This weeks blog can be viewed as both positive and negative.

Positive, we now have our 30 “volunteers” for our first post lockdown Hedsor Jazz concert on May 20^th.

Your invitations are in the post and each invitation is accompanied by a summary of the covid rules that will apply on that day inside Hedsor Club.

The negative is if you don’t get an invitation in the post, you were unlucky this time. No invitation, no entry!

However, more good news, there will be another gig a week later on May 27^th.

I am delighted to be able to say that on May 27^th we will have Stuart Henderson and Duncan Lamont jnr coming.

If you would like to come to that you must let Tracy (tracy.georgiades@gmail.com) know before coming.  In order to prevent disappointment at the door we are asking you all to pre book each week via Tracy. There will be a limit of 30 people allowed in to any of our gigs until, at the earliest, mid June.

Now all of the above is of course subject to government decision. On May 17^th there is a government review of the lockdown rules and the relaxation route out of lockdown and if the government retracts its unlock plan, we wont be having any gigs at all!

However we have looked ahead with a positive plan!

If all goes well, and all the boxes get ticked, then we can look forward to:-

20^th  May   Lester Brown trumpet+ Kelvin Christiane reeds + Peter Hughes bass + Ken McCarthy keyboard + Martin Hart drums

27^th  May   Stuart Henderson trumpet + Duncan Lamont Jnr reeds+ Terry Davis bass + Martin Hart drums

 3^rd  June   Lester ++++++  

10^th  June   Alan Graham vibs  +++++++++++

17^th  June   Lester+++++++++

One last thought.

Last week I blogged about the pianist Tony Lee tracks that were available on a Google Drive link. Can I say that having listened again this week I strongly recommend you download the files and store them for future listening or even for future generations of jazz fans to listen to. 32 sessions are represented in that link. 3.2GB of mp3 jazz recorded at live gigs between 1970 and 1987. The individual sessions and tracks are well documented within the software, are all reasonably well recorded and have some of the late 20^thcenturies British jazz greats performing before an audience. Dick Morrisey, Terry Smith, Danny Moss, Ronnie Ross, Alan Ganley, Bill Le Sage, Jo Temperly, playing at venues like The Pizza on the Park, The Bulls Head at Barnes, The Burford Bridge Hotel and others. All recorded with Tony Lee at the piano

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_4h4o5gAuTOTEdVdzJXSmI2M1E

Don’t forget you can get free flow test corona virus test kits from your local pharmacy.

We will meet again soon. Keep well.