''Cheers my dears,'' something of a Janine Irons catchphrase and congratulations to Janine who was recognised upgrading her MBE to an OBE in the King's Birthday Honours matching husband Gary Crosby also an OBE both together running Tomorrow's Warriors talismanic presences on the London jazz scene for many years.

All this certainly takes us back to meeting Janine and Gary - an original Jazz Warrior from Out of Many, One People days - in a South Audley Street attic in Jazz on CD 1990s days some time around 1994. Janine was a photographer back then. Years later we witnessed in the Mermaid Theatre in Blackfriars members of Tomorrow Warriors playing the Duke Pearson near name classic (associated early on in versions by Cannonball Adderley and by Donald Byrd) directly to Janine and which was certainly musically apt.

Great to see Janine Irons, Co-founder and Chief Executive of Tomorrow’s Warriors awarded an OBE in the Kings Birthday Honours list! Congratulations from all at UK Music @janine_irons @Tom_Warriors #KingsBirthdayHonours

— UK Music (@UK_Music) June 16, 2023

Industry body UK Music welcomed the news, above, as it broke on Friday evening.

Janine Irons, top. Photo: press