… to counter the Coronavirus live jazz blackout.

It is with huge regret that Trevor Stent needed to request Jazz&Jazz to post this announcement.

“Just to tell you all that we have decided to cancel Fest Jazz 2020 in Brittany. The situation is just too uncertain to risk it.  All the other festivals in July in the region have been cancelled and even if the festival was allowed to take place, they will almost certainly insist on everyone wearing masks and standing 2m apart, which is not exactly the kind of atmosphere we want!

In Lieu of Live Jazz Continued!

A Star Studded Event

Or as Tad Newton put it, “Mellifluous Christmas Frolics” at
The Walnut Tree, Blisworth, packed with fans for the event.
Starring Gary Wood (trumpet), Ronnie Fen (drums),
Alan Haughton (piano), Tomas Pedersen (bass)
and Tad on trombone.
Plus special guests Denise Gordon (jazz and gospel vocalist),
Roy Williams (trombone) and Zoltan Sagi (clarinet/saxophone).

Peter M Butler
Jazz&Jazz

(Photos, Prints & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)

Over the years I have filmed more than 400 Jazz&Jazz YouTubes featuring live jazz at a variety of events, with 900,000 views to date.

Here, Jazz Fans worldwide, to help compensate for the Coronavirus inflicted absence of live jazz, I present today’s Jazz&Jazz offerings, filmed at a packed full 100 Club’s final Thursday lunch time jazz session on 12th December, 2013.

On 31st March I posted the first feature in my Jazz&Jazz series subtitled
“Jazz&Jazz confronts the Coronavirus Plague!”

In it I announced my intention to launch a sequence of posts presenting my Jazz&Jazz YouTubes with the introduction: “Over the past five years I have filmed over 400 YouTubes featuring live jazz at a variety of events and locations. To date these have been viewed by 900 thousand plus jazz enthusiasts. I have already featured selections of these on Jazz&Jazz.”

Now my plan is to re-feature these YouTubes in a series of posts here on Jazz&Jazz, shared across my Social Media links, to help mitigate the ongoing void of live jazz.

Brian Carrick

Why take time and space to post this on Jazz&Jazz?

Because for the duration, however long that may be,
live jazz everywhere is a no go due to Covid-19.
Will “everywhere” include China?

Jazz&Jazz confronts the Coronavirus Plague!

As fortune would have it, over the past few weeks at uncomfortable expense I have invested in ground breaking new equipment and software to upgrade my Jazz&Jazz features, YouTubes and promotions.

But to what avail, I asked myself, come the Coronavirus shut down. How long will it be before I can film live jazz again and even recoup my outlay?

The April issue of Jazz&Jazz Magazine featured memories of The Covent Garden Marching Band. Jazz&Jazz was privileged to cover this memorable annual jazz event for a number of
years until its demise in 2018.