Message From Peterborough Jazz Club

Message From Peterborough Jazz Club 

Dear Jazz Club Friends

We do hope that you are enjoying the lovely summer weather that has reached us at last. We have been working hard behind the scenes to put together a fantastic programme of music covering the next six months. The details of all these concerts are on the Key Theatre website where you can buy the tickets. Go to https://keytheatre-peterborough.com/whats-on/ Tickets can also be bought from the Key Theatre Box Office (01733 852992).

If you haven’t seen Ben Holder before, you are in for a real treat. He is an amazing young
violinist with a fantastic stage presence. And the music is really hot!!

So, for the first concert of the new season on September 1st, we are delighted to present an evening of Gypsy Swing. This genre was created in the 1930’s by the genius gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and brilliant violinist Stephane Grappelli with their Quintette of the Hot Club of France. Ben Holder's Hot Club Quartet is without doubt one the very best bands playing this genre and receives rave reviews wherever they play. Ben is the most gifted and exciting young jazz violinist in the UK. You can expect unbelievable musicianship alongside witty repartee from this wonderful entertainer. This will be an evening of blisteringly energetic and impressive live jazz. Ben will be joined by three masters of the craft - Jez Cook and Caley Groves on guitars, plus acclaimed double bassist Mike Green.

Best wishes

Laurie, David and Joe

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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, 26^th 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, 16^th 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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CERA IMPALA - A Slice of Folk, Jazz and Hillbilly Noir, Touring Dates in 2023

CERA IMPALA - A Slice of Folk, Jazz and Hillbilly Noir, Touring Dates in 2023

Cera Impala creates songs that feel instantly familiar. Her whiskey-honeyed voice takes intimately crafted pieces to another time and place, one of dreams and magic as sensual as they are savage. Her music has been heard all over the world, Impala has toured internationally with her handpicked band, The New Prohibition. In 2019, Cera debuted a new duet project, Delightful Squalor currently in the studio set to finish an EP this year. She has previously been a member of The Blackberry Bushes, Dark Green Tree, The Dance Bandits and the fabulous queens of sass and harmony, The Bevvy Sisters. She released her 5th album of original work in late 2022, "Wildest Dreams" is out now on all digital platforms, CD and Vinyl. Fueled by pure and poetic storytelling, Impala has paved a path less travelled in steadfast pursuit of dreams. With here latest album aptly titled "Wildest Dreams" she invites her audience to journey through it all with effortless poignancy. The music sparks images of vaudeville saloons, circus acts and music box ballerinas. Her world is one of playfulness, exploration and natural raw emotion. Eetheral themes are embedded in authentic American roots and serious musicianship. A multi-instrumentalist, she is no stranger to banjo, guitar, piano and uke, adding a shimmer of synth to bridge genres in a sumptuous union of sounds. While fully at home with each instrument, each one is temporal lover enjoyed fully in each moment it is heard. The result is perfectly moorish, Wildest Dreams is an instant classic. Cera's previous album 'Tumbleweed', a collection of songs that will simultaneously take you all the way around the world and back into the heart of the woods. THE NEW PROHIBITION: A slice of hillbilly noir and a measure of gritty 20's and 30's jazz, the New Prohibition have one foot in the past and the other in the future of folk, jazz and americana. "Dr." Dirk Ronneburg, her long-time musical partner, is a fiddle-blazer of the highest degree who also performs with gypsy jazzers Viper Swing, and in did a stint in the folk supergroup, Southern Tenant Folk Union. The synergy between them is palpable; their music is otherworldly. Born in Flagstaff, AZ Cera has made many places her home since '94 when she left; from Portland, Oregon, to New York City, California, Olympia, Washington. Berlin Germany, to Edinburgh Scotland. There are various formats available, solo, duo, trio or four piece band. PLEASE GET IN TOUCH FOR LIVE DATES IN 2023: contact gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk tel: + 44 (0) 7905 952 374 Click here to go to CERA IMPALA Click here to go to LAUGHING DOG MUSIC

A Christmas Message From Jazz Edit

Hello Dear Jazz Afficionados,

Prepare your Christmas gifts on our site www.jazzedit.org

   Still available:

- Traveling Blues:  36 copies (Tommy Ladnier’s stupendous biography by Bo Lindström and Dan Vernhettes) http://jazzedit.org/Tb/contacttb.html

- Jazz Puzzles Volume 1:   4 copies (Emergence of jazz in New Orleans) http://jazzedit.org/Pz/contactpz.html

- Jazz Puzzles Volume 2:  (Jazz on the River) http://jazzedit.org/Pz2/contactpz2.html

- Jazz Puzzles Volume 4:   2 copies (Suburban Jazz) http://jazzedit.org/English/EPz4/contactpz4.html

- Hommage à Alfredo Espinoza, the genius saxophonist  (in French) in A4 format  http://jazzedit.org/English/Alf/Alfredo.html

Available by Norbert Ruecker <nruecker@t-online.de> 

  Big Boy (Frank Goudie’s unique biography): 2 copies in English version 

  Arrival of the military black bands in 1918: 4 copies 

In preparation for 2022:

- Visiting Mexican Bands, the fabulous story of the military and typical Mexican bands who visited the USA, Spain, France, Germany in the period 1875-1955. 220 pages, 24 cm x 29,7 in English with very rare illustrations. Prefaces by Bruce Raeburn, ex-curator of the Hogan Jazz Archive, and Antonio Saborit, director of the Mexican National Museum of Anthrophology.

- La Havana en Paris, by Alain Boulanger with Dan Vernhettes in an augmented edition in Spanish for the National Library of Cuba. 204 pages in A4 format. The French edition is outsold. 

If you are interested by these future publications do not hesitate to ask for details and reserve a copy, this will help us to determine the number of copies to print. We’ll present excerpts on our site in a few weeks.

Happy Christmas and good health!!!     

Dan Vernhettes 

JAZZ'EDIT
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Telephone: 00 33 1 46702401

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Gracenotes Entertainment Presents Jeannie Cardillo Jazz Trio @ Gators of East Meadows, Long Island, NY, USA.

Gracenotes Entertainment Presents Jeannie Cardillo Jazz Trio @ Gators of East Meadows,
Long Island, NY, USA.

Featuring Jeannie Cardillo - Vocals
Vincent Loccisano -Keyboards
Al Cardillo-Bass

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (7-10PM)

Gator is proud to bring live music back to Long Island after a year of isolation.

Jeannie is a talented singer who blends the Great American Standards with Latin and Brazilian Bossa’s, cha-chas and boleros with Portuguese and Spanish lyric tunes. She’ll backed by one of Long Island’s best known and dynamic piano and bass duo.
Make your reservations now and secure a table for this event.
Fine cuisine and great live music will make will surely make a night to remember.
Third set we'll be inviting musicians and singers to sit in.
RSVP (516) 595 -7685 

https://gatorsofeastmeadow.com

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Gracenotes Entertainment (alcardillo.com)

Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals Set Dates for Summer 2021

Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals Set Dates for Summer 2021

Newport Folk Festival and Newport Jazz Festival have officially announced their return for summer 2021. The Folk festival will occur on July 23-27, while the Jazz festival will occur July 30-Aug 1. The festivals will occur at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, R.I.

In the announcement, the organizers made it clear that “Newport Folk and Newport Jazz won’t look exactly the same,” but they are nonetheless “thrilled to be bringing music and artists back to the Fort.”

The announcement also noted that organizers are working closes with state and local government officials to “ensure that what [they] present will set a benchmark for safety and transparency through our protocols and communication.” More details on protocols and COVID restrictions will be available soon.

For more information see newportfestivals.org.

Chick Corea Dies Aged 79

Chick Corea: Grammy-winning jazz artist dies aged 79

Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock has died. He was 79.

Corea died Tuesday 9 February from a rare form of cancer, his team posted on his website His death was confirmed by Corea's web and marketing manager, Dan Muse.

“Throughout his life and career, Chick relished in the freedom and the fun to be had in creating something new, and in playing the games that artists do,” a statement on his website said.

Chick Corea

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra to Livestream on 5 December

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra to Livestream on 5 December

The SNJO celebrates its 25th anniversary with a specially curated concert, live-streamed from Perth Concert Hall, on Saturday 5 December at 2.30pm GMT.

Poets of words, as well as of notes and of instruments, have contributed to the SNJO’s extensive repertoire. From Robert Burns to Mozart, from Edwin Morgan to Mary Lou Williams and from Count Basie to Glasgow’s poet of the tenor saxophone, Bobby Wellins, the inspiration has flowed onto recordings and stages across Scotland, the UK, Europe, Japan and the U.S.

Get your ticket here  

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (snjo.co.uk)

Check Out Zoo Music Nu-Jazz Fusion

Like Jazz? 

Live In The East Midlands UK? 

Check Out Zoo Music

Zoo Music Smooth nu-jazz fusion in the East Midlands.

Players: Paul Biggins, Karen Clegg, Reg Clegg, Jonathan Curtis, John Sanderson

website: www.zoo-music.co.uk

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Dave O'Higgins Quartet @ Peterborough Jazz Club 20th March 8pm

Dave O'Higgins Quartet @ Peterborough Jazz Club 20^th March 8pm


Dave O'Higgins (tenor saxophone),  
Graham Harvey (piano), Jeremy Brown (double bass) and Josh Morrison (drums)


For the first concert of the new season at the Club, it’s one of the UK's finest tenor saxophonists, Dave O'Higgins, who has brought with him an all-star rhythm section. Dave O'Higgins is a winner of a multitude of awards, has recorded 21 albums to date of his own solo material and appeared on innumerable sessions and festivals around the world.  

Dave has worked with some of the world’s finest musicans, including: Joey Calderazzo, Joe Locke, Dave Kikowski, Eric Alexander, Grant Stewart, Phil Woods, Jimmy Smith, Nancy Wilson, Peggy Lee, Kurt Elling, Wayne Shorter, Stephane Grappelli and Michel Legrand. He also wrote and produced the last Matt Bianco album, “Gravity". Also on the CV: Frank Sinatra (the last London appearance - a week at the Royal Albert Hall in 1992) and a tour and album with Ray Charles (Strong Love Affair). 

Dave has relentlessly pursued artistic exploration and development with a deep respect for the tradition of the music and is one of the most respected musicians on the International jazz scene. 

O'Higgins...exceptional fluency...one of Britain's finest musicians'   - Observer

'O'Higgins...world class player' - BBC Music Magazine

Tickets - £13.00

https://www.facebook.com/events/2505331289786708/


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Emergence, Jazz In The Round, at St. Mary In The Castle

THURSDAY APRIL 23 - SUNDAY APRIL 26 Emergence at St. Mary In The Castle Music | Open mic | Spoken Word | Dance | Artists + More Emergence is Jazz In The Round's new initiative for musicians, sonic artists, producers, cross-arts collaborators and audiences. And it's coming here again following a successful launch in 2018! THURSDAY, APRIL 23RD RESONATE FREE EVENT  Resonate is a growing collective of emerging artists. This ranges from spoken word artists, to harpists and beat boxing. It’s an intimate event that gives people the confidence and platform to express themselves and bare their souls. It also allows artists to collaborate with each other and try something new. A fusion of words and music that has endless possibilities. FRIDAY, APRIL 24TH  STEAM DOWN TICKETS HERE  Steam Down is an artist collective, weekly event and music community based in Deptford, South-East London. Founded by multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Ahnansé in May 2017, the initial event was created to connect London based musicians and producers. Since then it has evolved into a weekly event where Steam Down artists and its extended musical family generate spontaneous sonic soundscapes reflecting their lives in the city. SATURDAY, APRIL 25TH  JASON YARDE TRIO  EDIFICE DANCE JAMES BECKWITH BAND  JESSICA LAUREN  TICKETS HERE  Jason Yarde started his playing career with the Jazz Warriors at 16, and has performed in a wide variety of bands including work with Louis Moholo, Afro Blok, Mano Ventura and the big bands of Manu Dibango, Hermeto Pascoal, Sam Rivers, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Hugh Masekela and many others. Edifice Dance Theatre is a UK based dance theatre company that explore a hybrid approach to partner work using contact improvisation and ballroom. They create work that combines the speed, passion and connection of ballroom, with the fluidity, freedom and connection of contemporary dance. James Beckwith a is keyboard player, composer and producer based in South London. Combining wonky grooves, synthesizers, hip hop beats, vocoder melodies, and jazz music together James creates a sound that is simultaneously lyrical, mellow, and warm, with driving heavy grooves. Jessica Lauren has been a celebrated part of London’s jazz and soul music scene. She has released 3 albums in her own right, for Soul Jazz, M.E.L.T. 2000 and most recently Freestyle Records, as well as appearing on numerous albums and singles for other artists and labels. SUNDAY, APRIL 26TH HEXAGANOL TICKETS HERE  Hexaganol, a high energy sextet with African and Jazz influences, was formed in late 2016, to perform the music of two titans of Jazz – Bheki Mseleku and McCoy Tyner. It was an ambition born of love and experience; Simon and John toured with Bheki while Jason worked with McCoy. These associations bring an authority and authenticity to the group’s music as well as having a strong influence on their original material. St Mary in the Castle I 7 Pelham Crescent I Hastings I East Sussex I TN34 3AF enquiries@stmaryinthecastle.co.uk

Gilad Atzmon Quartet Sunday 10 November 2019 at Peterborough Jazz Club

Gilad  Atzmon Quartet Sunday 10 November  at Peterborough Jazz Club Gilad Atzmon and his Quartet will be playing in The Boizot Lounge at Peterborough New Theatre on Sunday 10th November.  If you have never seen Gilad, please come along. You will be amazed at his talent and sound www.peterboroughjazzclub.co.uk Doors open 7.00 pm Music starts 7.30 pm Tickets £15 Gilad  Atzmon Quartet  Gilad Atzmon is an acclaimed International saxophonist and clarinetist and tours extensively around the world with his Quartet. His album Exile was the BBC jazz album of the year in 2003 and in 2013 his Metropolis album was voted top CD of the year by the Jazz Journal Critics Poll. Gilad's fiery, fluent playing and remarkable technique have established him as one of the most talented saxophonists on the world stage, performing a mix of classic jazz standards and originals with an energy and enthusiasm that is hugely infectious.  As a member of the Blockheads, Gilad has also recorded and performed with Ian Dury, Robbie Williams, Sinead O'Connor and Paul McCartney. In 2014 he recorded with Pink Floyd and is featured on their last album The Endless River (Anisina). “A master...a giant with formidable international reputation “ -  The Guardian

Check Out Jazz Guitar Duo Double Take

Check Out Jazz Guitar Duo Double Take. Based in Lincoln, UK.

John Etherridge's Sweet Chorus at Peterborough Jazz Club, Sunday 3rd March, 2019.

Peterborough Jazz Club at The Broadway Suite

JOHN ETHERIDGE’S SWEET CHORUS

A TRIBUTE TO STEPHANE GRAPPELLI

SUNDAY 3^RD  MARCH 2019

Music starts at 7.30pm            

                   Doors open at 7.00pm              Tickets £14

A very welcome return to the Club after a seven year gap for this sublime band, led by the superb guitarist John Etheridge. Now celebrating their 19th year together, "Sweet Chorus" was originally formed by John Etheridge as a personal tribute to his mentor and inspiration that was Stephane Grappelli, with whom he worked for 5 years in the 1970's and early 1980's. Taking its cue from the Hot Club of France - the legendary group that featured Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, the band features John's dazzling guitar work together with the scintillating violin of Christian Garrick. The relationship of these two musicians has been described as one of the most brilliant sounds in European Jazz. Backed by the propulsive drive of Dave Kelbie on rhythm guitar and Andy Crowdy on bass, the band produces breathtaking choruses through repertoire both old and new. 

www.peterboroughjazzclub.co.uk

Vincent Herring ‘Soul Chemistry’ Quartet at Peterborough Jazz Club Sunday 3rd February 2019

Vincent Herring ‘Soul Chemistry’ Quartet at Peterborough Jazz Club Sunday 3rd February 2019

Doors open 7.00pm Music starts 7.30pm Tickets £20


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Vincent Herring (alto saxophone), Mike LeDonne (piano), Essiet Essiet (double bass), Joris Dudli (drums)

Vincent Herring, one of the finest alto saxophonists in the history of jazz, visits Peterborough Jazz Club with an all star band for their only UK concert on their 2019 European tour. For many years, the musicians have had a special chemistry when working together and have embarked on an extensive tour, having recently released the album Soul Chemistry which received four stars from Downbeat magazine.

www.peterboroughjazzclub.co.uk