I don't get out enough especially as Oxford has great jazz including a wonderful venue for jazz called The Spin. We last went about a year ago, but managed to go last night. It is a small venue, last night there was a maximum of 30 people. It's a bit like a club or a cabaret venue. It's dark, subterranean and last night, incredibly hot! I don't know how the jazz pianist Andrea Vicari managed to play!
She was excellent, playing standards and her own compositions, and played with the Pete Oxley quartet (well three of them, guitar, double bass and drums). Exellent chilled out jazz.

We bought her new album as we had heard a couple of pieces from it - good summer listening:
andrea vicari mango_322

http://www.myspace.com/andreavicariband
Do check her out.