Paul Wood came to singing early, and it gave him a range that few can match: a delicate ballad one moment, a rhythmic swing tune the next, without ever seeming to change gears.

Allison held the flute chair in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in the late 1990s, though it is her alto sound that has carried her career since, alongside stages shared with Duke Ellington's one-time vocalist Adelaide Hall and West Coast legend Bud Shank. Googlies has hosted Allison before, and each time she has left the room a little "cooler" than she found it.

Nigel Price 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.