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THE DAYS/WEEKS AHEAD
1) Live gigs
Wednesday 2 October – Trish Clowes is at the Birmingham Conservatoire
Wednesday 2 October – Pete Bernstein / Jim Mullen are at the 606
Wednesday 2 October – Alexander Hawkins / Marco Colonna are at the Vortex
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Wednesday 2 October – Claire Martin, Bristol Beacon
Wednesday 2 October – Vasilis Xenopoulos Quartet are at a new venue The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
Thursday 3 October – Liam Dunachie Trio are at a new venue The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
Thursday 3 October – Alan Barnes is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS
Thursday 3 October – Claire Martin, Turner Simms Concert Hall, Southhampton
Thursday 3 October – Lorenzo Bellini’s Cloudy Peaks downstairs Ziv Taubenfeld upstairs at the Vortex
Thursday 3 October – Alex Garnett, Leon Greening, bass tba, Matt Skelton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR
Thursday 3 October – 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
Thursday 3 October – Mark Lockheart’s ‘Dreamers’ are at SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 3 October – Balazs Horvath is at the 606
Friday 4 October – Huw Warren / Iain Ballamy lunchtime concert at St Georges Bristol
Friday 4 October – The POSK Festival of Jazz Voice! (DAY ONE): Set 1 – POLISH JAZZ VOICES SPOTLIGHT; Set 2 – ALICE ZAWADZKI JAZZ TRIO; Set 3 – NORMA WINSTONE QUARTET: “INSPIRATIONS…” Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Friday 4 October – Pump House Theatre, 5 Local Board Rd, Watford WD17 2JP are celebrating the Sarah Vaughan Centenary with a show starring Lulu Pierre and Marvin Muoneke
Friday 4 October – Claire Martin, Peggy’s Skylight, Nottingham
Friday 4 October – Ant Law’s Re-Entanglement are at the Vortex
Saturday 5 October – The POSK Festival of Jazz Voice! (DAY TWO): Set 1 – Rouhangeze with Tomasz Bura; Set 2 – SAM MERRICK WITH JAZZ TRIO; Set 3 – HEIDI VOGEL WITH JAZZ TRIO; Set 4 – EMMA SMITH QUARTET! Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Saturday 5 October – Sunday 6 Octdober – Troubled Waters: Tales from the Bell Tower – Storyteller Corrine Harragin, violinist and singer/songwriter Joy Becker and percussionist Simon Roth at St Augustine’s Tower., four shows altogether at 4pm and 8pm both days
Saturday 5 October – Tony Kofi and Tim Boniface are at All Saints , Brudenell Rd , Tooting
Sunday 6 October lunchtime – Renato D’Aiello Quartet at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Sunday 6 October lunchtime – Elaine Delmar / Barry Green at the 606
Sunday 6 October 5pm – Jam Session feat Julian Nicholas at Highams Park Jazz Club at All Saints Church Church Avenue, Highams Park, London, United Kingdom
Sunday 6 October – Claire Martin, National Centre for Early Music, York
Sunday 6 October – Equinox Jazz Quartet are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town
Sunday 6 October – new venue Soul Mama, 40 Celebration Ave, East Village, Stratford E20 1DB have Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’
Sunday 6 October – Riverside Arts Jazz feat. Zoe Francis and Jim Mullen with Terence Collie, Nick Lenner-Webster & Tristan Mailliot. Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury.
Sunday 6 October evening – Simon Pearson Memorial Concert at the 606
Monday 7 October – Danny Ilett is at the 606
Tuesday 8 October – Basil Hodge Quartet ft Tony Kofi at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 8 October – Richard Pite, Chris Parish, Lorenzo Evans, Harry Evans are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ
Tuesday 8 October – Matyas Gayer Trio are at a new venue The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
Tuesday 8 October – Julian Mark Stringle Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 8 October – Dan Reinstein is at the 606
Tuesday 8 October – Julian Mark Stringle Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG
Tuesday 8 October – Mood Indigo Events October Piano Series featuring Jason Rebello. 1901 Arts Club, 7 Exton Street, London SE1 8UE.
Wednesday 9 October – Alyn Shipton’s Gerry Mulligan Quartet are at Guildford Jazz
Wednesday 9 October – Freddie Gravita Quartet are at a new venue The Drawing Room, Brown’s Hotel, Albemarle Street , London, W1S 4BP
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 – 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
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 – 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
Sunday 13 October lunchtime – Clare Hirst/Claude Deppa Quintet at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
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
Tuesday 15 October – The John Horler Trio play Bill Evans at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
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 – 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 – 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 – 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
Sunday 20 October lunchtime – Nicolas Meier Quartet at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
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
20 October 2024 – Nick Mills is at the Turk’s Head Twickenham
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
Wednesday 23 October – The Jonny Ford Jazz Orchestra at The Vortex Jazz Club
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 – 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
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 – 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
Wednesday 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 the Paul Booth Quintet feat. Ross Stanley.
Sunday 27 October – Elaine Delmar, Sevenoaks, Ship 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
Thursday 31 October – Threeway (Steve Waterman, Steve Lodder & Ben Crosland) are at Davenham Jazz, Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich , Cheshire
Saturday 2 November 2024 – WOW Presents Neil Hamilton Jazz Day RHACC, Richmond
Sunday 3 November lunchtime – Adrian Reid Quartet featuring Tony Kofi at the Oval Tavern , Croydon
Friday 8 November – Mátyás Gayer Trio at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester.
Friday 8 November – Emily Saunders: Moon Shifts Oceans is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD
Saturday 9 November – John Butcher (saxophones), Mark Sanders (percussion) & Philipp Wachsmann (violin & electronics) are at Listen! Unitarian Hall, Victoria Street, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Sunday 20 October 5pm adm free – Tim Richards TRIO (Tim Richards – piano, Alex Keen – bass, Daniel Howard – drums) are at MUSIC ROOM
Wednesday 13 November – The Gordon Wellard Septet play Art Blakey at the The Electric Theatre , Onslow St , Guildford
Friday 15 November – Secret Night Gang is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD.
Sunday 24 November – Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott, Acker Bilk, George Shearing with Strings, Cadogan Hall
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)
Saturday 30 November – Shabaka, Southbank Centre
2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.
Friday 27 September – Christian Sands is streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/
Monday 30 September 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently
https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams
Thursday 3 October – Mark Lockheart’s ‘Dreamers’ are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar
Sunday 13 October – Rob Luft’s Dahab Days Quartet 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
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
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/
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 http://www.mykindamusic24.com
Liverpool Community Radio – “The Jazz Cavern” 106.7 FM. http://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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