The Hedsor Jazz Blog is Little Bit Earlier than Usual

and it will be the last blog for 2024. 

So just to start, a Christmas Greeting to you all

DO HAVE A SPLENDID CHRISTMAS TIME

and 

an invitation to our last gig of the year, our famous Christmas Party

AND ALL FOR JUST £10 per head

Next year we start on JANUARY 9th, 

and the 4 weeks of our music for January 2025 are set out for you below

AS you can see from our January program we are starting 2025 as we mean to go on, with wonderful players and a variety of musical styles all under that overall banner word JAZZ

Throughout the year we aim to bring you, on occasions, a evening in a changed style to the 1950's MODERN jazz that has been our mainstay for the past 20 years. We want to illustrate the many variations that can go under that word JAZZ.

To some extent last weeks session with Al Nicholls and Titch Walker did just that and kind of prefaced our January 23rd evening. Booting Texas style tenor playing from Al, with some Dixieland style trumpet from Titch, even playing tunes like "Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans" and "Back Home Again in Indiana". Great fun, but a complete contrast to the week before where Stuart Henderson and Alam Nathoo played as one charts that they had never seen before.

My pictures from last week are below.

Finally can I thank all of you for the support you have offered to us at Hedsor Jazz in 2024. You have turned out on dark days, windy days, election days, closed bridge days and you have all helped in that task of Keeping Live Jazz ALIVE

May Christmas bring you all the gifts you desire, and the refreshment, physical and emotional, that will lead you into 2025 with a fresh resolve. 

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Geoff