Jazz Update Weekly Newsletter
Chris Neill
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Jazz at the Redbridge Sports and Leisure Centre. The next gentle jazz evening is on Tuesday, 1st September at 8.00pm 'til 10.30pm, featuring Brian Dee Keyboard Len Skeat Bass John Withers Drums. Special guest Paul Wood Vocals.
Vocalist Annie Dehaney-Steven will be presenting 'Anita O'Day - Jezebel of Jazz' at the Pizza Express Jazz Club at The Pheasantry, 152 King's Road, Chelsea on Thursday, August 27th at 8:00. Annie, singing with her excellent band, Phil Mead on piano, Alex Keen on bass, Tim Reyland on drums and Peter Sellars on violin, will tell the story of the high times and hard times of this iconic jazz singer whose turbulent career spanned over six decades. Tickets £15, available from pizzaexpresslive.com
Hadleigh Jazz Club presents at 8PM on Saturday 5th Sept Hadleigh Town Hall, Market Place, Hadleigh, IP7 5DN, Georgina Jackson & Pete Long
with CHRIS INGHAM piano MICK HUTTON bass GEORGE DOUBLE drums. An
acclaimed singer and trumpeter, Georgina’s success with her first album
led her to become the singer with Ronnie Scott’s Big Band. A vivacious,
stylish vocalist, she has fronted several BBC broadcasts paying tribute
to Peggy Lee with the BBC Big Band and Irving Berlin with the BBC
Concert Orchestra. Georgina’s partner Pete Long is one of the foremost
bandleaders and reedsmen in the UK.
“If you cannot get tickets to
see Diana Krall then Georgina Jackson makes a winning substitute” SUNDAY
TIMES “Talented singer/trumpeter with a sassy, vibrant style” ALL
ABOUT JAZZ. Tickets £12: info/reservations: George Double 07941 360890
Shez Raja featuring John Etheridge and Monika Lidke at 606 Jazz Club, 90 Lots Road, SW10 0QD on Thurs 1st October
2015 – 8.30pm - £10 entry. Virtuoso electric bass player, Shez Raja
leads a formidable line-up of jazz stars including legendary Soft
Machine guitarist, John Etheridge and enchanting Polish folk-jazz singer
Monika Lidke. Together they’ll be performing originals from their
latest highly acclaimed album, Soho Live, recorded with Soweto Kinch,
Gilad Atzmon, Shabaka Hutchings and Jay Phelps.
The Collective's
live show is an eclectic headcharge of raw energy and always leaves
audiences uplifted, inspired and asking for more. Following headline
performances at international jazz festivals and venues from Russia to
New Zealand they have forged a reputation as one of the most
entertaining live acts on the scene today.
Expect exciting music
that’s full of surprises – a sonic kaleidoscope of euphoric jazz,
thundering funk, tuneful ragas and intoxicating grooves!
Shez Raja – electric bass guitar, John Etheridge – electric guitar, Vasilis Xenopoulos – saxophone, Monika Lidke – vocals, Pascal Roggen – electric violin, Alex Stanford – keyboards, Chris Nickolls – drums http://www.shezraja.com http://www.606club.co.uk/
100 Years of Jazz in 99 minutes. Britannia Pier, Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2EH • T: 01493 842914 http://www.britannia-pier.co.uk/show_detail.php?id=169
Thursday August 27th at 7.30pm. Tickets: £13.00 - £15.00. Family tickets available at £40 - box office 01493 842914. Enrico Tomasso: trumpet, trombone, vocals. Georgina Jackson: trumpet, vocals. Pete Long: Reeds, flute, trumpet, bass guitar. Dave Chamberlain: double bass, bass guitar, guitar, banjo, piano. Nick Dawson: piano, clarinet, vocals. Richard Pite: drums, double bass, sousaphone.
The only history of jazz from its birth to the present day - in 99
hilarious, musically brilliant, historically fascinating minutes. The
multi-instrumental jazz virtuosi create a journey through the decades
taking in New Orleans to Be Bop, Swing to Latin, Hot to Cool, and from
Chicago to New York to around the world. An A to Z of jazz's biggest
names from Louis Armstrong to Joe Zawinul interspersed with fascinating
facts and stories. Suitable for jazz aficionados as well as people who
are new to the music and kids love the show too. "Genuinely needs to be
seen to be believed. Don't miss out!" (Jazz UK)
Tim Dieu of Southend Jazz Co-op will be at the 20th Anniversary of Jazz in Langourla Festival - 6th to 9th of August 2015 - http://www.jazzinlangourla.asso22.fr/programmation-2015.php
"As well as the program of artists there is are Jam sessions which go on all night, (bring your horn) Masterclasses for wanabe Scat singers, and Jazz Manouche Guitarists. Musical walks for those who manage to get up in the morning and free concerts around the locale, in the bar in the village and elsewhere. If anyone fancies coming over, there are flights from Stanstead to Dinard or Southend to Rennes, and Hil or I could pick you up. All our bedrooms are taken with Artists/technicians, however we could ask around and find you accomodation, or loan you a small tent in the garden if you are that way inclined. Let us know if you fancy a great Jazz weekend in delightful Breton countryside, we would love to see you." The Co-op's website is at http://www.southendjazzco-op.co.uk
Keith Waithe - is an award winning flautist, composer, teacher, expert proponent of vocal gymnastics and leader of The Macusi Players, a world music Jazz band - blending rhythms from the Caribbean, South America, Asia and Africa. Keith mixes many sounds from his collection of over 200 flutes fusing enigmatic musical forms and world music resonances. In addition to working on radio, theatre and television Keith ‘s 8th Album “Gathering Echoes” has had rave reviews. Amongst many others Keith has worked with Nitin Sawhney, Courtney Pine and percussionist Bosco de Oliverira.
Keith reaches out to his audiences from early years through to the older generations and is renowned for maximising audience participation. He recently returned from performing at the successful Rupununi Music and Arts Festival in the Rainforest, Annai Guyana, South America. Keith ‘s new CD “ Earth Flight the Direction ” available fnow. Keith Waithe and the Macusi Players will be on the Main Stage of the Ealing Jazz Festival, Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, Ealing W5, at 9.15pm on Friday 31st July.
Saturday - 29th August
Chatham Riverside (Next to Library), Dock Road, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TX - Daytime Performance & Workshop
Sunday - 30th August
Sandgate Sea Festival - Granville Parade, Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3AH from 2pm to 5pm - Performance & Workshop
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Every Sunday - The Buckhurst Hill Jazz Jam. Every Sunday. All welcome. Enjoy the proceedings with Deano - get up and jam with the amazing house band or just listen to some great jazz. Admission £3, drinks at club prices. Free local parking. www.jazzjam.co.uk or email ch...@jazzjam.co.uk or call/text 07970 910 080. Buckhurst Hill Sports and Social Club, 50a Queens Road, Buckhurst Hill, IG9 5BY. We look forward to seeing you there.
Every Wednesday at 8.00 to 11pm. Little Bread Big Jam at O’Neills. 762 High Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 3AW. Tel: 020 8536 4039. Usual house band Phil Mead on keyboard, Paul Whelpton on bass and Dave Fowler on drums, although this is subject to change at the whim of good fortune and a better paying gig. All jazz instrumentalists, vocalists and audients welcome. Wonderful music and a warm welcome guaranteed. £4. Bring Your Own Enthusiasm. Annie mu...@indigoshades.com or details 07885480329.
The Robert Bell Trio on the First Thursday of the Month at The Speakeasy Bar, 175 Epping High Street, Epping CM16 4BL Superb Jazz trio featuring vocalist Robert Bell (Hendricks, Sinatra, Bennett, Torme ect) Paul Higgs trumpet/piano, Graham Cuttill drums, Matt Lowrie bass plus guests “The only purpose built Jazz and cocktails venue in the area and it's free admission”
First Friday of the Month at 8.00. Dodgy Jammers at Broxbourne Sailing Club, Meadgate Road, Nazeing. Usual house band Wally Shaw on keyboard, Paul Leader on bass and Lester Bennett on drums. Very reasonable bar, home-cooked food, beautiful rural setting. £3. Annie mu...@indigoshades.com or 07885480329.
There's a new Friday Night jam 9.00 pm at the M & B Sports & Social Club, Dagenham Road, Dagenham RM7 0QX. Its a nice friendly club with comfortable surroundings, FREE entry to jammers and guests. Club prices. Full back line. Look forward to seeing you!
Mascara Bar, 72 Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington N16 6XS. Every Tuesday: House trio + jam. 8.30. (F). info: 07905 151894
Mill Hill Jazz Club host a regular end of month, Wednesday, open stage for quality musicians. Val’s House band provides the professional rhythm section that binds it all together - the most “happening” scene in the whole of North West London. The Golf Clubhouse, 100 Barnet Way, London NW7 3AL www.millhilljazzclub.co.uk valgo...@gmail.com 0208 207 045
The Cambridge Jazz Jam is at the Duke of Cambridge pub, 176 East Road, Cambridge CB1 1BG (tel: 01223 304121). Every Tuesday, 8.30 - 11 pm. Admission free. With our resident backing quartet we welcome musicians and singers to join us and play or sing tunes of their choice. Our policy is inclusive, so whether you're an accomplished player or someone struggling to get it together, you will be welcome. There’s a carpark behind the pub, in Adam & Eve Street, with direct entrance to the back door. Info Mike Quigley 07979 59 22 41
There is a Thursday night Jazz Session and Jam at Nomad Bar, 58 Old St, EC1V 9AJ. www.nomadjazz.com. The normal house band is Antonio Marzinotto and his trio but often have special guests and other bands. The aim of the night is for all talented jazz musicians, young and old, to play together in a relaxed atmosphere.
VivaVocals atThe Loft, Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec, Kennington - first Sunday of the month – Open Mic with the Bob Stuckey Trio, hosted by Romy Summers. £8 singers, £6 audience. Normally first Sunday of each month, starting at 7:30pm. Doors and singing list taken at 7pm (first come first served to sign up). Each month there are two featured mini sets and a great night of open mic supported by fantastic musicians http://www.vivavocals.org/
New Jam Night on Wednesday nights at the Three Travellers, Wood Lane, Dagenham RM10 7DS from 9 – 11.30 pm. Full Back Line with Keyboard and PA. Free Entrance. All muso’s and listeners welcome, to this very friendly pub in Dagenham, easy parking. Hope to see some of you there whenever you can. Help to keep Music Live.
Jazz at the Green Note “jam great atmosphere!” on the 1st Sunday of every month. Music 8:30pm – Band set followed by a jam. 106 Parkway, Camden NW1 7AN.
There is a jazz jam every Saturday with the Nora Bite trio at 9:30pm with original music in the first set followed by a jazz standards jam. Free entrance. Venue: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch E2 8DP. Usual house band is a guitar trio led by Nora Bite. . Until 2am .
Jazz Jam Session Every Tuesday @ The Silver Bullet London N4 2PA The Bukky Leo Quartet features the groovy Lance Rose on the Bass, the hard driving Emiliano Caroselli on the Drums and the superb Jonathan Gee on the Piano. Bukky Lee on Tenor & vocs. Jamming starts from 10 till late, now showing great Jazz Movies on show during intervals. Free Entry before 10pm / £3 thereafter.
There is a Jam session on the first Thursday of each month in Colchester at The Bull, Crouch Street. We have a house band that regularly features such great players as Bern Hodgekins (Bass player with Jazznights trio) and Mick Hutton (bass). Our attitude is that of inclusion and after a short set from the house band, we open the stage for jammers and singers. The jam has been running for about 5 years now with a steady following. Info: Simon (simon...@madasafish.com)
Singers' Night at Nelson - The 2nd Tuesday of each month. Open mic evening for jazz vocalists now in its 18th year. Excellent accompanists and resident sound engineer. Warm supportive atmosphere, food available at our venue, at 48 Stanhope Street, London NW1. Just a six minute walk from nearest underground station Warren Street, £8 singers, £7 guests. Doors open and singing list taken from 6.00pm, music from 7.45 till 10.30pm. Info Chris Legee at jazz...@waitrose.com.
There is a LondonBluesJams Yahoo! Group – blues rock n roll and soul jam every Thursday from 9:00 pm – 11:30 pm . The Golden Lion, 2 High St Market Square, Romford RM1 1HR. For more info call Bob Marks 07503 16 45 72 Full back line. P.A. Keys, Saxes and Brass. Mainly blues but all tastes catered for. All musos welcome from beginners to pros and bands. Come and join in the great atmosphere – Vocalists especially welcome.
Jazz Jam at the Steamboat Tavern, Ipswich is now held on the 1st Friday of each month. We start at 8pm and finish around 11pm. All are welcome – both players and jazz fans. Admission FREE . Come along and enjoy the company and soak up the atmosphere. We look forward to seeing you there.
The Ipswich Jazz Collective meet once a month on a Friday to hold a jam session at the Golden Hind Pub on Nacton Road in Ipswich. They start at 7:30 with bass, drums, keyboard gear and a PA set up. Guitarists will need to bring their own amps. There’s no entrance fee and all levels of player are catered for. Local bands also have the chance to do a set on their own. Info: Des Hart des-...@supanet.com.
The Norwich JazzJam is at the Fat Cat Tap Brewery, 98-100 Lawson Road, NR3 4LF Norwich on Monday nights with Lee Vasey, Ian Hireson & Matt Furness.
Open Jazz Jam, “Who Pays The Piper” at The White Horse' Pub, Mill Rd, Husborne Crawley, Beds MK43 0XE, 1 mile from M1 Jn 13, on the A507 between Ridgmont and Woburn. Fortnightly session on Tuesdays from 8–11.00pm. FREE ENTRY – though we do ask for donations toward our back line, particularly if you want to play or sing .. (occasional raffle!). Great friendly atmosphere and pub food available, .. so bring your instruments, voices and friends, most of all - yourselves. Chris 07804140606 or chris.b...@bigfoot.com .
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BELVEDERE JAZZ & MUSIC CLUB, every Wednesday evening is at The Chichester’s Tudor Room, Old London Road, Rawreth, Nr. Wickford SS11 8UE (Off A129, 800 yards Wickford side of The Carpenters Arms roundabout). Meals and tasty Lite Bites available from 6:30pm whilst you sit at your own candlelit table, either before or whilst enjoying the top quality jazz which commences at 8:00pm until 10.30pm. Top International, Regional Bands and Artists, including Big Bands, Swing and Mainstream, all tuneful easy listening foot tapping music with something for everyone! Friendly welcoming atmosphere ~ Admission £10 on the door ~ Large free car park ~ Drinks at pub prices ~ Newcomers most welcome. www.belvederejazz.co.uk 07850 607075 belved...@btinternet.com
5th August - Julian Marc Stringle & Dominic Ashworth Quintet
Julian’s own exciting quintet featuring keyboard virtuoso Neil Angilley, Canadian guitarist Dominic Ashworth, bass ace Chris Dodd and the dynamic Les Cirkel on drums. ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ will be featured with Julian & Dominic. An exciting evening of mainstream Swing jazz!
12th August - Paul Wood, Brian Dee, Jim Mullen, Len Skeat & John Withers
Glenn Miller Memorial Orchestra’s vocalist Paul Wood will perform your favourite vocals accompanied by this top drawer, highly talented quartet who need no introduction! In addition to Paul, you will hear several instrumentals performed by this excellent quartet. IMPORTANT - THE GIG WILL HELD IN THE ADJOINING ESSEX BARN DUE TO REDECORATION OF THE TUDOR ROOM - LIMITED SEATING - BOOKING ESSENTIAL
19th August - The Gary Wood Swing Quintet
The Quintet with Gary Wood will swing through the American Songbook with ease and style. Dan Foster has played with The Pasadena Roof Orchestra & The London Jazz Orchestra. Chris Green appears with numerous bands including The Memphis Belle Swing Orchestra. Ronnie Fenn’s life has taken him through pop, soul, rock and skiffle jazz. Roger Evans has been playing jazz, pop and classical piano for many years. The Quintet’s extensive repertoire is based around jazz standards, embracing the popular classics of Cole Porter, Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, Hammerstein etc. etc.
26th August - Blue Harlem
Al Nichols - tenor sax, Sophie Shaw - vocals, Gethin Liddington - trumpet, Horace Cardew - saxes, Jonathan Lee - drums & Jay Darwish - double bass. Led by saxophonist Al Nichols and the fabulous singer Sophie Shaw following their recent sell out gig at Ronnie Scott’s, this seven piece band will be performing a mixture of Swing & Blues with a superb brass front line and foot tapping rhythm section for a great night of energetic entertainment.
2nd September - Derek Nash’s Picante Latin Sextet
Leading saxophonist Derek Nash, a featured soloist and member of the Jools Holland Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, brings his new Latin/Salsa band to the Club. Co-founded with guitarist Dominic Ashworth, who was awarded Jazz Guitarist of the Year in 2006, they are joined by world-renowned, master percussionist Robin Jones and Marc Cecil the drummer. On the keyboards is Latin-maestro Neil Angilley and line-up is completed by the bass of Andy Staples.
9th September - Dave Shepherd/Roger Nobes Quintet
Dave Shepherd - clarinet is a 4 times winner of Britain’s Best Jazz Clarinettist is known as Britain’s Benny Goodman. Dave played with American jazz legends such as Teddy Wilson, Bud Freeman, Yank Lawson, Wild Bill Davison and Barney Kessel. The Quintet features top British jazzmen Roger Nobes - vibes. John Pearce - piano, Len Skeat - double bass and Stan Bourke - drums.
16th September - Rex O’Dell All Stars Sextet
Rex O’Dell - vocals and trombone, Gary Wood - trumpet/vocals, Pete Oxborough - saxes and clarinet, Alan Morgan - double bass, Pete Gregory - guitar, banjo and vocals & Alan Clarke - drums. A great fun entertaining evening of Swing, Mainstream and Dixieland with a masterful mix of standards you know and love so well, including songs made famous by Louis Prima to Louis Armstrong to name just a couple!
23rd September - Trudy Kerr’s Quintet
Favourite Standards from The Classic American Songbook together with some better known medium & up tempo jazz material. Trudy Kerr is renowned as one of the UK's finest jazz vocalists. Mojo Magazine says of her singing "Trudy Kerr is the genuine article - She is a Joy!" Tom Cawley - piano. Martin Hathaway - saxes, Geoff Gascoyne - double bass and Rod Youngs – drums
30th September - Skelton-Skinner All Star Septet
A great line-up of British based Jazz musicians, playing a repertoire based mostly on the Duke Ellington small band and Count Basie’s Kansas City 7 featuring Matt Skelton with arrangements by Colin Skinner clarinet -saxes who is lead alto and deputy bandleader for the Syd Lawrence Orchestra. Graham Harvey - piano, Alan Barnes - saxes, Gordon Campbell - trombone, Mike Lovatt – trumpet, Jeremy Brown - double bass and of course co- leader Matt Skelton - drums
LIVE JAZZ AT NORTH WEALD VILLAGE HALL every month – usually the first Friday in the month and just £8 on the door and a start time of 8:30pm. The Hall is in the High Road, behind the vets surgery, CM16 6DB. There is a licensed bar at village hall prices, tea and coffee and snacks are served at very reasonable prices and there is ample parking. Ted Beament resident pianist – bass and drums varies. 01992 522621 northwealdvillagehall.org
Friday 7th August. First appearance here for fabulous vocalist Kevin Fitzsimmons with Ted Beament piano, Murray Salmon bass Winston Clifford drums.
Due to the incredible popularity of our monthly “Saturday Lunchtime with Jack” starring The Jack Free All Stars we are continuing for the rest of the year. Musicians regularly appearing are Pete Rudeforth, Mike Cotton, Gary Woods, John Crocker, Bert Brandsma, Tim Huskisson, Colin Bray, Murray Salmon, Martin Guy. “The Happiest Saturday Afternoon in Essex”
JAZZ@ST ANT’S A great weekly jazz night – now in its 10th year! St Anthony’s Club, The Red House, 13 Upton Ave, (corner of Upton Lane), Forest Gate E7 9PN. Every Weds
8.30 pm. Admission £3. Please support the raffle from which all
proceeds go to the band. For latest listings visit
www.essexjazz.co.uk/ants or Jazz in London listing. Please download
their current listing at www.jazzjam.co.uk/downloads/stants.pdf, or www.essexjazz.co.uk/ants
5 Aug - Geoff Mason (trombone) + Jenny Carr (piano)
with John Withers (drums) + John Pamenter (double bass)
THEYDON JAZZ CLUB @ THEYDON BOIS GOLF CLUB, Theydon Rd, off Piercing Hill, CM16 4EH Every Monday 8-10:30 pm, Traditional/Dixieland/New Orleans Jazz features Excellent Live Bands for listening/Dancing, facilities include: Bar/ Meals/ Dance Floor/Car Park. Comfortable /plentiful seating/ All Welcome including Invalids & Children. Normal Admission £7.50 (Children Free - must be supervised) Membership available, not necessary to visit Jazz Club. Dave/Shiela Dyer 01945 588325 email:2359...@gmail.com www.theydonjazzclub.org.uk
3rd August (£9; members £8). HUGH RAINEY – trumpet, & his JAZZ BAND:
Les Hanscombe – trombone; Brian Hart – clarinet & saxes; Tim Huskisson – piano & clarinet; Ollie Benson – banjo & guitar; Derek Pring – bass; Johnny Baker – drums & vocals; Lyn Falvey – vocals
Hearing Hugh Rainey lay down a strong melodic trumpet lead for his Jazz
Band, it isn’t surprising that his group has numbered among the most
entertaining in all British jazz for so many years. Of the seven-piece
band revisiting Theydon on 3rd, Les, Brian, Derek and Johnny have all
been regular members since the millennium with, more recently, Ollie
Benson taking over on banjo and guitar, and the superb Tim Huskisson
playing keyboard and doubling on clarinet. And by special request,
Hugh’s long-time vocalist Lyn Falvey will be singing too! Altogether
Hugh remains one of our great British jazzmen, leading one of the great
British jazz bands.
10th August (£7.50; members £6.50). MIKE BARRY – trumpet, & his UPTOWN GANG:
Mike Holt – trombone; Tim Huskisson – clarinet; John Stuart – banjo & guitar; Roger Curphey – bass; Graham Collicott – drums
Always a firm favourite at our jazz club (I’ve heard them there 21
times! – Ray), The Uptown Gang make their first visit to Theydon this
year. In its latest incarnation the band has been going for 17 years.
They play an entertaining and danceable blend of tunes from yesteryear,
with a mix of classic jazz from various periods, all presented in a
Traditional, swinging style. With veteran trumpet maestro Mike Barry
blowing as well as ever, an exhilarating evening of enjoyable jazz is
guaranteed.
17th August (£7.50; members £6.50) REX ODELL – trombone, & his NICEST PEOPLE:
Gary Wood – trumpet; Julian Marc Stringle – clarinet & tenor sax; John Stuart – banjo & guitar; Alan Morgan – bass; Alan Clarke
– drums. “You meet the nicest people in your dreams” sang Fats Waller.
Well, you can meet them in person at Theydon Jazz Club on 17th August
when Rex Odell brings his happy band. Always a welcome visitor, Rex
leads his Nicest People in an entertaining programme that moves easily
from Dixie to swing to mainstream to Trad. Guesting once more is the
brilliant clarinettist-saxophonist-singer with the luxuriant locks,
Julian Marc Stringle.
24th August (£7.50; members £6.50). TONY PITT – banjo, & his ALL STARS:
Alan Gresty – cornet; Dave Hewett – trombone; Al Nicholls – tenor sax; Andy Lawrence – bass; John Elmer – drums
When veteran banjo-player Tony Pitt brings his All Stars (formed 2006)
to the jazz club you know what you’re in for: in Tony’s own words, “the
hot, foot-tapping traditional jazz we all enjoyed playing, listening or
dancing to in those far off days back in the 60s. While I can’t go back
to those times, it takes me as close as I can get.” And at the end of
the evening everyone is smiling. His All Stars feature the thrilling
tenor sax playing of Al Nicholls.
LIVE JAZZ AT THE TAVERN on the Last Sunday of each Month. 55-57 Frinton Road, Holland On Sea, Essex CO15 5UH. Tel: 01255 814080. Admission £10 . Doors open 7.30pm . Jazz 8pm till 10.30pm
Sunday 30th August - DJANGO NIGHT
Mike Piggott, Violin - Nils Solberg, Jeff Green, Gtrs - Alan Morgan, Bass
Sunday 27th September - REX O’DELL’S NICEST PEOPLE
Rex O’Dell, Trombone - Gary Wood, Trumpet - Pete Greg, Gtr/Banjo
Pete Oxborough, Sax - Alan Clarke, Drums - Alan Morgan, Bass
Sunday 25th October - SIMON SPILLETT - Tenor Sax
Ted Beament, Keyboard – Alan Clarke, Drums - Alan Morgan, Bass
Sunday 29th November - ROGER NOBES- Vibraphone
Ted Beament, Keyboard - Paul Budd, Drums - Alan Morgan, Bass
Sunday 20th December - BARRY PALSER’S SAVOY SUPER SIX
Barry Palser, Trombone - Pete Rudeforth, Trumpet - John Crocker, Sax
JAZZ AT THE BARDSWELL – Always the Last Tuesday of every month at the Bardswell Social Club, junction of Weald Road/Bardswell Close, Brentwood CM14 4TJ: doors 7 pm, music from 8 till 10.30 pm. Admission £8.00. www.jazzatthebardswell.co.uk Refreshments at Club Prices. Enjoy an evening in a friendly crowd in a relaxed atmosphere, with resident trio plus guests.
25th August . A return visit, of the experienced vocalist Carole Braithwaite bringing her regular keyboardist, Tony Gooderham, to delight us by enlightening us to the magic of legendary female singers that fuels her desire to sing. So put into a nutshell we have a mix of swing, wonderful ballads, traditional jazz, with a touch of Latin which gives you some idea of what to can expect from Carol and her Jazz Crew this evening.
29th September. We welcome back Graham Hunter bringing along his variety of horns with which to entertain and you can guarantee his choice of tunes will have everyone foot-tapping through the different jazz genres. Graham often adds his own blend of a vocal, similar to that legend on a horn Chet Baker, soft, sensuous, almost muted voice.
27th October. By overwhelming demand two of the most experienced and entertaining musicians on the jazz circuit with their own inimitable blend of jazz who play as if only one, such is their understanding of each others ability. Julian Marc Stringle, clarinet and saxophone, and Dominic Ashworth, guitar will be accompanied by our resident trio bringing a rich array of tunes across the musical world.
24th November. Our last gig of the year, so naturally it's our Early Christmas Party, with our regular Christmas Crew comprising, Gary Wood, trumpet and vocals, Martin Nickless, clarinet, Derek Clenshaw, trombone, Hilary Cameron, keyboard, Ted Simkins, bass, and our host Dave Grant, drums. This crew combination will definitely start the party with a swing and hopefully will have our usual finger buffet interval ....... so Let's Party!
THE SOUTHEND JAZZ CLUB – every Monday at the EKCO Social & Sports Club, Thornford Gardens, Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. SS2 6PU. 01702 351641 www.ekcoclub.co.uk from 7:30pm. Music starts at 8:00pm – everyone welcome. Info: Bryan Jones 07801 757912 or 01702 61825. Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southend-Jazz-Club/133240693427561 Twitter @southendjazz; or email ja...@greenad.co.uk to join mailing list.
3 Aug - Millennium Eagle Jazz Band
10 Aug - Les Handscombe’s Tailgate Jazz Band
17 Aug - Barry Tyler’s Original Dixieland Jazz Band
24 Aug - Jackie Free’s Chicagoans
31 Aug - Bank Holiday – NO JAZZ
ANNIE'S JAZZ @ THORPE BAY GOLF CLUB. Annie's Jazz is at Thorpe Hall Golf Club, Thorpe Hall Avenue. Thorpe Bay. Southend-on-Sea. SS1-3AT. Food served from 7pm until 8pm and the music will start at 8.30pm. Please telephone Annie for reservations on 07504-232783 or e-mail boneswi...@gmail.com.
Tuesday 4th of August - Paul Wood Quartet. Cliff Hall on Piano, Murray Salmon on Double-bass & John Withers on Drums. Taking a break from touring Europe, Big-Band vocalist Paul is accompanied by the accomplished Cliff Hall who for many years arranged and played for Cliff Richard.
Tuesday the 11th of August - Derek Nash in The Swing. Graham Harvey on Piano, Len Skeat on Double-bass & Marc Cecil on Drums. Derek is simply one of the best! Hugely entertaining performer who always delivers a great show!
Tuesday the 18th of August - Tim Huskisson & Friends. Frank Weatherley on Sax/clarinet/flute, John Ellmer on Clarinet/sax/percussion, Julian Bury on Double-bass, Marc Cecil on Drums, Paul Higgs on Trumpet/piano. An evening of Swing, Jazz and Funky tunes with arrangements by Tim Huskisson.
Tuesday the 25th of August - Barb Jungr sings Nina Simone. With Simon Wallace on
Piano and Davide Mantovani
on Double-bass. Barb Jungr has been wowing audiences on both sides of
the Atlantic on her recent album tour. On this special evening she will
perform new and existing arrangements from her critically acclaimed
album
of Nina'a songs.
Tuesday 1st of September - The Chris Ingham Quartet. Celebrating Hoagy. Sold-out at Ronnie's & Top 10 Jazz Album of 2014. The 'Celebrating Hoagy Show', is packed full of songs and stories of one of America's most enduring and endearing composers.
Tuesday the 8th of September - The Clare Foster Brazilian Quintet. Multi-instrumental vocalist Clare introduces us to the joy of Brazilian Jazz.
Tuesday the 15th of September - Jeff Hooper Quartet. Neil Bullock on Drums, Paul Morgan on Double-bass & Trevor Brown on piano. Jeff Hooper is one of the most talented and best-liked singers on the European music-scene. He is an internationally known cabaret artist. Jeff developed his talent as a singer with the famous Syd Lawrence Orchestra.
Tuesday the 22nd of September - Liane Carroll. Multi-award winning pianist & singer sold out very quickly last time so book your seats early.
Tuesday the 29th of September - The Ted Beament Trio. Ted debuts his arrangements for trio of many popular jazz standards
“SPIKE’S PLACE” JAZZ CLUB @ BRENTWOOD – 8.00pm. At Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ. Top-Class Mainstream Jazz. £13 (non-members) £10 (members) unless otherwise stated. email: susa...@btinternet.com www.myspace.com/spikesplacejazzclub
Tuesday 4th August – 8.00pm. Derek Nash Quartet
Tuesday 11th August – 8.00pm. Marc Cecil Quintet
Tuesday 18th August – 8.00pm. From the USA – John Colianni Trio
“SPIKE’S PLACE” JAZZ CLUB @ HADLEIGH- 8.00pm. Hadleigh Conservative Club, 24 High Street, Hadleigh, Essex SS7 2PB. Top-Class Mainstream Jazz. £12.00 (members £9.00)
“SAFFRON JAZZ” - Third Thursday of every month – 8.30pm. Saffron Hotel, High St, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1AZ. Top-Class Mainstream Jazz. E mail: susa...@btinternet.com www.myspace.com/spikesplacejazzclub. For advance bookings contact: Susan 01245 420475
Thursday 20th August – 8.30pm. From the USA – John Collianni Trio
Admission £11.00
THE JAZZ MIX @ THE MARITIME ROOM, Cliff’s Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. Facebook – The Jazz Mix @ The Maritime Room and check out our page on the Cliffs Pavilion website: www.southendtheatres.org.uk …go to Special Events tab to find The Jazz Mix page.
Summer break in July.
Thursday 27th August we open the new season with the excellent Protect the Beat led by saxophonist Derek Nash (Jools Holland), if you love jazz-funk fusion this band will be right up your street! £13 on the door.
Thursday 24th Sept we welcome to the club the excellent soul, jazz and R&B singer Sarah Jane Morris who topped the UK pop charts for a month in 1986 (with The Communards’ disco version of ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’) and then eloquently and joyously sidestepped the mainstream ever after. Tickets Cliffs Pavilion Box Office - £18
Thursday 29th Oct - TBC
Thursday 26th Nov - Brandon Allen Sextet featuring a stellar line up made up of London's top jazz session musicians - £15.
CHELMSFORD JAZZ CLUB presents 10 or 11 concerts a year at the Cramphorn Theatre,
Fairfield Road, Chelmsford, CM1 1JG (next to the Civic Theatre). The
majority of concerts are on Sunday lunchtime, although some are in the
evening in summer. The jazz is generally mainstream and modern and the
club is justly proud of the quality. For an annual subscription of
£10.00 (£15.00 joint) members are entitled to a £4.00 reduction on
normal ticket prices, and early notice of concerts. A monthly newsletter
on our club, as well as items on other local venues. There's a friendly
atmosphere, so please come along.
Membership enquiries Larry Newall-Smith on 01245 256510.
Sunday July – 12.15pm Closed
MUSIC AT MARIGOLDS, Cricket Club, Chippingfield, Old Harlow, Essex CM17 0DJ. Doors and Licensed Bar 7.30pm, Fridays. 01279 414174 / 421763 musicatm...@ntlworld.com www.myspace.com/musicatmarigolds. Car Parking On Site and there are two Public Car Parks, on the FIND US page of the website, within easy walking distance and can be accessed via a well lit footpath a little way up Chippingfield on the right when leaving – a dotted line on the map between Chippingfield and Wayre Street, Spicers Lane. £8 on the Door
31st July - John Etheridge Trio http://www.johnetheridge.com
John Etheridge guitar, Pete Whittaker organ and Mark Fletcher drums. John enjoys a glowing reputation throughout the jazz world and beyond and has been described by Pat Metheny as, "One of the best guitarists in the world", sentiments echoed by Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. A prodigiously gifted and creative player whose approach to music can only be described as 'eclectic'. His range is illustrated by his years of touring and recording with Stephane Grappelli while doing likewise with the legendary jazz-fusion group, The Soft Machine. John is equally at home on acoustic and electric guitar and his willingness to engage with so many styles is matched by his ability to excel in any of them. He has played with John Williams, Yehudi Menuhin, Dizzie Gillespie, Herb Ellis, Mundell Lowe, Nigel Kennedy, Pat Metheny, Birelli Lagrene, Barney Kessel, Vic Juris and countless others.
14th August - Spikedrivers http://www.spikedrivers.co.uk
Ben Tyzack guitar, vocals & harmonica, Constance Redgrave bass guitar, vocals & percussion and Maurice McElroy drums, vocals & percussion.
Spikedrivers are one of the most original, innovative and exciting
bands around. Three superb and talented musicians demonstrating the
mastery of their instruments. Their combination of gutsy slide guitar,
rock-solid bass, infectious grooves and highly distinctive vocals,
creates a sound that is uniquely their own. They take you on a journey,
from southern juke-joints and lazy front porches to the huge open spaces
of dust bowls and railroad tracks disappearing into the distance.....
28th August - Jacqui Hicks and the Brian Dee Trio
Jacqui Hicks studied saxophone and flute at Leeds College of Music where she started singing. After a post-graduate course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Jacqui joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra as their vocalist and spent the next four years touring and recording with them. Since 1993 Jacqui has worked with the jazz/funk band Shakatak, both as backing vocalist and sax player. She's toured Europe and Eastern Europe, South Africa, the Far East & Japan with them and appears on many of thier albums. She has also worked with Matt Bianco touring Japan, Indonesia & Europe and appears on their albums Gran Via, Another Time:Another Place and a re-working of their greatest hits, A Collection. She is a featured vocalist on Paprika Soul's 2002 album Into The Light. Jacqui has recorded in her own right but has also worked as a session singer as well as recording with other well-known artists and appearing on several soundtracks and a couple of Radio 4 plays for the BBC.
HORNCHURCH JAZZ CLUB, 25 North St (rear), Hornchurch, Essex RM11 1RS. The Hornchurch Conservative Club is a comfortable air-conditioned venue with a dance floor, drinks at club prices, wheel-chair access and car parking, Members £7, non-members £8. Call Laurie on 07913 558616 for more details. 8:30 – 11pm
On Sunday, 9th August from 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm. Bob Dwyer’s Bix & Pieces. Bob Dwyer blowing trombone leads his versatile band playing in the style of Bix Beiderbecke. Listen out for John Bayne’s bass sax!
GC's JAZZ CLUB at The Woolpack, 23 Mildmay Road, Chelmsford CM2 0DN 01245 – 259295. First Sunday in Every Month 8.30pm - 11pm. Free Admission. Food Available. www.graemeculham.com
Sunday 2nd August 2015
'ZAK BARRETT' Saxophones. Dan Banks – Keyboards Mike McGibney - Bass Graeme Culham - Drums.
Sunday 6th September 2015
'PAUL LITTLE' Trombone Sam Edwards - Keyboards. Ben Hearn - Bass. Graeme Culham - Drums.
Sunday 4th October 2015
'JOHNNY WITHERS' Vibraphone Neale Ridding – Keyboards Mike McGibney - Bass Graeme Culham - Drums.
Sunday 1st November 2015
'PAUL WOOD' Vocals Paul Higgs – Keyboards. Roger Curphey – Bass. Graeme Culham – Drums
Sunday 6th December 2015
UK Jazz Guitar Legend 'JIM MULLEN' & 'REG WEBB' – Keyboards. Jose Canha – Bass. Graeme Culham - Drums
FLEECEJAZZ by Stoke-by-Nayland Hotel Keepers Lane, Leavenheath, Colchester, Essex, CO6 4PZ CO6 4PZ www.fleecejazz.org.uk Please see website for directions as satnav can get you lost! Gigs start 8.00 pm, 2 sets, ends approx 11.00 pm Concessions: Under 21 & Full Time Students half full price (proof required). Ample parking. Good disabled access. Info 01787 211865. Food at Stoke-by-Nayland Club is available from 5.30 pm, or book on 01206 262836. Jazz Hotel Packages £99 includes room for 2, breakfast and jazz (subject to room availability). Book tickets on 01787 211865 or wegottickets.com
Friday 7 August ROBERT HABERMANN SINGS GERSHWIN
ROBERT HABERMANN ~ Vocals TREVOR BROWN ~ Piano
Robert Habermann is an accomplished singer/songwriter of The Great
American and British Songbooks. He worked in the US where he was voted
Best International Performer 1994 by the prestigious Manhattan
Association of Cabarets of New York, resulting in several major tours.
He was the first major British singer to perform a concert to celebrate
Frank Sinatra's 80th Birthday at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1995
which toured the UK with great success.
Trevor Brown is known for
his versatility and virtuosity. He was born in Ramsgate in 1947 and by
eight was playing accordion in summer season variety shows in the Thanet
area. In 1966 he moved to London to study chemistry at University
College but at weekends was playing in dance bands and writing music
arrangements for various cabaret artistes. He joined the Victor
Silvester Orchestra in 1972 and was subsequently part of Bob Miller's
band "The Millermen", and spent twenty years as pianist with the Joe
Loss Orchestra. Trevor now enjoys being part of The Syd Lawrence
Orchestra.
Friday 21 August BASIL HODGE QUINTET: CELEBRATING HORACE SILVER
Pianist
Basil Hodge and his band pay homage to the influential American jazz
piano player, composer and hard bop pioneer, Horace Silver, who died
last year, aged 85. BASIL HODGE ~ Piano TONY KOFI ~ Saxes QUENTIN
COLLINS ~ Trumpet
LARRY BARTLEY ~ Bass ROD YOUNGS ~ Drums
Basil Hodge's professional career started in the summer of 1993 as a
freelance musician and leading his piano trio. He rose up the ranks to
play with some of the leading UK players such as Jim Mullen, Dave
O'Higgins, Pete Wareham and Renato D'Aiello. Basil's hard swinging,
bop-tinged piano perfectly captures Silver's sound.
Nottingham born
Reedman Tony Kofi spent four years at Berklee college of music in Boston
USA. He returned to the UK in 1991 and joined the Jazz Warriors. Best
instrumentalist at the 2008 BBC Jazz awards, best Ensemble at the 2005
Parliamentary Jazz Awards are just two of the many awards he has won.
Quentin Collins has established himself as one of Europe's top up-and-coming Jazz trumpeters.
Larry Bartley was an experienced electric bassist in his mid-20s, but
the double bass became more and more of an obsession and he now enjoys a
big reputation on the British jazz scene.
Originally from
Washington DC, drummer/composer Rod Youngs completes the ensemble - one
of the most expressive and adept musicians in the music arena today.
e17 Jazz - The award winning e17 jazz collective presents concerts on the last Wednesday of each month featuring local musicians of national renown plus exciting guest stars in a relaxed jazz club setting. www.e17jazz.com/whatson/ Orford House Social Club, Orford House, 73 Orford Road, London, E17 9QR 07930 544 312
BIG BAND JAZZ AT THE GUNNERSBURY is London’s regular Sunday lunchtime show-case (12:30 - 3:00pm) for the biggest and best names in British Big Band Jazz. 590 Chiswick High Road (opposite Gunnersbury tube station), London W4 5RP
2nd August - No Jazz – Summer Break
9th August - No Jazz – Summer Break
16th August - No Jazz – Summer Break
23rd August - WINSTON ROLLINS BIG BAND £10
30th August - JIM BARTON BIG BAND £10
6th September - BILL ASHTON’S GRADUATES £10
THURSDAY JAZZ AT THE RAFA CLUB, 295 Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG1 4UA. A swinging group led by Leszek Kulaszewicz. Come and listen to the music plus every week there is a fantastic vocalist. The club is well serviced by public transport with plenty of buses going to the club or a ten minutes walk from Gants Hill or Ilford stations. The club will be open from 8pm with music from 9 – 11pm.
EAST SIDE JAZZ CLUB @ TOMMY FLYNN’S 692 High Road Leytonstone, E11 3AA A few mins walk from Leytonstone tube & bus station. T: 020 8989 8129 eastside...@gmail.com ttp://eastsidejazzclub.blogspot.com twitter: http://twitter.com/EastSJC f/b: http://on.fb.me/13BCHMS
LEVERINGTON JAZZ CLUB meet monthly at The Leverington Sports (Jazz) Club, Church Road, Leverington , Wisbech PE13 5DE on the 2nd Sunday in each calendar month at 1.15 pm ie a lunchtime session. Admission £7.50 Wheelchair access, Bar @ Club Prices, Snacks & Coffee, Large Car Park, Comfortable - Plentiful seating, Dance floor, Attractive Venue. All welcome. Run by Dave/Sheila Dyer 01945 588325 email: 2359...@gmail.com
Sunday Gigs Lunchtime Sessions 1.15pm - 3.45
Aug 9th - The 5 Counties Jazzband with Gary Wood-tpt, Tony Teal Reeds, Derek Clemshaw-Tbe
HERTS JAZZ – Screen2, Hawthorne Theatre, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL8 6BX. Established in 1969, Herts Jazz has
become renowned as THE venue for jazz fans young and old. Booking
through Campus West on 01707 357 117. Gigs featuring the very best jazz
talent in the country every Sunday at the Hawthorne Studio. Free
parking, disabled access and a bar serving beers, wines, soft drinks,
hot drinks and snacks. The club is keen to bring jazz to a wider
audience and is making tickets available for just £5 to students and
under-21s. www.hertsjazz.co.uk Clark Tracey – 01442 218338 Stephen Hyde –
07818 452692. 7:30pm til 10.00pm (doors 7.00pm). www.jazzupdate.co.uk/downloads/hertsjazz.pdf
MILL HILL JAZZ CLUB – The Mill Hill Jazz Club has been providing live jazz of the highest standard to North West London for many years. The Club is for everyone with a passion for live jazz, blues and soul. We have had the pleasure to host to some of the best artists in the world at our club, and to provide our patrons with world class music at a fraction of West End prices. If you like jazz, the Mill Hill Jazz Club is the place to hang out. Every Wednesday from 8.30pm. The Golf Clubhouse, 100 Barnet Way, London NW7 3AL www.millhilljazzclub. Admission £8 members, £9 guests unless stated otherwise.
5 August - Lauren Lucille
12 August - The Renato D'Aiello Quartet
19 August - Esta B Daly
26 August - Jam Night. Once more our house band of Paulo Losi, Mike Paxton and Steve Picking
swing into the MHJC to support all musicians who roll up to the club on
the last Weds of every month to celebrate their talents. An open mike
evening for professionals and gifted amateurs. Roll up for a fun
evening. £5 members, £6 guests
2 September - Osterity. Geoff Walters (guitar) Barry Parfitt (piano) Steve Picking (bass) Mike Paxton (drums).
9 September - The Rob Terry Trio
16 September - Stefanos Tsourelis
JAZZ AT THE KINGS LANGLEY CLUB – The very best bands of local musicians every Tuesday at 8.30pm, 3-5 Hempstead Road, Kings Langley, Herts. Tel: 01923 262982. No entry charge, Visitors welcome . www.kingslangleyjazz.co.uk
August 4th - Kingsclub 7.
Our regular house band led by John Davis, featuring the usual front
line of leader on alto/soprano sax, John Mole tenor Sax, John Bridge on
trombone, plus singers.
August 11th - Glenwood Jazz. A quintet that plays the classics in an easy relaxed way, with no fireworks!
August 18th - Terry Trenwith Band. Jazz and Jokes! Terry has led many dance bands in Dacorum over the years and is hear with his small group
August 25th - The Jolly jazzers.
Over the years this small band has raised many thousands of pounds for
charity. Lots of fun, and perfect for the summer evening entertainment.
Don’t miss!
BERKHAMSTED JAZZ present live jazz in a relaxed club atmosphere, with reasonably priced licensed bar. £10 – members Dacorum Card holders, £13 – visitors and guests. Concerts normally at the Civic Centre, High Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 3HD. Parking on High Street and in the car park behind the shops opposite. Disabled access.
JAZZ NIGHTS AT THE FOX INN, Bury St Edmunds. 01284-705562 FREE live Jazz every Sunday in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Entrance is free and there is a large free car park. For drinks in the lounge or book a table for dinner and stay for the evening, sit back, relax and enjoy. Music starts at 7.15 until 9.45, sometimes later. If you'd like to get in touch do call Jeff on 07707 317868 – keeping jazz live and free!!! The Fox Inn, Restaurant & Rooms, 1 Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 1XX.
2nd August - Albert Garza Quartet
Born in San Antonio,Texas, Albert Garza has a sound and clarity reminiscent of the Texas Tenor Saxophone tradition of Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet and David ‘Fathead’Newman. Albert has been involved with the London City Big Band and recently performed with Wynton Marsalis at the Spice of Life in London. This quartet inspired by classic Blue Note recordings of the 50’s & 60’s will include Sam Warner(trumpet), Liam Dunachie (organ) and David Ingamells (drums)
16th August - Rob James Trio
Rob’s repertoire of over 300 songs covers a wide variety of styles including Light Pop, Jazz, Ballroom, Blues, Soul, Rock and Roll and Easy Listening. He enjoys performing songs from The Great American Songbook as well as from his own songs in the jazz and blues style.
30th August - Nigel Portass Trio
A ‘Rat Pack’ evening with Tom Melvin probably one of the best “ Sinatra “ type singers you would hear in the country. He is accompanied with keyboard whiz Nigel Portass who has played with such luminaries as Van Morrison, Chuck Berry and Gene Vincent. Completing the trio is drummer Bob Dore.
13th September - Georgetown
Joy hails from London and spends a lot of time playing jazz piano and singing with Georgtown Trio both in London and on cruise ships. She is backed up by drummer Adam Osmanski and bassist Dan, they are all fantastic musicians. Joy's voice is very soulful and she has a lot of vocal control. She’s able to hit her highest registers without an abrupt belt, a hallmark of the dynamic control required to be a great jazz vocalist.She’s also a very talented pianist, skilled at note-for-note playing and vamping alike.
“SPIKE’S PLACE” AT BECKENHAM – 8:30pm. Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR (Off South Eden Park Road). Admission £13.00 (members £10.00) unless otherwise stated. 020 8650 2406 / 01245 420475 E mail: susa...@btinternet.com www.myspace.com/spikesplacejazzclub Advance bookings contact: Susan 01245 420475
Thursday 6th August – 8.30pm. THE BLUE NOTE YEARS with the Geoff Mason Quintet
Featuring Simon Spillett
Thursday 13th August – 8.30pm. From the USA – John Colianni Trio
Thursday 27th August – 8.30pm. Chris Dean with the John Pearce Tri
JAZZNIGHTS @ THE COCK INN, CLARE 3 Callis Street, Clare, Suffolk, CO10 8PX. from. 8.00 – 10.30pm £10. www.jazz-nights.com. Reserve seating on 01787 237653 or email reply – pay on the door. With Simon Brown (keys), Bernie Hodgkins (bs) & Roger Odell (drs) + LARRAINE ODELL (voc)
Sunday 2nd August – Kevin Flanagan & Simon Hurley. With Simon Brown, Bernie Hodgkins & Alex Best. £10. Doors 7.30pm. Music 8.00 -10.30pm.
Note move to The Tudor Room, ground floor at The Bell for this session!
Sunday 16th August – Brandon Allen
Sunday 30th August – Adam Glasser
FOLKESTONE JAZZ CLUB AT THE TOWER Tower Theatre, North Road, Shorncliffe, Folkestone, Kent CT20 3HL. Every Thursday Music Starts 8 30pm To book seats please call 01303 277175 Derick Woodland Beryl Wood
August 6th 8 30pm £10 - THE THEO TRAVIS QUARTET www.theotravis.com
Theo Travis, making his first visit to The FJC. Theo is one of
Europe's finest & most fluent tenor sax players, as well as being a
brilliant flautist - melodic, yet inventive & will defo
become a favourite with our audience- - Just check his website !!! He brings with him a powerful & driving rhythm section.
John Donaldson - -Piano - recognised as one of the UKs top modern pianists.
Alex Keen- -Double Bass- A firm fav at The FJC- -Keeping the pulse.
Nic France - Drums - The driving force in this talent laden quartet
August 13th 8 30pm £10 - THE NIGEL PRICE TRIO +++ VASILIS XENOPOULOS
www.nigelprice.net / www.vasilisx.com
We welcome the return of this fantastic swinging trio & joined once
again by the superb tenor playing of Vasilis the charismatic Greek-
-who swings like the pendulum.
Nigel Price - Guitar - Often spoke of as The UKs most exciting jazz guitarist.
Ross Stanley- Hammond Organ- -Yes folks this is the big one- & the roundness of
the volume speaks for itself. Ross is the number one for many great jazz outfits.
Matt Home - Drums - -Driving- swinging drummer & completes the picture.
Vasilis Xenopoulos- -Tenor Sax- was tutored at Berklee & settled in the UK
& is now one of the finest on the planet- - fits in with this trio like a glove.
August 20th 8 30pm £10 - THE DAVE BARRY QUARTET feat DON WELLER
This is the first visit to the FJC for Dave Barry - -I don't know why it has taken
so long for us to get one of the UKs most experienced & most respected modern
jazz drummers to be here - -but now he is here with a great line up & one of the
legends of the British Jazz Scene for many years- Don Weller
Dave Barry - Drums - -A real driving force & great composer & arranger- Top man.
Don Weller- Tenor Sax. The individual style of this man is legendry - as is his
presence & total experience for decades of modern jazz in the UK.
John Donaldson - Piano - Much sought after-Brilliant modern jazz pianist.
Andrew Clyndert - Double Bass - Well respected & phenomenal bassist.
Tuesday August 25th 8 30pm £10 - THE CRAIG MILVERTON QUARTET play The Music of Oscar Peterson www.craigmilverton.co.uk
This gig has become an annual event & why not - Peterson (like
Mulligan) there is never too much & that is why Craig comes back to
The FJC
Craig Milverton -Piano - Brit Jazz Award Winner & recognised as one of the
greats of the UKs modern day pianists. His interpretation of Petersons playing
is a talent that only a few can achieve .
Dominic Ashworth - Guitar- from Canada, now settled in the UK & much in
demand in all forms of music. Dom has been with us many times-- one of the best.
Sandy Suchodolski - Double Bass. Very fine young bassist - a regular with this outfit.
Rod Brown - Drums Brilliant drummer- -heaps of experience & fits in well with
the Peterson set up in this quartet.
MONDAY NIGHT JAZZ AT THE BEDFORD ARMS, on Bromham Road, No 2 Bronham Road, Bedford, MK40 2QA.
August 3rd: Vasilis Xenopoulos - Tenor Saxophone
Vasilis
Xenopoulos was born in Athens and started playing clarinet and piano at
9. He started on the saxophone at 13, and continued his music studies
at the Philippos Nakas Conservatory in Athens. In 1999 Vasilis was
awarded a jazz scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music
in Boston MA. In the same year he represented Greece in the European
Jazz Youth Orchestra and toured with them in many European countries. By
2002 Vasilis had moved to London and continued his studies under the
guidance of Eddie Harvey, Stan Sulzmann, Jimmy Hastings and Pete Cook.
Vasilis formed his first Quartet in 2005 and has worked with some of
the best musicians in the British jazz scene, such as Jim Mullen, Steve
Waterman, Alan Barnes, Derek Nash, Bruce Adams, Martin Shaw, Nigel
Price, Ray Gelato and many others.
Vasilis
has appeared in many guises, as guest soloist, as band leader or as
saxophone section leader in jazz venues and jazz festivals throughout
the UK. He is currently lead tenor in the Steve Taylor Big Band, and in
the Ealing based Sound of 17 Big Band. His explosive style means he is
in great demand as a saxophone player for popular music and as a session
musician. the Quartet will also feature Pianist Bruno D'Ambra, Bassist
Mark Rose & Drummer/ Host Mark Hale.
Entry is £free but
donations are encouraged to pay the musicians at the end of the first of
their two sets. Music is from the usual time of 8.30pm
FRANK GRIFFITH GIGLIST- Frank Griffith, Director of Performance, School of Arts, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH 01895 266572. 07976 313224 www.frankgriffith.co.uk
31 July, 7.15PM. Frank Griffith Nonet w/Tina May a Ealing Jazz Festival, Walpole Park, W5. www.ealingsummerfestivals.com Free.
1 August, 8pm. With The Tina May Sextet at Norden Farm Arts Centre. Atwood Road, Maidenhead, SL6 4PF. 01628 788997. www.nordenfarm.org £15.
7 August, 8pm. With Roan Lawson-Kersey at Finchcocks Jazz Club, Goodhurst, Kent, TN17 1HA. www.finchcocks.co.uk. £10
8 October, 8PM. FG with Stu Butterfield Trio. Karamel Klub, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, N22 6UJ. £8. www.karamelrestaurant.com
15 October, 8pm. With Tina May Sextet at Doncaster Cast. Cast, Waterdale, Doncaster, DN1 3BU. 01302 303959. www.castindoncaster.com. £12.
30 October, 12.30-2.30pm. With The Polo Sticks (3 clarinets and rhythm) with Marty Nickless, Colin Good, Simon Woolf, etc at the Spice of Life, 6 Moor St, London, W1. www.spicejazz.co.uk. £6.
11 November, 8PM. With Tina May Quintet at Belvedere Jazz Club, Chichester Hotel, Rawreth, SS11 8UE. £10. www.belvederejazz.co.uk
20 November, 8PM. FG w/Alex Webb's Songs of Strayhorn. Cadogan Hall, Chelsea, SW11. Part of London Jazz Festival. www.serious.co.uk. £15
26 November, 8.30pm. With Dan Forshaw at The Hidden Rooms, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA. 01223 514777. www.hiddenroomsonline.com. £15
CAROL BRAITHWAITE’S FORTHCOMING GIGS.
Friday July 31st - Corringham Social Club, 1 Lampits Hill, SS17 9AA. Afternoon Jazz with Carol and the Crew. Tim Huskisson - piano, Mike Sagrott - guitar, Roger Curphey - bass, Mike Barry - drums. Snacks with coffee/tea and full bar available. Starts at 12.30 through till 2.30pm. £5 door. Monthly club - last Friday in every month
Sunday August 9th - Southend Bowls Club, Tunbridge Road, Southend SS2 6LT (tele: 01702 467073) off Victoria Avenue. Lunchtime jazz with Carol vocals, Tony Gooderham - piano, Ben Hearn - bass. 1- 3pm, £2 entry non members.
Friday August 14th - Billericay Const Club, 1, High Street, Billericay. CM12 9BE.
An afternoon of toe tapping swinging music with Carol, along with Tim Huskisson,
Hugh Rainey, George Tidiman, Roger Curphey, Ric Rossi. Lunchtime menu
available + club prices for drinks. Fun starts at 12.30 - 2.30pm. £5
door. Monthly club - 2nd Friday in every month.
Thursday August 20th - Essex County Bowling Club, "OUR NEW HOME" Imperial Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, SS0 8NE. With special guest Paul Higgs joining us for our monthly jazz night. I am confident that this move will be approved by the regulars as the car park is easily accessible, the drinks are club prices and the venue is lush!! Enjoy good music in a friendly and sociable environment. Food also available. Come and see for yourself. (8 - 10.30pm) £5 door. Carol vocals, Tim Huskisson, piano, Ted Simkins - bass, Mike Barry - drums. 3rd Thursday of every month.
Tuesday August 25th - Bardswell Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, CM14 4SX (tele: 01277 214057) Carol - vocals, Tony Gooderham - piano, Ted Simkins - bass, Dave Grant - drums. 8 - 10.30pm. Entry charged. Comfortable and friendly monthly club.
MORE INFORMATION: carolbraithwaite.com
FLEUR STEVENSON FORTHCOMING GIGS www.fleurstevensonjazz.co.uk http://fleurstevensonjazz.co.uk www.facebook.com/FleurStevensonJazz
Fleur
is one of the new breed of jazz singers who, having initially trained
classically in voice and trumpet, later found her true passion for jazz.
Fleur began singing at small clubs and bars only to find she adored the
sense of freedom that jazz singing can bring and quickly gained an
impressive local following. Her influences span jazz, soul and blues
genres, include Carman McRae, Shirley Horn, and Ella Fitzgerald.
Fleur Stevenson hosts Jazz Singers' Night at the Global Cafe,
Reading. Maff Potts on piano, Nick Hill bass, Ben Robins drums. Global
Cafe, 35-39 London St, Reading, West Berkshire RG1 4PS. Tel 0118 958
3555 Admission: free 9-11pm
RON SPACK’S JAZZTET at THE OAKWOOD. 564 Rayleigh Road, Eastwood, SS9 5HX. Tel: 01702 512819. Every Monday. 8.30-11pm. Sitters in welcome. Meals served during the evening. Ron on Bass plus the following:
Mon 3rd Aug, Kenny Baxter-Saxophone, Mike Sagrott-Guitar, Mike Barry-Drums.
Mon 10th Aug, Dave Jago-Trombone, Dave Mascall-Guitar, Glyn Morgan-Drums.
Mon 17th Aug, Tony Pethen-Saxophone, Dave Kay-Guitar, Mike Barry-Drums.
Mon 24th Aug, Graham Hunter-Trumpet, Chris English-Keyboard, Glyn Morgan-Drums.
Mon 31st Aug, Mike Sagrott-Guitar, Tony Gooderham- Keyboard, Glyn Morgan-Drums.
RON SPACK’S LUNCHTIME JAZZ at THE WESTCLIFF HOTEL. 18-20, Westcliff Parade, Westcliff on Sea, Esse. SSO 7QW. 01702 345247. Sunday 1pm. Ron on Bass, plus guest.
Sunday 2nd.
Sunday 9th.
Sunday 16th.
Sunday 23rd.
Sunday 30th.
QUE PASA FORTHCOMING GIGS - Formed in 2013, Que Pasa are the regular and popular house band each month at Rhodes Centre in Bishop’s Stortford. The band’s members have many decades of experience touring and recording in a wide range of musical situations including jazz, dance, fusion, folk, rock and classical music. The band’s repertoire comprises Latin jazz, standards, originals and contemporary jazz.
Adam Amor
– tenor, alto and soprano saxes. During his 5-year residency in New
York, Adam studied with Tito Puente, Luis Bauzo and Paquito D'Rivera.
He is equally at home playing pop, rock or jazz, bringing a real sense
of style and communication.
Paul Higgs
– trumpet is renowned as one of the UK’s leading trumpet players and
composers. Paul's career includes performing, composing and arranging
music for film, TV and theatre. He was a MD for the National Theatre and
Royal Shakespeare Company.
Paul Robinson
- drums is one of the UK’s leading drummers. He toured with Nina Simone
for 19 years. Paul has played, toured and recorded with a huge variety
of artists including Trevor Horn, Van Morrison, Paul McCartney, Rod
Stewart and Pet Shop Boys.
Peter Lemer
– piano has been an integral part of the British jazz scene since the
early 1960s. His past bands include Pete Lemer Quintet, , Gilgamesh,
Baker-Gurvitz Army, Seventh Wave, Harry Beckett's Joy Unlimited, Barbara
Thompson's Paraphernalia, Pierre Moerlen's Gong, Mike Oldfield Group,
In Cahoots and Miller/Baker/Lemer.
Steve Cook
– double bass has played with many leading jazz artists since the
1970s, including Barbara Thompson, Pete Jacobsen, Michael Garrick, Mark
Murphy, Gil Evans and Mike Westbrook. He toured and recorded with many
progressive rock bands.
21st Aug Qua Pas at Les Amandines, Diss
STEVE LEMER FORTHCOMING GIGS
21st Aug - Qua Pas at Les Amandines, Diss
PETER JEZARD FORTHCOMING GIGS
THE WAGON in WIX 8:30 - 11pm (every 3rd Wednesday of the month) with The Blackwater Band - Brian Hart (Clarinet/Sax) Mel Cox (Banjo) Paul Budd (drums) Gerry Hoskin (Bass) Pete Jezard (Trombone/Vocals). Playing happy jazz blues and ballads.
THE BOTTLENECK BLUES CLUB meet on the last Tuesday of the month in the Roffen Suite in Rochester – 41 New Road, Rochester ME1 1DX. Normally tickets £10, doors 7.30pm, band on stage 8.45pm. www.bottleneckblues.com. Good food, reasonably priced.
THE DON STEELE JAZZBAND will be playing at The Woodman, Goathurst Common, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks TN14 6BU on Wednesday 22nd July, and every other Wednesday from 8pm. Good food, wine and draft beer to go with the trad jazz. Band Members - Don Steele Trumpet, Richard Brennan Reeds, Johnny McCallum Banjo/Guitar, Mick Scriven Bass, Bill Magee Drums, Jan Bryce Trombone and Eileen Ford Singer
JAZZ AT BARNEY’S CAFE/BAR 46-56 Portland Rd, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1QN (Tel: 01903 527075). Website: http://www.barneysworthing.co.uk
Every Saturday from 8.30pm until 11pm, join local tenor saxophonist Mike Pappenheim with various guest artists for two sets of mainstream, standards-led jazz with some easy-listening and pop tunes thrown in. Free Entry! Tel 01903 527075. Charles has worked with Tim Garland, Anita Wardell, John Etheridge, Steve Waterman, Gareth Lockrane, Jean Touissant and Martin Hathaway, and was for many years a piano tutor on Michael Garrick’s jazz courses as well as a jazz examiner for ABRSM for 14 years. Barney’s is just a few minutes drive from Worthing train station, in the centre of town.
For Live Music in Cambridge - Hot Numbers Coffee with Nick Hill plus guests every Thursday evening within the gallery space from 7pm - 10:30pm. Units 5/6 Dales Brewery, Gwydir Street, Cambridge CB1 2LJ. Some fantastic recent guests include Gillad Atzmon, Frank Harrison, John Turville, Josh Kemp. www.hotnumberscoffee.co.uk
JAZZ NIGHTS AT HAVERHILL ARTS CENTRE, High St, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 8AR. To book for either, call 01440 714140 or go to www.haverhillartscentre.co.uk
SPICE OF LIFE - 6 Moor Street, Soho, London W1D 5NA Nominated for Jazz Venue of the Year Award - Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2010 & 2015. Pre-bookings: www.wegottickets.com in...@spicejazz.co.uk ; tel/text: 07870 915682 www.spicejazz.co.uk http://www.facebook.com/spicejazz
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100 Years of Jazz on Thursday 27th August @ The Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, the first time that a show encompassing the history of jazz from its beginnings in Ragtime through to the present has been presented. Pete Long – sax, flute, trumpet; Enrico Tomasso – trumpet, trombone, vocals; Nick Dawson – piano, clarinet, vocals; Dave Chamberlain – double bass, guitar, banjo, drums, piano; Richard Pite – drums, tuba, double bass; Georgina Jackson – vocals, trumpet. The multi-instrumental virtuosi create an entertaining journey through the decades taking in everything from New Orleans to Be Bop, Swing to Latin, Hot to Cool, from Chicago and NY to around the world. An A to Z of jazz’s biggest names from Louis Armstrong to Joe Zawinul live again in the ensemble’s brilliant recreations. The music is interspersed with fascinating stories from the music’s history as well as the inimitable humour of the band’s musical director Pete Long. Tickets: £13.00 - £15.00. Book www.britannia-pier.co.uk or 01493 842914
The fabulous Jive Aces – the UK’s No. 1 jive and swing band – in a fundraising concert for the National Jazz Archive on Friday 18 September, to raise funds to support the work of the National Jazz Archive. It starts at 7.30pm and tickets cost £17. The venue is Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, Chingford, London, E4 7EN (500 m from Chingford Station), with parking close by, and good access by bus.
The Jive Aces are set to appear at the biggest UK music festivals, and have just released their 8th studio album ‘Spread a Little Happiness’. They are renowned for their high energy Jump Jive music (the exciting sound where Swing meets Rock ’n’ Roll) and spectacular stage show, combining fresh arrangements of swing/jive/R&B classics – songs made famous by such greats as Louis Prima, Cab Calloway, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin, Big Joe Turner and Sammy Davis, Jr – along with a selection of superb swinging originals from their albums. Appearing alongside are special guests Swing Museum. Inspired by the ‘Hot Club of France', a well-known instrumental Jazz Manouche quartet, playing a delightfully authentic version of this sophisticated and refined music from the 30s and 40s. By combining the innovative styling of Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt with their own foot-tapping original compositions, they make each of their sets unique. www.nationaljazzarchive.org.uk/events, tel 020 8502 4701 or eve...@nationaljazzarchive.org.uk
Jazz in the Jungle Bar - Fore Street, Hertford SG14 1AX. Monday 10th August with the Neil Fryer Quartet. Music at 8.30 pm. Admission Free Tel 07504 733892
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Monday
Theydon Jazz Club @ Theydon Bois Golf Club,
Theydon Rd, off Piercing Hill, CM16 4EH Every Monday 8-10:30 pm,
Traditional/Dixieland/New Orleans Jazz features Excellent Live Bands for
listening/Dancing, facilities include: Bar/ Meals/ Dance Floor/Car
Park.
Normal Admission £7.50 email:2359...@gmail.com www.theydonjazzclub.org.uk
Jazz in the Round, The Cockpit, Gateforth St, Marylebone NW8 8EH. Jazz/contemporary music every last Monday in the month. www.thecockpit.org.uk/jazz First band 8pm. Tickets from £8 020 7258 2925. DJ set with Jez in the bar.
Tuesday
Jazz at the Bardswell – Last Tuesday of every month at the Bardswell Social Club, Bardswell Close, Brentwood CM14 4TJ: doors open 7 pm.: music from 8 – 10.30 pm. Admission £7.00. Resident trio – drums, piano, bass plus guests. Great crowd and drinks at club prices. Dave Grant 01708 763723.
Annie’s Jazz @ Thorpe Hall Golf Club . Every Tuesday 8-30-11pm. www.anniesjazz.co.uk Annies Jazz @yeoldesmack. annie...@googlemail.com
The Bottleneck Blues Club who meet on the last Tuesday of the month in the Roffen Suite in Rochester – 41 New Road, Rochester ME1 1DX. Normally tickets £10, doors 7.30pm, band on stage 8.45pm. www.bottleneckblues.com. Good food, reasonably priced, available to eat at your table.
Jazz at The Kings Langley Club. The very best bands of local musicians every Tuesday at 8.30pm. 3-5 Hempstead Road, Kings Langley, Herts. Tel: 01923 262982. No entry charge, visitors welcome.
A Norfolk gig – The Eddie Seales Big Band perform on the 1st Tuesday of the month is at The William Burt Centre, West Winch (near Kings Lynn). www.eddiesealesbigband.co.uk
Humphrey Lyttelton Band will be at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, SW13 9PY, tickets £12 – a regular monthly booking, 2nd Tuesday of every month. www.humphreylyttelton.com/live
Every Tuesday Evening 7.30 -9.30pm. Music, Improvisation, Meditation & Mindfulness at Samatha House, near Stisted, Essex. Explore & learn relaxing meditation techniques, music improvising workshops & listening to meditative music (Johnty Wilks saxes, synths, flutes, Darnell keyboards & synths,) special guests £5.00 (or £7.50 including food at the earlier time 6.30pm and socialising). Johnty on 0771 359 4543. B&B available.
Wednesday
Every Wednesday evening The Belvedere Jazz and Music Club. Doors open at 6:30pm for meals and lite bites at your table with music commencing at 8:00pm -10.30pm. Admission £10. Large free car park, bar. www.belvederejazz.co.uk At The Chichester’s Tudor Room, Old London Road, Rawreth, Nr. Wickford. SS11 8UE
Every Wednesday evening Mill Hill Jazz Club at the Clubhouse, 100 Barnet Way, Mill Hill, NW7 3AL. From 8:30pm. £8 members, £9 guests.
Jazz at the Railway Hotel, Southend. 32 Clifftown Road Town Centre, Southend SS1 1AJ. The best of the local Jazz scene with many special guests! Free admission. Start at 8.30.
Thursday
At The Little Crown, 12 Short Wyre Street, Colchester CO1 1LN more Trad Jazz with The Dixie Jazz Trio 8:00 – 10:30 On every 2nd Thursday of the month. 8:00 – 10:30pm. – The Dixie Trio + 1.
Googlies Jazz Supper Club at Botany Bay Cricket Club, East Lodge Lane, Enfield, EN2 8AS Live Jazz every Thursday evening. Doors 7.30pm, Performance from 8pm. Licensed Bar, food available & free ample parking. The Colin Peters Quartet support a different guest each week. Adm normally – Guests £9.00, Members £7.00 Membership: £15.00 per year
The Pump House Jazz Club at Watford continues on Thursdays.
The Cross Keys is an independent pub in Tunbridge Wells with live music at the core. Sonny’s Jazz nights run every Thursday and there is no charge for entry. St Johns Road (A26) just over a mile north of Tunbridge Wells Town Centre. 236/238 St Johns Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 9XD Tel: 01892 536 516:
The Sole Bay Jazz Band meets every Thursday at 8pm at the sports/social club – The Maltings Pavilion, Pirnhow Street, Ditchingham, Nr Bungay, Suffolk NR35 2RU with regular members & guests from around the region playing. Free admission, bar & large car park. Weekly update at www.cakesandal.blogspot.co.uk
The Just Jazz & Blues Band have a regular monthly spot at “The Audley”, Mount Street, London W1. Admission Free – starts from 7.30pm – Food & drink available.
Friday
Music at Marigolds, Harlow Cricket Club. A great regular jazz night in Harlow on the last Friday of every month. More at: www.musicatmarigolds.co.uk. They also host some great blues nights: Jazz on the door £8 – Blues on the door £7
Sunday
The Globe Pub, 20 Morning Lane, Hackney, London, E9 6NA. (Opposite Tesco car park entrance) have Different Trad Jazz bands every Sunday 12:30 – 3:30pm. Free entrance.
For Trad Jazz fans there is the long-established Hornchurch Jazz Club, 25 North St (rear), Hornchurch, Essex. Tel: Laurie on 07913 558616. Great atmosphere. Dancing. Drinks at Club Prices.Admission £7. Members £6. Guests £6. 8:30 – 11pm.
Jazz and Tapas, 1st Sunday of the month, 1.00 – 4.00pm, O Picado, 403 London Road, Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 7HU, Tel 01702 300540 Sunday lunchtime 1pm to 4pm, at O’Picado, a family run Portugese restaurant. Bookings 01702 300540.
There is a regular session at The Woolpack, Tuddenham Road, Ipswich IP4 2SH on the last Sunday of each month and bank holidays with a regular rhythm section and different front line each month. Contact Des Hart des-...@supanet.com or phone 01728 685622.
For fans of Trad Jazz out there, may we direct to you Wilf James‘ comprehensive listings — http://bit.ly/r0lcY2, or just Google Wilf’s Jazz!!
News & Forthcoming Events at Exchange House Music Club, Exchange House, Blackmore, Essex, CM4 0QY. Tel. 01277 824 616 or 07885 423 393. David Price. www.jazzbanduk.com
Retrospectivejazz, are a trad and Dixieland band based in darkest NE Essex. You can find their website at http://.retrospectivejazz.cticloud.co.uk
John Petters News -
Programmes Fixed and Colour Flyers / Booking Forms for Bracklesham Louis Armstrong Celebration Jazz Festival 11- 14 September : http://www.traditional-jazz.com/mainpages/documents/brack15rcs.pdf
And the Stratford William Shakespeare Jazz ‘n ‘ Swing Festival, 21 - 23 November, 15: http://www.traditional-jazz.com/mainpages/documents/stratford15flyer.pdf
Tickets are now shifting very rapidly for the London Louis Armstrong Riverboat Shuffle on Sat 5th September: http://www.traditional-jazz.com/mainpages/thamesriver.htm
Earlier this month, I did a presentation to the Stratford U3A Group on Jazz from Ragtime to Swing. https://soundcloud.com/john-petters/an-introduction-to-jazz-from-ragtime-to-swing-u3a-stratford
Don’t forget, The Late Paul Barnes on BBC Radio: http://www.traditional-jazz.com/mainpages/radiojazz.htm
Tony Jacobs News
Pianist supremo Jim Barry and I are at Fishguard’s Theatr Gwaun on Wednesday evening, August 26th celebrating the best of Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Rodgers & Hart and other greats. www.theatrgwaun.com 01348 873421
A
couple of reminders: tune in to the UK 1940s Radio Station which plays
music from the 1920s to the ‘40s as well as having very interesting
articles on their website. I present my own show every Saturday at
05.00, 11.00, 17.00 and 23.00 BST. Finally, for much more news, quizzes,
articles, laughs and occasionally politically controversial stuff, do
subscribe to the Tony Jacobs & Friends Newsletter. Send a cheque
made payable to Tony Jacobs and Friends for the princely amount of £7.50
and send off to Tony Williams (editor), 82 Warnford Road, Bournemouth,
BH7 6QT. This is a non-profit making quarterly newsletter keeping you up
to date with our shows and events – as well as those of others – if I
approve, of course!
www.tuxedojazzorchestra.com www.tonyjacobs.net t...@tonyjacobs.net
*** MUSIC COURSES ***
British and International Vocal (Jazz) Academy
(BIVJA) workshop course is a high quality enterprise implementing the
skills and experience of a full rhythm section. For those who wish to
acquire a greater understanding of the working of that rhythm section
plus harmony, aural, jazz music theory and jazz style through practical
sessions integrating performance, audience communication, history, safe
vocal technique, extending range and improvisation and all ‘tools of the
trade’. In Ealing, West London. BIVJA promotes a warm but challenging
environment and as the course develops ALL students will have acquired
some practical knowledge of piano, bass, kit and percussion playing and
band leading skills in addition to vocal and technical skills. The
support group created by this enterprise will assist students in
self-promotion and performance opportunities.
Contact Verona Chard –
020 8992 1571 – leave message, and contact details. 07985 440902
www.veronachard.com/bivja v...@veronachard.com
The Julian Joseph Jazz Academy runs weekly in Hackney on Saturday afternoons, under the artistic direction of internationally renowned jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph, offering talented young instrumentalists and vocalists aged 11-24, the opportunity to work with acclaimed jazz artists to develop their skills through a curriculum underpinned by an introduction to the American roots of jazz.
The Hertfordshire Music Service and North Herts Youth Jazz run the North Herts Youth Jazz Big Band rehearse Tuesday evenings, term time, at The North Herts Music School, Highbury House, Highbury Road, Hitchin SG4 9RU 01462 434052 from 1715 to 1845. Up to 19 or older if in full time education. We welcome interest from rhythm & horn section players and singers, of min grade 5. Acoustic or electric bass players. Be prepared to read charts too! Improvisers will be especially welcome but guidance and instruction will be given to all who wish it. This band will perform at least once in public each term to promote the playing of jazz amoung young people. There is a termly fee.
Essex Music Services, part of Essex County Council provide ” Quality instrumental tuition and workshops to schools and colleges in Essex, covering all major orchestral and band instruments and musical styles”. One of the youth orchestras is The Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra (EYJO) for young musicians with a love for jazz with a min of grade 5 – entry by audition. The EYJO meets monthly for rehearsals and also go on tour. Musical Director Martin Hathaway, since 1991, is one of the country’s leading jazz musicians. He is also the resident conductor of Young Essex Jazz and Essex Junior Jazz. Tickets for their’ Jazz concerts from 01206 798788 or email beverley...@essex.gov.uk
If you weren’t aware of it you really should be listening to jazz broadcaster of the year Paul Barnes’s show The Late Paul Barnes. The show is broadcast each Saturday
between 11pm and 1am on the following BBC stations: Norfolk, Suffolk,
Essex, Kent, Cambridgeshire, Northampton and 3CR (Beds, Bucks, Herts).
And for those of you who aren’t night owls, thanks to the wonders of
modern technology you can “listen again” any time, anywhere by going to:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002mhdx
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tune to www.1940sukradio.co.uk
Adam Dyer presents a radio show on Phoenix FM, every Monday night 6pm – 8pm, playing jazz from the swing era to the present on 98FM in the Brentwood/Billericay area, and available on app-stores and online: http://www.phoenixfm.com/2014/01/21/all-that-jazz/, helping to build a following for jazz among younger people. Adam teachs jazz piano/ composition in Billericay (has an MA from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama). http://www.reverbnation.com/adamdyerjazz
For information on more complete music genres Jurgen Reid suggests you try his Facebook/Twitter page – Music In Essex on which he posts information about gigs, bands, venues, etc. Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/MusicInEssex – the twitter profile may be found by searching @MusicInEssex. Musicians can also post their own info on the page profile and Jurgen will share it across the other accounts.
Our friends at MEDWAY JAZZ publish a great newsletter covering a lot of what is going on in Kent. You can download their latest newsletter by clicking here: http://jazzupdate.co.uk/downloads/kentjazzspring14.pdf
Dave Self is a lifelong jazz fan, performer and DJ. He is a presenter of a jazz show for Blast 1386 – Tuesdays midday to CARL ORR on guitar [yes the guitarist with the billy cobham band] and ANDY NOBLE on keyboards . Carl and andy are both from Australia and are both top class exellent musicians 1pm, repeated on Fridays 8pm to 9pm. You can listen in at http://radiotime.com/station/s_6837/Blast_1386.aspx.
A really good website, kindly pointed out to us by Steve Duke. www.jazzonthetube.com. Basically it is a directory of all the great jazz videos which can be found on YouTube sorted by artist … highly addictive!
From Lynn Hammond. chair of the Friends of Redbridge Music School: The new budget proposed by the council plans to remove all funding from Redbridge Music Service – £185,000 in 2015/16 and £185,000 again in 2016/17. As part of these cuts, the council proposes to privatise hire agreements and the instrument centre and change teachers' contracts of employment. We need to safeguard the future of music education in our borough. Twitter #HandsOffRMS Facebook 'Hands Off Redbridge Music Service'. To be kept informed, please email us at friendsofredbri...@gmail.com
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Courtesy of our friends at J A Z Z N I G H T S
Bury St Edmunds: The Apex presents Songbook Sundays in the Apex Lounge with singer GEORGIA MANCIO on Sunday 23rd August accompanied by the CHRIS INGHAM TRIO. Details on 01284 758000.
Cambridge: Every Sunday night the ANDY BOWIE QUARTET are at the Tram Depot, Dover Street. See http://www.tramdepotcambridge.co.uk and https://soundcloud.com/andy-bowie.
Cambridge: Hot Numbers Coffee Bar at Units 5-6, Dales Brewery, Gwydir St, CB1 2LJ feature jazz from time to time. See www.hotnumberscoffee.co.uk for details.
And finally … NAG TIME! PLEASE NOTE:
1. As mentioned above, please do NOT just send us posters or flyers or a link to a website. We will not include anything which we cannot copy and paste the text from. Word etc documents are fine, as is just typing the information in the body of an email. If someone does your artwork for you they would normally be happy to email you the text to save you re-typing it.
2. Please send all items for inclusion in the newsletter to listings<at>jazzupdate.co.uk
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Every Friday at 8.30 to 11:30pm. Paul Rhodes & his Band at Rubi London. 97 Maple Road, Surbiton, London, KT6 4AW. Tel: 020 8399 5055. Live Swing & Blues Jazz. £6.50 Mojito special until 10pm. Bring your dancing shoes! in...@rubi-london.com
Important: would you please note that due to a licensing issue at the club the Buckhurst Hill Jam has had to be suspended temporarily. Sorry for any inconvenience – we will be back on Sunday evenings again as soon as it has been sorted. Please watch this space, or check in occasionally on the website: www.jazzjam.co.uk
The Crypt, St Giles Church, Camberwell Church St, London SE5 8RB. www;jazzlive.co.uk
Friday August 7th: Dave O'Higgins & The Organisation Doors 8.00 pm £8 / £5
Hammond Trio 'The Organisation' (Simon Fernsby - Guitar, Pete Whittaker - Hammond Organ and Pete Cater
- Drums) have worked extensively with Tony Kofi, Gareth Loochrane,
Byron Wallen, Alex Garnett and others here they team up with Tenor Sax
virtuoso Dave O'Higgins (Jim Mullen, Cleo Lane, John Dankworth, Martin
Taylor, Jimmy Smith and others) for an evening of blues, hard bop and
hammond grooves.
The Organisation: "a killer band with real bite" - Mark Youll Jazzwise
Dave O' Higgins: "Dazzling post-bop tenorist with a magnificent range and a dramatic turn of phrase." - THE GUARDIAN
Fri August 14th - MUSSINGHI BRIAN EDWARDS QUARTET + MARK KAVUMA
Fri August 21st & 28th - CLOSED FOR SUMMER BREAK
Fri September 4th - CAMERON PIERRE QUINTET
Fri September 11th - ALEX MERRITT / STEVE FISHWICK QUINTET
Fri September 18th - ORIOLE
Jazz in the Jungle Bar - Fore Street, Hertford SG14 1AX. Monday 10th August with the Neil Fryer Quartet. Neil Fryer (saxophone) Chris Eldred (keyboard) Paul Leader (bass) Ben Handysides (drums) Music at 8.30 pm. Admission Free Tel 07504 733892
Jazz every Tuesday at the Cricketers Pub, 47 Shirley Road, Croydon, Surrey CR07ER
Free Entry.
Jazz at the Redbridge Sports and Leisure Centre. The next gentle jazz evening is on Tuesday, 1st September at 8.00pm 'til 10.30pm, featuring Brian Dee Keyboard Len Skeat Bass John Withers Drums. Special guest Paul Wood Vocals.
Vocalist Annie Dehaney-Steven will be presenting 'Anita O'Day - Jezebel of Jazz' at the Pizza Express Jazz Club at The Pheasantry, 152 King's Road, Chelsea on Thursday, August 27th at 8:00. Annie, singing with her excellent band, Phil Mead on piano, Alex Keen on bass, Tim Reyland on drums and Peter Sellars on violin, will tell the story of the high times and hard times of this iconic jazz singer whose turbulent career spanned over six decades. Tickets £15, available from pizzaexpresslive.com
Hadleigh Jazz Club presents at 8PM on Saturday 5th Sept Hadleigh Town Hall, Market Place, Hadleigh, IP7 5DN, Georgina Jackson & Pete Long
with CHRIS INGHAM piano MICK HUTTON bass GEORGE DOUBLE drums. An
acclaimed singer and trumpeter, Georgina’s success with her first album
led her to become the singer with Ronnie Scott’s Big Band. A vivacious,
stylish vocalist, she has fronted several BBC broadcasts paying tribute
to Peggy Lee with the BBC Big Band and Irving Berlin with the BBC
Concert Orchestra. Georgina’s partner Pete Long is one of the foremost
bandleaders and reedsmen in the UK.
“If you cannot get tickets to
see Diana Krall then Georgina Jackson makes a winning substitute” SUNDAY
TIMES “Talented singer/trumpeter with a sassy, vibrant style” ALL
ABOUT JAZZ. Tickets £12: info/reservations: George Double 07941 360890
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Important: would you please note that due to a licensing issue at the club the Buckhurst Hill Jam has had to be suspended temporarily. Sorry for any inconvenience – we will be back on Sunday evenings again as soon as it has been sorted. Please watch this space, or check in occasionally on the website: www.jazzjam.co.uk
Every Wednesday at 8.00 to 11pm. Little Bread Big Jam at O’Neills. 762 High Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 3AW. Tel: 020 8536 4039. Usual house band Phil Mead on keyboard, Paul Whelpton on bass and Dave Fowler on drums, although this is subject to change at the whim of good fortune and a better paying gig. All jazz instrumentalists, vocalists and audients welcome. Wonderful music and a warm welcome guaranteed. £4. Bring Your Own Enthusiasm. Annie mu...@indigoshades.com or details 07885480329.
The Robert Bell Trio on the First Thursday of the Month at The Speakeasy Bar, 175 Epping High Street, Epping CM16 4BL Superb Jazz trio featuring vocalist Robert Bell (Hendricks, Sinatra, Bennett, Torme ect) Paul Higgs trumpet/piano, Graham Cuttill drums, Matt Lowrie bass plus guests “The only purpose built Jazz and cocktails venue in the area and it's free admission”
First Friday of the Month at 8.00. Dodgy Jammers at Broxbourne Sailing Club, Meadgate Road, Nazeing. Usual house band Wally Shaw on keyboard, Paul Leader on bass and Lester Bennett on drums. Very reasonable bar, home-cooked food, beautiful rural setting. £3. Annie mu...@indigoshades.com or 07885480329.
There's a new Friday Night jam 9.00 pm at the M & B Sports & Social Club, Dagenham Road, Dagenham RM7 0QX. Its a nice friendly club with comfortable surroundings, FREE entry to jammers and guests. Club prices. Full back line. Look forward to seeing you!
Mascara Bar, 72 Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington N16 6XS. Every Tuesday: House trio + jam. 8.30. (F). info: 07905 151894
Mill Hill Jazz Club host a regular end of month, Wednesday, open stage for quality musicians. Val’s House band provides the professional rhythm section that binds it all together - the most “happening” scene in the whole of North West London. The Golf Clubhouse, 100 Barnet Way, London NW7 3AL www.millhilljazzclub.co.uk valgo...@gmail.com 0208 207 045
The Cambridge Jazz Jam is at the Duke of Cambridge pub, 176 East Road, Cambridge CB1 1BG (tel: 01223 304121). Every Tuesday, 8.30 - 11 pm. Admission free. With our resident backing quartet we welcome musicians and singers to join us and play or sing tunes of their choice. Our policy is inclusive, so whether you're an accomplished player or someone struggling to get it together, you will be welcome. There’s a carpark behind the pub, in Adam & Eve Street, with direct entrance to the back door. Info Mike Quigley 07979 59 22 41
There is a Thursday night Jazz Session and Jam at Nomad Bar, 58 Old St, EC1V 9AJ. www.nomadjazz.com. The normal house band is Antonio Marzinotto and his trio but often have special guests and other bands. The aim of the night is for all talented jazz musicians, young and old, to play together in a relaxed atmosphere.
VivaVocals atThe Loft, Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec, Kennington - first Sunday of the month – Open Mic with the Bob Stuckey Trio, hosted by Romy Summers. £8 singers, £6 audience. Normally first Sunday of each month, starting at 7:30pm. Doors and singing list taken at 7pm (first come first served to sign up). Each month there are two featured mini sets and a great night of open mic supported by fantastic musicians http://www.vivavocals.org/
New Jam Night on Wednesday nights at the Three Travellers, Wood Lane, Dagenham RM10 7DS from 9 – 11.30 pm. Full Back Line with Keyboard and PA. Free Entrance. All muso’s and listeners welcome, to this very friendly pub in Dagenham, easy parking. Hope to see some of you there whenever you can. Help to keep Music Live.
Jazz at the Green Note “jam great atmosphere!” on the 1st Sunday of every month. Music 8:30pm – Band set followed by a jam. 106 Parkway, Camden NW1 7AN.
There is a jazz jam every Saturday with the Nora Bite trio at 9:30pm with original music in the first set followed by a jazz standards jam. Free entrance. Venue: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch E2 8DP. Usual house band is a guitar trio led by Nora Bite. . Until 2am .
Jazz Jam Session Every Tuesday @ The Silver Bullet London N4 2PA The Bukky Leo Quartet features the groovy Lance Rose on the Bass, the hard driving Emiliano Caroselli on the Drums and the superb Jonathan Gee on the Piano. Bukky Lee on Tenor & vocs. Jamming starts from 10 till late, now showing great Jazz Movies on show during intervals. Free Entry before 10pm / £3 thereafter.
There is a Jam session on the first Thursday of each month in Colchester at The Bull, Crouch Street. We have a house band that regularly features such great players as Bern Hodgekins (Bass player with Jazznights trio) and Mick Hutton (bass). Our attitude is that of inclusion and after a short set from the house band, we open the stage for jammers and singers. The jam has been running for about 5 years now with a steady following. Info: Simon (simon...@madasafish.com)
Singers' Night at Nelson - The 2nd Tuesday of each month. Open mic evening for jazz vocalists now in its 18th year. Excellent accompanists and resident sound engineer. Warm supportive atmosphere, food available at our venue, at 48 Stanhope Street, London NW1. Just a six minute walk from nearest underground station Warren Street, £8 singers, £7 guests. Doors open and singing list taken from 6.00pm, music from 7.45 till 10.30pm. Info Chris Legee at jazz...@waitrose.com.
There is a LondonBluesJams Yahoo! Group – blues rock n roll and soul jam every Thursday from 9:00 pm – 11:30 pm . The Golden Lion, 2 High St Market Square, Romford RM1 1HR. For more info call Bob Marks 07503 16 45 72 Full back line. P.A. Keys, Saxes and Brass. Mainly blues but all tastes catered for. All musos welcome from beginners to pros and bands. Come and join in the great atmosphere – Vocalists especially welcome.
Jazz Jam at the Steamboat Tavern, Ipswich is now held on the 1st Friday of each month. We start at 8pm and finish around 11pm. All are welcome – both players and jazz fans. Admission FREE . Come along and enjoy the company and soak up the atmosphere. We look forward to seeing you there.
The Ipswich Jazz Collective meet once a month on a Friday to hold a jam session at the Golden Hind Pub on Nacton Road in Ipswich. They start at 7:30 with bass, drums, keyboard gear and a PA set up. Guitarists will need to bring their own amps. There’s no entrance fee and all levels of player are catered for. Local bands also have the chance to do a set on their own. Info: Des Hart des-...@supanet.com.
The Norwich JazzJam is at the Fat Cat Tap Brewery, 98-100 Lawson Road, NR3 4LF Norwich on Monday nights with Lee Vasey, Ian Hireson & Matt Furness.
Open Jazz Jam, “Who Pays The Piper” at The White Horse' Pub, Mill Rd, Husborne Crawley, Beds MK43 0XE, 1 mile from M1 Jn 13, on the A507 between Ridgmont and Woburn. Fortnightly session on Tuesdays from 8–11.00pm. FREE ENTRY – though we do ask for donations toward our back line, particularly if you want to play or sing .. (occasional raffle!). Great friendly atmosphere and pub food available, .. so bring your instruments, voices and friends, most of all - yourselves. Chris 07804140606 or chris.b...@bigfoot.com .
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BELVEDERE JAZZ & MUSIC CLUB, every Wednesday evening is at The Chichester’s Tudor Room, Old London Road, Rawreth, Nr. Wickford SS11 8UE (Off A129, 800 yards Wickford side of The Carpenters Arms roundabout). Meals and tasty Lite Bites available from 6:30pm whilst you sit at your own candlelit table, either before or whilst enjoying the top quality jazz which commences at 8:00pm until 10.30pm. Top International, Regional Bands and Artists, including Big Bands, Swing and Mainstream, all tuneful easy listening foot tapping music with something for everyone! Friendly welcoming atmosphere ~ Admission £10 on the door ~ Large free car park ~ Drinks at pub prices ~ Newcomers most welcome. www.belvederejazz.co.uk 07850 607075 belved...@btinternet.com
12th August - Paul Wood, Brian Dee, Jim Mullen, Len Skeat & John Withers
Glenn Miller Memorial Orchestra’s vocalist Paul Wood will perform your favourite vocals accompanied by this top drawer, highly talented quartet who need no introduction! In addition to Paul, you will hear several instrumentals performed by this excellent quartet. IMPORTANT - THE GIG WILL HELD IN THE ADJOINING ESSEX BARN DUE TO REDECORATION OF THE TUDOR ROOM - LIMITED SEATING - BOOKING ESSENTIAL
19th August - The Gary Wood Swing Quintet
The Quintet with Gary Wood will swing through the American Songbook with ease and style. Dan Foster has played with The Pasadena Roof Orchestra & The London Jazz Orchestra. Chris Green appears with numerous bands including The Memphis Belle Swing Orchestra. Ronnie Fenn’s life has taken him through pop, soul, rock and skiffle jazz. Roger Evans has been playing jazz, pop and classical piano for many years. The Quintet’s extensive repertoire is based around jazz standards, embracing the popular classics of Cole Porter, Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, Hammerstein etc. etc.
26th August - Blue Harlem
Al Nichols - tenor sax, Sophie Shaw - vocals, Gethin Liddington - trumpet, Horace Cardew - saxes, Jonathan Lee - drums & Jay Darwish - double bass. Led by saxophonist Al Nichols and the fabulous singer Sophie Shaw following their recent sell out gig at Ronnie Scott’s, this seven piece band will be performing a mixture of Swing & Blues with a superb brass front line and foot tapping rhythm section for a great night of energetic entertainment.
2nd September - Derek Nash’s Picante Latin Sextet
Leading saxophonist Derek Nash, a featured soloist and member of the Jools Holland Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, brings his new Latin/Salsa band to the Club. Co-founded with guitarist Dominic Ashworth, who was awarded Jazz Guitarist of the Year in 2006, they are joined by world-renowned, master percussionist Robin Jones and Marc Cecil the drummer. On the keyboards is Latin-maestro Neil Angilley and line-up is completed by the bass of Andy Staples.
9th September - Dave Shepherd/Roger Nobes Quintet
Dave Shepherd - clarinet is a 4 times winner of Britain’s Best Jazz Clarinettist is known as Britain’s Benny Goodman. Dave played with American jazz legends such as Teddy Wilson, Bud Freeman, Yank Lawson, Wild Bill Davison and Barney Kessel. The Quintet features top British jazzmen Roger Nobes - vibes. John Pearce - piano, Len Skeat - double bass and Stan Bourke - drums.
16th September - Rex O’Dell All Stars Sextet
Rex O’Dell - vocals and trombone, Gary Wood - trumpet/vocals, Pete Oxborough - saxes and clarinet, Alan Morgan - double bass, Pete Gregory - guitar, banjo and vocals & Alan Clarke - drums. A great fun entertaining evening of Swing, Mainstream and Dixieland with a masterful mix of standards you know and love so well, including songs made famous by Louis Prima to Louis Armstrong to name just a couple!
23rd September - Trudy Kerr’s Quintet
Favourite Standards from The Classic American Songbook together with some better known medium & up tempo jazz material. Trudy Kerr is renowned as one of the UK's finest jazz vocalists. Mojo Magazine says of her singing "Trudy Kerr is the genuine article - She is a Joy!" Tom Cawley - piano. Martin Hathaway - saxes, Geoff Gascoyne - double bass and Rod Youngs – drums
30th September - Skelton-Skinner All Star Septet
A great line-up of British based Jazz musicians, playing a repertoire based mostly on the Duke Ellington small band and Count Basie’s Kansas City 7 featuring Matt Skelton with arrangements by Colin Skinner clarinet -saxes who is lead alto and deputy bandleader for the Syd Lawrence Orchestra. Graham Harvey - piano, Alan Barnes - saxes, Gordon Campbell - trombone, Mike Lovatt – trumpet, Jeremy Brown - double bass and of course co- leader Matt Skelton - drums
LIVE JAZZ AT NORTH WEALD VILLAGE HALL every month – usually the first Friday in the month and just £8 on the door and a start time of 8:30pm. The Hall is in the High Road, behind the vets surgery, CM16 6DB. There is a licensed bar at village hall prices, tea and coffee and snacks are served at very reasonable prices and there is ample parking. Ted Beament resident pianist – bass and drums varies. 01992 522621 northwealdvillagehall.org
Friday 7th August. First appearance here for fabulous vocalist Kevin Fitzsimmons with Ted Beament piano, Murray Salmon bass Winston Clifford drums.
Due to the incredible popularity of our monthly “Saturday Lunchtime with Jack” starring The Jack Free All Stars we are continuing for the rest of the year. Musicians regularly appearing are Pete Rudeforth, Mike Cotton, Gary Woods, John Crocker, Bert Brandsma, Tim Huskisson, Colin Bray, Murray Salmon, Martin Guy. “The Happiest Saturday Afternoon in Essex”
JAZZ@ST ANT’S A great weekly jazz night – now in its 10th year! St Anthony’s Club, The Red House, 13 Upton Ave, (corner of Upton Lane), Forest Gate E7 9PN. Every Weds
8.30 pm. Admission £3. Please support the raffle from which all
proceeds go to the band. For latest listings visit
www.essexjazz.co.uk/ants or Jazz in London listing. Please download
their current listing at www.jazzjam.co.uk/downloads/stants.pdf, or www.essexjazz.co.uk/ants
12 Aug - Bill Yeomans (saxes) + Chris Storey (trumpet/flugelhorn + Jenny Carr ( piano) + Dave Hawthorne (drums)
19 Aug - Paul Wood (vocals) + Cliff Hall (piano)
26 Aug - Leszek Kulascewicz (tenor) + Ienne Hunter (guitar)
with John Withers (drums) + John Pamenter (double bass)
THEYDON JAZZ CLUB @ THEYDON BOIS GOLF CLUB, Theydon Rd, off Piercing Hill, CM16 4EH Every Monday 8-10:30 pm, Traditional/Dixieland/New Orleans Jazz features Excellent Live Bands for listening/Dancing, facilities include: Bar/ Meals/ Dance Floor/Car Park. Comfortable /plentiful seating/ All Welcome including Invalids & Children. Normal Admission £7.50 (Children Free - must be supervised) Membership available, not necessary to visit Jazz Club. Dave/Shiela Dyer 01945 588325 email:2359...@gmail.com www.theydonjazzclub.org.uk
10th August (£7.50; members £6.50). MIKE BARRY – trumpet, & his UPTOWN GANG:
10 Aug - Les Handscombe’s Tailgate Jazz Band
17 Aug - Barry Tyler’s Original Dixieland Jazz Band
24 Aug - Jackie Free’s Chicagoans
31 Aug - Bank Holiday – NO JAZZ
ANNIE'S JAZZ @ THORPE BAY GOLF CLUB. Annie's Jazz is at Thorpe Hall Golf Club, Thorpe Hall Avenue. Thorpe Bay. Southend-on-Sea. SS1-3AT. Food served from 7pm until 8pm and the music will start at 8.30pm. Please telephone Annie for reservations on 07504-232783 or e-mail boneswi...@gmail.com.
Tuesday the 11th of August - Derek Nash in The Swing. Graham Harvey on Piano, Len Skeat on Double-bass & Marc Cecil on Drums. Derek is simply one of the best! Hugely entertaining performer who always delivers a great show!
Tuesday the 18th of August - Tim Huskisson & Friends. Frank Weatherley on Sax/clarinet/flute, John Ellmer on Clarinet/sax/percussion, Julian Bury on Double-bass, Marc Cecil on Drums, Paul Higgs on Trumpet/piano. An evening of Swing, Jazz and Funky tunes with arrangements by Tim Huskisson.
Tuesday the 25th of August - Barb Jungr sings Nina Simone. With Simon Wallace on
Piano and Davide Mantovani
on Double-bass. Barb Jungr has been wowing audiences on both sides of
the Atlantic on her recent album tour. On this special evening she will
perform new and existing arrangements from her critically acclaimed
album
of Nina'a songs.
Tuesday 1st of September - The Chris Ingham Quartet. Celebrating Hoagy. Sold-out at Ronnie's & Top 10 Jazz Album of 2014. The 'Celebrating Hoagy Show', is packed full of songs and stories of one of America's most enduring and endearing composers.
Tuesday the 8th of September - The Clare Foster Brazilian Quintet. Multi-instrumental vocalist Clare introduces us to the joy of Brazilian Jazz.
Tuesday the 15th of September - Jeff Hooper Quartet. Neil Bullock on Drums, Paul Morgan on Double-bass & Trevor Brown on piano. Jeff Hooper is one of the most talented and best-liked singers on the European music-scene. He is an internationally known cabaret artist. Jeff developed his talent as a singer with the famous Syd Lawrence Orchestra.
Tuesday the 22nd of September - Liane Carroll. Multi-award winning pianist & singer sold out very quickly last time so book your seats early.
Tuesday the 29th of September - The Ted Beament Trio. Ted debuts his arrangements for trio of many popular jazz standards
“SPIKE’S PLACE” JAZZ CLUB @ BRENTWOOD – 8.00pm. At Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ. Top-Class Mainstream Jazz. £13 (non-members) £10 (members) unless otherwise stated. email: susa...@btinternet.com www.myspace.com/spikesplacejazzclub
Tuesday 11th August – 8.00pm. Marc Cecil Quintet
Tuesday 18th August – 8.00pm. From the USA – John Colianni Trio
“SPIKE’S PLACE” JAZZ CLUB @ HADLEIGH- 8.00pm. Hadleigh Conservative Club, 24 High Street, Hadleigh, Essex SS7 2PB. Top-Class Mainstream Jazz. £12.00 (members £9.00)
“SAFFRON JAZZ” - Third Thursday of every month – 8.30pm. Saffron Hotel, High St, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1AZ. Top-Class Mainstream Jazz. E mail: susa...@btinternet.com www.myspace.com/spikesplacejazzclub. For advance bookings contact: Susan 01245 420475
Thursday 20th August – 8.30pm. From the USA – John Collianni Trio
Admission £11.00
THE JAZZ MIX @ THE MARITIME ROOM, Cliff’s Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. Facebook – The Jazz Mix @ The Maritime Room and check out our page on the Cliffs Pavilion website: www.southendtheatres.org.uk …go to Special Events tab to find The Jazz Mix page.
Summer break in July.
Thursday 27th August we open the new season with the excellent Protect the Beat led by saxophonist Derek Nash (Jools Holland), if you love jazz-funk fusion this band will be right up your street! £13 on the door.
Thursday 24th Sept we welcome to the club the excellent soul, jazz and R&B singer Sarah Jane Morris who topped the UK pop charts for a month in 1986 (with The Communards’ disco version of ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’) and then eloquently and joyously sidestepped the mainstream ever after. Tickets Cliffs Pavilion Box Office - £18
Thursday 29th Oct - TBC
Thursday 26th Nov - Brandon Allen Sextet featuring a stellar line up made up of London's top jazz session musicians - £15.
CHELMSFORD JAZZ CLUB presents 10 or 11 concerts a year at the Cramphorn Theatre,
Fairfield Road, Chelmsford, CM1 1JG (next to the Civic Theatre). The
majority of concerts are on Sunday lunchtime, although some are in the
evening in summer. The jazz is generally mainstream and modern and the
club is justly proud of the quality. For an annual subscription of
£10.00 (£15.00 joint) members are entitled to a £4.00 reduction on
normal ticket prices, and early notice of concerts. A monthly newsletter
on our club, as well as items on other local venues. There's a friendly
atmosphere, so please come along.
Membership enquiries Larry Newall-Smith on 01245 256510.
Sunday July – 12.15pm Closed
MUSIC AT MARIGOLDS, Cricket Club, Chippingfield, Old Harlow, Essex CM17 0DJ. Doors and Licensed Bar 7.30pm, Fridays. 01279 414174 / 421763 musicatm...@ntlworld.com www.myspace.com/musicatmarigolds. Car Parking On Site and there are two Public Car Parks, on the FIND US page of the website, within easy walking distance and can be accessed via a well lit footpath a little way up Chippingfield on the right when leaving – a dotted line on the map between Chippingfield and Wayre Street, Spicers Lane. £8 on the Door
14th August - Spikedrivers http://www.spikedrivers.co.uk
Ben Tyzack guitar, vocals & harmonica, Constance Redgrave bass guitar, vocals & percussion and Maurice McElroy drums, vocals & percussion.
Spikedrivers are one of the most original, innovative and exciting
bands around. Three superb and talented musicians demonstrating the
mastery of their instruments. Their combination of gutsy slide guitar,
rock-solid bass, infectious grooves and highly distinctive vocals,
creates a sound that is uniquely their own. They take you on a journey,
from southern juke-joints and lazy front porches to the huge open spaces
of dust bowls and railroad tracks disappearing into the distance.....
28th August - Jacqui Hicks and the Brian Dee Trio
Jacqui Hicks studied saxophone and flute at Leeds College of Music where she started singing. After a post-graduate course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Jacqui joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra as their vocalist and spent the next four years touring and recording with them. Since 1993 Jacqui has worked with the jazz/funk band Shakatak, both as backing vocalist and sax player. She's toured Europe and Eastern Europe, South Africa, the Far East & Japan with them and appears on many of thier albums. She has also worked with Matt Bianco touring Japan, Indonesia & Europe and appears on their albums Gran Via, Another Time:Another Place and a re-working of their greatest hits, A Collection. She is a featured vocalist on Paprika Soul's 2002 album Into The Light. Jacqui has recorded in her own right but has also worked as a session singer as well as recording with other well-known artists and appearing on several soundtracks and a couple of Radio 4 plays for the BBC.
11th September - Giles Hedley and the Aviators: http://www.gileshedley.com
Giles has been singing and playing blues across UK and Europe since the 60s, on bottleneck and lap steel guitars, acoustic and electric, and his trademark simultaneous nose-and-mouth harmonica playing. Critics and audiences alike are drawn into the blues the band displays whether joyous, ribald or sad. Their stunning musicianship conveys the emotion of the blues whilst avoiding technique for its own sake! Giles is a regular on UK and Europe’s blues festival and club circuits, both solo and with the band featuring repeatedly on national radio in England and France. He is, in the words of Blues in Britain, "a mainstay of British blues" or as Blues Matters puts it, "one of UK’s foremost roots and country blues performers".
The Aviators is a funky roots-blues outfit steeped in early Chicago blues. Earthy slide and steel guitars, blistering lead guitar, a passionate, Howlin' Wolf-style voice, adventurous bass and drums right up in the mix giving that unmistakeable Aviators sound, quite unlike other British blues bands.
25th September - Art Themen Quartet with Simon Spillett
Art Theman saxophone, Simon Spillett saxophone, Ted Beament piano, bass and drums.
A self-taught musician, Art played tenor sax at Cambridge while studying medicine. Qualifying as a doctor he played in blues and R&B bands in the early 60s as well as backing groups for numerous pop sessions. Art worked with Alexis Korner, Phil Seamen, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker and Long John Baldry. In the late 60s/early 70s Art started to favour jazz. He played with Barbara Thompson, Michael Garrick, Henry Lowther and Graham Collier and began a long and fruitful association with Stan Tracey, which continued into the 90s. Art has accompanied many visiting US jazzmen too many to list here.
Had Art chosen a musical career he would have doubtless been an international artist of some stature. Attaining his high standing in jazz while working as a consultant surgeon, is testimony to his remarkable gifts. Described by the late Humphrey Lyttelton as "formidable," Simon Spillett is a British jazz saxophonist who has won many awards. As well as playing in his own quartet Simon has played with many celebrated jazz leaders and bands and has recorded several albums, all receiving highly favourable reviews. Festival, concert and club appearances include sold-out gigs at Ronnie Scott's and the Brecon Jazz Festival and he has broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Jazz-Line Up with his own band.
Simon has worked as a writer, penning the definitive biography of jazz legend Tubby Hayes (The Long Shadow Of The Little Giant), articles for magazines including Jazz Journal and Record Collector. Acting as a consultant for a number of jazz record labels he has written booklet essays for over seventy albums.
Ted Beament on piano is no stranger to Marigolds and his repeat appearances are testament to his very fine piano playing.
HORNCHURCH JAZZ CLUB, 25 North St (rear), Hornchurch, Essex RM11 1RS. The Hornchurch Conservative Club is a comfortable air-conditioned venue with a dance floor, drinks at club prices, wheel-chair access and car parking, Members £7, non-members £8. Call Laurie on 07913 558616 for more details. 8:30 – 11pm
On Sunday, 9th August from 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm. Bob Dwyer’s Bix & Pieces. Bob Dwyer blowing trombone leads his versatile band playing in the style of Bix Beiderbecke. Listen out for John Bayne’s bass sax!
On Sunday, 16th August from 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm. Nick Charles’s Tribute Band. A 5-piece band led by Nick Charles playing clarinet recreates the mid-1930’s sound of Benny Goodman and Sidney Bechet. Another visit from a band of fantastic musicians and always a great evening of classic jazz.
GC's JAZZ CLUB at The Woolpack, 23 Mildmay Road, Chelmsford CM2 0DN 01245 – 259295. First Sunday in Every Month 8.30pm - 11pm. Free Admission. Food Available. www.graemeculham.com
Sunday 6th September 2015
'PAUL LITTLE' Trombone Sam Edwards - Keyboards. Ben Hearn - Bass. Graeme Culham - Drums.
Sunday 4th October 2015
'JOHNNY WITHERS' Vibraphone Neale Ridding – Keyboards Mike McGibney - Bass Graeme Culham - Drums.
Sunday 1st November 2015
'PAUL WOOD' Vocals Paul Higgs – Keyboards. Roger Curphey – Bass. Graeme Culham – Drums
Sunday 6th December 2015
UK Jazz Guitar Legend 'JIM MULLEN' & 'REG WEBB' – Keyboards. Jose Canha – Bass. Graeme Culham - Drums
FLEECEJAZZ by Stoke-by-Nayland Hotel Keepers Lane, Leavenheath, Colchester, Essex, CO6 4PZ CO6 4PZ www.fleecejazz.org.uk Please see website for directions as satnav can get you lost! Gigs start 8.00 pm, 2 sets, ends approx 11.00 pm Concessions: Under 21 & Full Time Students half full price (proof required). Ample parking. Good disabled access. Info 01787 211865. Food at Stoke-by-Nayland Club is available from 5.30 pm, or book on 01206 262836. Jazz Hotel Packages £99 includes room for 2, breakfast and jazz (subject to room availability). Book tickets on 01787 211865 or wegottickets.com
Friday 7 August ROBERT HABERMANN SINGS GERSHWIN
ROBERT HABERMANN ~ Vocals TREVOR BROWN ~ Piano
Robert Habermann is an accomplished singer/songwriter of The Great
American and British Songbooks. He worked in the US where he was voted
Best International Performer 1994 by the prestigious Manhattan
Association of Cabarets of New York, resulting in several major tours.
He was the first major British singer to perform a concert to celebrate
Frank Sinatra's 80th Birthday at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1995
which toured the UK with great success.
Trevor Brown is known for
his versatility and virtuosity. He was born in Ramsgate in 1947 and by
eight was playing accordion in summer season variety shows in the Thanet
area. In 1966 he moved to London to study chemistry at University
College but at weekends was playing in dance bands and writing music
arrangements for various cabaret artistes. He joined the Victor
Silvester Orchestra in 1972 and was subsequently part of Bob Miller's
band "The Millermen", and spent twenty years as pianist with the Joe
Loss Orchestra. Trevor now enjoys being part of The Syd Lawrence
Orchestra.
Friday 21 August BASIL HODGE QUINTET: CELEBRATING HORACE SILVER
Pianist
Basil Hodge and his band pay homage to the influential American jazz
piano player, composer and hard bop pioneer, Horace Silver, who died
last year, aged 85. BASIL HODGE ~ Piano TONY KOFI ~ Saxes QUENTIN
COLLINS ~ Trumpet
LARRY BARTLEY ~ Bass ROD YOUNGS ~ Drums
Basil Hodge's professional career started in the summer of 1993 as a
freelance musician and leading his piano trio. He rose up the ranks to
play with some of the leading UK players such as Jim Mullen, Dave
O'Higgins, Pete Wareham and Renato D'Aiello. Basil's hard swinging,
bop-tinged piano perfectly captures Silver's sound.
Nottingham born
Reedman Tony Kofi spent four years at Berklee college of music in Boston
USA. He returned to the UK in 1991 and joined the Jazz Warriors. Best
instrumentalist at the 2008 BBC Jazz awards, best Ensemble at the 2005
Parliamentary Jazz Awards are just two of the many awards he has won.
Quentin Collins has established himself as one of Europe's top up-and-coming Jazz trumpeters.
Larry Bartley was an experienced electric bassist in his mid-20s, but
the double bass became more and more of an obsession and he now enjoys a
big reputation on the British jazz scene.
Originally from
Washington DC, drummer/composer Rod Youngs completes the ensemble - one
of the most expressive and adept musicians in the music arena today.
e17 Jazz - The award winning e17 jazz collective presents concerts on the last Wednesday of each month featuring local musicians of national renown plus exciting guest stars in a relaxed jazz club setting. www.e17jazz.com/whatson/ Orford House Social Club, Orford House, 73 Orford Road, London, E17 9QR 07930 544 312
BIG BAND JAZZ AT THE GUNNERSBURY is London’s regular Sunday lunchtime show-case (12:30 - 3:00pm) for the biggest and best names in British Big Band Jazz. 590 Chiswick High Road (opposite Gunnersbury tube station), London W4 5RP
9th August - No Jazz – Summer Break
16th August - No Jazz – Summer Break
23rd August - WINSTON ROLLINS BIG BAND £10
30th August - JIM BARTON BIG BAND £10
6th September - BILL ASHTON’S GRADUATES £10
THURSDAY JAZZ AT THE RAFA CLUB, 295 Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG1 4UA. A swinging group led by Leszek Kulaszewicz. Come and listen to the music plus every week there is a fantastic vocalist. The club is well serviced by public transport with plenty of buses going to the club or a ten minutes walk from Gants Hill or Ilford stations. The club will be open from 8pm with music from 9 – 11pm.
EAST SIDE JAZZ CLUB @ TOMMY FLYNN’S 692 High Road Leytonstone, E11 3AA A few mins walk from Leytonstone tube & bus station. T: 020 8989 8129 eastside...@gmail.com ttp://eastsidejazzclub.blogspot.com twitter: http://twitter.com/EastSJC f/b: http://on.fb.me/13BCHMS
LEVERINGTON JAZZ CLUB meet monthly at The Leverington Sports (Jazz) Club, Church Road, Leverington , Wisbech PE13 5DE on the 2nd Sunday in each calendar month at 1.15 pm ie a lunchtime session. Admission £7.50 Wheelchair access, Bar @ Club Prices, Snacks & Coffee, Large Car Park, Comfortable - Plentiful seating, Dance floor, Attractive Venue. All welcome. Run by Dave/Sheila Dyer 01945 588325 email: 2359...@gmail.com
Sunday Gigs Lunchtime Sessions 1.15pm - 3.45
Aug 9th - a 6 Piece Live Band - The 5 Counties Jazzband
with Gary Wood - tpt, Tony Teal - Reeds, Derek Clemshaw - Tbe, Sean
Moyses - Bjo&Gtr, John Sirrett - Bass, Nigel Smith - Drums.
Invalids Welcome /Children free
HERTS JAZZ – Screen2, Hawthorne Theatre, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL8 6BX. Established in 1969, Herts Jazz has
become renowned as THE venue for jazz fans young and old. Booking
through Campus West on 01707 357 117. Gigs featuring the very best jazz
talent in the country every Sunday at the Hawthorne Studio. Free
parking, disabled access and a bar serving beers, wines, soft drinks,
hot drinks and snacks. The club is keen to bring jazz to a wider
audience and is making tickets available for just £5 to students and
under-21s. www.hertsjazz.co.uk Clark Tracey – 01442 218338 Stephen Hyde –
07818 452692. 7:30pm til 10.00pm (doors 7.00pm). www.jazzupdate.co.uk/downloads/hertsjazz.pdf
MILL HILL JAZZ CLUB – The Mill Hill Jazz Club has been providing live jazz of the highest standard to North West London for many years. The Club is for everyone with a passion for live jazz, blues and soul. We have had the pleasure to host to some of the best artists in the world at our club, and to provide our patrons with world class music at a fraction of West End prices. If you like jazz, the Mill Hill Jazz Club is the place to hang out. Every Wednesday from 8.30pm. The Golf Clubhouse, 100 Barnet Way, London NW7 3AL www.millhilljazzclub. Admission £8 members, £9 guests unless stated otherwise.
12 August - The Renato D'Aiello Quartet
19 August - Esta B Daly
26 August - Jam Night. Once more our house band of Paulo Losi, Mike Paxton and Steve Picking
swing into the MHJC to support all musicians who roll up to the club on
the last Weds of every month to celebrate their talents. An open mike
evening for professionals and gifted amateurs. Roll up for a fun
evening. £5 members, £6 guests
2 September - Osterity. Geoff Walters (guitar) Barry Parfitt (piano) Steve Picking (bass) Mike Paxton (drums).
9 September - The Rob Terry Trio
16 September - Stefanos Tsourelis
JAZZ AT THE KINGS LANGLEY CLUB – The very best bands of local musicians every Tuesday at 8.30pm, 3-5 Hempstead Road, Kings Langley, Herts. Tel: 01923 262982. No entry charge, Visitors welcome . www.kingslangleyjazz.co.uk
Aug 11th - Glenwood Jazz. A quintet that plays the classics in an easy relaxed way, with no fireworks!
Aug 18th - Terry Trenwith Band. Jazz and Jokes! Terry has led many dance bands in Dacorum over the years and is hear with his small group
Aug 25th - The Jolly jazzers.
Over the years this small band has raised many thousands of pounds for
charity. Lots of fun, and perfect for the summer evening entertainment.
Don’t miss!
Sept 1st - Kingsclub 7.
Our regular house band led by John Davis, featuring the usual front
line of leader on alto/soprano sax, John Mole tenor Sax, John Bridge on
trombone, plus vocal.
Sept 8th - Club Dixielanders A treat for the ‘Trad’ fans, all the old favourites from down on the Delta.
Sept 15th - Desafinado. Small group Latin and blues with varied instrumentation.
Sept 22nd - Jim Phillips Big Band. Big or little, Jim’s bands always have an original sound.
Sept 29th - Hertswing Big Band Our own splendid big band, that have been laying down that Basie beat at the club for many years.
BERKHAMSTED JAZZ present live jazz in a relaxed club atmosphere, with reasonably priced licensed bar. £10 – members Dacorum Card holders, £13 – visitors and guests. Concerts normally at the Civic Centre, High Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 3HD. Parking on High Street and in the car park behind the shops opposite. Disabled access.
JAZZ NIGHTS AT THE FOX INN, Bury St Edmunds. 01284-705562 FREE live Jazz every Sunday in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Entrance is free and there is a large free car park. For drinks in the lounge or book a table for dinner and stay for the evening, sit back, relax and enjoy. Music starts at 7.15 until 9.45, sometimes later. If you'd like to get in touch do call Jeff on 07707 317868 – keeping jazz live and free!!! The Fox Inn, Restaurant & Rooms, 1 Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 1XX.
16th August - Rob James Trio
Rob’s repertoire of over 300 songs covers a wide variety of styles including Light Pop, Jazz, Ballroom, Blues, Soul, Rock and Roll and Easy Listening. He enjoys performing songs from The Great American Songbook as well as from his own songs in the jazz and blues style.
30th August - Nigel Portass Trio
A ‘Rat Pack’ evening with Tom Melvin probably one of the best “ Sinatra “ type singers you would hear in the country. He is accompanied with keyboard whiz Nigel Portass who has played with such luminaries as Van Morrison, Chuck Berry and Gene Vincent. Completing the trio is drummer Bob Dore.
13th September - Georgetown
Joy hails from London and spends a lot of time playing jazz piano and singing with Georgtown Trio both in London and on cruise ships. She is backed up by drummer Adam Osmanski and bassist Dan, they are all fantastic musicians. Joy's voice is very soulful and she has a lot of vocal control. She’s able to hit her highest registers without an abrupt belt, a hallmark of the dynamic control required to be a great jazz vocalist.She’s also a very talented pianist, skilled at note-for-note playing and vamping alike.
“SPIKE’S PLACE” AT BECKENHAM – 8:30pm. Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR (Off South Eden Park Road). Admission £13.00 (members £10.00) unless otherwise stated. 020 8650 2406 / 01245 420475 E mail: susa...@btinternet.com www.myspace.com/spikesplacejazzclub Advance bookings contact: Susan 01245 420475
Thursday 13th August – 8.30pm. From the USA – John Colianni Trio
Thursday 27th August – 8.30pm. Chris Dean with the John Pearce Tri
JAZZNIGHTS @ THE COCK INN, CLARE 3 Callis Street, Clare, Suffolk, CO10 8PX. from. 8.00 – 10.30pm £10. www.jazz-nights.com. Reserve seating on 01787 237653 or email reply – pay on the door. With Simon Brown (keys), Bernie Hodgkins (bs) & Roger Odell (drs) + LARRAINE ODELL (voc)
Sunday 16th August – Brandon Allen
Sunday 30th August – Adam Glasser
FOLKESTONE JAZZ CLUB AT THE TOWER Tower Theatre, North Road, Shorncliffe, Folkestone, Kent CT20 3HL. Every Thursday Music Starts 8 30pm To book seats please call 01303 277175 Derick Woodland Beryl Wood
August 13th 8 30pm £10 - THE NIGEL PRICE TRIO +++ VASILIS XENOPOULOS
August 17th, Gareth Lockrane - Flutes.
Gareth Lockrane is well known for his virtuoso flute playing, compositions and arrangements. He started playing at the age of 10 and after raiding his Dad's record collection discovered jazz at 14. Early influences included Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans and Stan Getz on the jazz side whilst also being transfixed by the great blues-rock guitarists of the 60s and 70s as a child - Jimi Hendrix, Albert King, Albert Collins, Freddie King, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy continue to be major influences. In 2002, he formed the band Grooveyard with saxophonist Alex Garnett which released a critically acclaimed CD "PUT THE CAT OUT" which went on to win the Best European Jazz Group award in the 2003 Granada Jazz Festival. Grooveyard completed a successful Jazz Services tour of the UK in 2005. Their new 2012 album "THE STRUT" is the 'sequel' to PUT THE CAT OUT. He also founded his own septet which released the album "NO MESSIN" in 2009 and went on to win best album in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards that year.
Gareth has been involved in many diverse projects - as a key member of the late great Bheki Mseleku's group during his last years to 2008 and with Phil Robson's IMS Quintet, Laurence Cottle's Big Band, Michael Kiwanuka, Xantone Blacq, Kate Williams, Patrick Cornelius, Cheryl Bailey, Callum Au Big Band, Simon Woolf Quartet, Incognito, Georgia Mancio, Nia Lynn's Bannau Trio, The JTQ, Hans Koller, Sirius B, Anita Wardell, Natalie Williams, Paul Booth, Gwilym Simcock Nonet and Big Band, Tom Richards Jazz Orchestra, NYJO and many more. Gareth is heavily involved in the educational world, as course director of the junior jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as well as teaching at degree level at the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music&Drama and Trinity College of Music, and teaching flute at Kingsdale School in Dulwich. He teaches on the residential Loire Summer School in France, and the Jazz Academy courses at the Yehudi Menuhin School.
Joining Gareth will be Royal Academy Guitarist Rob Luft & Upright Bassist Joe Downard. Mark Hale will be at the Drums and hosting the evenings proceedings.
Music from 8.30pm with usual free entry, however donations are encouraged to pay the musicians a fee for their time & keep the Jazz nights going.
FRANK GRIFFITH GIGLIST- Frank Griffith, Director of Performance, School of Arts, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH 01895 266572. 07976 313224 www.frankgriffith.co.uk
7 August, 8pm. With Roan Lawson-Kersey at Finchcocks Jazz Club, Goodhurst, Kent, TN17 1HA. www.finchcocks.co.uk. £10
8 October, 8PM. FG with Stu Butterfield Trio. Karamel Klub, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, N22 6UJ. £8. www.karamelrestaurant.com
15 October, 8pm. With Tina May Sextet at Doncaster Cast. Cast, Waterdale, Doncaster, DN1 3BU. 01302 303959. www.castindoncaster.com. £12.
30 October, 12.30-2.30pm. With The Polo Sticks (3 clarinets and rhythm) with Marty Nickless, Colin Good, Simon Woolf, etc at the Spice of Life, 6 Moor St, London, W1. www.spicejazz.co.uk. £6.
11 November, 8PM. With Tina May Quintet at Belvedere Jazz Club, Chichester Hotel, Rawreth, SS11 8UE. £10. www.belvederejazz.co.uk
20 November, 8PM. FG w/Alex Webb's Songs of Strayhorn. Cadogan Hall, Chelsea, SW11. Part of London Jazz Festival. www.serious.co.uk. £15
26 November, 8.30pm. With Dan Forshaw at The Hidden Rooms, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA. 01223 514777. www.hiddenroomsonline.com. £15
CAROL BRAITHWAITE’S FORTHCOMING GIGS.
Sunday August 9th - Southend Bowls Club, Tunbridge Road, Southend SS2 6LT (tele: 01702 467073) off Victoria Avenue. Lunchtime jazz with Carol vocals, Tony Gooderham - piano, Ben Hearn - bass. 1- 3pm, £2 entry non members.
Friday August 14th - Billericay Const Club, 1, High Street, Billericay. CM12 9BE.
An afternoon of toe tapping swinging music with Carol, along with Tim Huskisson,
Hugh Rainey, George Tidiman, Roger Curphey, Ric Rossi. Lunchtime menu
available + club prices for drinks. Fun starts at 12.30 - 2.30pm. £5
door. Monthly club - 2nd Friday in every month.
Thursday August 20th - Essex County Bowling Club, "OUR NEW HOME" Imperial Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, SS0 8NE. With special guest Paul Higgs joining us for our monthly jazz night. I am confident that this move will be approved by the regulars as the car park is easily accessible, the drinks are club prices and the venue is lush!! Enjoy good music in a friendly and sociable environment. Food also available. Come and see for yourself. (8 - 10.30pm) £5 door. Carol vocals, Tim Huskisson, piano, Ted Simkins - bass, Mike Barry - drums. 3rd Thursday of every month.
Tuesday August 25th - Bardswell Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, CM14 4SX (tele: 01277 214057) Carol - vocals, Tony Gooderham - piano, Ted Simkins - bass, Dave Grant - drums. 8 - 10.30pm. Entry charged. Comfortable and friendly monthly club.
MORE INFORMATION: carolbraithwaite.com
FLEUR STEVENSON FORTHCOMING GIGS www.fleurstevensonjazz.co.uk http://fleurstevensonjazz.co.uk www.facebook.com/FleurStevensonJazz
Fleur
is one of the new breed of jazz singers who, having initially trained
classically in voice and trumpet, later found her true passion for jazz.
Fleur began singing at small clubs and bars only to find she adored the
sense of freedom that jazz singing can bring and quickly gained an
impressive local following. Her influences span jazz, soul and blues
genres, include Carman McRae, Shirley Horn, and Ella Fitzgerald.
Fleur Stevenson hosts Jazz Singers' Night at the Global Cafe,
Reading. Maff Potts on piano, Nick Hill bass, Ben Robins drums. Global
Cafe, 35-39 London St, Reading, West Berkshire RG1 4PS. Tel 0118 958
3555 Admission: free 9-11pm
RON SPACK’S JAZZTET at THE OAKWOOD. 564 Rayleigh Road, Eastwood, SS9 5HX. Tel: 01702 512819. Every Monday. 8.30-11pm. Sitters in welcome. Meals served during the evening. Ron on Bass plus the following:
Mon 10th Aug, Dave Jago-Trombone, Dave Mascall-Guitar, Glyn Morgan-Drums.
Mon 17th Aug, Tony Pethen-Saxophone, Dave Kay-Guitar, Mike Barry-Drums.
Mon 24th Aug, Graham Hunter-Trumpet, Chris English-Keyboard, Glyn Morgan-Drums.
Mon 31st Aug, Mike Sagrott-Guitar, Tony Gooderham- Keyboard, Glyn Morgan-Drums.
RON SPACK’S LUNCHTIME JAZZ at THE WESTCLIFF HOTEL. 18-20, Westcliff Parade, Westcliff on Sea, Esse. SSO 7QW. 01702 345247. Sunday 1pm. Ron on Bass, plus guest.
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QUE PASA FORTHCOMING GIGS - Formed in 2013, Que Pasa are the regular and popular house band each month at Rhodes Centre in Bishop’s Stortford. The band’s members have many decades of experience touring and recording in a wide range of musical situations including jazz, dance, fusion, folk, rock and classical music. The band’s repertoire comprises Latin jazz, standards, originals and contemporary jazz.
Adam Amor
– tenor, alto and soprano saxes. During his 5-year residency in New
York, Adam studied with Tito Puente, Luis Bauzo and Paquito D'Rivera.
He is equally at home playing pop, rock or jazz, bringing a real sense
of style and communication.
Paul Higgs
– trumpet is renowned as one of the UK’s leading trumpet players and
composers. Paul's career includes performing, composing and arranging
music for film, TV and theatre. He was a MD for the National Theatre and
Royal Shakespeare Company.
Paul Robinson
- drums is one of the UK’s leading drummers. He toured with Nina Simone
for 19 years. Paul has played, toured and recorded with a huge variety
of artists including Trevor Horn, Van Morrison, Paul McCartney, Rod
Stewart and Pet Shop Boys.
Peter Lemer
– piano has been an integral part of the British jazz scene since the
early 1960s. His past bands include Pete Lemer Quintet, , Gilgamesh,
Baker-Gurvitz Army, Seventh Wave, Harry Beckett's Joy Unlimited, Barbara
Thompson's Paraphernalia, Pierre Moerlen's Gong, Mike Oldfield Group,
In Cahoots and Miller/Baker/Lemer.
Steve Cook
– double bass has played with many leading jazz artists since the
1970s, including Barbara Thompson, Pete Jacobsen, Michael Garrick, Mark
Murphy, Gil Evans and Mike Westbrook. He toured and recorded with many
progressive rock bands.
21st Aug Qua Pas at Les Amandines, Diss
STEVE LEMER FORTHCOMING GIGS
21st Aug - Qua Pas at Les Amandines, Diss
PETER JEZARD FORTHCOMING GIGS
THE WAGON in WIX 8:30 - 11pm (every 3rd Wednesday of the month) with The Blackwater Band - Brian Hart (Clarinet/Sax) Mel Cox (Banjo) Paul Budd (drums) Gerry Hoskin (Bass) Pete Jezard (Trombone/Vocals). Playing happy jazz blues and ballads.
THE BOTTLENECK BLUES CLUB meet on the last Tuesday of the month in the Roffen Suite in Rochester – 41 New Road, Rochester ME1 1DX. Normally tickets £10, doors 7.30pm, band on stage 8.45pm. www.bottleneckblues.com. Good food, reasonably priced.
THE DON STEELE JAZZBAND will be playing at The Woodman, Goathurst Common, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks TN14 6BU on Wednesday 22nd July, and every other Wednesday from 8pm. Good food, wine and draft beer to go with the trad jazz. Band Members - Don Steele Trumpet, Richard Brennan Reeds, Johnny McCallum Banjo/Guitar, Mick Scriven Bass, Bill Magee Drums, Jan Bryce Trombone and Eileen Ford Singer
JAZZ AT BARNEY’S CAFE/BAR 46-56 Portland Rd, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1QN (Tel: 01903 527075). Website: http://www.barneysworthing.co.uk
Every Saturday from 8.30pm until 11pm, join local tenor saxophonist Mike Pappenheim with various guest artists for two sets of mainstream, standards-led jazz with some easy-listening and pop tunes thrown in. Free Entry! Tel 01903 527075. Charles has worked with Tim Garland, Anita Wardell, John Etheridge, Steve Waterman, Gareth Lockrane, Jean Touissant and Martin Hathaway, and was for many years a piano tutor on Michael Garrick’s jazz courses as well as a jazz examiner for ABRSM for 14 years. Barney’s is just a few minutes drive from Worthing train station, in the centre of town.
For Live Music in Cambridge - Hot Numbers Coffee with Nick Hill plus guests every Thursday evening within the gallery space from 7pm - 10:30pm. Units 5/6 Dales Brewery, Gwydir Street, Cambridge CB1 2LJ. Some fantastic recent guests include Gillad Atzmon, Frank Harrison, John Turville, Josh Kemp. www.hotnumberscoffee.co.uk
JAZZ NIGHTS AT HAVERHILL ARTS CENTRE, High St, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 8AR. To book for either, call 01440 714140 or go to www.haverhillartscentre.co.uk
SPICE OF LIFE - 6 Moor Street, Soho, London W1D 5NA Nominated for Jazz Venue of the Year Award - Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2010 & 2015. Pre-bookings: www.wegottickets.com in...@spicejazz.co.uk ; tel/text: 07870 915682 www.spicejazz.co.uk http://www.facebook.com/spicejazz
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100 Years of Jazz on Thursday 27th August @ The Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, the first time that a show encompassing the history of jazz from its beginnings in Ragtime through to the present has been presented. Pete Long – sax, flute, trumpet; Enrico Tomasso – trumpet, trombone, vocals; Nick Dawson – piano, clarinet, vocals; Dave Chamberlain – double bass, guitar, banjo, drums, piano; Richard Pite – drums, tuba, double bass; Georgina Jackson – vocals, trumpet. The multi-instrumental virtuosi create an entertaining journey through the decades taking in everything from New Orleans to Be Bop, Swing to Latin, Hot to Cool, from Chicago and NY to around the world. An A to Z of jazz’s biggest names from Louis Armstrong to Joe Zawinul live again in the ensemble’s brilliant recreations. The music is interspersed with fascinating stories from the music’s history as well as the inimitable humour of the band’s musical director Pete Long. Tickets: £13.00 - £15.00. Book www.britannia-pier.co.uk or 01493 842914
Keith Waithe - is an award winning flautist, composer, teacher, expert proponent of vocal gymnastics and leader of The Macusi Players, a world music Jazz band - blending rhythms from the Caribbean, South America, Asia and Africa. Keith mixes many sounds from his collection of over 200 flutes fusing enigmatic musical forms and world music resonances. In addition to working on radio, theatre and television Keith ‘s 8th Album “Gathering Echoes” has had rave reviews. Amongst many others Keith has worked with Nitin Sawhney, Courtney Pine and percussionist Bosco de Oliverira. He recently returned from performing at the successful Rupununi Music and Arts Festival in the Rainforest, Annai Guyana, South America. Keith ‘s new CD “ Earth Flight the Direction” is available now.
Saturday - 29th August
Chatham Riverside (Next to Library), Dock Road, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TX - Daytime Performance & Workshop
Sunday - 30th August
Sandgate Sea Festival - Granville Parade, Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3AH from 2pm to 5pm - Performance & Workshop
The fabulous Jive Aces – the UK’s No. 1 jive and swing band – in a fundraising concert for the National Jazz Archive on Friday 18 September, to raise funds to support the work of the National Jazz Archive. It starts at 7.30pm and tickets cost £17. The venue is Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, Chingford, London, E4 7EN (500 m from Chingford Station), with parking close by, and good access by bus.
The Jive Aces are set to appear at the biggest UK music festivals, and have just released their 8th studio album ‘Spread a Little Happiness’. They are renowned for their high energy Jump Jive music (the exciting sound where Swing meets Rock ’n’ Roll) and spectacular stage show, combining fresh arrangements of swing/jive/R&B classics – songs made famous by such greats as Louis Prima, Cab Calloway, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin, Big Joe Turner and Sammy Davis, Jr – along with a selection of superb swinging originals from their albums. Appearing alongside are special guests Swing Museum. Inspired by the ‘Hot Club of France', a well-known instrumental Jazz Manouche quartet, playing a delightfully authentic version of this sophisticated and refined music from the 30s and 40s. By combining the innovative styling of Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt with their own foot-tapping original compositions, they make each of their sets unique. www.nationaljazzarchive.org.uk/events, tel 020 8502 4701 or eve...@nationaljazzarchive.org.uk
Shez Raja featuring John Etheridge and Monika Lidke at 606 Jazz Club, 90 Lots Road, SW10 0QD on Thurs 1st October 2015 – 8.30pm - £10 entry. Virtuoso electric bass player, Shez Raja leads a formidable line-up of jazz stars including legendary Soft Machine guitarist, John Etheridge and enchanting Polish folk-jazz singer Monika Lidke. Together they’ll be performing originals from their latest highly acclaimed album, Soho Live, recorded with Soweto Kinch, Gilad Atzmon, Shabaka Hutchings and Jay Phelps. The Collective's live show is an eclectic headcharge of raw energy and always leaves audiences uplifted, inspired and asking for more. Following headline performances at international jazz festivals and venues from Russia to New Zealand they have forged a reputation as one of the most entertaining live acts on the scene today. Expect exciting music that’s full of surprises – a sonic kaleidoscope of euphoric jazz, thundering funk, tuneful ragas and intoxicating grooves!
Shez Raja – electric bass guitar, John Etheridge – electric guitar, Vasilis Xenopoulos – saxophone, Monika Lidke – vocals, Pascal Roggen – electric violin, Alex Stanford – keyboards, Chris Nickolls – drums http://www.shezraja.com http://www.606club.co.uk/
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First,
to remind you about my umpteenth weekend of Hot Jazz, Cabaret and Swing
(October 23rd, 24th, and 25th) at South Downs Holiday Village near
Chichester. Booking Hotline - 01243 216833. The weekend includes the
UK’s premier boogie-woogie and stride pianist, Neville Dickie and his
Rhythmakers (featuring Alan Gresty, Goff Dubber and Geoff Cole); ‘A Fine
Romance’ with Louise Cookman, myself and the Jim Barry Quintet and the
world premier of the Tony Jacobs Big Band with guest Catherine Sykes. As
this is Sinatra’s centenary year, there will be a bit of a nod to the
great man throughout the weekend including some the great arrangements
of Billy May, Neil Hefti and Nelson Riddle.
And, of course, Jim and I will be presenting our pre-lunch cabaret spot.
Now,
while on the subject of Sinatra (News Flash) this Friday evening,
August 7th, the great John Wilson Orchestra will be appearing at the
Proms presenting their celebration of Frank Sinatra. But the main
attraction is his special guest the wonderful jazz singer Claire Martin.
I'll be on the road, schlepping up to Harrogate for my Bing Crosby show but I'll be setting the video recorder for the event.