All That Hedsor Jazz

This week the blog is all about The Things to Come, in black and white of course. Things past will be in colour!

Below is our current artists booking List, do make a note of it, and it would be good if you could support ALL of our gigs, but don’t miss any you particularly fancy! All guests are backed by our rhythm section, usually led by Martin Hart on the drums.

THIS WEEK, May 2nd, we have guitarist Jezz Cook who is bringing “our” saxophonist Mike Wills with him from Oxford.

May 9th another session with “our” trumpet man Lester Brown alongside guest saxophonist Duncan Lamont jnr. They worked wonderfully well together last week, the photos of that are below.

May 16th  the amazingly youthful Alan Graham on vibes with another stalwart, guitarist & John Coverdale

May 23rd Lester Brown with saxophonist Mark Aston. Anyone who saw Mark and his vintage baritone last time wont want to miss this.

May 30th  Guitarist Max Brittain and a surprise guest, well he is to me at the moment!

June 6th  Trumpet ace Stuart Henderson & Duncan Lamont jnr. A great combination, who have played Hedsor together before. Was that Christmas? I may be wrong, I have been in the past, but come along and tell me. Pay your money at the door first though!

June 13th This is another very special evening, as we have managed to book guitarist Nigel Price.

June 20th Yet to be arranged.

June 27th another very special evening with two musicians who haven't been to Hedsor before (yes, some musicians have still to experience our discerning  audience). Trumpeter Ian Smith (who has played trumpet with talents as varied as Gwyneth Herbert, Hank Wangford and Michael Horowitz. He has lectured on Modern and Renaissance Poetry at universities on both sides of the Atlantic while also playing jazz regularly with some of the leading players in Britain and Europe) so say’s his CV. He will be together with Ollie Wilby on tenor sax. Ollie comes highly recommended by Duncan Lamont and has been a member of Ray Gelatos Jazz Giants, so put that gig in your diary.
  
July 11th  We are putting together an evening featuring Latin Jazz, with Mike Wills, Jezz Cook and Lester Brown with additional percussion from Mike Jeffries.

Aug 1st A Very Special evening of music from the Duke Ellington Songbook with singer Sara Moule, her husband Simon Wallace on piano and saxophonist Dave Bitelli. Hear them at Hedsor, it's cheaper than the London places this set has been played at!

August 29th  Stuart Henderson & saxophonist Tolly. Now you know this will be good, and you don’t really need me to spell out Tolly’s name do you? Yes, well it’s  Anatoliy Vyechslavov. You just have to come back from your holidays for this one!

One final booking for now, December 19th is our Christmas Party and we are again indebted to our sponsor for our guest will again be singer Tina May.

Below are photos from last weeks session.

One Eye for the Dots!