THIS WEEK AT HEDSOR JAZZ

THIS Thursday August 13^th at The Hedsor Bar, we have the great ALAN BARNES!

Coming to celebrate the great heat wave, but in the cool of The Hedsor Bar’s AIR CONDITIONING is multi-reed instrumentalist Alan Barnes, one of Britain’s top saxophonists, and a great humorists to boot.

Accompanying him at Hedsor this week will be Ken McCarthy on keyboard, Richard Sadler on bass and Mike Jeffries on drums.

We are also hoping to see American singer Nanci Zhang this Thursday too. After her last appearance when she saw on our handbills that Alan was with us this week she suggested that she might like to come and sit in for a couple of songs too.

So cool jazz in a cool room! What better way is there to celebrate a hot August.

Last time Alan was with us he came with his long time friend and associate Dave Newton on keyboard. Sadly Dave is unable to come to us with him this year, (we are trying to book him for later in the year), so there will be more space for Alan’s humour!

Alan and Dave do have an excellent program of piano-saxophone duets worked out. They have played together for many years since their time together at Leeds Music College and have an excellent rapport. A video of them working together in concert at St Mary’s Church, Perivale,( filmed 9 months ago) can be viewed from the link:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1jzAb4whw

If you copy and paste this in your browser you will get 75 minutes of the complete concert. (be aware that the first 15 minutes from the link is waiting time and preamble)!

“The quality of Hedsor is not strained” is obviously a corruption of Portia’s speech from “The Merchant of Venice”, but you might like to consider it, because two weeks after Alan’s appearance at Hedsor, we have a return of another well loved saxophonist and friend of Hedsor Jazz. Duncan Lamont Jr. is coming to play for us on August 27^th, together with trumpeter Lester Brown.

Reducing Hedsor Jazz’s frequency may have enabled us to keep going, but it also means that we cannot see friends quiet as often as we all would like, and I do mean friends who play as well as those who listen.

One final sad note. You may have had, or may still have, a strange email message purporting to come from me. Please DO NOT RESPOND. It isn’t from me, my address book has been “compromised”. To be on the safe side I would suggest you change your passwords.