Your run-down of the best in jazz and blues performances around Sussex over the next seven days.
DAVE GORDON Trio: Accomplished and definitive compositions from a pianist teamed with an international bass and drums pair. November 22, Brighton Jazz Club, £8/£7, 8pm.
MARTIN SPEAKE and Nikkie Illes: Speake's alto sax pushes all the buttons from Ornette to the cool school. Here he is teamed with leading pianist composer Illes. St Mary-in-the-Castle, Hastings, November 22.
THE NECKS: This Australian piano trio deconstruct standard jazz and rock. They move from laid-back grooves to untrammelled post. Cecil Taylor-style free playing. Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, November 24, 8pm, £10.
LAWRENCE JONES All Stars: Philadelphia's finest leads his band with flute and baritone. Hare and Hounds, Worthing, November 26, 8pm, free entry.
GARY KAVANAGH and Ian Price Quintet: This boptastic band play state-of-the-art modern jazz but with a blistering tenor sax and trumpet frontliners to add that toe-tapping touch. Lewes Jazz Club, High Street, November 28, 8pm, £7.50.
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