WOW, what a great night of music and reunion
 
Hedsor Jazz is BACK

 

As we gathered on Thursday May 20th it was so strange and yet so normal. We hadn’t met each other for 14 months and yet it seemed like only last week. Yes, there was some slight confusion at the beginning as to where to sit. Maybe it was in a different place to the last time you were there. But we were all there, and the musicians really did sound as though they had only played there the week before. Yet for all of us, it was the first gig this year!

There was also an unexpected treat! Food had been provided for the 2 short breaks by Jan Burton and Gill Jones. Thank you both.

SO, until further notice, Jazz at Hedsor IS BACK.

It really was a thoroughly enjoyable evening and later this week the recording I made of it will be available via my DropBox link, but please, a few more days to complete that is still needed.

The evening had some differences, no raffle and no CD’s to buy, felt necessary to help out with the social distancing.

We were up to our maximum audience of 30 and we will need to keep to the rules regards facemasks, distancing, toilets and hand cleanliness which are becoming basic common sense. 

From Hedsor Jazz’s viewpoint we will need advance notice of your intention of coming to any of our future gigs until at the very earliest June 21^st when we anticipate a new statement from the government about indoor music events. 

You must be assured via Tracy tracy.georgiades@gmail.com  that there will be space for you. 

Our next gig on 27^th May is already fully booked. 

DO book now for June 3rd

Please look at our forthcoming gigs listed below and book ahead via Tracy. You must also provide contact details for track and trace. A phone number and/or email address would be great. The email address would also give us a chance of letting you know by email what is happening in the future.

Next week we are also back to asking for money at the door. £10 per person is our entry fee, which we will keep under review.

We will also be back to our normal start time of 8.30pm.

So below some photos of the evening from myself and from Geoff Swaffield (our very sound guy, he does the lights as well), then our next few gigs.

Photos from our first night back

 

Future Gigs please book for these via Tracy. Max attendance is limited to just 30 people, first come first served

27th May      Stuart Henderson trumpet + Duncan Lamont jr saxophone + Ken McCarthy keyboard+ Terry Davis bass + Martin Hart drums, leader and announcer.

3rd June      Lester Brown trumpet + Mark Aston saxophone+ Esther  Ng bass+ Martin Hart drums

10^th June      Alan Graham vibraphone  + Mike Wills reeds (? hopefully) + bass to be arranged + Martin Hart drums

17^th June      Ian Smith trumpet + Ollie Wilby saxophone + Ken McCarthy keyboard  + bass to be arranged + Martin Hart drums

One final thought for now.

I am very aware that we have to have pre knowledge of your intention to attend, and your contact details. I am reading a book at the moment called “The Store” by James Patterson, and although it all seems very slightly far fetched, maybe not so far. We have already been ordering items online for home delivery, we know how certain web sites prompt you to buy from the knowledge they have already of what you have looked at in the past on the web search engine of your choice. You now have to have passwords and triple confirmation of identity for every web site you visit or software you use. Yesterday I tried to download the drivers for a friend’s printer that I was trying to mend. I couldn’t do that without being asked for my post code! They only wanted to help! Did we really transition through 1984?

So I do apologise for our needs to ask for your contact details. Just as soon as the government restrictions introduced as part of the covid legislation are lifted, I assure you that you will be able to come to Hedsor Jazz without us knowing who you are , or who you are with (well only so that we can be friends!).

Do have a read of