It’s Tuesday again, another blog day, and quite frankly, Doris Day could well be singing

 Oh, the weather outside is frightful

But the fire is so delightful

And since we've no place to go

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

 BUT we are spared the snow, however dreary the weather actually is. I believe there is “a sun up in the sky”...but I don’t seem to have seen it for weeks.

However,         “when everything seems against us, Hedsor Jazz is here to help us!!”

And what better way to brighten our day (one short of St Valentine’s) is a Thursday evening of JAZZ on February 13th.

And this week at Hedsor Jazz we have two familiar faces in the front line. On trumpet Lester Brown, recovering from last month’s trad night, and Mark Aston on trombone, probably simply recovering!! We anticipate Ken McCarthy will be right behind them, and so will be Al Pirrie on bass and Martin Hart on drums. Pictured below is the last time Lester and Mark collaborated at Hedsor.

 

This past week has been a good week for jazz in our area. Dawkes, the music shop in Maidenhead, has been promoting live music in their new “Performance Space”, since it opened in the Autumn of 24 and on Sunday afternoon they had Stuart Henderson with Ollie Weston playing the music of “Blue Note”. A couple of my photos from the afternoon are below:-

Both of them have been front liners at Hedsor Jazz in the past fortnight, and Tonight Feb 11th,(YES a Tuesday night) two other Hedsor performers will be playing at Dawkes, saxophonists Jonathan Lewis and Martin Dunston, see poster below:-

 

Last Thursday we had our own very special evening of bop, and yet again the Hedsor Roar was heard, as Stuart Henderson and Alam Nathoo again collaborated. A wonderful evening and my pictures of the evening are below.

 

We have often wondered how Alam keeps so well in practice as he isn’t a full time musician anymore, but in talking with John Dawkes on Sunday we discovered at least one of Alam secrets . He uses one of Dawkes practice studios! Much better than waking a young family member up at home!!

Do keep an eye on Dawkes, they are beginning to use their new performance area much more and it is a very smart place to be..

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/dawkesmusic

Coming to Hedsor Jazz NEXT WEEK February 20th, we will have James Fenn, a guitarist who was one of the founders of jazz at Hedsor.

When it was The Hedsor Social Club we ran some Monday evenings of guitar led jazz under his leadership, and on one of those occasions we met Vasilis Xenopoulos for the first time, and we also had pianist John Critchinson play as a dep!! However next week, we will have a guest to join James, and it may well be another dep, watch his space.

Well that’s about it for now folks. Don’t forget that live jazz needs a live audience. It’s what gives the exciting bits the roar!

PS I have used blogspot for around 20 years, and I still don't understand why sometimes the background to the text changes colour. I don't do it!!