Hedsor Jazz’s next evening on May 16^th is rushing towards us, and, yes, I will mention it in a moment, but even nearer is tonight’s gig at MARLOW JAZZ CLUB.

DO checkout there website (https://www.marlowjazz.co.uk/may2024eventsupdate.pdf) for featured there tonight May 14^th will be Simon Spillett and Alex Garnet (two tenors for, well £10!!) and they will be backed by FRANK HARRISON on Piano STUART BARKER, bass and ELLIOT TOMS drums

And then, before we get to Thursday, this Wednesday, May 15^th, as part of Cookham’s Festival of the Arts at Cookhams Pinder Hall we will have Vasilis Xenopoulos on saxophone with Paul Edis on keyboard playing music from their new CD “Feels Like Home”. Check out the webpage https://www.cookhamfestival.co.uk/vasilis-and-paul for more detail, but for Vasilis, Cookham is now home!

And now we do come to Thursdays gig at Hedsor Jazz! May 16^th.

We will be welcoming back the sound of the trombone, driven this time by Nick Mills. A fine musician, and a band leader in his own right, who has been with us a number of times before. This time he will be accompanied by a well know face (and sound!) at Hedsor, Mark Aston, on saxophones. It could even become a night where we get a pair of trombones, as Mark not only plays the saxophone, but has also been seen and heard playing the trombone! 

That’s this Thursday May 16^th at The Hedsor Bar (nee Social Club). £10 entry, please pay very near the door!

Nick Mills and Mark Aston with us in January

Last week was another of our session where we listened to the combined talents of Lester Brown on trumpet and  Mike Wills on reeds various. A lot of nice tunes, all freshly arranged by Mike for what has fast become a legacy band, The Clive Burton Celebration Quintet! Mike takes a lot of care over these sessions, nearly always bringing along a whole evening of fresh arrangements for the band to play. No mean achievement, arranging and printing the scores for about 10 tunes. Those of us amateurs who used to play just star in awe as they are all played by all at first sight! On keyboard was Nigel Fox, on bass Peter Hughes and on drums Mike Jeffries

It was also a delight to have Ken McCarthy in our audience for the first time in a number of months, having had a number of stays in hospital since February. We look forward to his reappearance on keyboard, but I must take the opportunity of thanking Nigel Fox for deputising during all of Kens absence. Thank you Nigel.

My photos are below.