny Barron residency at SFJazz – read more
“Moments of blazing spirit produce a kind of joy that’s totally of the here and now, vivifying as well as healing.” – it’s worth reading to the end of Mark Kidel’s so-so 3* review of Kenny Garrett – read more
Players in over 20 orchestras across the UK, alongside the Musicians’ Union, have signed an open letter to call upon the Government to urgently address the lack of streaming royalties for musicians – read more
Dave Sumner’s monthly choices for Bandcamp include Sun Mi-Hong, Rachel Therrien and Nicole McCabe – read more
Richard Williams of the Blue Moment writes about new albums by Ambrose Akinmusire, Billy Hart, Yazz Ahmed, Nels Cline, and Vilhelm Bromander’s Unfolding Orchestra – read more
Michael Tucker reviewed Eliane Elias’s trio at Ronnie Scott’s – read more
Saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s recent performance at Cardiff University received a 5-star review from Huw Baines in the Guardian – read more
…also in the Guardian, Chaka Khan is interviewed by Stevie Chick – read more
…and Joe Lovano’s latest release on ECM Homage is John Fordham’s ‘Jazz Album of the Month’ – read more
Ammar Kalia reviewed Chet Baker Re:imagined (Blue Note, features 15 performers including Dodie, Mxmtoon and Ezra Collective’s Ife Ogunjobi) in the Observer – read more
A Young(ish) Perspective reviewed the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s 21 Spices with percussion legend Trilok Gurtu – read more
Ethan Iverson is thinking about who deserves the honour of being inducted into the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame – read more / his votes are HERE
Wednesday 9 April – Iain Ballamy and Gareth Williams are at the Vortex
Wednesday 9 April – Ralph Moore is at the 606 Club with Deschanel Gordon (piano), Simon Woolf (bass) and drummer Shane Forbes – 8pm
Wednesday 9 April – The Concorde Club, Stoneham Lane, Eastleigh S50 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
Thursday 10 April – Alice Leggett is at the Vortex
Thursday 10 April – The Cosimo Matassa Project: Dynamic mix of jazz & ‘old skool’ R&B featuring David Price, vcls & d bass, Al ‘Dente’ Dunn, keys, Dave Priseman tmpt, Damian Hand, sax & David Boet, drms over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 10 April – Lester Brown on trumpet with Mark Aston on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES.
Thursday 10 April – Benet McLean Quintet are at the 606 Club, 8pm
Thursday 10 April – Pete Kelly & Jules Cowie are at Ristorante Sorrento, 34 Heath Road, Twickenham TW1 4BZ from 7:00
Thursday 10 April – Remi Harris Hot Club Trio are at Crazy Coqs
Thursday 10 April- Brandon Allen is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Thursday 10 April – Mark Bassey is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 10 April – Kaiyo 3 are with Denys Baptiste at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 10 April – Tom Ollendorff’s ‘Open House’ is at Hidden Rooms, 7b Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA
Thursday 10 April – Polly Gibbons with Tim Lapthorn (keys), Tim Dawes (bass) and Dave Ohm (drums) at Eltham Jazz Club, Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, SE9 2PE
Friday 11 April – Same Moon – Ant Law , Alex Hitchcock , Niklas Lukassen and Ananda Brandão are at the Vortex
Friday 11 April – Daniel John Martin (violin), Mick Shoulder (guitar) and Dan Lowndes-Smith (guitar) are performing Gypsy jazz for Burrough Jazz at St Mary’s Church, Burrough, LE14 2JQ
Friday 11 April – Nette Robinson Quartet: Chet Baker Project are at Jazz Cafe POSK, 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 11th April – Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’ are at Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec, 140 Newington Butts, Kennington, London SE11 4RN:
Friday 11 April – Micah Thomas is at Ladbroke Hall
Friday 11 April – Gwyn Jay Allen Trio is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Friday 11 April – Rod Youngs Quartet feat. Denys Baptiste are at Guildford Jazz
Saturday 12 April – Calum Gourlay Quintet are at the Vortex
Saturday 12 April – Elaine Delmar is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Saturday 12 April – NICOLAS MASSON + ROB LUFT + VALENTIN LIECHTI are at Jazz Cafe POSK, 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 12 April – Nicolas Meier & Alex Hutton duo are at The Mowlem Theatre, Swanage
Saturday 12 April – Iain Ballamy and Huw Warren are at Listen! Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Saturday 12 April – Louise Clare Marshall is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Sunday 13 April – Lunchtime at the Oval Tavern, Croydon – Gary Willcox Quartet with Riley Stone-Lonergan (sax) and Tim Lapthorn (piano)
Sunday 13 April 5 – 8 pm – Tim Whitehead is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ
Sunday 13 April – 6.30 pm – Ralph Moore on tour from the USA, with Vasilis Xenopoulos and Simon Woolf Trio at Imber Court, KT8 0BT
Sunday 13 April – 3pm – The Urban Big Band is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Sunday 13 April – Misha Mullov-Abbado Sextet are at Off the Rails, Richmond TW9 2NQ
Monday 14 April – Simeon May Quartet are at the Bull and Gate 389 Kentish Town Rd
Monday 14 April – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Roger Beaujolais (vibraphone) with the Neal Richardson Trio feat. Alison Rayner (bass) and Sophie Alloway (drums) at The View at Seaford Head Golf Club BN25 4JS
Tuesday 15 April – The 606 Club has Interphase (pianist Tomasz Zyrmont & saxophonist Sean Khan) – 8pm
Tuesday 15 April – Andy Urquhart Quartet are at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 15 April – Scott Hamilton & Nat Steele Play the Music of John Lewis & MJQ – album launch at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 15 April – ‘Piaf Remembered’at Crazy Coqs, Zedel 20 Sherwood Street W1F 7ED – 9.15pm
Tuesday 15 April – The Niklas Lukassen Quartet is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone featuring Emma Rawicz, Ivo Neame and James Maddren
Tuesday 15 April – Noga Ritter is at the Vortex
Wednesday 16 April – Album Launch ‘For Stuff’ by Matt Holborn Quartet at the 606 Club with Fraser Urquhart (piano), Simon Read (bass) and Joe Dessauer (drums) – 8pm
Wednesday 16 April – Carshalton Jazz presents young vocalist Olivia Cure and her Quartet performing the music of Duke Ellington and interpretations of pop and rock classics. Cryer Arts, Carshalton SM5 3BB
Wednesday 16 April – Queer Jazz at the Vortex present Knobil
Wednesday 16 April – Matt Holborn Quartet are at the 606
Wednesday 16 April – Donovan Haffner is at Pizza Express Soho
Thursday 17 April – Jay Davis’ BadTrad have an album launch at the Vortex
Thursday 17 April – Gareth Williams Trio with Calum Gourlay (bass) and Dave Ohm (drums) at Eltham Jazz Club, Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, SE9 2PE
Thursday 17 April – The Fallen Heroes ‘Easter Parade Special’: A celebration of songs from the iconic film performed in the unique Heroes style together with a mix of swinging New Orleans influenced jazz and blues over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 17 April – Singer Noel McCalla’s ‘In Good Hands’ is at the 606 Club – 8pm
Thursday 17 April – Free Flow Classikal with Jihad Darwish , Moses Boyd and Magnus Mehta are at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 17 April – Simon Allen is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 17 April- Duncan Lamont on reeds with Mike Innes on trombone are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 17th April – Cover to Cover presents Chet Baker Plays and Sings with Dolan Jones , Jamie O’Donnell , Alcyona Mic , Dave Manington and Tristan Maillot at Mildmay Club Main Hall N16 9PR
Friday 18 April – Emma Rawicz String Quartet with Elliott Galvin are at the Vortex
Friday 18 April – Fraser Smith is at Ladbroke Hall
Friday 18 April – Little Black Book (Robert Mitchell Trio) are at the SoundCellar in Poole
Friday 18 April – Ruby Robinson is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Saturday 19 April – Hannes Riepler Quartet are at the Vortex
Saturday 19 April – The Pasadena Roof Orchestra, The Kings Hall, Herne Bay, Kent 7pm
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
Saturday 19 April – Joe Webb’s 5 a side are at the 606
Sunday 20 April – The Oval Tavern, Croydon has the Adrian Reid Quartet with Tony Kofi, Larry Bartley & Rod Youngs – lunchtime
Sunday 20 April – the 606 have Zoe Francis lunchtime and Liane Carroll in the evening
Sunday 20 April – The Vortex have Mopomoso in the afternoon , a jam in the evening
Sunday 20 April – Pete Hurt is at Turk’s Head Twickenham
Monday 21 April – Edouard Monnier Quartet are at the Bull and Gate 389 Kentish Town Rd
Monday 21 April – Frank Griffith Trio are at The Crown Pub, High Street, Nantwich part of Nantwich Jazz and Blues Festival (6-8pm)
Tuesday 22 April – The Jon Lloyd Quartet featuring John Law is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 22 April – Mark Bassey Trio are at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 22 April – James Allsopp Quartet plays Stan Getz at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, W1
Wednesday 23 April – The Day After with Pat Thomas ; piano, Gary Willcox ; drums, Olie Brice ; double bass are at the Vortex
Thursday 24 April – WestSideJazz & Friends: Mellow Swing Jazz, Blues & Latin from Richard Cook, vcls, Marcus James, pno & Jamie Royan, bass together with some special guests from the Jazz Mondays over at the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Thursday 24 April – Geoff Mason Quartet are at Karamel 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 24 -Vocal Nights – Atila Huseyin at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, W1
Thursday 24 April – Nigel Price is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 24 April – Fiona Monbet Jazz Quartet are at the French Institute
Thursday 24 April- 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
Friday 25 April – Emma Smith is at Ladbroke Hall
Friday 25 April – Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent are at Crookes Social Club Sheffield
Friday 25 April – Hans Koller: Rejoicing Ensemble feat. John O’Gallagher are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD.
Saturday 26 April – Sarah L King Quartet plus guests at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho (1pm)
Saturday 26 April – Esther Bennett with Wendy Kirkland & Pat Sprakes at The Blue Room, The Lawn, Union Rd, Lincoln LN1 3BU, UK
Saturday 26 April – The Groove Warriors: Vibrant mix of Jazz Fusion & soul feat Talia Jansen, vcls, Volker Jansson, keys, Mark Buckingham, sax, Paul Stead, gtr, Tom Gilchrist, bass & Theo Buckingham, drms over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Sunday 27 April – Tristan Mailliot Quartet featuring Tom Ridout are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime
Sunday 27 April 5 – 8 pm – Tim Whitehead is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ
Sunday 27 April – Shireen Frances Quartet, Jazz at the Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable,Kent 5-7pm
Sunday 27 April – Aaron Liddard Nylon Man are at Yalm Food Court, 23-24 Royal Arcade, Castle Street, Norwich NR2 1NQ
Sunday 27 April – Jazz On The Plaza feat. George Johnson on saxophone, Terence Collie on piano & Marianne Windham on bass. Cafe Yukari, Kew.
Monday 27 April – Tom Smith Quartet are at the Bull and Gate 389 Kentish Town Rd
Monday, 28 April – Manchester’s nu-jazz fusion outfit NONUNONU play NQ Jazz, Container 121, 15 Pollard St E Manchester, M40 7QX
Monday 28 April – Tobie Medland Gypsy Jazz Quartet is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in Piccadilly
Monday 28 April – Knats, George Johnson + more TBA are at Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre
Tuesday 29 April – Jasper Hoiby’s 3Elements are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 29 April – The Finn Genockey International Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 29 April – Julian Nicholas Quartet are at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 29 April – Vasilis Xenopoulos: Soul Station and Beyond – The Legacy of Hank Mobley at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, W1
Wednesday 30 April – It Takes Two: Lulu Pierre and Marvin Muoneke revisit the great jazz duets at Soul Mama, the Gantry Hotel, 40 Celebration Ave, East Village, Stratford, London, E20 1DB
Thursday 1 May – Richard Exall tenor sax and vocals, John Cranford piano, Mark Adams bass, Nick Millward drums are at Spine’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 1 May -Vocal Nights – Charlie Pyne sings Peggy Lee at Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, W1
Friday 2 May – Jazz in The Gardens: Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley – The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim & Wayne Shorter, Plus Special Guests is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3, Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 3 May – Dave Jones’ Nonet: Classic jazz Nonet featuring some of the UK’s finest jazz musicians combining big band swing, Latin jazz and contemporary European textures over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Sunday 4 May – Renato D’Aiello Quartet are at the Oval Tavern, Croydon at lunchtime
Sunday 4 May – Equinox Jazz Quartet MAP 2 PM Studio Cafe Kentish Town NW5 3DU
Sunday 4 May – Melbury Music play the Sunday Lunchtime Session. Double bill featuring top jazz vocalists Isabel Saunders and Delia Antoine along with Paul Southern, d bass, Martin Bazley, pno and Andrea Serafino, drms over in the Jazz Room at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Monday 5 May – Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories’ – Pizza Express, Dean Street, Soho London W1
Tuesday 6 May – Jonathan Gee Quartet ft Denys Baptiste is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone
Tuesday 6 May – Billy Marrows’ Grand Familia are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 6 May – Tough Tenors, Brandon Allen and Alex Garnett, organ tba, Dave Ingamells, drums are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Thurday 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
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.
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
Sunday 11 May – Nette Robinson is at Turk’s Head Twickenham
Sunday 11 May – The Pocket Ellington feat. Alan Barnes & Tony Kofi are at Pizza Express, Dean Street, Soho London W1
Monday 12 May – Billy Marrows is at NQ Jazz, Container 121, 15 Pollard St E Manchester, M40 7QX
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
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 – Clark Tracey’s Champions of Jazz at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester. PO19 1SY
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
Sunday 18 May – Deirdre Cartwright, Jazz at the Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, Kent 5-7pm
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 4T
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
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 – 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
Saturday 24 May – Joanna Eden Quartet are at The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln LN1 3BU
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 – Empirical play NQ Jazz, Container 121, 15 Pollard St E Manchester, M40 7QX
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
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
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 29 June – Gary Willcox is at the Turk’s Head Twickenham
Sunday 27 July – Tim Whitehead is at the Turk’s Head Twickenham
Wednesday 2nd April – Ivo Neame Trio are streaming from the SoundCellar in Poole www.soundcellar.org
Friday 4 April – Walter Smith is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 7 April 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Friday 18 April – Little Black Book (Robert Mitchell Trio) are streaming from the SoundCellar in Poole www.soundcellar.org
Monday 28 April – Nonunono are streaming from NQ Jazz Manchester – https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on
Monday 12 May – Billy Marrows Grande Familia are streaming from NQ Jazz Manchester – https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on
Monday 26 May – Empirical are streaming from NQ Jazz Manchester – https://www.nqjazz.co.uk/whats-on
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
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
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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