Hard boppers and Blue Note heads rejoiced at the prospect of the Dizzy Reece Routes In Jazz tribute tour this year. Byron Wallen, Ralph Moore, Willie Jones III, Dezron Douglas and bandleader Trevor Watkis (above) combined to pay sincere homage to the great trumpeter whose style and taste endures down the generations. The English dates of the tour did well. Sadly Tony Hall who produced the classic Blues in Trinity — recorded in a London studio and not Paris as reckoned for years following on from its 1959 initial release — passed away recently. However, the Reece legend grows bigger by day and the tour moves this autumn to New York where Dizzy Reece lives, with an October date scheduled for Dizzy’s, as in Diz — nestled within Jazz at Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle. Tickets.