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Back to a Neil and Derek alternate tracks-style show! It was good to work together again on the decks and create a mix and blend we think works. We never know exactly where the show is going but this week we took the show in a latin direction, reflecting our upcoming live set at Saints in Ipswich on 23 September.

We started with the lead track from Joe Lovano’s new CD and then played a mix of new (Mayer Hawthorne’s perfect retro-soul Maybe So Maybe No) and old (the reissued Smatter from Gnu High festuring Keith Jarrett). The best modal moment of the show was undoubtedly Art Blakey’s powerhouse groove Nihon Bash, from the Riverside vinyl reissue Kyoto featuring Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller and Wayne Shorter. This was the Messengers set to 11 and the Sadao Watanabe-composed featured track is probably the album’s best moment.

1. Joe Lovano Us Five - Powerhouse
2. Roland Kirk - The Call
3. Kenny Wheeler - Smatter
4. Frank Morgan - Footprints
5. Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So Maybe No
6. Nation of Multiverse - Hanikami
7. Flying Lotus - Melt
8. Mr Scruff - Stockport Carnival
9. Art Blakey - Nihon Bash
10. Chicago Afrobeat Project - Jekajo
11. Kwabena Okai - Obiaro Bewu
12. Michel Petrucciani - Miles Davis’ Licks
13. Miles Davis - Jean Pierre
14. Charlie Palmieri - Descarga (Around Midnight) Charanson
15. Charlie Palmieri talking about the danzon/Kenny Barron - Fungi Mama
16. Sun Ra - Springtime Again
17. The Afro-Rican Ensemble - Tanga
18. Tito Puente - Watu Watsuri (Gilles Peterson re-edit)
19. Indigo Jam Unit - Arctic Circle
20. Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson - Can You Feel It?

Next week we’ll have new music from pianist Robert Glasper and some remixes from the Dub Colossus Return to Addis project together with more latin jazz to get you ready for 23 September. We’ll also feature a track from the new release by Norwich-based Red Shadow Quartet who play at the Milestones Club in Lowestoft on 01 November.

Unfortunately, this week’s show isn’t available via our Listen Again facility - but next week’s will be!

Every week at 9:30 pm on Cosmic Jazz we let you know about music you can hear locally.
Now the blog will have key details of these listings and we’ll show the first upcoming show at each venue.
Contact details help you get in touch with the venue.
If you’ve been to see jazz locally, write and tell us about it via the comments facility on the blog.

Fleece Jazz at Stoke by Nayland Golf Club
11 September - Mairi Wilson’s Threesome
Website: www.fleecejazzatkerseymill.org.uk
Phone: 01787 211865

Ipswich Jazz Club
27 September - Matt Wates Sextet
Website: www.ipswichjazzclub.co.uk
Phone: 01473 231552

Milestones Jazz Club, Lowestoft
01 November - The Red Shadow Quartet
Website: www.milestonesjazz@hotmail.co.uk
Phone: 01502 568684

Lakeside Theatre, Colchester
no jazz events currently
Website: www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/artson5
Phone: 01206 573948

Colchester Arts Centre
no jazz events currently
Website: www.colchesterartscentre.com
Phone: 01206 500900

Cambridge Modern Jazz Club
07 October - Mike Westbrook Band (Off Abbey Road)
Website: www.cambridgejazz.org
Phone: 01223 51151

Every week at 9:30 pm on Cosmic Jazz we let you know about music you can hear locally.
Now the blog will have key details of these listings and we’ll show the first upcoming show at each venue.
Contact details help you get in touch with the venue.
If you’ve been to see jazz locally, write and tell us about it via the comments facility on the blog.

Fleece Jazz at Stoke by Nayland Golf Club
07 August - Barb Junger
Website: www.fleecejazzatkerseymill.org.uk
Phone: 01787 211865

Ipswich Jazz Club
16 August - Alan Barnes and the David Newton Trio
Website: www.ipswichjazzclub.co.uk
Phone: 01473 231552

Milestones Jazz Club, Lowestoft
06 September - Gianni Boscarino Quartet
Website: www.milestonesjazz@hotmail.co.uk
Phone: 01502 568684

Lakeside Theatre, Colchester
no jazz events currently
Website: www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/artson5
Phone: 01206 573948

Colchester Arts Centre
no jazz events currently
Website: www.colchesterartscentre.com
Phone: 01206 500900

Cambridge Modern Jazz Club
07 October - Mike Westbrook Off Abbey Road Project
Website: www.cambridgejazz.org
Phone: 01223 51151

Yes - Cosmic Jazz goes live again! We’re back at Saints Wine Bar on 23 September when this time Cosmic Jazz Club does Latin jazz.

Tickets are £3 for admission and a tapas taster or £10 for admission and a full tapas selection - available from Saints on St Peter’s Street, Ipswich.

Call in or call on 01473 252438. We’ll be playing from 7.30 ’til late. See you there!

A solo show from Derek tonight with some old favourites from EST (the impossibly beautiful Seven Days of Falling), Carmen Lundy (featuring the spoken words of Langston Hughes’ I’ve Known Rivers and Tubby Hayes’ Down in the Village (recently revived by Japanese jazzers Quasimode).

There was also a great Latin Jazz section in celebration of another Cosmic Jazz Club night - 23 September at Saints Wine Bar here in Ipswich. More details of the show elsewhere on the blog.

1. Alberto Favero - Primer Movimiento
2. Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Seven Days of Falling
3. Carmen Lundy - One More River to Cross
4. Roland Kirk - Making Love After Hours
5. Roland Kirk - The Call
6. Nostalgia 77 - Steps of the Sun
7. Ravi Coltrane - For Zoe
8. Mulatu Astake and the Heliocentrics - Masenqo
9. Nation of Multiverse - Can You Feel How I Feel?
10. 45 aka Swing-0 - I Believe
11. Soil & “Pimp” Sessions - Sahara
12. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Kyoto
13 Mingus Big Band - Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
14. Dizzie Gillespie y Machito - Exuberante
15. The Tubby Hayes Quintet - Down in the Village
16. Michael Brecker - Madame Toulouse