Brighton Jazz Club's attraction on August 23 is top trumpeter Damon Brown, with a bigger line-up than originally billed.

He is leading his acclaimed quintet, placing him alongside the powerful tenor sax of Ed Jones.

Brown and Jones have variously played with Dr John, Bootsy Collins, Soul II Soul, Horace Silver and Herbie Hancock.

At this gig will be a fiery young rhythm section of Leon Greening, piano, Ben Hazelton, bass, and Seb Rochford, drums.

Willi Kerr and the Curst Sons are back with their distinctly raw, hill-billy blues thing at The Greys on August 26.

The sound of authentic Nashville comes to Komedia on Tuesday with soul and blues vocalists Earl Gaines and Charles Walker.

Alabama-born Gaines made for Nashville as a teenager in the Fifties and had a huge hit for the classic Excello label with It's Love Baby. In the same era, Walker was fronting Little Charles and the Sidewinders.

Cubana Bop pianist Terry Seabrook is out and about with his trio, playing the popular Sunday jazz breakfast slot in Hastings, at St Mary-in-the-Castle, on August 25.

On August 27 they can be found in Worthing's Hare and Hounds.