Looks like the Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, Soho, London is back soon. Listed on the club website: Sunday 1 November sees the Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet play the basement club. Nash is a saxophonist with Jools Holland. For this special gig he is to play with pianist David Newton, bassist Geoff Gascoyne and drummer Sebastiaan de Krom from the You’ve Got To Dig It to Dig It, You Dig? band. Gascoyne and de Krom featured on Jamie Cullum's big selling Twentysomething. Tickets

Then a few days later the George Gershwin themed Mark Nightingale & Alan Barnes Quintet show listed for Wednesday 4 November caught my eye as the great club, a pillar of the London jazz scene for decades, re-opens and gets going again. Trombonist Nightingale arranged, co-produced and appeared on the Alan Barnes + Eleven album 60th Birthday Celebration: New Takes On Tunes From '59 that was released in 2019. Completing the quintet are Graham Harvey (piano), Sam Burgess (double bass) and Ian Thomas (drums). Tickets Updated: 10/10/20.