Hi All,

A couple of things that could be deemed "important", not on a global scale you understand, but for your musical entertainment and future enjoyment!

Tomorrow (Thursday), we have The Clive Burton Quintet as usual at The Hedsor Social Club from 8.30pm onwards, but for the first time we WILL be making an entry charge. A very affordable £3 will be charged for your attendance. We will be running the raffle as before (please give just as generously please, we do need the funds so raised), and we will be asking you to seek out the red cash box to pay at. The geography of the club makes it impossible to actually ask at the door for you cash!!

In addition to this, I will be selling second hand jazz cd's at silly money prices, just to give a bit of added interest to your attendance!!

You may have been aware last week, if you were with us at Hedsor, that we had a newspaper photographer with us for most of the first half of the evening. This was due in part to our desire to gain more publicity for the evening, AND because NEXT WEEK, Thursday March 9th, at Hedsor we are launching a brand new CD, with some very familiar names on the personnel label!! Drummer Martin Hart has written and arranged all the music for a CD called "Mind Games, and the first sale of this will be at a special launch party on 9th March. This will be a really special event, where some of the guest musicians associated with the CD will be performing some of the tunes from the CD. You will also have the opportunity to purchase your copy of said CD, and I am assured for all of us who like parties, that a light buffet will also be part of the evening. Tell your friends, you may even bring someone else's daughter!! But do make a note of the evening. It really will be something special.

So what CD's have I listened to this week?

There is an excellent CD out on the Swingsation label of Benny Goodman and his orchestra. The sound quality is excellent, however, the label does appear to insist on denying you any information about when it was recorded, or who was in the band at the time. Its in reasonable Hi Fi, so it may have come from out of the BG in Hi Fi period.All the expected tunes are on it (Stompin at The Savoy, Let's Dance, And the Angels Sing), but also some tunes usually associated with other big bands of the swing era (One O'Clock Jump, King Porter Stomp for example). Its from GRP Records as GRD 9954 and its simply called "Benny Goodman"!

The other cd of note is also trying to spread the appeal of jazz music, and is a compilation of Modern Jazz, with one track each for the likes of Chet Baker, Bud Shank, Gerry Mulligan and surprisingly David Newton, the well known British pianist.
This CD is on another strange label, Emporio, as EMPRCD 724 "All That Jazz". Well worth looking out for as its an excellent compilation.

That's it for now folks, see you ALL tomorrow night at Hedsor.

Geoff C