A slightly late and also a bit brief, the blog this week does concentrate the mind on what we have coming up this week and next week too, and a recapitulation on what we had last week as well!

So, to be perverse last week first!

Our session with Stuart Henderson and Anatoliy Vyacheslavov was first class modern and exciting jazz. It was good to have both musician with us again, but particularly so to have “Tolly” back with us as he is quite hard to get hold of. A hard and exciting modern bop player with a big tone, he combined well with Stuart. His own solo’s within each tune were innovative and hard driving. The evening did get recorded, and it is available to download from my DropBox over the next month, just follow the link above the image of the cd cover.

dropbox 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/55mxedkn8pmflvj/AAD_F5X_jl82Vy0cK1FavzNja?dl=0

This coming Thursday we have a different sort of tenor player, but none the less an excellent one. We are pairing Al Nicholls with guitarist Max Britain, so the evenings sound might not be quite so hard driven as last week, but it will be interesting and full toned and full of invention. That’s this Thursday, September 23^rd from 8.30pm so do come along.

As you may have heard me say in the recent past we could do with more in the Hedsor audience. What Hedsor Jazz is putting on week by week is jazz music of a very high quality. We do have the funds to keep going, BUT unless we get a bigger audience I fear we will not be able to encourage the musicians we have so regularly had in the past to come out and play for us. It is just as important for the musicians to enjoy playing as it is for the audience to enjoy their music. If those musicians feel underappreciated, and we loose them, then I don’t see a future for jazz at Hedsor. We need an audience.

Don’t forget we have a very special evening coming up for the end of the month.

On September 30^th we will have Vasilis Xenopoulos and Nigel Price coming to play for us at Hedsor. We have been privileged to have them at Hedsor many times in the past.

Last week they were at Ronnie Scott’s! Please ensure they have an audience to play for at Hedsor by coming to see them, and by encouraging others to come too. It will only cost you £10 to get in, the car parking is free, and the drinks are very reasonably priced! You cannot say any of that for Ronnie Scott’s!

I do understand that there are still risks attached to going out and socialising. There is ample space at Hedsor to double our usual audience and still not to be crammed together and if you take the usual covid precautions you will probably be safer coming to sit and listen to Jazz at Hedsor than you would be shopping in the supermarket of your choice!

One young man came for the first time last week, a rock guitarist, who also happens to be the lead singer of “The Small Fakers”, yes a tribute band! Do look them up!  http://www.smallfakers.co.uk/