A short blog today, but it is coming out on the correct day of the week this time!

We have been a little short on numbers recently, and I want to stress that if you would like to come to ANY Hedsor Jazz session now, you don’t need to pre book with Tracy, but when you pay her on entry do be prepared to give her your contact details for covid 19 tracing.

It was pointed out that maybe people who thought they would like to come at the last minute might be put off because they hadn’t email Tracy, our money launderer (that’s cash to jazz!), and therefore didn’t come. Well, we don’t want anyone to miss the exciting evenings we get at Hedsor Jazz, and I can assure you all that our live jazz is better than your broadest band TV!!

And this week is pretty special! Thursday 16^th September we have Stuart Henderson on trumpet and flugel horn and Anatoliy Vyacheslavov on tenor sax as our front line guests.

Last week saw another excellent evening with Kelvin Christian doing his Roland Kirk impersonation on “Blue Rol” and trumpeter Andy Gibson blowing some high notes on Clifford Brown’s “Joy Spring”.

Sadly my Tascam recorder decided it had run out of memory in the second set, but if you missed both the above, they can be found via the DropBox links put out yesterday.

My photos of the evening are below.

 Coming soon is our evening with Vasilis Xenopoulos and Nigel Price on September 30^th. We won’t be allowed to fill the room, but we are anticipating double our usual number. Do tell your friends, your neighbours, and you can always bring your mum. Let’s welcome these guys to Hedsor. They have gained fame if not fortune since the days when they played in the bar! As I said last week, the musicians play better to a supportive audience.

Have any of you caught up with a CD released recently by Tony Coe?

Called “Dancing in the Dark” it was released last month on Gearbox GB1567CD. It has Tony playing alongside pianist John Horler back in 2007 in St Michaels Church, Appleby. Just the two of them with Tony on clarinet all the time. It is a wonderful showcase for one of the UK’s most innovative jazz musicians. No matter what reed instrument he plays on he has an identifiable sound, almost dribbling out some of his notes but always making perfect and exciting sense within the context of the tune being played. Tony has been one of the jazz musicians I have tried to get to see whenever possible ever since he joined the Humphrey Lyttleton Band at the age of 18. He replaced another of Britain’s great reed innovators, Bruce Turner!

"Some other Autumn" is a tune Tony wrote back in the 1970’s and appears on this latest release but is also on a CD in the HEP catalogue (HEP CD 2037). It was originally released on the Doug Dobell 77 Records Label around 1971!

That's it for now folks, stay safe.