Todays Blog 

A Month full of interest at Hedsor Jazz

We have a month of super gigs lined up for you this month. All start at 8.30pm and all have a £10 entry fee

March 3^rd           Duncan Lamont jr sax + Lester Brown tpt + Steve Riddle bass + Ken McCarthy keyboard + Martin Hart drums

     March 10^th                 Mike Innis trombone + Duncan Lamont jr sax+ Peter Hughes bass + Ken McCarthy keyboard + Martin Hart drums

     March 17^th                 Mike Wills reeds + Lester Brown tpt + Peter Hughes bass + Ken McCarthy keyboard + Martin Hart drums

     March 24^th                 Mike Wills reeds + Sue Greenway reeds + Terry Davis bass + Ken McCarthy keyboard + Martin Hart drums

Hedsor Jazz takes place at The Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Rd, 

Bourne End SL8 5ES

Please ensure you are free from covid infection by taking a lateral flow test before you come. Only come to Hedsor Jazz if you pass as clean using the government approved test kit. We have contacted all the musicians who will be with us in March and they have all agreed to abide by this requirement and we would ask you to do the same. No, we won’t ask for proof, only an honest response to this requested test, coupled with a sensible approach to the usual social distancing measures.

It will be great to welcome back to Hedsor Steve Riddle playing bass for us this week after a longer than desired gap.!

Last Thursdays photos are below.

 

Last week Martin Nickless and Max Brittain put on an interesting show, with Mike Jeffries providing the propulsion as Martin was taking a short break. The word “interesting” might raise the odd eyebrow, but it was, we don’t often get to hear a clarinet played all evening as the main front line instrument and many of the tunes played were from “The Great American Songbook”. Obviously well know to both our guests but not often heard in quantity at Hedsor.  In the second set they were joined from the audience by singer Kay Day (apologies if I miss heard the name) who I understand is also the wife of our bass player of the night Terry Davis.  He also joined her on bass and voice in the two songs she sang. It was a great way to celebrate her birthday in this way.

Coming this month in different places.

Alan Barnes is playing Norden farm on the 18^th March. Follow the link https://norden.farm/events/alan-barnes-sax and you can fine out more and book a ticket or two!

I went and saw Alan with John Pearce on keyboard at The Milford Arms in Isleworth last night and he is in fine form.

A few days earlier this month another of our favourites, (and now Cookham resident), Vasilis Xenopoulos is playing alongside Mark Aston at Marks monthly jazz meet.

See pic of poster below:-

 

I am still convinced, and I hope you will be too having read the months gig list, that what we provide at Hedsor Jazz is as good as can be had in anyplace. So do support it. If you are already convinced, then bring your friends. A very budget entry fee and free parking, club bar prices plus some of Britain’s best jazz musicians should also help to convince you to leave the telly behind for a night!

At Hedsor Jazz we also sell “part used” CD’s, and since September 2021 we have donated to CRUK £311 from their sale. Thank you to all you collectors.

The February Contribution

For now its time to publish. Perhaps before I do we might like to remember the musicians now living in the UK who come from the Ukraine, and to think of them and their families at this incredibly stressful time for them. "Tolly" who played for us in February, is one we know. 

Geoff C