A little light blogging, starting on a Monday!!

But continuing as usual on a TUESDAY!

Wasn’t last weeks session at The Hedsor Bar something else?

Two of the UK’s most iconic players joined together at Hedsor!, with another of the UK greats, keyboard player (usually in residence!) Ken McCarthy . 

Add our usual bass and drums (Al Pirrie and Mike Jeffries) and then have them joined for one number (in the second half) by a bass player who is another star in his own right, Andy Crowdey. AND then pinch yourself, because it IS The Hedsor Bar. (OK from the decor you knew it wasn’t Roni’s!).

I do hope that YOU were one of the relatively few there?

You mean you missed Bruce Adams and Art Theman?

my photos of the evening are below

Last week I did say that we would carry on at the Hedsor Bar every week until Christmas, BUT we will now have to miss December 11^th I’m afraid. The Hedsor Bar have asked us to lend out one of our Thursday nights for a special event of their own. So you may like to fit in your Christmas shopping night on the 11^th December.

If you feel that you will be a bit jazz starved because of our night off in December rest assured that there is plenty of the good stuff coming to Hedsor Jazz in the next 

few weeks!

Coming to Hedsor Jazz this week are two more great British jazz men. Trumpeter and band leader 

Pete Rudeforth will be joined by Duncan Lamont Jr on reeds. Both have a wealth of experience 

and have produced some wonderful music for us this year. BUT we will also have a special guest 

joining us on bass. Richard Sadler. There really is a lot to write about him as well, but to save 

my fingers you could always look up his CV   https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/richard-sadler/

Looking on to the end of October, Thursdays October 30^th has a re pairing of Lester Brown on trumpet and Alam Nathoo on tenor sax. Throughout most of the past year we have paired Alam with trumpeter Stuart Henderson, (they were with us on October 2^nd). But we think it would be “good jazz” to see what a different pairing can bring, hence Lester and Alam on October 30^th.

By next Tuesday I should have produced another poster for you to drool over! NOVEMBER will have a complete Thursday of jazz. When I started out on my jazz journey there was a great LP by a band led by New Orleans trumpeter Wilber De Paris called “Old, New, Gay, Blue”.

It was in the days when “gay” just meant able to be tremendously enjoyed. We had “gay days” and we had “gay music”. Well why not come and “enjoy tremendously” Hedsor Jazz!

 

Always tell your friends what great jazz Hedsor Jazz produces. Yes, we have had to increase our entry fee, but it’s still cracking value, especially as there is a free car park.

PS, the software for Blogger used to be easy to use. As they have "improved" it, it has become more difficult to control!! It doesn't always do what I ask it to do. The spacing of the words this week has been uncontrollable, so I do apologise if it is a bit more difficult than usual to read!

Geoff