My, doesn’t time fly?

Already we are up to the last week of June, and summer suns have been glowing. Maybe a bit too hot for some, but The Hedsor Bar did have the air conditioning on last week, so inside it was comfortable!

Our session last week with Pete Rudeforth and Martin Dunston was, as anticipated, a mix of tunes making one call to mind music from a pre atomic era. Except that some of the tunes were in fact composed by Pete himself, definitely more recent than Mr. Basie!

It was one of those rare evenings without Ken McCarthy, Mike Jeffries or Martin Hart, but it was refreshing to have some different styles of both piano and drums, Martin Picket and John Sargent being welcome guest replacements. My photos from the evening are below:-

 

Coming to us this week to play in front of Ken McCarthy and Peter Hughes, even perhaps Martin Hart, we have saxophonist Frank Walden. He will be partnered by trumpeter Lester Brown. Again it will be an interesting amalgam of styles, Lester being more in the traditional style of trumpet player, whereas Frank was at one time in Amy Whitehouse’s band. It will be fun to hear.

 

Lester Brown with Mike Jeffries

 

Frank Walden with Ken McCarthy

July and August are usually holiday months and although some of us will have away days, Hedsor Jazz will still present you with somewhere to listen to top class jazz every Thursday.

 

Do see our July programme below where you will be spoilt for choice.

 

August will also bring some great musicians to The Hedsor Bar. So Thursdays are always going to have some great live jazz for you to be enthralled by.

 

All this for only £10 per head. It has to be in cash only to get in, but the bar does accept electronic payment for your liquid entertainment. Don’t forget, the car park is free, and Bourne End doesn’t have a congestion charge or a clean air fine either. In fact Hedsor doesn’t have a lot of street lights either!

 

For those of you who watch and listen via YouTube, do check out a series of videos that I have been following this past week. “Ellington 30” is a competition for American Student bands, and the quality is astounding. Follow the link or search Essentially Ellington 2025

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReW5Mv77OKA7FpIyl3hK-t3z0HktQ5b-

 

That’s it for now folks, see you (all?) Thursday

 

Geoff