Another Blog, and another week in which to look forward to a super Thursday Night of Jazz.

Where? At Hedsor Jazz of course.

Coming this Thursday (October 20^th) we have that terrific pairing of saxophonist Vasilis Xenopoulos and guitarist Nigel Price. Each individually have become world class musicians, but bring them together and they become musical magicians, conjuring up excitement and innovation beyond compare. At Hedsor, we are so privileged to have them come and play for our level of audience. Let’s face it, if Hedsor reached its Fire Regulation limit it would still be 1/10 of the audience numbers they usually play for. For you, the audience, it is an opportunity to see and meet in such intimate surroundings musicians of their quality. They will be ably supported by The Martin Hart Trio.

 

The following Thursday (October 27^th) is another opportunity to meet and listen to musicians more used to playing really large venues. Trumpet star Johnny Thirkle will be out front of our trio and alongside reedman Mike Wills. John has just finished a tour with Lisa Stansfield and has also been on tour with “Jamiroquai” since he was last Hedsor. Do come and listen to his carbon fibre trumpet.

We have much more lined up for you in the weeks before Christmas. Do look back to last week's blog where the rest of the year is “explained”!

 Dont forget that if you want to jazz on a Tuesday night, there is “another” place to do so locally. Check out https://www.marlowjazz.co.uk/Events2022fromAugust.pdf

 Also, slightly further afield, more jazz is available in and around Reading. Check out “Jazz in Reading” https://www.jazzinreading.com/

Looking back on last week I will leave you with some of Geoff Swaffield’s photos from the set we had from “The Clive Burton Celebration Quintet”, which includes Lester Brown and Mike Wills, all backed by The Martin Hart Trio.

Geoff S managed to take a set of pics from his phone and are less full frontal than mine.

 

Steve Smith on bass

The CBCQ often play tunes that the late Clive Burton used to play. They also play tunes and new arrangements that he may well have enjoyed playing as well.

Remember, the future is always based on the past, but you can only live in the present.

That’s about it for now folks, take care,

 

Geoff C