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Peter Vacher remembered Jimmy Hastings, ” a true gentleman of jazz”, for Jazzwise – read more
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Rob Adams writes about corto.alto’s album Bad With Names being shortlisted in the Scottish Album of the Year award – read more
Hermeto Pascoal will perform for the closing night of WOMEX in Manchester – read more
1) Live gigs – October
Wednesday 9 October – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at Growlers and Cans, Guildford
Wednesday 9 October – Alyn Shipton’s Gerry Mulligan Quartet are at Guildford Jazz
Wednesday 9 October – Freddie Gavita Quartet are at a new venue The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
Wednesday 9 October – Lauren Lucille is at the 606
Wednesday 9 October – Harry Christelis Quartet are at the Vortex
Thursday 10 October – The Vortex have Maria Chiara Argirò and Dolomite with Ruth Goller downstairs Irini Arabatzi upstairs
Thursday 10 October – Dino Baptiste is at Piano Smithfield
Thursday 10 October – Alex Garnett Quartet are at a new venue The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
Thursday 10 October – Ian Bateman is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 10 October – Richard Pite, Chris Parish, Lorenzo Evans, Harry Evans are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 10 October – Lester Brown on trumpet with Frank Walden on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club, at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 10 October – The Fallen Heroes: Swinging New Orleans Jazz & Blues over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4
Friday 11 October – Nayana AB and Friends is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 11 October – The Olivia Murphy Jazz Orchestra are at the Vortex
Friday 11 October – Jazz Samba feat. Mark Crooks & Nigel Price are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 11 October – The Groove Warriors 6-piece jazz-funk outfit play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Friday 11 October – Georgia Mancio, Dave Ohm, Gareth Lockrane & Joe Pettitt are at Trinity School Jazz Club, Croydon, CR0 7LB
Saturday 12 October – Kate Williams Quartet feat. Mike Outram are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 12 October – Hannah Horton Quartet The Blue Room at the Lawn Lincoln LN1 3BU
Saturday 12 October – Dave Jones’ 9-piece Nonet play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Saturday 12 October – Binker Golding is at the 606
Saturday 12 October – Elaine Delmar, Berkhamsted, Civic Centre
Saturday 12 October – Down for the Count are at Cadogan Hall
Saturday 12 October 8.30pm – Benet Mclean Quintet at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London
Saturday 12 October – Vortex have Henry Spencer plus a late with Tom Barford
Sunday 13 October lunchtime – Clare Hirst/Claude Deppa Quintet at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 13 October – Ollie Usiskin Quartet are at The Priory Tavern 250 Belsize road , Kilburn NW6
Sunday 13 October – Hamish Stuart is at the 606
Sunday 13 October – Rob Luft’s Dahab Days Quartet are at SoundCellar in Poole
Monday 14 October – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Julian Marc Stringle with the Neal Richardson Trio
Monday 14 October -Bruno Heinen / Tom Challenger are at the Parakeet on Kentish Town Rd
Monday 14 October – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at The Beaver Inn, Appledore
Tuesday 15 October – The John Horler Trio play Bill Evans at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 15 October – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at Ashburton Arts Centre
Tuesday 15 October – The Music of Shelley Manne – Matt Skelton, James Davison, Mark Crooks, piano and bass tba are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 15 October – Mike Carey’s Big House Band at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 15 October – Iiro Rantala’s HEL Trio are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 15 October – Mood Indigo Events October Piano Series featuring Nikki Iles + bass tbc. 1901 Arts Club, 7 Exton Street, London SE1 8UE..
Tuesday 15 October – Mike Carey’s Big House Band at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Wednesday 16 October – Monkin’ Around (Dave O’Higgins – tenor saxophone, Luke Fowler – double bass & Billy Pod – drums) are at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho (album launch)
Wednesday 16 October – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at The Vortex, London
Wednesday 16 October – World Heart Beat’s Fundraising Jazz Club Supper is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Wednesday 16 October- Stuart Henderson (tpt) and Karen Sharp (sax) bring their ‘Partners in time’ celebration of the great sax+trumpet partnerships in jazz to Carshalton Jazz, at Cryer Arts, High Street, Carshalton
Thursday 17 October – Bill Laurence is at the University of Surrey
Thursday 17 October – Tim Whitehead is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 17 October – 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 17 October – Mike De Souza’s Chrysalis group are at the Vortex
Thursday 17 October – Slowly Rolling Camera is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 18 October – Shez Raja ft Guthrie Govan at 606 Club
Friday 18 October – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) have a Workshop and Gig at Leeds College of Music
October – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at The Vortex, London
Friday 18 October – Dave Smith, Robin Finker & Simon Jermyn are at the Vortexplus a late with Will Glaser
Friday 18 October – The Art Themen Quartet feat Art on tnr sax, John Donaldson on pno, Tim Wells on d bass & Spike Wells on drms play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes SW13
Friday 18 October – Enrico Tomasso & Alex Garnett Quintet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester.
Friday 18 October – Noemi Nuti Quartet are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 19 October – Tom Ollendorf Quartet ft Will Vinson are at the Vortex plus a late with Dee Byrne
Saturday 19 October – Benn Clatworthy is at the 606
Sunday 20 October lunchtime – Nicolas Meier Quartet at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 20 October – Vortex have Mopomoso imn the afternoon , jam in the evening
Sunday 20 October 5pm – Jam Session feat Jim Mullen at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London
Sunday 20 October 5pm adm free – Tim Richards TRIO (Tim Richards – piano, Alex Keen – bass, Daniel Howard – drums) are at MUSIC ROOM LONDON, 116 New Cross Road SE14 5BA
Sunday 20 October – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at 7Arts, Leeds
Sunday 20 October – Ollie Usiskin Quartet are at The Priory Tavern 250 Belsize road , Kilburn NW6
Sunday 20 October 2024 – Nick Mills is at the Turk’s Head Twickenham
Monday 21 October -Josephine Davies is at the Parakeet on Kentish Town Rd
Tuesday 22 October – Smokin at the East Side with Nigel Price and the Leon Greening Trio at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 22 October – Ted Beament Trio with Alec Dankworth, drums tba are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 22 October – Matt Wates Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.
Tuesday 22 October – Equal Spirits are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 22 October – Matt Wates Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 22 October – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at The Flute & Tankard, Cardiff
Tuesday 22 October – Nana Rashid is at Ronnie Scotts
Tuesday 22 October – Harold López-Nussa: Timba a la Americana is at Wigmore Hall
Wednesday 23 October – The Jonny Ford Jazz Orchestra at The Vortex Jazz Club
Wednesday 23 October – Tomorrow’s New Quartet (featuring Deschanel Gordon, Flo Moore, George Crowley and Rod Oughton) are at The Tung Auditorium, Liverpool
Thursday 24 October – Dave Black, Alice Black, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Dave Tandy are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 24 October- Lester Brown on trumpet with Frank Walden on sax are at the Hedsor Jazz Club, Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 24 October – Zena James’ Jazz Groove Quartet play the Jazz Room over at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13
Thursday 24 – 26 October – John Butcher celebrates his 70th birthday with 3 nights at Cafe Oto with Sophie Agnel , Rhodri Davies , Gino Robair , Angharad Davies, Sophie Agnel , Mark Sanders , Isabelle Duthois, Pat Thomas & Ståle Liavik Solberg
Friday 25 October – Electric harpist fronted The Harper Trio are at SoundCellar in Poole
Friday 25 October – Marta Carillon Quintet: Broadway Jazz Night – A Tribute to The Greats! are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 25 October – Ilario Ferrari Trio – Above The Clouds is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD.
Friday 25 October – Perfect Stranger are at Progress Theatre , The Mount, Christchurch Road, Reading, RG1 5HL
Saturday 26 October 2.30 – Art Themen is at Loughton Methodist Church 260 High Road, Loughton, Essex IG10 1RB
Saturday 26 October – Denys Baptiste is with singer Marvin Muoneke at the Vortex
Saturday 26 October 2pm – Vasilis Xenopoulos, Paul Edis, Simon Thorpe, Billy Pod are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 26 October – Vasilis Xenopoulos/Paul Edis: Feels Like Home are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 26 October – Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio are at RWCMD , Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff
Sunday 27 October lunchtime – Vasilis Xenopoulos Quintet at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 27 October, 5-7pm – Jazz at the Horsebridge, Whitstable have Louise Cookman Quartet
Sunday 27 October – Jazz On The Plaza feat. Dave O’Higgins with Terence Collie & Esther Ng. Café Yukari, Kew
Sunday 27 October – Ollie Usiskin Quartet are at The Priory Tavern 250 Belsize road , Kilburn NW6
Sunday 27 October – Elaine Delmar, Sevenoaks, Ship Theatre
Monday 28 October – Rik van der Made Group is at the Parakeet on Kentish Town Rd
Monday 28 October – 137 | Iain Ballamy | Mali Sheard’s Homestead are at Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre
Tuesday 29 October – Bruno Heinen Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 29 October – Andy Urquhart Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 29 October – Elaine Delmar is launching an album at Pizza Express Soho
Tuesday 29 October – Joe Locke, Ronnie Scott’s
Tuesday 29 October – Andy Urquhart Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 29 October – Solo concert by Nitai Hershkovits at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Wednesday 30 October – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Hoagy! – The Chris Ingham Quartet
Wednesday 30 October – Joe Locke is at Zeffirellies in Ambleside
Thursday 31 October – Threeway (Steve Waterman, Steve Lodder & Ben Crosland) are at Davenham Jazz, Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich , Cheshire
Thursday 31 October- Mark Aston on reeds with Alex Corlett on guitar are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Thursday 31 October to Sunday 3 November – JazzFest Berlin
Live gigs – November
Friday 1 November – Chris Batchelor Quintet: REMEMBERING TOMASZ STAŃKO at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 2 November – Irene Serra & Luca Boscagin Quartet: THE GREAT BRITISH SONGBOOK at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 2 November – Threeway Steve Waterman , Steve Lodder and Ben Crosland are at St Gabriel’s Church Aldersbrook, London, E12 5HH
Saturday 2 November – WOW Presents Neil Hamilton Jazz Day RHACC, Richmond
Sunday 3 November lunchtime – Adrian Reid Quartet featuring Tony Kofi at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 3 November – Equinox Jazz Quartet are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town
Sunday 3 November – Riverside Arts Jazz – Celebrating Roy Hargrove with Simon Allen, Paul Jordanous, Terence Collie, Paul Michael and Joel Prime. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury
Tuesday 5 November – Trish Clowes is at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 5 November – Derek Nash Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 5 November – Mingus Sings! Celebrating Charles Mingus with Sara Oschlag & Arnie Somogyi are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Thursday 7 November – Matt Skelton Quintet play the music of Shelly Manne are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 7 November- Peter Rudeforth on trumpet with Mark Aston on reeds are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES
Friday 8 November – Mátyás Gayer Trio at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester.
Friday 8 November – The Nat Steele Trio, featuring Nat Steele (Vibraphone), Sean Fyfe (Piano) and Simon Read (Double Bass), are appearing for Burrough Jazz at Twyford Village Hall, LE14 2HU
Friday 8 November – Emily Saunders: Moon Shifts Oceans is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 8 November – Judith Nijland Quartet: A Jazz Tribute to ABBA at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 9 November – Saturday 9th November – The Big Colors Big Band feat. Brandon Allen, Mark Armstrong & Jakub Klimiuk: PLAY THE MID-CENTURY COOL MUSIC OF MILES DAVIS, CHARLES MINGUS, JOHN COLTRANE AND MORE.. at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 9 November – John Butcher (saxophones), Mark Sanders (percussion) & Philipp Wachsmann (violin & electronics) are at Listen! Unitarian Hall, Victoria Street, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Sunday 10 November 5pm adm free – Tim Richards TRIO (Tim Richards – piano, Alex Keen – bass, Daniel Howard – drums) are at MUSIC ROOM LONDON, 116 New Cross Road SE14 5BA
Monday 11 November – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Jane Tuff (sax) with the Neal Richardson Trio
Tuesday 12 November – Pete Roth Trio featuring Bill Bruford are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 12 November – Mick Foster Quartet + Students are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 12 November – Robert Mitchell’s Epiphany3 are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Wednesday 13 November – The Gordon Wellard Septet play Art Blakey at the The Electric Theatre , Onslow St , Guildford
Thursday 14 November – Greg Abate Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 15 November – Secret Night Gang is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Friday 15 November – Jakub Klimiuk Quintet (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 16 November – Georgia Mancio Quartet (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 16 November – Orlando Le Fleming & Romantic Funk + Asa Martinson (opening) (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Sunday 17 November – Below the Bassline: Celebrating the music of Ernest Ranglin (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Sunday 17 November – Zara McFarlane Celebrates Sarah Vaughan at the Jazz Cafe
Monday 18 November – Cameron Scott Jazz Orchestra (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Tuesday 19 November – Olie Brice , George Crowley , Alex Bonny and Will Glaser are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 19 November – Matt Skelton’s Blackhawk Quintet-a celebration of Shelly Manne and his music at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 19 November – Greg Abate Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 19 November – Charles Tolliver presents Max Roach @ 100, Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
Tuesday 19 November – Rosie Frater-Taylor (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Wednesday 20 November – Ayo Vincent Trio + Deelee Dubé Quintet (Double bill) (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Thursday 21 November – Zoe Rahman Trio (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Friday 22 November – Julian Joseph’s ‘Atmospheres in Audio Theatre’ (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Friday 22 November – Nik Bärtsch piano; Tania Giannouli piano at Wigmore Hall
Friday 22 November – Shez Raja ft Guthrie Govan at 606 Club
Friday 22 November – Rob Luft Quartet (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 23 November – Lulu Pierre & Tony Kofi: CELEBRATING BILLIE HOLIDAY AND BEN WEBSTER! (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 23 November – David Preston: Purple/Black (EFG London Jazz Festival) is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Sunday 24 November – Jazz On The Plaza feat. Renato D’Aiello with Terence Collie & Nick Lenner-Webster
Sunday 24 November 5pm – Paul Booth Quintet feat. Ross Stanley are at Jazz at the Horsebridge in Whitstable
Sunday 24 November – Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott, Acker Bilk, George Shearing with Strings, Cadogan Hall
Tuesday 26 November – Georgia Mancio Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 26 November – Alan Barnes Sextet are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 26 November – World Heart Beat Jazz Club Suppers is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD
Wednesday 27 November – World Heart Beat Jazz Club Suppers is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens is at 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD.
Wednesday 27 November – Nina Kristofferson Sings Jazz at The Pheasantry
Wednesday 27 November – Pete Allen Celebrating 45 years of band leading, Pizza Express Jazz Club (Soho)
Wednesday 27 November – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne Neal’s Imaginary Friends! feat. Rob Palmer (gtr), Al Swainger (bass), Buster Birch (drums)
Thursday 28 November – Al Nicholls Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Friday 29 November – QCBA PLAYS BLUE NOTE! with Quentin Collins & Brandon Allen at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Sat 30th November 2pm – Alex Garnett Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2
Saturday 30 November – ALICE ZAWADZKI TRIO: “Hanging on the Comet’s Tail” (SET1) and “Za Górami & more”… (SET2) at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 30 November – Shabaka, Southbank Centre
Live Gigs – December
Sunday 1 December – Equinox Jazz Quartet are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town
Monday 9 December – Julian Bliss Septet is at Wigmore Hall
Tuesday 10 December – Emmet Cohen Trio are at Wigmore Hall
Sunday 15 December – Riverside Arts Jazz Christmas Special feat. Tommaso Starace with Terence Collie, Richard Sadler & Winston Clifford
2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.
Friday 11 October – Peter Bernstein is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Sunday 13 October – Rob Luft’s Dahab Days Quartet are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Monday 14 October 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Wednesday 16 October – Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin are streaming from Porgy and Bess Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/12076/
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
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
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