Category Archives: Artists 2009

When Allison met Gary… …they clicked immediately – because their sounds blend brilliantly, their artistic interests are in sync and they both have a passion for the works of Gigi Gryce, particularly his collaborations with Art Farmer and Don Byrd. So they have taken for their starting point the crafted arrangements and attention to detail [...]

Sam Leak (p) James Opstad (b) David Hamblett (d) The Sam Leak Trio formed in the Autumn of 2007 and have since gained gigs at a host of venues including the 606 Club, Charlie Wrights, Olivers (with Jim Hart), and The Others. They are already beginning to make their mark on the London Jazz Scene, [...]

Based in Cardiff, Keith’s band is widely travelled. It gets much of its inspiration from the music of Goodman, Waller, Basie, Ellington. Add a dash of the jump-jive of Louis Prima and Louis Jordan, and the band creates a repertoire of exhilarating jazz that is sheer enjoyment.

Roger Marks (tr) Dave Martin (t) Ken Rennison (saxes) Eddie Edwards (bjo) Terry Turland (bg) Terry Lidiard (d) Roger’s Devon-based band plays a wider range of material than most bands, but gives tunes a unique ‘traditional’ jazz treatment. Roger himself is a musician with experience in a wide range of jazz styles, from classic New [...]

Bob Barnard (t,ct) Roy Willaims (tr) Tony Barnard (g) Andy Williams (g) Dave Green (b) The great Aussie trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist and the top British Dixieland/mainstream trombonist lead a band with their sons Tony and Andy (both fine guitarists), and Britain’s premier bass player. Bob Barnard is well-known in Britain for many years as [...]

Chris Biscoe (reeds, flute) Tony Kofi (reeds) Larry Bartley (b) Stu Butterfield (d) Chris’s new quartet plays music associated with Eric Dolphy, the staggeringly talented multi reeds player whose early death was a major loss to modern jazz. Dolphy radically extended the language of jazz while staying firmly within the jazz tradition. Chris is joined [...]

Pete Judge (t) Jake McMurchie (saxes) Jim Barr (b) Clive Deamer (d) The four members of this Bristol-based band have lots of experience on the Bristol jazz scene, and also in some of the more interesting rock bands of the past decade – Portishead, Super Furry Animals to name but two most of them played [...]