This week a blog of two halves.

        And this is Part Two!

Tomorrow is of course November 11^th, a day for remembrance. One where I shall be remembering past wars and past people with current and young people in St Clement Danes School in Hertfordshire.

Yes I am an Old Dane, which has a double significance for me, being a past attendee of the grammar school when it was in Hammersmith, and also a past member of the RAF. St Clement Danes Church in the Strand is the RAF church. So the first trumpet of the day for me will be one playing the last post in the schools service of remembrance.

Mind you I also hope to join you, or maybe have you join me, later in the day in listening to some more brass music in the evening at Hedsor Club. For 11 11 at Hedsor we have saxophonist Duncan Lamont together with trombone player Mike Innes. What a presentation of talents.

On their last visit to Hedsor

Last week we had two other talents, trumpeter and raconteur Ian Smith and tenor player Ollie Wilby. Ken McCarthy was taking a well earned break “up North” and in his place we had keyboard player John Cooper. Music was played, stories were told and great fun was had by all. My pictures of the evening are below.

All of our Thursday evenings are special. Apart from the covid shutdowns we have been presenting first class live jazz EVER THURSDAY at Hedsor for over 20 years. I will say however that in order to carry on we do need your physical presence. I do appreciate that going out has become less of a habit. There is so much jazz to watch on YouTube, even though it is now constantly interrupted by adverts. But jazz is a living culture, it needs to be lived not just watched or remembered, so do consider supporting it, even though it means going out into the weather and the dark. 

This week we also have a Big Band gig to support at Cookham Rise’s Methodist Church on Friday, see previous blog portion for the advert.

An Advanced notice.

Our Christmas Party (yes that dreaded C word) on December 23^rd will have tonight’s guest  Duncan Lamont together with singer Sarah Moule. But we are also going to have a very special raffle.

A large basket of Christmas food will be raffled off to raise money for Cancer Research UK, courtesy of an anonymous donor. For two years now we haven’t been able to run one of our fundraising Jazz evenings, and due to our donor’s generosity we will be able to make up a little for this with the proceeds from this Christmas Raffle.

The sale of CD’s, started again in September, has so far raised over £120 for CRUK

So ends part two!