Category: TENBY JAZZ

The band were due to play the great songs duets of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong including They Can’t Take That Away From Me, A Fine Romance, I Won’t Dance and many more. Plus the great solo songs from Ella including Manhattan, My Funny Valentine, That Old Black Magic. Louis will be belting out Just One of Those Things, Hello Dolly and Wonderful World. Ah, brings a tear to the eye.

Well, hopefully they, too, will be able to make a return about this time next year. Until then, all the normal stays: safe, healthy, strong etc.

We would have enjoyed the band’s youthful effervescence as they got stuck into some Bebop, Hard-Bop and classics from the golden era of jazz. It would also have been our contribution to the Tenby Arts Festival, also cancelled.

The band has promised to come back next year, on 19th September, so that’s good news.

This delightful quartet will not be bringing their fine gypsy jazz renditions to us this year, in common with these challenging times. But we have agreed a replacement gig next year, so please reserve Sunday 18th July 2021 for JAZZ.

Tudor Thomas and his friends would have been playing brass, strings and enough numbers to tire out your tapping toes. Dixieland / Swing or Trad Jazz to some, Good Time Jazz to others, good ol’ jazz to all, they’ve agreed to come back next year, so Sunday 27th June 2021. That’s a commitment!

This would have been a first appearance in Tenby of a new band to us, albeit featuring some musicians from other bands you’ve seen before: Mike Kennedy from New Orleans Hot Potatoes & Greg Sterland from Duski. The band hails from the Bristol area and revels in their delivery of contemporary trad jazz.

You would have loved their performance. So, despite the bad news of the concert being another COVID-19 victim, the good news is they’re coming back next year. How about that as a light at the end of someone’s tunnel?

Another concert hits the COVID-19 dust. We’ve invited Maddi back for next year, so all is not lost!

The concert would have featured mostly the manouche (gypsy jazz) sound made famous by the great Django Reinhardt, and bluegrass and country swing made famous by Chet Atkins, Tony Rice and Doc Watson, the band’s set will also include music from the bebop and jazz of Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck and Wes Montgomery. Some journey!

The band is:-
Madi Stimpson – guitar & vocals
Ken Moore – guitar, sax & harmonica
Marko Miletic – double bass
Geoff Walker – sax

If you haven’t caught one of Maddi’s previous ‘grunge’ gypsy jazz gigs, this is a must  see. If you have, you’ll be coming anyway.

Reflecting these uncertain times & the threat of Coronavirus, this concert has been postponed.

The Keith Little Swing Trio will return to TenbyJazz, hopefully with guest vocalist Jane Williams, next year.

There’ll be Swing from the 40s, a touch of Dixieland and some great melodies. Inspired by the Swing Music of Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong and the like, the varied repertoire of this lively Band also includes Jump ‘n’ Jive numbers after the  style of Louis Prima.

Jane’s exuberant vocals add a new dimension to the band’s, always polished, performance.

Led by Keith on piano, the band features Gethin Liddington on trumpet, Donnie Joe Sweeney on bass and vocals.

This concert is on Mother’s Day, so if you wanted to spoil your music loving mother, here’s your opportunity.

Kitty (Beverley Gough) and her trio play a mix of tailored swing and jazz – including classic jazz standards and original compositions.

From Ella Fitzgerald to Nina Simone, their repertoire is wide and engaging, yet always with a trick or two up their sleeves.

A great way to start our new jazz year.

Playing with Dom (sax) are John Davies (guitar), Nino Consolo (drums) & Wyn Davies (bass). The band will also feature the sultry, swinging vocals of Elaina Hoss.

Dom promises “an afternoon of American songbook & Blue Note Jazz, underwritten with Christmas themes”.

Come along to be mesmerised by this fabulous band of locals, a superb lead-in to the festive season and lead-out of our jazz year.

And don’t forget the fabulous festive fare from the Imperial kitchen – it’s called “lunch”.

GW4 Jazz is Graham Watkins with 40 years experience as a Jazz pianist & arranger, Jack Williams on bass guitar, George Wilson on drums and the talented Clare Hingott on vocals.

With a repertoire of well over 300 Jazz and Swing standards from the likes of Nat King Cole, The Rat Pack, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and many more besides, GW4 Jazz has something to suit all occasions. As an experienced and accomplished ensemble who perform regularly at all the major Jazz venues in South Wales and beyond, they provide an exciting, entertaining Jazz performance.

This is a classy act, gentle on the ears, sensitive on the feelings. You should join us ……