Another year, another Jazz Supper at Gussage All Saints, and another of our annual debates over the number of times that we've played one of our favourite annual gigs! The general consensus was 'over twenty years', which meant that the early visits here were by a band staffed by the likes of Jim Holmes, Bob Kefford, Pete Winter-Hart, Mike Betts ... possibly even as far back as Alan Potterne! Only Mike Denham has covered them all, of course, though some of us have been with th

Winfrith Newburgh seemed to band members to be a rare name to conjure with - was she possibly a stalwart Victorian dowager and leader of a Ladies' Temperance League, or perhaps an Edwardian operatic soprano? Our Illustrious Leader maintained that it was actually a nearby settlement of sorts, but then he lives in Broadmayne. To the rest of us (living in the wider world) it inevitably became referred to as 'Winifred Atwell' (in honour, of course, of our Leader's plangent ivory-