THIS IS JAZZ FROM GEOFF

How time fly‘s, especially when you are enjoying all the high quality debates over Brexit! Sorry, bad form, mustn’t talk about religion, or is that politics?

Away then to JAZZ, and this week a shorter blog than usual, because I have been taken up this weekend with our computer shipment to Ghana, and other matters now press for my time. We have had a spate of household items breaking and they are now in need of repair. Just how many can give up the ghost so near Halloween?

Coming to Hedsor Jazz this week (in a sponsored concert) are Stuart Henderson on trumpet and flugelhorn, and Kelvin Christiane on saxophones and flute, backed as usual by The Clive Burton Celebration Trio. I’m sure this will be a great session of lively jazz, performed by two of our long standing Hedsor Jazz friends.

Don't forget that if you fancy a Thursday Evening of jazz performed by your favourite jazz musicians, we do accept sponsored gigs. You pay, we book, we take any profit from the night to set against future less profitable gigs. Just talk to Martin Hart or John Dutton our treasurer about it.

Last week we had the full Celebration Quintet, with John Donegan as our pianist. It was good to hear again some of the tunes and arrangements that we used to hear in the days of Clive. Jan was with us, and it was good to reminisce about some of his phrases, “he’s no athlete” as someone rushes for their raffle prize, or “are you wearing that (shirt?) as a dare?”. I just wonder what he would be saying about the unmentionable subject I started off with!

Pictures below of last weeks concert, and of “my“ shipment to Ghana. If all goes well with the repairs, next week perhaps a bit more writing about jazz, even a CD review too perhaps.

The Quintet were joined by Miles Hart in the second set

Some of the photos of the Ghana shipment

We again shipped 5 boxes of computer equipment off to Nyaboo in Ghana. All have been donated by local people and those shipped this week will join those already there in helping to educate over 450 Ghanaian children