It’s Tuesday again, blog day here in the Cookham’s. Not too much to comment on this week, except coming to Hedsor Jazz this THURSDAY August 17^th,  we have star trumpeter Stuart Henderson, with that saxophonist out of his Remix Orchestra, Jonathan Lewis, so it should be a sparkling evening.

Last weeks session with Mike Wills and Gary Wood was a bit like a blast from the past, slightly more Dixieland than is our usual, perhaps reminiscent of that great Alex Welsh band of the 60’s and 70’s. They played some of the tunes that I used to strive to play back in the day, but I can assure you that Gary could play his trumpet far more expertly than I could play mine!

Many thanks to all last week who helped by putting out and putting back the PA, tables and chairs in John Smith’s period of (almost) inactivity. His cataract op is going well, but he may need that same level of help this week, so “be prepared”!

It has been suggested that before too long we do have another evening of more traditional jazz at Hedsor, with perhaps Mike Wills and Lester Brown joined by the one time leader of Cookham’s now defunct “Fabulous Shirtlifters” Richard Kellaway. Believe it or not Richard did once play alongside Mike and Simon Spillett for a charity do!! That event was recorded, and allows me blackmailing rights with all three players, who were all on clarinet at the time!

Below is a picture of Hedsor Jazz’s new Hon. Pres. Vasilis Xenopoulos playing at a jazz festival in Belgium last week:-

 

Anyway, its a sunny day so far, so I will close this weeks blog with some pics from last Thursdays session, and posters for all of August and Septembers gigs.

 

Have fun.