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PRIZE DRAWS

THIS WEEK


We have a copy of the latest Satori album  
How Can We Wake? From Josephine Davies’ Enso Ensemble 
(Interview by Bruce Lindsay) 
 
PLUS 

In anticipation of 2 nights at Pizza Express Jazz Club on 19 and 20 October, we will have a copy of Subtle Disguise by Joe Locke to give away 

(Interview by Rob Adams)


Email Romy: advertising@londonjazznews.com
 by Friday 14 October to enter (state which prize) 

 

LAST WEEK 
A copy of Nicki Leighton Thomas’ album One Good Scandal was won by Christopher Hollebone 

Nicki will be performing at the Playground Theatre on  
18 October 
(Interview feature by John Fordham) 

 
Plus 
 
A pair of tickets to see Espen Eriksen Trio with  
Andy Sheppard at Ronnie Scott’s was won by Hilary Padmore 
(Interview feature by Bruce Lindsay)


NEXT WEEK


Two tickets for Baptiste Herbin at the RNCM Saxophone Day event
(FEATURE / INTERVIEW)

WHAT WE'VE BEEN COVERING ON LJN

NEWS

NEWS: RIP Ronnie Cuber (1941-2022)


NEWS: Jazz FM Special ("gifted") Awards announced: Marcus Miller, Norma Winstone, Jools Holland


REVIEWS

PHOTO ESSAY: Helen Sung Trio at Ronnie Scott’s


LIVE: Dispatches from Istanbul / 2022 Akbank Jazz Festival (1)
- Photo above of Kadinlar Matinesi in Istanbul The Matinée of Women - by Francesco Martinelli
LIVE: Dispatches from Istanbul / 2022 Akbank Jazz Festival (2)
LIVE: Dispatches from Istanbul / 2022 Akbank Jazz Festival (3)


LIVE: Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music Day 3 Report (
picture above of Zoe Gilby and Andy Champion)
LIVE: Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music 2022 – Day 4 Report


ALBUM: Leverton Fox – In The Flicker



ALBUM: Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Ronnie Cuber and the WDR Big Band / Abene – Center Stage



ALBUM: Helena Kay’s KIM Trio & Peter Johnstone – Golden Sands



ALBUM: Svarc / Hanley / Longhawn – 20/21



ALBUM: Paul Jones – The Blues



FILM: Hargrove - London premiere (Barbican, 6 Nov.)

MOST-READ

 

 



1) TEN TRACKS I CAN’T DO WITHOUT: John Taylor (photo above by Richard Kaby) by Liam Noble
2) BOOK REVIEW: Nightfly. Donald Fagen biography by Peter Jones

3) ALBUM REVIEW: Steve Gadd/ WDR Big Band – Center Stage
4) ALBUM REVIEW: Dr John - Things Happen That Way
(includes surprising new information in the comments from a musician with a major role)
5) PHOTO-ESSAY: Helen Sung at Ronnie Scott’s

READ ELSEWHERE

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD

 
 
1) Live gigs
 
 
 
Wednesday 12 October - Steve Waterman plays Miles Davis  at Guildford Jazz HERE
Wednesday 12 October - Tom Challenger / Andrew Lisle / Alex Ward @ Finch Cafe London fields - 12 Sideworth Street
Wednesday 12 October - Sam Leak is at the Vortex
Wednesday 12 October - Espen Eriksen is at the Traverse, Edinburgh
Wednesday 12 October - Jo Fooks Quartet with Buster Birch, Andy Cleyndert and Neil Casey are at Carshalton Jazz, Cryer Arts Centre High St. Carshalton SM5 3BB.
Wednesday 12 October - Julian Marc Stringle is with the Neal Richardson Trio at the View in Seaford BN25 4JS
Wednesday 12 October - Hammond organist/singer John East & his Septet feat. Nigel Price, guitar & Freddie Gavita, trumpet are at the 606
Thursday 13 October - Roger Beaujolais Quartet are at Hugh’s Place (Eltham Jazz Club), Eltham Warren Golf Club, SE9 2PE
Thursday 13 October - Tara Minton Trio + Emma Rawicz at the Vortex
 

 
Thursday 13 October – Robert Mitchell's True Think are at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, London, feat. Yelfris Valdés
Thursday 13 October  - The Roger Beaujolais Quartet is at Hugh’s Place, Eltham Warren Golf Club, SE9 2PE
Thursday 13 October – from the States its the Howard Alden Quartet at Spike’s Place Jazz Club - Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3
Thursday 13 October - Liam Noble and Paul Clarvis play West Side Story at  MAAD (fka Karamel), 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
Thursday 13 October –  Jazz & world music with Italian guitar virtuoso Antonio Forcione is at 606
Thursday 13 October –  Jo Harrop with the Alex Hutton Trio featuring the acclaimed trumpeter Andy Davis showcase the music of Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong over in the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 13 October - Simon Allen is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club, EN2 8AS
Friday 14 October - At Jazz Cafe POSK its Mike De Souza's Chrysalis Group
Friday 14 October - Espen Eriksen is at Stapleford Granary, Cambridge
Friday 14 October - Dugong are at the Vortex
Friday 14 October -  Jazz & groove with Italian vocalist Francesca Confortini & her band is at the 606
Friday 14 October  - Alex Clarke + the BTF Allstars are at St Matthias Hall, Wordsworth Road, Stoke Newington N16 8DD
Saturday 15 October - The Hampstead Jazz Club have US vocalist Aimee Allen
Saturday 15 October -  Saxophonist "Tony Kofi Salutes the Piano Masters" feat. Trevor Watkis is at the 606
Saturday 15 October - Julian Siegel Quartet are at the Vortex
Sunday 16 October - Jazz At The Elephant in North Finchley, London N12 have vocalist Lily Dior + pianist Tim Lapthorn
Sunday 16 October -  Soul & groove singer Noel McCalla (Morrissey/Mullen, 'Some Kinda Wonderful')  is at the 606
Sunday 16 October lunchtime - Julian Costello Quartet is at The Oval Tavern is at 131 Oval Road, Croydon CR0 6BR
Sunday 16 October - Jam at the Vortex with Rick Simpson
Monday 17 October - Hugh Pascall is at the Oxford Tavern , Kentish Town Rd
Monday 17 October – Howard Alden Quartet are at Bexley Jazz Club, The King’s Head, DA5 1AA.
Monday 17 October –  Paris-based composer/pianist Dave Bristow & his quintet ft. Riley Stone-Lonergan is at the 606
 

 
Tuesday 18 October - Gary Willcox Quintet ft Chris Batchelor and Jason Yarde are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 18 October -  Joe Locke's Amaranth is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 18 October -  From the US-pianist Larry Goldings is at the 606
Tuesday 18 October - Nicki Leighton-Thomas  One Good Scandal launch at the Playground Theatre
Tuesday 18 October - Thumbscrew with Mary Lalvorson is at the Vortex
Tuesday 18 October - Gary Potter's "Hot Club" at Marlow Jazz Club, Royal British Legion Hall SL7 1NT
Tuesday 18 October - Howard Alden Trio from the States are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club - Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood
Tuesday 18 October - Mark Hurrell is at Oliver's Jazz Bar with Menelik Claffey, Jesse Doniach Hughes, Gwilym Jones
Wednesday 19 October - Johnny Hunter's For You / Not For You is at the Vortex
Wednesday 19 October - US keyboard legend Larry Goldings is at the SoundCellar in Poole
Wednesday 19 - 20 October - Joe Locke is at Pizza Express Jazz Club
Wednesday 19 October - US guitarist Howard Alden (one of the “Top 75 Guitarists of All Time”, Downbeat Mag) & his band is at the 606
Thursday 20 October – Jonis’s Soul ‘Homage To Joni Mitchell’: Special six-piece collaboration featuring the highly acclaimed vocalist Gina Foster & the world-class guitarist Ronnie Johnson celebrating the music & song writing of the great Joni Mitchell over in the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 20 October - Bruce Adams is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club, EN2 8AS
Thursday 20 October - Jazz & Latin music with pianist Neil Angilley (Down to the Bone, Vanessa-Mae) & his Trio at the 606
Thursday 20 October -  Alex Bonney Quartet is at the Vortex
Thursday 20 October - Mark Hurrell is at Finch Cafe , London Fields with Sam Ingvorsen, Jesse Doniach Hughes, Charlie Hutchinson
Thursday 20 October - The Festival of French Jazz have Coloriage: The World of Richard Galliano at The Actors’ Church, St Paul’s Church Covent Garden
Friday 21 October – The Nigel Price Organ Trio at Chichester jazz Club
Friday 21 October  - Camilla George Guildford Jazz HERE
Friday 21 October  -  Latin Jazz quintet Samara led by the Club's Steve Rubie on flute & sax is at the 606
Friday 21 October  - Josephine Davies' Enso Ensemble are at The Vortex
Friday 21 October  - Mark Hurrell is at Rule Zero with Menelik Claffey, Jesse Doniach Hughes, Charlie Hutchinson
Friday 21 October - At Jazz Cafe POSK Brook's Blues Bar presents: Dave Peabody & Regina Mudrich
Saturday 22 October - The Way Out West Collective ft Tony Woods , Tim Whitehead, Chris Biscoe is at Carshalton Jazz, All Saints Church, High St. Carshalton, SM5 3AG.
Saturday 22 October - Hannah Horton Quartet is at Jazz Cafe POSK
Saturday 22 October - James Allsopp Quartet ft Steve Buckley @ Finch Cafe London fields - 12 Sideworth Street
Saturday 22 October -  Jazz Saxophonist Dave O'Higgins & his quartet are at the 606
Sunday 23 October lunchtime - Simon Fernsby Organisation - featuring Tori Freestone is at The Oval Tavern is at 131 Oval Road, Croydon CR0 6BR
Sunday 23 October - Lunchtime Special: mainstream jazz led by saxophonist Greg Davis & featuring singer Vanessa Rose at the 606
Sunday 23 October -  evening: R&B/groove singer & BBC Radio favourite Kat Eaton at the 606
Sunday 23 October - Lulu Pierre Trio are at The Snug, Bishop’s Court Farm, 91 High Street, Dorchester-on-Thames, OX10 7HP
Sunday 23 October - Mark Hurrell is at Tina We Salute You with Menelik Claffey, Jesse Doniach Hughes
Monday 24 October - Jim Mullen, Zoe Francis, Ross Stanley are at the Oxford Tavern , Kentish Town Rd
Monday 24 October  -  The Esther Bennett Quartet is at Bexley Jazz Club, The King’s Head, Bexley Village, DA5 1AA
 

 
Monday 24 October - BBC Radio 3 New Generation artist, bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado & his All-Star sextet are at the 606
Tuesday 25 October - Ed Jones Quartet are at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 25 October -  Pete Oxley/Nic Meier Quartet is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ
Tuesday 25 October -   Bassist Phil Mulford (Lionel Ritchie, Tom Jones) & his 'Thunderthumbs' 9-piece groove band are at the 606
Wednesday 26 October - Greg Abate is at Eastbourne's Fishermen's Club
Wednesday 26 October - New Jazz Voices’ feat. Freddie Benedict and Lulu Pierre with the Alex Webb Trio at St Martins In The Fields (Crypt), Trafalgar Square
Thursday 27 October - Julian Costello Guildford Jazz HERE
Thursday 27 October - Matt Ridley’s The Antidote Quintet are at  the SoundCellar in Poole
Thursday 27 October  -  The Andy Panayi Quartet is at Hugh’s Place, Eltham Warren Golf Club, SE9 2PE
Thursday 27 October – Al Nicholls Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club - Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3
Thursday 27 October - Julian Costello is at Guildford Jazz
Thursday 27 October -  Tomorrow’s Warriors Presents: I AM WARRIOR at Jazz Cafe
Thursday 27 October - RDE Trio are at JazzRefreshed
Thursday 27 October - JT4tet: George Benson and Herbie Hancock influenced jazz & blues featuring guitarist Jon Taylor & keyboardist Tim Richards together with top R&B vocalist Nazarene Mighty over in the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Friday 28 October - Jazz At The Tree - A night of jazz vocalists hosted by Janet McCunn with special guests Deborah Blowers & Vivienne Graves with Terence Collie and Marianne Windham. The Talking Tree, Staines-upon-Thames.
Friday 28 October - Corrie Dick's "Sun Swells" Album Launch is at Jazz Cafe POSK
Friday 28 October – Carmen Souza is at Woolwich Works
Saturday 29 October 2pm - Tenor Madness in memory of Spike Robinson with Derek Nash, Robert Fowler, Vasilis Xenopoulos, John Pearce, Paul Morgan and Bobby Worth at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex
Saturday 29 October - Corrie Dick's "Sun Swells" are at JazzUp! at Club 85 , Hitchin
Saturday 29 October - Grand Union Orchestra with Song of Africa at St Johns Bethnal Green
Saturday 29 October - Jazz Cafe POSK have Hetty Kate Quartet: "Hetty Kate Swings the Standards!.."
Sunday 30 October lunchtime - Tony Woods Project is at The Oval Tavern is at 131 Oval Road, Croydon CR0 6BR
Sunday 30 October 7.30pm: Jazz on the Plaza with Simon Bates, Terence Collie & Mark Rose. Café Yukari, Kew.
Monday 31 October - Jack Garside is at the Oxford Tavern , Kentish Town Rd
Monday 31 October  -  Hermeto Pascoal is  at Jazz Cafe
Monday 31 October  -  The Steve Waterman Quartet is at Bexley Jazz Club, The King’s Head, Bexley Village, DA5 1AA
Monday 31  October  -  The Esther Bennett Quartet is at Bexley Jazz Club, The King’s Head, Bexley Village, DA5 1AA
Tuesday 1 November - Benn Clatworthy Quartet ft John Donaldson is at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 1 November  Alina Bzhezhinska Quartet is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Wednesday 2 November - This London Philharmonic Orchestra concert includes the UK premiere of Douglas J Cuomo’s new saxophone concerto entitled ‘a raft, the sky, the wild sea;’  performed by Joe Lovano at the Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 3 November – Richie Milton & The Lowdown featuring vocalist Linda Hall  are over in the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Saturday 5 November – Chris Ingham Quartet – ‘Stardust Memories’ a tribute to Hoagy Carmichael play a fundraiser for the National Jazz Archive Loughton Methodist Church IG10 1RB
Sunday 6 November lunchtime - Benn Clatworthy Quartet - featuring John Donaldson is at The Oval Tavern is at 131 Oval Road, Croydon CR0 6BR
Sunday 6 November - Its RNCM Saxophone Day - details  HERE
Sunday 6 November - “The Star Jazz Lunch” - Neal Richardson Duo feat. Miles Danso is  at Alfriston - The Star  BN26 5TA
Monday 7 November  -  The Nicolas Meier Trio is at Bexley Jazz Club, The King’s Head, Bexley Village, DA5 1AA
Tuesday 8 November - Miguel Gorodi Quintet is at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 8 November - Henry Spencer & Juncture is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Wednesday 9 November  - Mark Bassey is with the Neal Richardson Trio at  Seaford - The View BN25 4JS
Thursday 10 November - Antonio Forcione is in the Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick W4
Thursday 10 November  -  Marion’s Birthday Bash with The Jacqui Hicks Quintet featuring Julian Marc Stringle is at Hugh’s Place, Eltham Warren Golf Club, SE9 2PE
Saturday 12 November – Rosie Frater-Taylor is at Woolwich Works
Sunday 13 November - Neal Richardson’s “Not” King Cole Trio are at Lewes - The Con Club, 139 High St, BN71XS
Sunday 13 November - Kurt Elling is at Jazz Cafe
Sunday 13 November – Fergus McCreadie is at Woolwich Works
Monday 14 November  -  The Martin Speake/ Alison Cawley Quintet is at Bexley Jazz Club, The King’s Head, Bexley Village, DA5 1AA
Tuesday 15 November - Omar Puente is at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone
Tuesday 15 November - Adrian Cox New Orleans Clarinet Quartet is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Tuesday 15 November - Shez Raja ft John Etheridge & Tony Kofi at SpiceJazz Soho
Thursday 17 November – Tara Cunningham + Maria Grapsa are at Woolwich Works
 

 
Friday 18 November  - ARQ (Alison Rayner Quintet) are at St Matthias Hall, Wordsworth Road, Stoke Newington N16 8DD
Saturday 19 November – Ineza + Emily Jane Roberts are at Woolwich Works
Monday 21 November  -  The Blue Room Seven is at Bexley Jazz Club, The King’s Head, Bexley Village, DA5 1AA
Tuesday 22 November - Espen Eriksen Trio & Andy Sheppard is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
Sunday 27 November - The Festival of French Jazz have London Django Collective (London’s Foremost Gypsy Jazz Musicians) at The Actors’ Church, St Paul’s Church Covent Garden
Sunday 27 November - The LP Swing Orchestra is at The Warren, Hayes, Kent – With Julia Sullivan
Tuesday 29 November - Alan Barnes Octet-Copperfield is at Watermill Jazz,Betchworth Park Golf,Dorking RH4 1NZ.
 
 
2) Live Streamed Timed Events - Listed in time order.
 
 
Thursday 13 October - Hugh Pascall Quintet are streaming from Peggy’s Skylight HERE
Friday 14 October - The Ron Carter Quartet are streaming from Birdland HERE
Friday 14-15 October - Cyrus Chestnut is streaming from Keystone Korner in Baltimore HERE
Friday 14 October - A Dizzy celebration at Smokes New York HERE
Saturday 15 October - Chip Wickham are streaming from Peggy’s Skylight HERE
Saturday 15 October  - Thumbscrew are streaming from  Porgy and Bess in Vienna  HERE
Monday 17 October - Deschanel Gordon is streaming from the Yard in Manchester HERE
Tuesday 18 October -  From the US-pianist Larry Goldings is streaming from the 606  HERE
Wednesday 19 October - US keyboard legend Larry Goldings is streaming from  the SoundCellar in Poole HERE
Friday 21 October - A Monk celebration at Smokes with Joe Lovano HERE
Monday 24 October - Yusuf Ahmed is streaming from the Yard in Manchester HERE
Thursday 27 October - Matt Ridley’s The Antidote Quintet is streaming from  the SoundCellar in Poole HERE
Thursday 10 November - The Art Deco Jazz Trio  are streaming from St Mary's Perivale HERE
 
 
 
3) Residencies
 
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
Tuesdays - Jazz Duo pianist  Aurelius Sciuka /  W bass  Lakis Economou & guests @ The Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone, London E11 1HG
Every other Tuesday the Jake Goss Quartet are at Haverstock Tavern
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.
 
3) NOT TIMED –
 
Emmet Cohen has still got a weekly stream going on Monday nights from his place HERE
Smalls in New York are streaming every night and if you sign up you get access to their archive HERE
Snake Davis has  at home Livestreams 7pm (BST) every Friday, Saturday and Sunday HERE  plus sax clinics on Sundays at 11am then click on the live screen.
There is a Facebook group called Jazz Stream Sessions which has a number of jazz streaming events - HERE
Duke Ellington Society UK, Uptown Lockdown have podcasts , broadcasts HERE
 
4) Radio etc
 
Frank Griffith - "The Jazz Cavern”  Thursdays at 9PM. Repeats at 6PM Sunday HERE
Liverpool Community Radio -  “The Jazz Cavern” 106.7 FM. www.l-c-r.co.uk Airs on weekly Fridays-2PM, Saturdays- 4PM, Tuesdays- 4PM
Jazz across the Pond last week interviewed with American jazz drummer Alvin Queen who used to play with Oscar Peterson & George Benson HERE
The European Jazz Hour with Peter Slavid – HERE or on hayesfm 91.8 FM
Wednesdays at 10pm on Radio Deal - Jazz on the Beach with Adam Sieff HERE
Watch The LP Swing Orchestra on Sky Arts on 20th and 27th June at 7pm. 
Marlow FM's longstanding Jazz Show "Swing That Music" (www.marlowfm.co.uk) 6pm Sunday repeated 10pm Monday) now gets a worldwide audience being transmitted 5 times weekly by New York's Pure Jazz Radio (www.purejazzradio.com)
 
5) Courses etc
 
FREE monthly Grand Union Youth Orchestra Creative Workshops Autumn 2022 - check it out HERE
All the best from Sebastian (Editor/Publisher) and the team  

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