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Showing posts with label Alan Barnes. Show all posts
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Wednesday 25 October 2023

Peterborough Jazz Club Will Start Up Again in 2024

Peterborough Jazz Club Will Start Up Again in 2024

Peterborough Jazz Club delighted to have teamed up with Landmark Theatres to relaunch the Jazz Club at the Studio Theatre, The Key Theatre. The first two concerts of the new season will be :

Friday, 26th January 2024. Music Starts 7.45pm. Tickets: £15


Dave O’Higgins Quintet featuring Martin Shaw

Dave O’Higgins (tenor saxophone), Martin Shaw (trumpet & flugelhorn), Liam Dunachie
(piano), Matyas Hofecker (double bass), Joe Dessauer (drums)

The opening concert of the new season at the Club features the classic front line of saxophone and trumpet, with two of the finest jazz musicians on the scene. Dave O’Higgins has established himself as one of the leading saxophonists of his generation, a dazzling post-bop player with superb technique and a highly developed harmonic sense. He has recorded 24 albums as leader, has been nominated multiple times in the British Jazz Awards,  and is a highly regarded jazz educator. Dave also wrote and produced the last Matt Bianco album “Gravity”.  Martin Shaw is widely regarded as one of the leading jazz trumpeters in Europe, with his powerful yet wonderfully melodic fluent playing.  As well as playing in many of the top jazz outfits, both in the UK and abroad, he has toured and featured in the bands of Sting, Jamiroquai and Natalie Cole. Martin is currently Professor of Jazz Trumpet at the Royal College of Music, London.

Dave O’Higgins and Martin Shaw have a long musical association, dating back to the 1990’s and the quintet will be playing a selection of great jazz tunes and standards, old and new, backed by a superb rhythm section. 

“O’Higgins plays with quite exceptional fluency and his fund of ideas never runs out.”
THE OBSERVER

“Martin Shaw….one of Europe’s top trumpeters” Jazz Times

Dave O'Higgins (daveohiggins.com)


Friday, 16th February 2023  Music starts: 7.45pm

Alan Barnes & Karen Sharp Quintet

Alan Barnes (alto & baritone saxophone), Karen Sharp (tenor & baritone saxophone), Colin


Oxley (guitar), Andrew Cleyndert (double bass), Steve Brown (drums)

Alan Barnes is one of Britain’s most distinguished and versatile saxophonists and is a prolific international performer, composer, arranger and bandleader. He is a multi-instrumentalist, best known for his alto and baritone sax playing, where he combines a formidable virtuosity with a musical expression and spirit that have few peers. Alan has received over 25 top British Jazz Awards over many years and has recorded 30 albums as leader or co-leader. His special musicianship and warm rapport with the audience have made him uniquely popular in British jazz. Karen Sharp has been an important figure on the UK Jazz scene since 2000. She is admired for her melodic, full-toned playing, winning best tenor saxophonist on many occasions at the British Jazz Awards and also appearing in the list for rising star baritone sax in the USA Downbeat Critics poll. Karen currently leads her own quartet and also appears as guest soloist with visiting USA stars such as Scott Hamilton and Warren Vache, as well as guesting with many of the top UK bands and has recorded 7 highly acclaimed albums as leader.

Together with the brilliant rhythm section backing Alan and Karen, this concert will be top quality straight ahead jazz of the highest calibre.

“Barnes is a legend in the British jazz community” John Fordham, The Guardian

“Sharp loves melody, as reflected in her relaxed and natural phrasing” USA Downbeat Magazin

We are grateful for the support of Landmark Theatres to Peterborough Jazz Club

Welcome to the website of British JazzArtist Alan Barnes (alanbarnesjazz.com)

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Tuesday 24 October 2017

Alan Barnes Octet featuring Pat McCarthy – Fish Tales @ Lincoln Drill Hall

New Jazz 5 presents Alan Barnes Octet featuring Pat McCarthy – Fish Tales

@ Lincoln Drill Hall - Saturday 11 November 8 pm



A powerful evening of jazz, performed by an all-star line-up, providing an evocative musical memorial to the fishing heritage of Grimsby. 

The music is interspersed the amusing, risqué and troubling poems of Josie Gray.


Tickets: £14, Students/under 16s £7 from 01522 873894

Purchase tickets on line here...

Event Web Link

Wednesday 19 October 2016

Gilad Atzmon & Alan Barnes @ Lincoln Drill Hall November 5th 2016

Hey there jazz fans, don’t miss this one!

New Jazz 5 presents: Gilad Atzmon & Alan Barnes:

 the Lowest Common Denominator

Saturday 5 November 8pm @ Lincoln Drill Hall

Two of Britain’s most celebrated virtuoso reed players join forces for the ultimate jazz evening. Despite their different backgrounds and approaches, these two men share a passion for performance and a firm belief that a jazz audience is there not to be educated but to be entertained.

Tickets £14 (£12 concessions, £5 students/u16s) from 01522 873894

Fireworks Guaranteed Tonight! 


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