Hedsor Jazz 6.2.18
The first thing to note this week is that
THERE WILL BE NO JAZZ AT HEDSOR ON FEBRUARY 15th
I’m am sorry to have to say
this but we wont be able to run our session on February 15th as the
club IS CLOSED for refurbishment.
We sincerely hope that our
schedules session for February 22nd with Sue Greenway is able to
proceed. We have been told that Hedsor Club is only expected to be closed for
10 days and should be available for this session, BUT WATCH THIS SPACE.
We had hoped to have a jazz
evening in “another place” that night but the OK for this was given too late to
ensure that we would get an audience in “that place”. It was a venue that
Hedsor Jazz had not presented in before, and we thought it better, in view of
the limited time to advertise this new venue, not to go ahead. However it may
well be available to us at a future date if we should so desire.
This week we have one of
our favourite guest musicians, vibraphone player Alan Grahame. Do come along
and enjoy someone who has played with all the stars of stage and TV.
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| Alan Celebrating Christmas with us in 2011 |
Make sure you have in your
diary March 22nd. We are going to run our Cancer Research UK
fundraising night that evening and our special guest will be singer Sarah
Moule. Sarah has played for us at Hedsor once or twice before, and she is a
really great jazz singer. Do look her up on Google. A good place to start is with her record company, Linn:-
Last week we had the second
session by “The Clive Burton Celebration Quintet”, and this time they were
joined in the second set by Martin Hart’s son Miles on trumpet. A Geoff
Swaffield photo of this is below.
Finally I hope some of you
listen to BBC 3’s “Jazz record Requests”, something I have done almost every
week since FM radio came about (yes, with VALVES!). Those of you who did so
last week would have heard, as a tribute to the late John Critchison, a track
from Simon Spillett’s album on Gearbox Records “Yesterday I Heard the Rain”. If
you missed the program it can be had on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qclq3
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| Simon Spillett playing in Primrose Hill This Weekend |
Whilst referring to Radio
3, straight after this weeks broadcast of JRR a Jazz Line-up program had a
short set by Tommy Smith and Brian Kellock. A session well worth trying to grab
hold of (and it can still be had via https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qdb58)
Its always amazes me what
just 2 jazz musicians can do. I remember long ago Alex Welsh dueting with
pianist Fred Hunt, and Humphrey Lyttleton did a whole album with pianist Mike
Pyne. I can still remember Peter Clayton introducing them as the only band that
could get to gigs on a tandem!
So jazz has a great
heritage. But jazz can still be heard and still surprise,delight and amaze, if
YOU go out to Live Gigs!
TTFN Geoff C
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