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• Read here Simon Spillett’s tribute to jazz pianist and Marlow Jazz Club stalwart Frank Toms (1937 – 2021).

• Read Trevor Bannister’s review of the recent livestream from the Boileroom (in collaboration with Guildford Jazz) of the Clark Tracey Quartet. Here

• After twelve years of weekly performances at Theale Village Hall, the fifty year old High Society Jazz Band is no more. Read on

• Read here Andy Crowdy’s tribute to Patrick Kelly, founder of the Berkshire Youth Jazz Orchestra and its later incarnation Pendulum.

• Read all about jazz at the University of Reading between 1951 and 1984 in Trevor Bannister’s well-researched article Varsity Jazz

• Tubby Hayes was in in Reading more often than you might have thought – read more here

• For the latest in an occasional series of pieces about jazz in the greater Reading area Trevor paid a visit to a Mongolian yurt near Didcot and learned how George Melly’s liking for brandy nearly ruined a live recording session. Read the story here.

• Make sure your party goes with a swing – see our Book A Party Band service.

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