Good Blog to all! It was a delight to get back to Hedsor Jazz last Thursday. The clamp of COVID was loosened enough, and the music of Pete Rudeforth and Alam Nathoo was incredibly enjoyable and refreshing. The beer also went down well!

My pictures of the evening are below, but I must say both front line musicians were/are superb, and although they are players of different styles, they sorted out enough tunes for each to play and combine without any glaring hints of conflict. Neutral style tunes like “Bye Bye Blackbird” and “In A Mellow Tone” allowed everyone to play to there strengths, and for everyone to admire their tremendous skills. It was another great evening, something that Hedsor Jazz can sometimes pull out of the hat. Our friendly atmosphere and intimate environment somehow encourages such lovely evenings. And all at just £10 per head!

Thinking of our entry fee, I received this week the program for the autumn season for The Wycombe Swan Theatre, and was kind of surprised to see that most evenings there would cost you an entry fee of at least £30 each!

A different venue, but TONIGHT, you can hear Big Band Jazz at Cookham Rise Methodist Church, see advert below.

If you can get to it this evening, you will find one of “our” bass players standing, bass in hand, slightly to one side!! Yes, it will be Peter Hughes, who is band by the band (!) from showing off his braces!

Coming to Hedsor Jazz this Thursday, October 10^th, we have Lester Brown on trumpet and Frank Waldon on tenor sax. Again these are two musicians of tremendous ability who have developed within different styles of jazz. They are both regular contributors to our jazz life at Hedsor, and again both have learnt to adapt to produce a great partnership in front of “our” Hedsor Jazz rhythm section. Come and listen. Its a £10 bargain!

 

Below are our posters for October and November. If you can please print them off and display them to the public. You never know, our next sponsor may well be out there just waiting to find us!!