Hedsor Jazz News
Without our bandleader
Clive Burton, who is still receiving treatment for cancer and is still not able
to play for us, we are arranging some very interesting combinations of musicians to
come and play live jazz for us at Hedsor.
This week (October 12th)
we are without our reed section Mike Wills so our front line will be occupied
by guitarist Max Brittain and clarinettist Martin Nickless.
Both are well know to us,
and also to YouTube! Do look them up
and or
You might recognise a few
of the players around them, and in the case of the Max Brittain film, the
venue!
Our regular rhythm section
will be behind them, well physically at least!
Next week we have another
outstanding performer coming to play. Tracey Mendham is a big toned tenor
player, with bags of personality. She makes her usual October appearance on
October 19th. No, she wont be alone, the rest of the band will be
around!
Both above gigs start at
8.30pm, and will cost you an on the door entry fee of £7
The last Thursday of
October (26th) our guest will be trumpet star Stuart Henderson.
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| A Picture taken in Hedsor's Old Bar! |
Looking further ahead into
November, our first Thursday we will be having a slight change in emphasis.
Normally the quintet play 50’s modern jazz, often referred to as “bop”. On
November 2nd we are going to feature a kind of jazz often referred
to as “Manouche”. This is the kind of gypsy jazz that the French guitarist
Django Reinhardt made popular in the 1930’s. So in addition to piano bass and
drums we will have Jezz Cook on lead guitar, Bill Medcraft on rhythm guitar and
Mike Wills on Clarinet. Do come along and give Hedsor Jazz and this innovation
your support. Our usual entry time and fee apply.
Swanage Jazz Festival
As many of you know I was a
fan of the Swanage Jazz Festival, and when Fred Lindup and his team told us
that 2017 was it’s last year, I was one of the many hundreds of regulars who
were bitterly disappointed.
There is some good news, again from someone we are
used to seeing at Hedsor jazz. Guitarist Nigel Price is trying very hard to
resurrect it. Do read his interview in London Jazz News (http://www.londonjazznews.com/2017/09/interview-nigel-price-new-director.html) and follow the links to support him.
If it is any help to you in making up
your mind as to support this initiative or not, I have already bought my ticket
for 2018!
CD Listened to this week
Talking of innovation I
listened this week to a CD whilst repairing a computer in my garage. It was a CD that had
gone unnoticed before. It had come in a plastic sleeve with no notes, but when played I was
captivated by it. Allen Toussaint was born 7 months before me, but sadly died
of a heart attack in 2015. I didn’t recognise his name, not being a listener to
R&B. However after the storms of 2005 had destroyed his New Orleans home he
travelled to New York and started performing songs he had largely written for
others to sing. To everyone’s surprise he had a good voice. Always an
accomplished piano player (in the New Orleans style) he made a late career as a
solo performer. On his CD “Songbook” recorded live in “Joe’s Pub” in NY in 2009 he
sings over a dozen songs he has helped others to make famous. The recorded
piano sound is terrific, his style of playing is a blues drenched boogie
woogie, and his approach to singing a sort of clean “Dr. John”. Absolutely
fascinating, so far this week I have played it 3 times!
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