Hedsor, and All That Jazz

After a bleak bank holiday, my blog will be shorter than usual. As Sir Michael Weinblatt would say, “lets get back to the jazz”, or in this case, recorded music of various kinds!

OK, this coming week, Thursday April 5^th, to supplement the raffle we will have some music provided by American saxophonist (and until recently tutor at Brunel University) Frank Griffith. I believe the associates who will be with him are:

Mike Wills on more reeds, Ken McCarthy on keyboard, John Monney on bass, and Mike Jeffries on drums. Our regular percussionist and leader Martin Hart is taking a holiday in Venice, which is much better than “The C & A of a Hospital”.

Read MUCH more about Frank Here:- http://www.frankgriffith.co.uk/

The following week I will be busy crating up refurbished PC’s for shipment to Ghana. Some of you may know that I refurbish donated PC’s and laptops and get them over to a village in the Ashanti province of Ghana called Nyaboo. And on Thursday 12^th, whilst you all listen to our regular band (The Clive Burton Celebration Quintet) I shall be packing crates! I am told by the chief of that village (a royal of the house of the Kingdom of Ashanti) that those cast off machines now teach over 450 children a week from his community, giving them, in his word, “A positive advantage”.

ONE AFRICAN CHIEF

I am delighted to announce that on my return to Hedsor on Thursday April 19^th we will have with us saxophonist Robert Goodhew.

So that should keep you all occupied for a week or so.

You may recall that in last month’s Jazz Journal Simon Spillett wrote a wonderful tribute to Clive Burton (wasn’t his spoken tribute on Thursday last wonderful, Jazz Angels treasurer John Dutton actually became poetic about it, saying . “I was very moved by Simon's warm words in tribute to Clive. He is so eloquent and the words flow just like the notes from his Sax.”), so I decided that I should write a letter to Jazz Journal about that tribute, and about Clive, and this month it has actually got published, as did another from someone who used to come to both Fifield and “The Cookham Tavern”. Said person was also kind enough as to draw the world’s attention to my blog! Yes, fame (or notoriety) at last!

THE LETTERS IN JAZZ JOURNAL

One final thought, don’t forget that Tuesday night, April 3^rd, at Marlow Jazz you can hear a recreation of The MJQ. That’s at The Marlow British Legion Hall from 8.30pm