Blog Time again, and updated info for Hedsor Jazz.
We are trying (very!) to establish a Facebook page that is actually ours, and manageable by Jazz Angels (the power behind the bank account!). At the moment as far as I can see, you can only get to it if you use the Microsoft search engine (Bing) and ask for Hedsor Jazz, NOT Hedsor Jazz Club. If you use any other search engine at the moment you will get the Facebook Page for the Hedsor Jazz Club, which isn’t anything like up to date. Please find Hedsor Jazz and “like” us, and it may well help us solve all our problems. Yes, just like Facebook has done for you!
In the meantime, and for the foreseeable future I will be writing, nagging, and ranting on about jazz and jazz at Hedsor Jazz every Tuesday (DV which being translated means Deo Volente, God Willing) via this blog.
Coming this week, April 11th, it will be nothing like the poster you read last week!
We were going to have Johnny Thirkle on trumpet, but he is still away on tour, his travel plans having been disrupted. So in his place we have that young but exciting trumpet player last seen at Hedsor alongside Duncan Lamont Jr, Mathew Hill.
This time he will be playing alongside another saxophonist new to Hedsor Jazz, Martin Dunsdon. Martin is another experienced musician who amongst other things has been part of the Syd Lawrence Orchestra. Martin is replacing Sue Greenway, who is unable to come to us this week but who has yet to issue a sick note!.
On keyboard we will have again this week the services of Nigel Fox. Thanks Nigel for stepping into the breach left by Ken McCarthy’s recent albescence due to illness. To complete the line-up this week we will have Peter Hughes on bass and Martin Hart on drums.
Last week was as advertised!! Lester Brown and Mark Aston did turn up, even if Marks hair didn’t!
It was an evening with a broad tune choice. Some tunes were well known to modern jazz fans such as “Tangerine”, (which used to be the favourite solo vehicle for trombonist Roy Williams), “Bags Groove”, and “Wee”, but to open the second set “Cose Kale Mazel Tov”, was played, which being translated means “Good Luck to the Bride and Groom”. To add to this surprise, Lester played the keyboard!!
My photos for the evening, if not the sound, are below:-
For April 18th we anticipate having Lester Brown with us again, this time his accomplice at the front will be that wonderful saxophonist Frank Walden.
Don’t forget all our gigs have an entry charge of just £10 per person, and our start time is 8pm. Also remember to have a look for our new Facebook pages and “like” us, but please ensure it IS the new Hedsor Jazz page, not the old one!
Later this week I will put up the gig list for May.
Next month our vice president Vasilis Xenopoulos is giving a concert as part of the Cookham Festival on May 15th at Cookham’s Pinder Hall. With him will be pianist Paul Edis. Together they will be playing some of the material from their new cd “Feels like Home”
To quote the Amazon web page on this album:-
“Rooted in the jazz tradition, this is music that's eclectic,
groove based and fundamentally melodic. Including elements of hard bop, Latin
jazz, gospel and even folk, there are nods to Dexter Gordon, Stanley
Turrentine, John Coltrane, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bill Evans, Brad Mehldau,
McCoy Tyner and more besides. This is honest music full of emotions, inspired
and unified around the central theme of 'home'.”
So there you have it, 2 things Vasilis, The album and the
concert.
To book the concert please go via the Cookham Festival web page
BUT to hear Vasilis you don’t have to wait that
long, he will be with us at Hedsor Jazz
on April 25th!
Hedsor Jazz, a Quality Product!
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