Good Tuesday to all who Jazz.

Coming to Hedsor Jazz this week we have 3 good reasons for you to come and spend your £7 on our entry fee.

1. On Vibes our dear friend Alan Grahame
2. On guitar our dear friend Max Brittain
3. On bass our new friend Esther Ng

They will have the support of Nigel Fox on keyboard and Martin Hart on drums. It should be a really tuneful and melodic evening. Both Alan and Max have spent a lifetime in the music industry and are both expert in their respective crafts.

Esther I missed on her first visit to Hedsor Jazz, but I am assured she is well worth the evening away from the TV. Apparently she is a worker in the Health Industry, and has been playing the bass for over 7 years. I heard the word “amazing” being used about her and her performance on her first visit to Hedsor in July.

Last week we had with us for the first time in a number of months what we call “The Clive Burton Celebration Quintet”. It was really good to have Lester Brown and Mike Wills back in front of our rhythm section again, which last week also had a bass player new to Hedsor. He will be back, as we enjoyed his playing, AND he enjoyed being with us. So look out for ROGER DAVIS in future blogs.

The band brought a number of quite tricky arrangements with them last week, and it looked challenging. However, talking with Nigel afterwards he relished this challenge, as sometimes  he gets bored with playing the same tunes repeatedly on the various gigs he plays in a week.

My photos from last week are below.

Last week I distributed round Hedsor Club our gig list for September and October. If you haven’t got one and would like to print one off, I will put it as a pdf file in my DropBox folder. Here is the link you will need.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1gqkz6nrdwvh6pa/HEDSOR%20JAZZ%20gigs%20sept%20oct.pdf?dl=0

Copy and paste this into your internet search engine and it should allow you to download the file.

OK, time for more stimulants! Well, coffee is isn’t it?

TTFN

Geoff