Jazz from Geoff this week will major on forthcoming events. So to start with I will recap on last Thursdays events!

Hedsor Club was used as a recording studio last Thursday afternoon. Charlie Wren was using “Our” Band for a jazzy track that will feature in a forthcoming album of her songs. 

She liked the jazz sounds she has heard at Hedsor in the past, and put together a mixture of people she has used on her recordings before together with some of our familiar faces. 

Four of the familiar faces stayed on and played in the evening (Martin Hart, Robert Goodhew , Andy Crowdy and Nigel Fox) and for her recording she added in guitarist John Francis. 

Those of you who were at my birthday concert last August will have heard her song before. “Right Note Wrong Time” is a very clever amalgam of jazz tune titles put together to tell a story about love. 

I never ceased to be amazed at the effort that is put in to every issued recording. Gathering the material,  selecting the musicians, getting it recorded, producing artwork for the CD, getting sleeve notes written , it goes on. The CD's have to be manufactured, and the promotional materiel put out. 

Well,  Recording setup was 2pm and rehearsing the song started about 3 pm. The final touches were added in to the recording at 5.10pm. The song lasts 8 minutes! Those of you who were there in the evening heard a version of it performed without the guitar solo. It was a fascinating experience to be the tea boy for the afternoon. 

Photos from the afternoon from my camera are below:-

Added in to our evening mix from the afternoon's recording session last week was trumpeter Andy Gibson. We also had a surprise visit from pianist Alan Berry. Alan used to be the regular pianist with the Lennie Best Quartet back in the days of jazz at Maidenheads “The Bell” pub in the 1970’s. He is still playing regularly around London. He has managed a visit to Hedsor all of 3 times since!

Photos from the evening including some from Geoff Swaffield, are below:-

So what is coming up at Hedsor Jazz?

This week, April 18^th our guests are Clarinettist Martin Nickless and guitarist Terry Hutchins

April 25^th Saxophonist Duncan Lamont Jnr will be keeping Lester Brown, our regular trumpeter, company.

May 2^nd guitarist Jezz Cook will be bringing along our very own Mike Wills on saxophones.

May 9^th Lester Brown will have a front line partner, but we haven’t booked them yet!

May 16^th Yet to be confirmed but we hope to have Alan Grahame back with us (he was in our audience last week).

May 23^rd Lester will be joined again by Mark Aston on reeds.

Further ahead we have managed to book guitarist Nigel Price for June 13^th. I also think we have managed to book reed player Ron Drake for June 27^th 

August 1^st we have singer Sarah Moule coming with husband pianist Simon Wallace and saxophonist Dave Bitelli (who is replacing my previously advertised Dave Lewis) to pay tribute to Duke Ellington.
 We are working on one or two other special evenings, so keep the eyeballs pealed! Every week we have a quality product at Hedsor Jazz. Please keep being a quality audience. Even though I enjoy recorded jazz (and when you are incapacitated it is a joy to be able to hear recorded music from the past) but NOTHING beats Live Jazz.