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Chris Neill
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BSV & Friends presents an evening of jazz at The London Road Club, Cell Barnes Lane, St Albans, AL1 5AS, to raise funds for a new piano for the mental health charity MIND in St Albans on Friday, 20th March at 7pm. Licensed bar. TIckets only £5 available from Julia May on 07810 124799 or Ladyju...@gmail.com. Do come and support this worthy event.
There's a new Friday Night jam starting this Friday March 6th. 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, come down
and make this Opening First Night a night to remember.
Look forward to seeing you!
Join Paul Rhodes at his Crazy Coqs debut, 20 Sherwood Street, London W1F 7ED on 16 March at 8pm as he celebrates some of the most popular and iconic songs of Musical Theatre's swinging showstoppers backed by his own West End Quartet, featuring Chris Neill (Piano), Jordan Brown (bass) Alf Mitchell (Drums) and Aldevis Tibaldi (Sax/Clarinet). Tickets £20. Bookings 020 7734 4888 reserv...@brasseriezedel.com.
Paul Rhodes has enjoyed success in a number of prestigious venues in Europe and London. From a background of Television Concerts and musical revues, Paul is presently Resident at Cecil's London Bridge, creating the best Swing Cocktail party in London.
Sarah Jane Morris will be performing on the 21st March 2015 at the Westcoast Bar & Grill, 3-5 King Street, CT9 1DD, Margate, Kent. Tickets are £12.50 advance (from the venue website http://westcoastlive.co.uk/tickets/4582366518 ) or £15 on the door, subject to availability.
Paul Higgs will be in concert with 'PAVANE' at The Table Café, 83 Southwark Street, London SE1 0HX (www.thetablecafe.com) on Thursday, 9th April. Dinner from 6pm till 8pm; jazz from 8pm till 10.30pm. The evening is based on Paul’s album of original compositions that blend the genres of jazz and classical music. 'Pavane' presents pieces in song form in a classical style with an emphasis on melody and counterpoint. The programme for the evening includes pieces from the album as well as some well-known jazz classics. www.paulhiggs.com
Paul
was a Musical Director at the National Theatre and the RSC, and has
performed with Johnny Dankworth, Lulu, Tony Hatch, John Williams, Peggy
Lee and Nancy Wilson. He has also performed in major concert venues
around the world, such as the Royal Festival Hall, the Berlin Concert
Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall. He received a standing ovation when he
played at Ronnie Scott’s in October 2014. Paul performed 'Pavane' in
2014 at the Sevenoaks Summer Festival and at the Rye 2014 International
Jazz and Blues Festival, and the album has been featured on Claire
Martin's Jazz Hour, Radio 3.
Music only ticket £20. Jazz and 3
course dinner - early bird ticket £25, book by 19th March. Jazz and 3
course dinner - £35. To book: Call The Table 020 7401 2760; or online
www.Designmynight.com
World première for Nu Civilisation Orchestra,
all female ensemble launch a new music commission, Polyhymnia which
celebrates six inspirational women and girls at WOW! Women Of The World
Festival. Date: Sunday 8 March 2015 7.45 pm
Venue: The Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
A world première of Tomorrow's Warriors latest commission: Polyhymnia. This fascinating new work by the award-winning British-Bahraini composer and trumpeter, Yazz Ahmed celebrates the courage and determination of six inspirational women and girls whose actions changed the course of history. Polyhymnia has been created especially for a first-time ever all-female line-up of its flagship ensemble, the Nu Civilisation Orchestra as its contribution to this year's fabulous WOW! Women Of The World Festival at Southbank Centre.
PD3 (Pete Downes Trio) are performing at The Hideaway Streatham on Thursday 5 March at 8.30pm. Thursday Special Discount: Buy three tickets get one FREE! That's four tickets for the price of three! Just enter 4 tickets into the basket at The Hideaway and the 4th will be deducted automatically at the checkout!
On Saturday March 7, Heads South a Latin Jazz Quintet featuring Steve Waterman, will be at The Grey Lady Music Lounge, The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells. Doors open 8pm Music starts 9.45 pm. £7/£6 Bookings Tel: 01892 544700
"Exhilarating" The Musician "Impeccable" The Times www.headssouth.com
On Friday 10th April 2015 at 7.30pm The Set Fair Swing Band with Mark Statford (vocals) will be at St John’s Church, Outwood Common Road, Darell Way, Billericay, CM11 2LE
Tickets 01277 656948 or 01277 654998 £8 including cheese and wine.
The Set Fair Swing Band are an 11 piece band playing music mainly from
the Swing era plus other 'easy to listen to' music from other eras.
Be-Bop in Billericay - Jazz at the Fold. www.baathefold.org.uk The Billericay Arts Association presents a very special jazz event on Friday 24th April at 8.00 pm at the Fold, 72 Laindon Road, Billericay, Essex, CM12 9LD. The Fold is next to the Ivory Rooms. We have succeeded in attracting top-flight, award-winning saxophonist Art Themen, joined by Ted Beament (Piano), Andy Cleyndert (Bass), and the peerless Winston Clifford (Drums). This line-up is a coup for Billericay, Art is a regular at London venues and summer festivals. Tickets £10. Advance bookings can be made on 01277 659286.
Sax Appeal plays Herts Jazz Club 7.30 pm-10.00 pm Sunday 15 March 2015 Screen 2, Hawthorne Theatre, Welwyn Garden City
One
of the most enduring and popular groups on the circuit, they have
performed from Venezuela to Hartlepool, from Ronnie Scott's to Cardiff
Bay. Festivals have included Marciac and Coutances in France, and three
repeat bookings at the Cork Jazz Festival.
Leader Derek Nash is a
full member of the Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, and has
performed at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and at Glastonbury. He
has appeared live and on TV with with many top performers including Eric
Clapton, Paul Carrack, Lulu, Tom Jones, Jamie Cullum, Will Young, Ruby
Turner and Sam Brown.
Derek Nash, Scott Garland, Bob McKay, Simon
Allen, Brandon Allen – Saxes, Pete Adams – Piano, Phil Scragg – Bass,
Mike Bradley – Drums
Tickets: Advance: £3 students/£10 members/£13 concessions/£14 full.
Walk-ups: £5 students/£12 members/£15 concessions/£16 full.
Jazz Masterclass directed by John Seeley MA BA Music - On Sunday 8th March
2015 from 1pm to 3:30pm. All ability levels and instruments welcome.
£10 Entry. Free parking available. First Floor, St. Michael and All
Angels Church, 62 Leigh Rd, Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 1LF.
www.johnseeleyjazz.co.uk in...@johnseeleyjazz.co.uk
Latin Jazz
- An introduction to Latin Jazz
- A look at popular Latin Jazz tunes
- Deconstruction of tunes and improvisation
Hornchurch Jazz Club at Hornchurch Conservative Club, 25 North Street, RM11 1RS, on Sunday, 8th March from 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm. The Phoenix Jazz Band. Robin Coombs playing clarinet leads this long established traditional seven-piece jazz band, playing music from the 20’s to 50’s. Club members £7, guests £8. Laurie 07913 558616.
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 our hire agreements and the instrument centre and change teachers' contracts of employment. We need to let them know that we do not want this to happen. We need to safeguard the future of music education in our borough.
If you wish to support us, please contact your local councillors. We have set up pages on Twitter #HandsOffRMS and Facebook 'Hands Off Redbridge Music Service' and have produced posters and leaflets. These are available on Facebook or we can forward copies by email. Please let your friends know, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and spread the word. If you would like to be kept informed, please email us at friendsofredbri...@gmail.com
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The Buckhurst Hill Jazz Jam WITH DEANO BACK ON THE SCENE . Get up and jam with the amazing house band or just listen to some great jazz. Admission £3, drinks at club prices. Free easy local parking. Full details at www.jazzjam.co.uk or email ch...@jazzjam.co.uk or call or text 07970 910 080. Buckhurst Hill Sports and Social Club, 50 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 its free addmission”
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. See above for proviso. Very reasonable bar, home-cooked food, beautiful rural setting . £3. Please contact Annie mu...@indigoshades.com or 07885480329.
Jazz jam every Tuesday night from 20.00 at the Mascara Bar, Stoke Newington, 72 Stamford Hill, London N16 6XS. Join our house band consisting of Rick Venn (guitar), Tamas Teszari (vibraphone), Casper Hoedemaekers (bass) and Cyro Zuzi (drums) for a friendly and energetic straightahead jam. Free entry!
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 at various venues north and south of the river– 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.
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 – Nora Bite – guitar, Michele Montolli-bass, Marco Quarantotto – drums
Jazz Jam Session Every Tuesday @ The Silver Bullet London N4 2PA The Bukky Leo Quartet features the groovy Michelle Montolli on the Bass, the hard driving Gary Williams on the Drums and the superb Joe Bickerstaff on the Piano. Bukky on Tenor & vocs. Jamming starts from 10 till late, now showing great Jazz Movies on show during intervals. Free Entry.
There is a Jam session on the first Thursday of each month in Colchester at The Bull, Crouch Street. They 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. Please contact Simon (simon...@madasafish.com) for more information.
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 newly refurbished venue, at 48 Stanhope Street, London NW1. Just a six minute walk from nearest underground station Warren Street, 8 pounds singers, 7 pounds guests. Doors open and singing list taken from 6.00pm, music from 7.45 till 10.30pm. For info contact 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. For more information contact Des Hart des-...@supanet.com.
‘Jazz Jam with Rich Buddie‘ has gone from strength to strength, and is the place to be on a Monday Night in Norwich. Every week from 8pm. Simon and guests play traditional and funky tunes. Every one is welcome to watch or bring instruments and join in. Traditionally known as a blues venue, The Walnut Tree Shades Old Post Office Court, Norwich NR2 1NG is now also home to Monday night Jazz. In the heart of the city centre. Parking, taxis and buses all available within a 5 minute walk. 01603 622910
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 .. (and there may be the occasional raffle!). Great friendly atmosphere and pub food available, .. so bring your instruments, voices and friends, most of all bring yourselves. Details Chris on 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
11th March - Jeff Hooper
An evening of pure class entertainment from one of the UK’s most respected singers. Jeff Hooper breathes new life into the music of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Nat “King” Cole, Vic Damone, Jack Jones, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr, Matt Monro and Mel Tormé with a relaxed, emotive style. Jeff and his Swing Easy band have been selected once again to be the Strictly Come Dancing Tour Band. Accompanied by Trevor Brown - piano, Paul Morgan - double bass and Neil Bullock on drums.
18th March - ‘The Spirit of Stephane Grappelli & Django Reinhardt’
With Mike Piggott – violin, Nils Solberg – amplified and acoustic guitar, Jeff Green – guitar, Alan Morgan – double bass. We welcome back Mike Piggott who currently guests at festivals and jazz clubs in the UK and abroad, including an appearance as a member of Martin Taylor's "Spirit of Django" at the Xabia Jazz Festival in Spain along with these two excellent guitarists and double bassist to celebrate the foot tapping music of Grappelli & Reinhart
25th March - JavaJam ~ Manhattan Transfer Style!
We welcome back at Members’ request Java Jam with Sarah-Jane Hassell – vocals, Bonnie Hassell – vocals, Roger Lewin – piano/keyboard, John Wills – drums/vocals, Steve King – bass/vocals, Phil Brown – tenor saxophone/flute. Java Jam create a fusion of jazz, easy listening music classics including Burt Bacharach, Cole Porter, Manhattan Transfer, George Gershwin with warmth, charm and elegance along with some instrumentals from these talented musicians.
1st April - Pete Allen & Dave Browning ‘Tribute to Fats Waller’
Pete Allen - Clarinet & Saxes, Dave ‘Mr Stride’ Browning – piano, Keith Donald– double bass, Dave Moorwood - guitar/vocal & Richie Bryant – drums. Pete Allen is described as ‘Britain's Most Exciting Jazz Clarinettist’ and leader of a most entertaining professional jazz band for 34 years. Pete thrills audiences around the world with his own style of jazz clarinet combined with a slick fast moving entertaining show of light hearted humour and happy foot-tapping jazz songs. Local pianist Dave Browning is popular with our members so early arrival recommended!
8th April - The Simon Spillett Quartet
Simon Spillett, John Critchinson, Dave Green & Trevor Tomkins. After his gig with the Club last year, at Members’ request we welcome back 2011 British Jazz Award Winner for Tenor Saxophone Simon Spillett, having appeared at Ronnie Scott’s and broadcast with his own band on BBC Radio, he will be performing well known standards including Cole Porter, Jimmy Van Heusen and Jerome Kern compositions with a sprinkling of ballads, and refreshing tempo changes. Also featuring Dave Green on double bass, Trevor Tomkins on drums and pianist John Critchinson
15th April - Atila sings ‘Nat King Cole’
Atila - vocals, Gabriel Latchin - piano Colin Oxley, - guitar, Tom Farmer - double bass, 2014 British Award Winner Steve Brown – drums. We welcome back Atila with his own fabulous quartet will feature the songs and ballads of Nat King Cole including L-O-V-E, When I Fall in Love, Mona Lisa, Nature Boy, Smile and The Very Thought of You. Atila has been recently performing with Chris Dean’s Syd Lawrence Orchestra over the past year .
22nd April - Jo Fooks, Ted Beament, Val Mannix & Buster Birch
After 14 months of an enforced break from music, Jo Fooks is back and playing the saxophone with more enthusiasm than ever. Her quartet features the fabulous Ted Beament on piano, whose energised playing always delights audiences and musicians alike. Buster Birch a strong yet sensitive swinging drummer provides the foundation for a memorable evening . The fantastic and melodic musician Val Mannix will be on the double bass. The band will be playing a selection of upbeat standards with an enthusiasm that will help blow away any remaining winter blues!
29th April - The Georgina Jackson Quintet
Georgina Jackson - vocals & trumpet, Rob Baron - piano, Tom ‘Spats’ Langham - guitar, Dave Chamberlain - double bass & Matt Skelton – drums.
Georgina says:- “It will be a singing and swinging evening including
toe tapping, ballading and bluesy tunes! I will perform my favourite
songs with an immensely swinging and sensitive band plus a few requests
especially for The Belvedere Jazz & Music Club.”
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 6th March. Britains most lyrical and swinging vibes player, the fantastic Roger Beaujolais with Ted Beament, piano. Dave Chamberlain, bass. Winston Clifford, drums.
Friday 3rd April. The Clarinet King, Julian Marc Stringle - North Weald Village Halls' favourite son with with Ted Beament piano Val Manix bass and Rod Brown drums
Friday 1st May. Britain's number one crooner and Britain's best kept secret Atila with Ted Beament piano, Murray Salmon bass and Les Cirkel drums
Friday 5th June. A fantastic quintet Matt Wates Alto sax with Nigel Price guitar Ted Beament piano Simon Thorpe bass and Winston Clifford Drums
Friday 3rd July. Definitely a one of a kind concert do not miss this meeting of jazz greats. Alan Barnes sax with Dave Lewis saxophone Ted Beament piano Dave Chamberlain bass and Winston Clifford drums
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”
21st March
18th April
16th May
20th June
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
11 Mar: Catherine Lima (vocals) + Paul Higgs (piano)
18 Mar: John Pamenter OCTET Chris Storey (trumpet/flugelhorn) – Ken Page (alto)
Leszek Kulascewick (tenor) – Tracey Mendham (baritone/clarinet) – Ayo Akintonwa (guitar) – Hilary Cameron (piano) – Lester Bennett (drums) – John Pamenter (bass/arranger)
25 Mar: Simon Spillet (tenor) + Hilary Cameron (piano)
with John Withers (drums) + John Pamenter (double bass) - apart from 18 Nar
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
9th March 2015: Dave Grant – drums, & his Carlton Jazz
Gary Wood – trumpet; Derek Clenshaw – trombone; Martin Nickless – clarinet; Paul Higgs – keyboard; Ted Simkins – double-bass
Among the club’s firmest favourites (I’ve heard them 28 times!) are
Carlton Jazz. As befits the name, it’s a highly distinguished outfit,
led by the unassuming man seated behind the drum kit, accompanying his
superb musicians with all the subtle sensitivity of a Shelly Manne. The
style is eclectic, from Dixieland to Latin American. Dave says: “I’ve
never been an out and out Trad player, veering more towards the Swing of
Benny Goodman”. With such great players as trombone wizard Derek
Clenshaw on show, a great evening of upper-class jazz is guaranteed.
16th March 2015: Colin Bray – vibes & soprano sax, & his Quintet
Duncan Hemstock – clarinet; Tim Huskisson – keyboard; Roger Curphey – bass; John Petters – drums. To some performers, jazz is a serious business. Not so multi-instrumentalist Colin Bray. The level of musicianship may be seriously high but, with a mischievous grin, he sets about entertaining his audience, be it on piano, soprano sax or vibraphone, with a true cabaret performance. He formed his Quintet a couple of years ago in order to play Benny Goodman-style interpretations of the Great American Songbook. And (as the names tell you) his Quintet is truly an “all-star” group, individually well known to us, but making their Theydon Jazz Club debut as the CBQ. This is one concert you simply must not miss!
23rd March 2015: Jackie Free – trombone, & his Chicagoans
Peter Rudeforth – trumpet; John Crocker – clarinet & tenor sax; Tim Huskisson – keyboard; Murray Salmon – bass; Martin Guy – drums. For jazz fans ‘the best things in life are Free’ – Jackie Free, that is, and his superlative Chicagoans. Louis Armstrong, no less, described him as “a fine trombone man”. Not only does Jackie share his trombone artistry with another great octogenarian, Chris Barber, but his magnificent front line has Barber’s trumpeter, the peerless Peter Rudeforth, and a Barber stalwart for 35 years, John Crocker. As the title of their last CD announces, hear them Strike Up The Band. RC
30th March 2015 - Carol Braithwaite – vocals, & her Jazz Crew
Alan Gresty – trumpet; John Crocker – clarinet & tenor sax; Tim Huskisson – keyboard; Roger Curphey – bass; Mike Barry – drums. A great Theydon Jazz Club favourite, and an in-demand singer for many years in and around Essex, London and Kent, Carol brings echoes of Ella Fitzgerald and Ottilie Patterson to her stylish performances. And she surrounds herself with top quality musicians. So, take a mix of swing, wonderful ballads, traditional jazz and the Great American Songbook, add the odd saucy lyric and a sprinkling of Latin, and you have a typical idea of what to expect from Carol Braithwaite’s Jazz Crew: a great evening. RC (and yes, it is Mike Barry on drums – a different one)
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 29th Mar - JO FOOKS-TENOR SAX - TED BEAMENT-KEYBOARD - PAUL BUDD-DRUMS - ALAN MORGAN-BASS
SUNDAY 26th April - ATILA-VOCALS - TED BEAMENT-KEYBOARD - PAUL BUDD-DRUMS - ALAN MORGAN-BASS
SUNDAY 31st May - TED BEAMENT TRIO - TED BEAMENT-KEYBOARD - PAUL BUDD-DRUMS - ALAN MORGAN-BASS
SUNDAY 28th June - ART THEMEN-TENOR/ALTO SAX - TED BEAMENT-KEYBOARD - PAUL BUDD-DRUMS - ALAN MORGAN-BASS
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 with 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.
Tuesday 31st Mar 2015. This will be at the temporary venue of South Weald Parish Hall on the A1023, at 84, London Road, Brentwood. CM14 4NP. Regular and favourite guest of so many of our audience, Andy Linham, reeds, visits our Club again to entertain us. Currently working on a new project, the formation of a new seventeen piece big band made up of adventurous young musicians, this young man is fast making a name in the music world.
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. For further information: Bryan Jones on 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.
9 Mar – Jazz Club Quartet (Tim Huskisson, Eddie Johnson, Alan Clarke and Ollie Benson) with special guest Mike Cotton
16 Mar - George Tidiman’s All Stars
23 Mar - Bix and Pieces
30 Mar - Gambit Jazz Men
6 Apr - East Coast Jazz Wanderers
13 Apr - Jackie Free’s Chicagoans
20 Apr - Colin Kingwell’s Jazz Bandits
27 Apr - Hugh Rainey Jazz Band
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.
Tues 10th of March - Maurizio Minardi Trio. U.K. Album Tour.
Tues 17th of March - Geoff Warren Quartet. World renowned Flautist.
Tues 24th of March - Nicolas Meier and Peter Oxley. 12 guitar show.
Tues 31st of March - Jo Fooks Quartet.
“SPIKE’S PLACE” JAZZ CLUB @ BRENTWOOD – 8.00pm. At Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ. Top-Class Mainstream Jazz. Admission £12 (non-members) £9 (members) unless otherwise stated. e-mail: susa...@btinternet.com www.myspace.com/spikesplacejazzclub
Tues 10th March Closed
Tues 17th March – 8.00pm Celebrating Hoagy with Chris Ingham Quartet
Tues 24th March – 8.00pm Enrico Tomasso with the Richard Busiakiwicz Trio
Tues 7th April – 8.00pm From the USA Scott Hamilton with the John Pearce Trio
Tickets £15.00 members £12.00
Tues 14th April Closed
Tues 21st April – 8.00pm From the USA Haward Alden Trio
Tickets £13.00 members £10.00
Tues 28th April Closed
“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
Thurs 19th March – 8.30pm. Al Nicholls and Jo Fooks with the Ted Beament Trio
Admission £12.00
Thurs 16th April – 8.30pm. Richard Pite Quartet featuring Phillip Achille
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.
Thurs 26th March - the return of popular smooth jazz keyboardist Oli Silk playing music from his new cd "Razor Sharp Brit" Tickets Cliffs Pavilion Box Office - £15
Thursday 28th May we finish off the season with the Snake Davis Band. Saxophonist/ flautist Snake Davis makes a long overdue return to the club. Tickets Cliffs Pavilion Box Office - £15
Summer break in June and 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
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 Sundays at 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 of the musicians. 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. For membership enquiries Larry Newall-Smith on 01245 256510.
Sunday 12th April 2015 at 12.15 pm – the marvellous singing of Jacqui Hicks, and her quintet. Tickets £15.00 (£11.00 for members). Advance bookings 01245 606505.
Sunday 10th May 2015 at 12.15 pm – a first visit to Chelmsford by incredibly talented Italian pianist Rossano Sportiello with Dave Green on bass and Matt Home on drums. Tickets £15.00 (£11.00 for members). Advance bookings 01245 606505.
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, called Spicers Lane. £8 on the Door
13th March - The Untouchables: theuntouchablesblues.com
Keith Parker harp and vocals, Peter Ellison guitar and vocals, Paul 'Chuck' Green doghouse bass and Malcolm 'Eddie the Legend' Buckland drums.
The Untouchables are champions of raw blues, basing their sound on the
swinging soul of the great artists who recorded for Chess Records in the
50s. With a string bass, a stripped down drum kit, a cranked guitar
through a hot valve amp and a wailing harp, this band turns any venue
into a rocking juke joint.
It has been said that, “The Untouchables
play sparse, tasteful Chicago blues. Not blues rock but tight, swinging,
focussed, authentic sounding urban blues, with every element honed to
its bare essentials in an unostentatious display of taste and restraint’
and ‘The band have lived and breathed the style until it's so much a
part of them that it oozes out of their pores. If you like Little
Walter, Bo Diddley or Willie Dixon, then this is as close as you’ll get
to seeing them live. Utterly superb."
27th March - The Noemi Nuti Quintet with Quentin Collins: http://noeminuti.com & http://www.quentincollins.com
Born
and raised in New York City of Italian descent, Noemi Nuti is an
up-and-coming jazz vocalist and songwriter residing in London. Noemi
studied music at Brunel University where jazz vocal improvisation became
her driving focus and further studied improvisation and composition at
Trinity College of Music. She toured the UK as part of the Tomorrow’s
Warrior’s project, ‘Jazz Alive’ and has taken part in the London Jazz
Festival on a number of occasions and been involved in a number of jazz
projects with well-known jazz musicians including being a regular with
NYJO. With a love of Brazilian music Noemi has toured Brazil and has
formed her own band playing contemporary jazz within a Brazilian music
frame.
Quentin Collins is one of Europe's most in-demand trumpet
players, both as a band leader and player. He has a wealth of experience
working with many other well-known musicians and as a much sought after
session musician playing across many genres. Over the years, Quentin
has toured extensively both in the UK and abroad as well as holding
several residencies. He is no stranger to the recording studios both in
his own right and for other musicians as well as broadcasting on radio
and TV.
Of late Quentin has taken on the role of producer and was
asked by Noemi to co-produce her debut release called, ‘ Nice to Meet
You’.
10th April - Blues Abuse: http://www.bluesabuse.com/Blues_Abuse/Welcome.html
Steve Morrison vocals and guitar, Alan Glen harmonica and Al Hughes drums.
Back at Marigolds by popular demand this oiginal 3 piece blues combo is led by guitarist Steve Morrison and features virtuoso harmonica playing by Alan Glen (ex Yardbird) and the creative but always sensitive rhythms of Al Hughes on drums. Steve has developed a guitar technique that enables him to play lead, rhythm and bass at the same time (it has to be seen to be believed) creating driving rhythms complementing his slide-guitar. All three play in a variety of line-ups and with the best of musicians but together they are the sensational Blues Abuse.
24th April - The Derek Nash Quartet: http://www.dereknash.com
Derek Nash saxophone, Dominic Ashworth guitar, Andy Staples bass and Marc Cecil drums.
Derek is the leader of award-winning 'Sax Appeal' (five CDs on Jazzizit records) and co-Leader of funk band "Protect the Beat". As a full-time member of the Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra since 2004, he has worked alongside Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Lulu, Alison Moyet, Tom Jones and many others. He has also played in Jack Bruce Big Blues Band and Ronnie Scotts Blues Explosion. In the 2000 British Jazz Awards, he was in the top ten of six different categories.
He has performed with Dave and Don Grusin, Nelson Rangell, Spike Robinson (their CD won a British Jazz award in 2001), Alan Barnes, Dave O'Higgins, Mornington Lockett, Barbara Thompson and Tim Garland. At his Clowns Pocket Recording Studio, he is a respected recording engineer and producer and has recorded albums for Dave O'Higgins, Jamie Cullum (gold disc for 'Pointless Nostalgic'), Bobby Wellins, Alan Barnes, Tony Remy, Trudy Kerr, Martin Drew and many others.
He has released three solo albums - 'Setting New Standards' alongside Clark Tracey and Alec Dankworth (Jazzizit JITCD 9814), 'Snapshot' alongside Geoff Gascoyne, Jan Lundgren and Steve Brown (Jazzizit JITCD0951)and "Joyriding alongside Dave Newton, Geoff Gascoyne and Sebastiaan de Krom ( 2011 Jazzizit JITCD 1156)". He is also the writer and arranger of many TV and radio themes.
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.
HORNCHURCH JAZZ CLUB, 25 North St (rear), Hornchurch, Essex RM11 1RS. The club is a comfortable venue with a small dance floor, drinks at club prices and car parking. Members £7, non-members £8. Call Laurie on 07913 558616 for more details. 8:30 – 11pm
Hornchurch Jazz Club at Hornchurch Conservative Club, 25 North Street, RM11 1RS, on Sunday, 15th March from 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm. The Downhome Jazz Band. This popular Essex band is led by bassist Ken ‘Slow Drag’ Collins. Listen and strut your stuff to traditional and jazz standards from a great band.The Hornchurch Conservative Club is a comfortable air-conditioned venue with a dance floor, drinks at club prices, wheel-chair access and car parking. Club members £7, guests £8. Call Laurie on 07913 558616 for more details.
GC's JAZZ CLUB at The Woolpack, 23 Mildmay Road, Chelmsford CM2 0DN 01245 – 259295. First Sunday in Every Month 8.30pm. Free Admission. Food Available. www.graemeculham.com
Sunday 5th April 2015
REG WEBB & PAUL HIGGS ( The king of fusion meets multi talented trumpeter )
Mike McGibney - Bass. Graeme Culham – Drums.
Sunday 3rd May 2015
SIMON SPILLETT Saxophone. ( UK jazz awards winner 2011 )
Dan Banks – Keyboards. Jose Canha – Double Bass. Graeme Culham – Drums.
Sunday 7th June 2015
ANDI HOPGOOD & TED BEAMENT ( A talented female vocalist with top UK pianist )
Mike Mc Gibney – Double Bass. Graeme Culham – Drums.
Sunday 5th July 2015
TIM HUSKISSON Clarinet / Keyboard. ( Great swing clarinetist & pianist )
Simon Hurley – Guitar. Roger Curphey – Double Bass. Graeme Culham – Drums.
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, Dancefloor, Attractive Venue. All welcome. Run by Dave/Sheila Dyer 01945 588325
JAZZ AT THE BOATHOUSE. Jazz Sessions Hosted by Broxbourne Rowing Club at the newly rebuilt Clubhouse, Old Nazeing Road, Broxbourne, EN10 6QU. www.broxbournerowing.org
Doors Open 8.00pm . Music from 8.30pm. For further information contact Neil Fryer 01992 442263 m 07504 733892 www.broxbournerowing.org. Doors Open 8.00pm Music from 8.30pm Admission £10.00 Under 21 £5.00
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
Sax Appeal plays Herts Jazz Club 7.30 pm-10.00 pm Sunday 15 March 2015 Screen 2, Hawthorne Theatre, Welwyn Garden City
One of the most enduring and popular groups on the circuit, this group have performed all over the world from Venezuela to Hartlepool, from Ronnie Scott's to Cardiff Bay, whilst festivals in Europe have included Marciac and Coutances in France, and three repeat bookings at the Cork Jazz Festival in Ireland..
Leader Derek Nash is a full member of the Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, and has performed in front of over 65,000 people at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and also to over 100,000 at the Glastonbury Festival. He has appeared live and on TV with with many top performers including David Sanborn, Mavis Staples, Eric Clapton, Paul Carrack, Lulu, Tom Jones, Jamie Cullum, Will Young, Ruby Turner and Sam Brown. Prepare to be saxed out!
Derek
Nash, Scott Garland, Bob McKay, Simon Allen, Brandon Allen – Saxes,
Pete Adams – Piano, Phil Scragg – Bass, Mike Bradley – Drums
Tickets: Advance: £3 students/£10 members/£13 concessions/£14 full.
Walk-ups: £5 students/£12 members/£15 concessions/£16 full.
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
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
March 10th - Cliff Longhurst’s ‘Jazz Knights’ Big Band, The fabled sound of the Woody Herman ‘Herds’ in full cry! A very special evening, not to be missed!
March 17th - Semaphore. A small group in the hot club tradition.
March 24th - Terry’s team. An evening of jazz and jokes from the clubs version of a musical Max Miller! (There’s a funny thing!)
March 31st - The Hertswing Big Band. Our own superb in house big band, the Basie beat lives on!
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.
Monday Night JAZZ AT THE BEDFORD ARMS on Bromham Road, No 2 Bronham Road, Bedford, MK40 2QA.
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 would 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.
Sunday 22nd March - ‘1960’ Ben Pringle Trio
‘1960’ are a jazz trio comprising Ben Pringle on piano, Louis Thorne on bass and Andy Vellacott
on drums. The groups repertoire covers a range of jazz piano approaches
from swing & stride through bebop & Latin to more modern
interpretations of standards as well as unusual takes on some pop
classics and originals.
Sunday 29th March - Helen Abbey Trio
This Trio fronted by jazz and soul singer Helen Abbey mixes classical/Latin/blues jazz numbers with some of her own original penned compositions. Helen excels with her free flowing and crystal clear vocals, interpreting the lyrics in her own elegant style. She is very ably supported on keyboards by the classy musicianship of Matt Keane and the sympathetic rhythmic drumming of Alex Best. A hugely satisfying sound.
Sunday 12th April - 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.
Sunday 26th April - ‘Q3’ Martin Hallmark Trio
Martin Hallmark’s jazz trio, the enigmatically named Q3, are relatively new in the area and a breath of fresh air, as they steer clear of familiar jazz standards and ‘Real Book’ war horses in favour of largely original material. As a pianist leader Martin also composes much of the new tunes and changes, also this music has an urgency and intelligence that demands close listening. Having recently studied with top US pianist Chick Corea, he’s not afraid to break loose and play ‘outside’ or funky,either. Ably supported by Berklee trained, nimble fingered local electric bass hero Tiago Coimbra and top drummer Steve Hynes there will be a lots of virtuosity on display, backed up by some excellent content.
JAZZ NIGHTS AT HAVERHILL ARTS CENTRE High St, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 8AR. To book 01440 714140 or go to www.haverhillartscentre.co.uk
JAZZ at the HUNTER CLUB – First class jazz in Bury St Edmunds, 6 St Andrews Street South, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3PJ. Monthly session featuring CHRIS INGHAM piano, IVARS GALENIEKS bass and RUSS MORGAN drums. “Like being driven around in a Rolls-Royce” ART THEMEN. More info/reservations: http://www.headhunterslive.org/ Reservations headhun...@gmail.com or 07799 650009 / 01284 748280 (office hours)
“SPIKE’S PLACE” AT BECKENHAM – 8:30pm. Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR (Off South Eden Park Road). Admission £12.00 (members £9.00) unless otherwise stated. 020 8650 2406 / 01245 420475 E mail: susa...@btinternet.com www.myspace.com/spikesplacejazzclub Advance bookings contact: Susan 01245 420475
Thurs 12th March – 8.30pm. Alan Barnes with the Robin Aspland trio
Thurs 26th March – 8.30pm. Derek Nash Quartet
Thurs 2nd April – 8.30pm. Trudy Kerr Quartet
Thurs 9th April – 8.30pm. Al Nicholls & Jo Fooks Quintet
Tickets £13.00 members £10.00
Thurs 23rd April – 8.30pm. From the USA Haward Alden Trio
Tickets £13.00 members £10.00
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 15th Mar – EDISON HERBERT
Sunday 29th Mar – ART THEMEN
Sunday 12th Apr – ALLISON NEALE
Sunday 26th Apr – SNAKE DAVIS
Sunday 10th May – KEITH WINTER
Sunday 24th May – JIM TOMLINSON
CROSS KEYS, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, 236-238 St John's Rd, Kent TN4 9XD, music every Thursday from 8:15pm. Free Entry
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
March 12th 8 30pm £12 THE BONE SUPREMACY www.bonesupremacy.co.uk
Five yes Five Trombones & Three Rhythm. We just had to bring this
amazing outfit to The FJC. Here we have 5 of the UK's finest trombone
players, playing arrangements of the big band era & all backed by
another supreme rhythm section.
Trombones - IAN BATEMAN - ANDY FLAXMAN - CHRIS GOWER MARK NIGHTINGALE - WINSTON ROLLINS.
Rhythm - NICK DAWSON piano - JEROME DAVIES double bass - PETE CATER drums
Mad to miss it - -,Mad to miss it
March 19th 8 30pm £10 www.dereknash.com / www.dickpearce.co.uk
DEREK NASH / DICK PEARCE QUARTET play the Music of Gerry Mulligan
This is a fine example of the wonderful music of the great American
Baritone Sax man Gerry Mulligan - & performed by some of our best.
DEREK NASH baritone sax - A regular visitor to the FJC & one of The
UKs finest musicians. He also has his own recording studio & record
labels
DICK PEARCE - Great modern style trumpeter- was with the late great Ronnie Scott for 13 years - Get his book - its a great read
GEOFF GASCOYNE double bass - none better - to see, to hear.
MATT SKELTON drums Top man- bandleader- -brilliant ..
There is never too much Mulligan & this is a quartet to dream about ! ! !
TUESDAY March 24th - 8 30pm £10 www.mattridleybass.com
THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET CELEBRATION
This outfit was the Big Hit of the Swanage & Southport Jazz
Festivals. It's the wonderful music of The MJQ - that very unique sound
being brought up to date by some of the UKs most talented musicians.
The original MJQ Celebration was formed by the late Michael Garrick MBE
to portray the great MJQ of ( John Lewis -Milt Jackson- Percy
Heath-Connie Kay). Following Michael's death, the band brought in Barry
Green on piano which has been a great success to be able to continue
with this wonderful music.
MATT RIDLEY - double bass - Now leader of this brilliant quartet
JIM HART -vibes - A multi Brit Jazz award winner - & Bandleader
BARRY GREEN - piano .Was here with Ian Shaw - His CV goes into pages.
STEVE BROWN - drums. The multi Brit Jazz award winner
" That Was a Month That Was of Amazing Jazz "
FRANK GRIFFITH GIGLIST- Frank Griffith, Director of Performance, School of Arts, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH 01895 266572. 07976 313224 www.frankgriffith.co.uk
27 March, 8PM. With the Tina May Sextet, J Pearce, piano, F Gavita, trumpet, D Green, bass, M Outram, guitar, W Clifford, drums. Harrow Arts Centre, Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, HA5 4EA. 0208 416 8962 www.harrowarts.org £15
5 April, 8.30PM.The Griffin, (w/The Steve Plumb Trio) 1262 High Road, Whetstone, N20 9HH. 0208 445 1110. www.thegriffin-whetstone.co.uk. Free.
13 May, 8.30PM. Frank Griffith and Club Hotfoot with Charles Alexander, Andy Robinson, guitars, Dave Jenkins, bass at The Mill Hill Golf Club. 110 Barnet Way, Barnet, NW7, 3AL. 0208 207 0451. www.millhilljazzclub.co.uk. £8.
22 May, 12.30-2.30PM. With The Polo Sticks (3 clarinets and rhythm) at the Spice of Life, 6 Moor St, London, W1. www.spicejazz.co.uk. £6.
22 May, 8-10PM. Frank Griffith Sextet at Oxford House, Derbyshire St, Bethnal Green, E2 6HG.0207 739 9001. www.oxfordhouse.org.uk. £8.
2-5 June, 9PM. String Quartet Festival at Pizza Express, 10 Dean Street, London, W1. 08456 027017. 2.6- Duncan Eagles and Partikel, 3.6- The London Vocal Project, 4.6, Empirical, 5.6- Gilad Atzmon. All with The Bowfiddle String Quartet. www.pizzaexpresslive.com. £20.
6 June, 8PM. The Frank Griffith Nonet with Tina May at the Berkhamstead Civic Centre. HP4 3HD. 01442 824173. www.berkhamsteadjazz.co.uk. £10.
2 July, 8.30PM. W/Adrian Fry and the Hugh Ockendon Trio at Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, Eltham, SE9 2PE. 0208 850 4477. £10.
1 August, 8PM. With The Tina May Sextet at Norden Farm Arts Centre. Atwood Road, Maidenhead, SL6 4PF. 01628 788997. www.nordenfarm.org £15.
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. Fleur is privileged to be a student of The First Lady of British Jazz, Claire Martin, and the collaboration has produced a very fine performer with musical intellect and skill as an improviser. Her influences spanning jazz, soul and blues genres, include Carman McRae, Shirley Horn, and Ella Fitzgerald.
17 February -
Fleur Stevenson hosts Jazz Singers' Night at the Global Cafe, Reading,
Berkshire. Chris Neill 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
CAROL BRAITHWAITE’S FORTHCOMING GIGS.
Billericay Constitutional Club, 1A Hgh Street, CM12 9BE. (tel: 01277 651844) MONTHLY JAZZ AFTERNOON – 2nd Friday every month with Carol Braithwaite, vocals/ chat – Tim Huskisson, piano/clarinet – Hugh Rainey, trumpet/banjo – George Tidiman, trombone/ terrible jokes – Roger Curphey, bass/cap – Ric Rossi, drums/hair. Starts 12.30 – 2.30pm. Entry £5 Lunchtime menu available. Dates for 2015: March 13th, April 10th, May 8th, June 12th, July 10th, Aug 14th, Sept 11th, Oct 9th, Nov 13th, Dec 11th.
Park View Chalkwell Park, London Road, (opposite Gainsborough Carpets) Westcliff on Sea SS0 8NB. (tel : 01702 483900) MONTHLY JAZZ NIGHT – 3rd Thursday every month. Easy access and comfortable and friendly welcome awaits. Well stocked bar with evening meals and snacks available. An evening of swinging, relaxing music with Carol Braithwaite, vocals – Tim Huskisson, piano – Mike Sagrott, guitar- Ted Simkins – bass. Starts 8:00-10.30pm. Entry £5 Dates for 2015: March, 16th April, 21st May, 18th June, 16th July, Aug 20th, Sept 17th. Oct 15th, Nov 19th.
Other venues: 27th March - (NEW VENUE) Corringham Social Club, 1 Lampits Hill, Corringham SS17 9AA. 30th March – Theydon Bois Jazz Club with Jazz Crew **** 20th May – Chichester Jazz Club with Jackie Free.
For more information and to check dates and details: www. carolbraithwaite.com
RON SPACK’S JAZZTET at THE OAKWOOD. 564 Rayleigh Road, Eastwood, SS9 5HX. 8.30pm Tel: 01702 512819. Mondays. Food served during the evening.
Ron on Bass, with the following:
Mon 9th Mar. Alex Field-guitar. Alex Boyle- keyboard. Mike Barry-drums.
Mon 16th Mar. Dave Jago-trombone. Chris English-keyboard.
Keith Buckingham-drums.
Mon 23rd Mar. Kenny Baxter-saxophone. Mike Sagrott-guitar. Mike Barry-drums.
Mon 30th Mar. Ian Thompson-saxophone. Dave Mascall-guitar. Glyn Morgan-drums.
RON SPACK’S LUNCHTIME JAZZ at THE WESTCLIFF HOTEL. 18-20, Westcliff Parade, Westcliff on Sea, Essex. SSO 7QW. 01702 345247. Sunday 1pm. Ron on Bass, plus guest.
Sun 8th Mar
Sun 22nd Mar
THE SPARROWS OF PARIS Headed by Parisian chanteuse Carolyn Saint-Pé,
the quartet include accordion, guitar and double bass for a lively
dance set bringing you back to the Guinguette of old Paris or clarinet,
guitar and double bass for a sophisticated set of Vintage Lounge French
Melodies and Jazz, specialising in vintage French music of the 1920s to
the 1950s including your favourite jazz standards.
www.thesparrowsofparis.com Facebook:
www.Facebook.com/laguinguetteauxmoineaux
Website: www.laguinguetteauxmoineaux.com
Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec: www.btlrestaurant.com
Saturday 7th March at 9pm - The Basement at Green Note, 106 Parkway London NW1 7AN. entry £8.80 http://www.greennote.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2921
Carolyn Saint-Pé and The Sparrows of Paris are back at celebrated Jazz
club The Green Note in Camden Town, this time with accordionist Josh
Middleton and double bass player Julia Doyle for a mix of French
chansons and jazz. In the intimate speak-easy atmosphere of The Basement
at Green Note, you will be transported back to Paris of the 1920s and
30s. At the time of writing, there are only 18 tickets left for this
intimate gig...
REDBEANS 'N' RICE New Orleans Jazz Band are now playing EVERY Sunday night, 7.30pm to 10.00pm at The Village Hall, Sun Rd, Broome, Bungay, Suffolk NR35 2RN. No Bar, please bring own drinks and glasses. Tea/Coffee available. Raffle. Brollies. Admission £3.50 Information Robin 01986 892458
THE DON STEELE JAZZBAND play traditional jazz on alternative Wednesdays at The Woodman, Goathurst Common, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks TN14 6BU. Free entry real ale and good food!
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
Every Tuesday 9-11 p.m - Jazz at the Cricketers Pub, 47 Shirley Road, Croydon, CR0 7ER
Featuring Stuart Brooks (trumpet) with guest musicians. Admission - FREE
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.
Duo of Guy Tortora and Ben Tyzack on Tuesday 31st March. We have two icons of the blues scene joined together in a duo to give you an evening of assured top quality - their combined experience probably supersedes the average 6 piece, although they are still sounding and looking as fresh as the day they embarked upon their respective journeys into the world of music. Two creative and consummate musicians, they are Ben Tyzack and Guy Tortora. The full band will be appearing in November and Guy's band in October, so this will be a very interesting foretaste of things to come later in the year.
Tickets £10, bookings to email address. Doors 7.30pm, artists on stage 8.45pm. Good food, reasonably priced, available to eat at you table if required. I will mention, that in April we have Giles Hedley and the Aviators and in May, Doug Macleod (USA), which is on the Wednesday and not the traditional Tuesday.
May show is on Wednesday 27th May and not the traditional Tuesday with renowned American artist, Doug Macleod, who is on tour in the UK. Tickets will be £12 for this one and that price held thereafter being that we have not increased the entry price for 10 years or more. This still represents ultimate value for money for a good evening's entertainment in a very nice setting.
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
Norwich Jazz Group are looking for a rhythm section and members to get together and play jazz in a friendly and supportive environment. The group will be focussing on developing improvisational skills using well known jazz and big band standards. If you are interested to find out more please contact: gkpot...@gmail.com
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The National Jazz Archive have an afternoon concert on Saturday 11 April featuring classic jazz from wonderful clarinettist Dave Shepherd with his Quintet at Loughton Methodist Church, 260 High Road, Loughton, Essex IG10 1RB, close to the Archive’s home in Loughton Library, where there is extensive parking, 1 km from Loughton Station on the Central Line, and served by numerous bus routes. This concert is one of a series during 2015 to raise funds to support the work of the National Jazz Archive.
Dave
was voted Britain’s best jazz clarinettist four times between 1990 and
2000. During his long career, Dave played with American jazz legends
such as Teddy Wilson, Bud Freeman, Yank Lawson, Ruby Braff, Wild Bill
Davison and Barney Kessel. He led his own groups, including the Freddy
Randall/Dave Shepherd Jazz All Stars, and the Pizza Express All-Stars
for more than 20 years. The Quintet features the excellent Roger Nobes (vibes), John Pearce (piano), Paul Morgan (bass), and Stan Bourke (drums).
Dave Shepherd said: “The National Jazz Archive does great work in
preserving the history of our music. It’s a pleasure to bring my group
to play to help raise funds to support it.”
Concert starts at 1.30pm, tickets £15.
Further details and booking: www.nationaljazzarchive.org.uk/events
020 8502 4701 eve...@nationaljazzarchive.org.uk
There is a 20th Anniversary Concert of The Pete Cater Big Band on April 20th at Cadogan Hall.
Sid Bolan Big Band concert: 25 April 2015- St Mary's Church, Ramsden Bellhouse, Wickford. Essex. Tickets £10.00 (including cheese and wine supper) Tickets available from Audrey Pegram 01268 710757.
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Monday
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.
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
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.
Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, Saxophonist Johnty Wilks presents Music and Meditation Workshops for musicians and non musicians. Learn to meditate, listen to music and hear musicians improvising. Samatha House, on a farm, Nr High Rodding, Dunmow, Essex. Please book if interested in performing as a musician (improvisers only, jazz influenced or meditation type music) or as a guest speaker on meditation and music – 0771 359 4543; johnty...@googlemail.com
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.
Every 2nd and 4th Weds of the month Saxophonist Johnty Wilks 8.30 – 11.30pm “Johntys Chill out Sessions” – romantic jazz and lounge music with Johnty plus special guest. At the beautiful Lounge and Terrace area of the Traffic Bar Cafe. 39 High Street, Dunmow, CM6 1AE. Tel: 01371 876745. Please get in touch if interested in performing relaxing music as a guest. 0771 359 4543; johnty...@googlemail.com
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.
Botley Hill Farmhouse, Limpsfield Rd, Warlingham, CR6 9QH. (01959 577 154) a 15th century farmhouse set on the Titsey estate, a free house and restaurant – on the Prime Meridian and International Date Line – www.botleyhill-farmhouse.co.uk, Free every Thursday evenings, at 8:30pm – Jazz in the Bar
Googlies Jazz Supper Club at Botany Bay Cricket Club, East Lodge Lane, Enfield, EN2 8AS present Live Jazz every Thursday evening. Doors 7.30pm with Performance from 8pm. Licensed Bar, food available & free ample car parking. The Colin Peters Quartet support a different guest star each week. Admission normally – Guests £9.00, Members £7.00 Membership: £15.00 per year
Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month Saxophonist Johnty Wilks presents live music, dj and “micro clubbing” -an early evening event. Come and dance to dj Johnty, plus live sax with Johnty and guests. The Corner Lounge, Chelmsford, CM1 1XB www.thecornerlounge.co.uk Free 01245 505 880. Please get in touch in advance, if you are interested in performing as a guest (guitarists, keys, bass, trumpet, flute etc) , jamming over jazz funk backing tracks. Johnty 0771 359 4543; johnty...@googlemail.com
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 White Hart Pub in Whitechapel, 1 Mile End Road, Stepney, London E1 4TP (020 7790 2894) features a variety of quality jazz acts are every Sunday. All shows run 7.30pm – 10.15pm. Free Entry (gratuity collection during performance)
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.
Second Sundays Salon at The Attic @ Hackney Picture House (270 Mare St, London E8 1HE) hosted by Mychelle Colleary, on Sundays from 3pm to 6pm. A new monthly afternoon event of jazz/acoustic music, art and other performance. £8 adv / £10 door / £6 AEA/MU/Members Box office 0871 902 5734 http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Second_Sunday_Salon_The_Preview
The Joiners Arms (Camberwell) 35, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, SE5 8RS have big bands on some Sundays from 2pm to 5pm. FREE ENTRY. Real ales and PIZZA available! Food from 12-4pm.
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
The Banjo Club meets every Monday at Exchange House 2.00-4.00pm. Play the music – join the banjo band.
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 -
The
Fourth Louis Armstrong Celebration Jazz Festival @ Mundesley - has a
new date & New Venue - Seacroft Holiday Village, another Richardsons
site. 22nd - 25th May.
Seacroft offers a much wider variety of facilities than Mundesley. It is also bigger.
THE NEW TOWNHOUSE JAZZ CLUB, Cheshunt & Waltham Cross Conservative Club, 33 – 35 Eleanor Cross Road, EN8 7LF. £9.00 & £9.50 (usually) Bands 1st set 8.15pm. Tel: 01992 712192 or 07956 980572. E-mail: sharte...@aol.com or td_h...@aol.co.uk Admission price is now £9 members & £9.50 guests
THE PUMP HOUSE JAZZ CLUB. Pump House Theatre & Arts Centre, Local Board Road off Lower High Street, WATFORD WD17 2JP. Enquiries: hazel...@ntlworld.com / 01923 467269. Band Bookings: ibjaz...@hotmail.com / 01923 210604. Thursdays 8.15-11pm . Admittance £8.00 (Under 21s £4.00)
Tony Jacobs News
We
have an incredible line-up for my Festival next Spring (10 April to 13
April) which is already well on its way to selling out. So contact South
Downs as soon as you can!
Jim Barry and I have a couple of dates in the book at Blenheim Palace March 8th & 29th as part of their Sunday Jazz series.
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
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New Independent Vocal Jazz Academy – The first British and International Vocal (Jazz) Academy (BIVJA) workshop course will take place from Spring 2013 with ongoing enrolment thereafter. This is a high quality enterprise implementing the skills and experience of a full rhythm section. A course 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’.
Where: Ealing W5, West London
When: Course A – Fortnightly on Sundays plus performance dates and masterclasses
Course B – Fortnightly on Saturdays and as above
Course C – Monday evenings
Who for: Individuals who are serious about developing their knowledge
and skills with a view to creating successful jazz performance – all
styles, all ages, singers and instrumentalists.
Why: BIVJA is keen to encourage mature students as well as young people at the start of their careers.
There are very few bespoke courses for those who wish to empower
themselves with a greater understanding of the rhythm section, band
leading and performance confidence. Is it for me? Call for an informal
chat on 020 8992 1571 (leave message and we’ll call you back).
UNIQUE – BIVJA promotes a warm but challenging environment and it’s different because of its very ‘hands on’ approach. 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. Sessions will be followed by a de-brief, student feedback, career support and Q+A – again a unique opportunity
Specialist workshops – Participants will have access to workshops on specific skills such as recording, PA set up and mixing and workshops with visiting professional singers, instrumentalists and mentors. Tutors will vary including Gareth Williams – piano; Peter Ind – bass; Les Cirkel – drums. The support group created by this enterprise will assist students in self-promotion and performance opportunities.
BIVJA Director – Verona Chard – 020 8992 1571 – leave message, and contact details. 07985 440902 www.veronachard.com/bivja v...@veronachard.com
Saxophone Workshop www.johnseeleyjazz.co.uk
The
saxophone workshop is a workshop that aims to develop saxophone
technique and performance in a friendly creative environment. The
workshop is open to all levels of ability, and every type of saxophone.
The workshop is devised for the individual to feel like they are having a
private lesson at a fraction of the price.
Each class explores
saxophone and musicianship skills that will enhance the individual and
group performer. This includes looking at music theory, methods of
practise, sight reading, improvisation, aural work, and specific
concepts to increase your knowledge on the saxophone.
This is worked
concurrently with a repertoire of saxophone music from different genres
of music with a focus on classical and jazz. The pieces are denotated
to concentrate on musicianship skills and then performed, giving members
a feeling of completion.
The method of teaching focuses on four
principles of learning which are posture, pulse, phonology, and
personality. This is used through simultaneous learning techniques that
connect aural, visual, improvisation, and rhythm.
12th, 26th March,
9th, 23rd April,
7th, 21st May,
4th June
7:30pm - 9:30pm £7 Entry.
All ability levels welcome, no need to book, just come along and join
in. Ground Floor, St. Michael and All Angels Church, 62 Leigh Road,
Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 1LF
Jazz Workshop www.johnseeleyjazz.co.uk
The aim of this workshop is to provide a creative and relaxed atmosphere for musicians of all levels, to learn theory aspects of music, and gain practical knowledge of performing. The music that will be used will range from Hard Bop, Modern to Contemporary Jazz, and will be arranged to a high level.
The teaching of this workshop focuses on the 4 P's Principle. Posture, Pulse, Phonology, and Personality within music. The method of teaching will follow a style called simultaneous learning. The ingredients of pieces are extracted and worked through by connecting areas of learning as aural, visual, rhythm and improvisation. These are then placed back into context, allowing the individual a deep understanding of the piece and its musical principles.
5th, 19th March,
2nd, 16th, 30th April,
14th, 28th May,
11th June
7:30pm - 9:30pm. £7 Entry. All ability levels and instruments
welcome, no need to book, just come along and join in! Ground Floor,
St. Michael and All Angels Church, 62 Leigh Road, Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 1LF
The Julian Joseph Jazz Academy will run 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 10-25, 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. Sign up at https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=EkjCExyKXg2VAdM7eEHiqw www.hmdt.org.uk HMDT is now on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hackney-Music-Development-Trust-HMDT/33789453887
If you play the saxophone and want to join an informal Saxophone group then come along on a Tuesday evening at Coopers School in Upminster. The Havering Saxophonics are an adult saxophone choir that focus on playing for fun. It is a reading band but all levels are welcome. from 7pm – 9pm. £5… (£3 for concessions). A cup of tea at half time is free…. for more info call John on 01708 446644 or visit www.thehaveringsaxophonics.co.uk
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Marlene VerPlanck's (www.marleneverplanck.com) 2015 UK schedule:
Fri, March 6, The Verdict, lovely intimate venue with terrific food! 159 Edward St., Brighton BN2 OJB Tel: 01273 674 847 http://www.wegottickets.com
Sat, March 7, Dugdale Centre. This venue was new to us last year and what a great surprise it was. Beautiful! Located in the, Thomas Hardy House, 39 London Road, Enfield, Mddx, EN2 Tel: 020 8807 6680
Sun, March 8, Brunch at Ronnie Scott's is always a huge blast! We sold out the last two times, so definitely reserve now! Tel: 020 7439 0747 Here's Sebastian Scotney's review: Ronnie Scott's in London. "Sometimes just one phrase can open the window onto a singer's whole lifetime of musicality, stagecraft and accumulated wisdom"
Mon, March 9, The Kings Head, Bexley High St, Bexley, Kent. DA5 1AA Sold out last year...reserve early! Tel: 0208 467 1350
Tues, March 10, Norwich Jazz Club The Cottage 148 Thunder Lane Norwich NR7 0JD This is one great gig! Reserve early, Tel: 01603 614 169
Thurs, March 12, Hidden Rooms, 7A Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8RA. This is among one of the new venues for us so please come and welcome us! Tel: 01223 514 777 www.cambridgejazz.org,
Fri, March 13, ILminster Arts Centre, Meeting House Arts Centre, East Street, Ilminster, TA19 0AN Another new venue. So looking forward to it! Tel: 01460 55783
Sun, March 15, The Stables, Jazz Matters, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, Reservations a must! One never knows who will be in the audience. Music starts 11:30am - Tel: 01908 280 819
Mon, March 16, Portsmouth Jazz Society, The Executive Suite, The Inn Lodge, Burrfields Rd, Portsmouth, P03 5HH 8:00pm Another new venue. Tel: 02392 255 806 portsmouthjazz.com
Tues, March 17, Marlene returns to Wales at The Treorchy Rugby Club Treorchy, CF42 6PPN with The Dave Cottle Trio
Weds, March 18, Swansea Jazzland, St James Society, SA1 6DR Marlene with The Dave Cottle Trio. Great receptive crowd here! Tel: 07802 912 789
Thurs, March 19, Bonington Theatre, Arnold Leisure Centre, High St, Nottingham NG5 7EE I LOVE this theatre! Tel: 0115 956 0733
Fri, March 20, In Lincoln at The Collection, Danes Terrace, Lincoln, LN2 1LP Note change of venue. Tickets and info: john.ho...@btinternet.com
Sat, March 21, The Firestation, The Old Court, St Leonards Road, Windsor SL4 3BL Here's another new one ... please join us!! Tel: 01753 866 865
Sun, March 22, Marlene with John Ruddick's, Midland Youth Orchestra. What a joy to work with this big band! And, we have some new arrangements to sing/play from our new cd, "I Give Up, I'm In Love". The Solihull Royal British Legion, Union Road, Solihull, B91 3DH. Tickets will be £9, (with concessions for members), 1:00 pm lunchtime.
Marlene can be reached in London at tel: 0207 586 2984 For complete details visit, www.marleneverplanck.com In the USA: tel: 973 473 6023
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, though a remission of fees scheme is operated by the Hertfordshire Music Service, subject to t&c.
We bring to your attention the excellent music services and facilities provided by Essex Music Services, part of Essex County Council and provide ” Quality instrumental tuition and workshops to school and colleges in Essex, covering all major orchestral and band instruments and musical styles” ” The opportunity for young people to perform in many youth orchestras and choirs ” and ” Concerts throughout the county”
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 and has won awards for both performance and composition. He is also the resident conductor of Young Essex Jazz and Essex Junior Jazz. Tickets for Essex Music Services’ 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
The Music Hot House, Jon Eno. Those of you who have been involved with youth jazz in Essex in the last ten years or so will probably have come across Jon Eno, a truly inspirational teacher who developed and ran Young Essex Jazz. Jon is now doing great things with youth music in the Midlands. His website is www.themusichothouse.co.uk
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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
THE JAZZ SHOW NEWSLETTER. Alex Hutton and Kate Winter produce and present this lively, inventive radio programme, showcasing the best of contemporary jazz as well as the classics. The show contains music, interviews, performance in the live room, the ‘Time Tunnel’ and ‘Sebastian Scotney’s Album of the week’ Broadcast on several radio stations: FM as well as online and is also a weekly podcast. Visit www.thejazzshowonline.com
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!
Grapevine magazine, an events guide in East Anglia, is trying to promote jazz to a wider and younger audience with jazz journalist, Roger Haywood. Send news, opinions or issues to ro...@rogerhaywood.com. There is also a gig guide www.grapevinelive.co.uk/Events which look at issues including jazz education, training (including private tutors), jams in the region, shops, covering instruments and repairs.
For jazz fans there is a new blog, written by Josh Jennings. The British Jazz Blog
aims to celebrate, and give a platform to, the fantastic British jazz
scene. Focusing on the contemporary side of the genre, the articles are
written in a personal, informal manner, ideal for getting people from
outside of the genre just as excited about the music as hardcore fans of
jazz! www.britishjazzblog.com
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Courtesy of our friends at J A Z Z N I G H T S
J A Z Z N I G H T S @ THE COCK INN, CLARE SUNDAY 1st MARCH
Clare: On Sundays Jazznights at The Cock Inn, 3, Callis Street, Suffolk, CO10 8PX Doors 7.30pm. Music 8.00 to 10.30pm. Adm £10. Sitting-in welcome. Pay on the door – reservation strongly advised on 01787 237653 or email reply. Details at www.jazz-nights.com.
The Gary Hart Quintet are at the Royal Standard in Ely on Thursday 5th March. 7.30pm start.
Stoke By Nayland: Fleece Jazz at the Stoke By Nayland Hotel, CO6 4PZ present the CHRISTINE TOBIN QUARTET on Friday 6th March. Box Office 01787 211865. http://www.fleecejazz.org.uk
Bury St Edmunds: The Apex present MJQ – a Modern Jazz Quartet Celebration on Friday 20th March.
Bury St Edmunds: Headhunters’ Jazz at the Hunter Club, 6, St Andrews Street features the FLANAGAN/INGHAM Quartet on Friday 20th March. Reserve tickets by email to headhunter...@gmail.com or see http://www.headhunterslive.org.
Cambridge: Hidden Rooms, 7a, Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA www.cambridgejazz.org, or call 07827 012875.
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.
Ipswich: On Sunday 15th March the jazz club features the MARK CROOKS QUARTET at the California Club, 195, Foxhall Road, IP3 8LB. See http://www.ipswichjazzclub.co.uk/gigs.htm for details.
Holland On Sea: Live Jazz At The Tavern, 55-57, Frinton Road, Essex, CO15 5UH presents JO FOOKS with the TED BEAMENT TRIO on Sunday 29th March. Adm £10. Doors 7.30pm. Jazz 8.00 to 10.30pm. Tel: 01255 814080 for information.
Felixstowe: Jazz East at The Fludyers See http://jazzeast.vpweb.co.uk for details.
Bungay: The Fisher Theatre, 10, Broad Street, NR35 1EE present Danish group the MIKKEL PLOUG TRIO on Friday 27th March. Tel: 01486 895367 for details & tickets.
Lowestoft: The Milestones Jazz Club at the Hotel Hatfield, The Esplanade, NR33 0QP
Norwich: See http://www.norwichjazzclub.co.uk for more information.
Walthamstow: Orford House, 73, Orford Road, E17 9QR. Call 07930 544312 for details.
Maidstone: The Music Room at the Pizza Express present SHAKATAK on Friday 6th & Saturday 7th March.
Whitstable: The Jazz-Rock Fusion band TRACKS featuring Shakatak members Bill Sharpe & Roger Odell plus Keith Winter & Martin Elliott are at The Duke for a lunch-time session on Sunday 8th March.
London: The St
James Studio, 12, Palace Street, SW1E 5JAT presents CHRISTINE TOBIN “A
Thousand Kisses Deep” on Saturday 28th March. Tel: 0844 264 2140 to
book.
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
3. We have had a couple of instances lately where people unconnected with the night have contacted us to let us know that details of the night have changed or that it has ceased. If you are including your events PLEASE let us know of any changes etc. (you only have to click “reply” when you receive the weekly newsletter). And of course if you are aware of a change or an inaccuracy please let us know – we really do appreciate your input.
4. Please include full address in including postcode for the venue. Most people these days use SatNav, so please make it easier for them.
5. We always try (when life doesn’t get in the way!) to send the newsletter on Friday at lunchtime. Can you get your information to us by 9am Friday morning at the latest to guarantee inclusion please.
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