THIS WEEK AT HEDSOR JAZZ

We have as our guest the guitarist John Coverdale. John is a good friend of Hedsor Jazz, often stepping in as a last minute dep. for someone who has been taken ill with the "socially serving the community" disease! But this week we have booked him in advance! 

He will be playing alongside Clive Burton on trombone and our regular rhythm men. Our regular read section is having a little break so wont be with us this week!

Below is a resume of Johns musical pedigree, which I have lifted complete from "the jazz guitars" web site.

John studied jazz with Peter Ind and classical guitar at the London College of Music with Robert Brightmore.   Since the 1980s he has worked with many British jazzmen including Roy Williams, Bill le Sage, Don Rendell, Johnny van Derek, Ray Warleigh and Matt Wates. Visiting American musicians that John has worked with include Kenny Davern, Donald Byrd, Bobby Shew and Harry Edison. At this time he also worked with the influential folk singer Steve Benbow. In recent years John has worked with the Andy Dickens Band,  Ian Cruickshank's Gypsy Jazz, the Back to Basie Big Band as well as solo gigs.  In addition John has enjoyed backing singers as diverse as Frankie Vaughan, Buddy Greco, Tina May, Clare Teal and Jacqui Dankworth. John plays an Aria Pro 2 TA-STD electric, a Yamaha FG 110 steel string acoustic, and a Marcelino Lopez Spanish guitar. So do yourselves a favour, and join us for a relaxing hour or two of jazz, from 8.30 pm tomorrow, Thursday May 29th. It will soon be June (a birthday month for my "current" wife!!) and I am amazed at how quickly the year is racing past. It must be time to attract your attention to June 19th, when we will have that lovely singer Gill Cook coming to us. Gill is shortly to release her new CD, so come and hear some samples performed live at Hedsor Jazz. And we will still only charge you £6 each to get in!! One of her future appearances will be at the Ealing Jazz Festival, and I can assure you that it will be easier to park your car at Hedsor than it will be at Ealing! Well that's the future, how about our most recent past I hear you ask. Last week was one of those amazing events that Hedsor Jazz still manages to produce. The Remix Jazz Orchestra led by trumpeter Stuart Henderson literally filled Hedsor. 17 musicians filled the room with sound, and brought to us an audience to gladden any promoters heart (yes, I still have one, albeit partially reconditioned!). The result is that, partially due to some sponsorship, for which we are very grateful, we will be able to donate over £600 to Cancer Research UK. Well done everyone. The band were superb, the food were superb, the money raised for CRUK is superb, what more can I say? It was a superb evening. Thank you band, audience and Hedsor Helpers. Having sponsorship for a particular musician gives us at Hedsor Jazz a safety net to go ahead and book some of the better known jazz musicians that many of us would like to see. If you would like to do this, in full confidence, your name will not be announced, then do approach me, Geoff, and we can talk it through. Now back to this week, would some of the new-found audience perhaps like to sample our Quintet? it would be good to see you. Geoff C