• The Headhunters club at the Hunter in Bury St Edmunds keeps the mainstream and straightahead coals burning
• Jazz in Lowestoft? A long drive but where better for bands on a run than at the Milestones Jazz Club?
• Call it the perennial “beyond London blindspot” but for whatever reason the Cinnamon Club in Altrincham deserves to be more widely talked about hometown pride notwithstanding 
• Dempsey’s is a regular Cardiff stop-off for the next generation of promising bandleaders touring Wales
• Not just jazz but plenty of innovation guaranteed at Seven in Leeds
• The Northern Quarter’s Matt and Phreds is a firm neighbourhood club favourite in Manchester
• Seven nights a week Berts jazz bar is the home of jazz in Belfast even if the music occasionally plays second fiddle to the dining
• Don’t forget John Leighton’s scene-shaping Bennigans bar in Derry especially come jazz festival time in May
• The Verdict in Brighton competes with a huge number of great music venues locally 
• Weekly sessions at the Watermill Jazz Club signal that the Dorking jazz flame is burning brightly in Surrey commuterland
• In Bristol it’s the Be-bop club you’ll want to point yourselves towards
• Touristy and beautiful, St Ives in Cornwall has its own St Ives Jazz Club tucked inside the Western hotel 
• The proprietors of JJ Smyth’s in Dublin keep more jazz musicians in work day to day, year in year out than most promoters could ever dream of accomplishing 
• In Sligo at the moment the classic pub Hargadons on O’Connell Street is the best jazz place in town 

Partikel above appearing at the Milestones in Lowestoft this spring