Small jazz clubs do not have many champions in Westminster, but Nigel Price is one of them: he has petitioned government, alongside sixty-eight fellow Parliamentary Jazz Award winners, over funding for the kind of volunteer-run venue Googlies is, and in 2017 he took over the Swanage Jazz Festival to stop it folding. None of which would matter much if he could not play: he has made more than five hundred appearances at Ronnie Scott’s, his organ trio won the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Best Jazz Ensemble in 2010, and he has backed Van Morrison and supported Gladys Knight at the Royal Albert Hall. This is not his first Thursday at Googlies, and he closes our August line up knowing why rooms like it matter.