There is a bright star in the sky! Sunshine? AND we also look forward to a bright star at Hedsor Jazz this coming Thursday, March 20th! Saxophonist star Vasilis Xenopoulos will be leading our rhythm section of Ken McCarthy on keyboard, Al Pirrie on bass and Mike Jeffries on drums and I’m sure he will be exploiting some of the meaning of jazz for us. Sometimes it is good to have just one front line voice to exploit tunes that we may have heard multiple times. More can sometimes come from less. I personally always enjoy listening to the harmonies generated by two instruments at the front, one le ..read more

Tuesday 11th March. ALREADY! And we still have plenty of good jazz things for you to look forward to! This week at Hedsor Jazz, it’s Lester Brown on trumpet, and James Fenn on guitar. Two long time associates of jazz at Hedsor, with Lester being more recently regular, and James being a longer term associate!. Lester Brown James Fenn and Martin Hart I know many of you now get a synopsis from another Jazz Angel about who is playing in any given week, but I will enlarge on James’s.  “James Fenn Guitarist  a member of The Filthy Six with a EP ‘Soho ..read more

Time and tide wait for no man so they say, and as Canute tried to disprove. He failed and got wet feet. So here am I again writing to encourage you that live jazz Hedsor Jazz style is worth all of your time and effort. And as it is (again) a new month, our first Thursday of the month (March 6th) has trumpeter Stuart Henderson teamed up again with saxophonist Alam Nathoo. This has proved a very popular pairing this year so far, and we hope to establish it as a regular pattern. With them this week will be Ken McCarthy on keyboard, Al Pirrie on bass and Mike Jeffries on drums ..read more

A short, but hopefully informative, blog today. A number of computer items seem to have crashed in the last few days with less reliability built in than the Wright Flyer!! So, I am behind schedule!! First, coming this week, one of Hedsor Jazz’s Favourites. He has been coming to play with “our” guys since the 1990’s when jazz was being played (yes, on a Thursday) in what was The Cookham Tavern, now Costa’s Coffee!   He played in the tribute concert at Norden Farm after the death of Keith Vitty in 2002, which was recorded (CD’s still available) and has been coming back over the years. AL Ni ..read more

The weeks fly by, and we are heading towards the third week of February already. I always seem to have more things to do than weeks to do them in, which in many ways is a good thing, as I don’t know what it would be like to be bored! But I wouldn’t miss who we have coming this Thursday, February 20th.  When I wrote last week that guitarist James Fenn might have a dep playing next to him, I was mistaken. Saxophonist Frank Walden is billed and is coming! You can see them together in action in “The Filthy Six” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8P67sqNu-E. But at Hedsor Jazz this we ..read more

 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 ..read more

Good Morning blog readers. We have escaped January, and have reached into February, and a whole new month of Thursdays, with excellent jazz for you to listen to every week. At Hedsor Jazz we are trying to establish variety and consistency!! Consistent quality, and a pattern of performers, so this coming Thursday, 6th Feb, we have, as the first Thursday of the month (as in January) the bringing together of two huge talents. Stuart Henderson and Alam Nathoo, trumpet and saxophone respectively. Over recent months we have found that bringing these two together more than doubles the enjoyment of li ..read more

 Another week has gone by, with many of us singing “Stormy Weather”, and with a mild feeling of surprise we have almost finished with JANUARY. Yes, 2025 has got past its starting line. From a Hedsor Jazz point of view, I think it has gone pretty well. Our first meeting was freezing cold, but slowly we have warmed up our audience, and our experience last week of the more traditional forms of jazz was nicely filled with an appreciative audience. I think most enjoyed the change of tunes, and thank you Richard (Kellaway) for bringing almost your entire collection of reed instruments to add to ..read more

Another drab Tuesday. Drab is a “nice” word that hides the dull. One thing I hope we don’t do at Hedsor Jazz is drab and dull. We have had a couple of extremely un-drab (?) Thursday evening’s this year already, and this coming Thursday we have arranged for a definitely un-dull and different evening to enliven your Hedsor Jazz experience. Last week (pictures below) was an evening of sunshine and smiles (well in musical terms anyway). Duncan Lamont Jr telling us all about the music that was being played, as well as playing it and Pete Rudeforth adding to the well know tunes with two of his own ..read more

Hi Readers, another blog presaging another outing to Hedsor Jazz. Last weeks blog effort was a large one, and I think this weeks will be shorter to compensate. Those of us who braved the cold (both outside the club and sadly inside too) had another jazz treat, with Stuart Henderson and Alam Nathoo sparkling together like the frost outside! There are very few places in the UK where you can listen to such jazz quality and at such a small outlay. Tell your friends, because as they say at sale time, when its gone, its gone! My photos are below.   Don’t think that all th ..read more