The Two Toms Quartet are a young Welsh band playing Bebop, Hard-Bop and classics from the golden era of jazz.
The band comprises:-
Tom Duggan – Sax
Thomas Langshaw – piano
Ewan Haines-Davies – bass
Rhys Roberts – drums
We discovered them at last year’s Swansea Jazz Festival and just had to book them on the spot. We hope you’ll see why ….
A very special band to start us off at our new home, this quintet is playing for us for the first time.
Led by two legends of the Welsh jazz scene, this exciting quintet performs a wide ranging selection of material drawn from the 1950s up to the present day. They emphasize swing in all its forms, from relaxed up to break neck speed, all played with effortless style. Ballads flow and latin tunes groove with unison horn lines.
You can expect Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Dexter Gordon and more ……
Hot Club Gallois are a dynamic 4-piece gypsy-jazz band based in South Wales playing the hottest picks of the Swing Era. Their irresistible mix of fiery violin, lyrical vocals, virtuosic guitar and stomping bass has thrilled audiences around the British Isles and is guaranteed to get you sizzling!
Their set contains Django Reinhardt classics (such as Minor Swing, Nuages, I’ll See You In My Dreams), swing-flavoured jazz standards (Night & Day, Puttin’ On The Ritz, Oh, Lady Be Good!) and some Hot Club Gallois originals. From gypsy to jitterbug, ballads to bossa and bolero, Hot Club Gallois will transport you and your guests to the swirling dance halls and gypsy camps of Paris in the 1930s and 40s.
Tudor Thomas and his friends will be playing brass, strings and enough numbers to tire out your tapping toes. In a good way, of course. The band features:-
Ron King (trumpet),
Tudor (trombone),
Chris Ryan (sax),
Peter Berry (bass),
Keith Hall (guitar)
Dixieland / Swing or Trad Jazz to some, Good Time Jazz to others, good ol’ jazz to all: come and enjoy!
Featuring 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. But he’s never brought his quartet to us before, so we’re looking forward to this BIG TIME.
What can one say about this trio from Swansea heaven?
Dave is the keyboard wizard behind Swansea Jazzland and the Dave Cottle Trio, playing for two decades plus.
Gary is the guitar genius behind not only the Gary Phillips Trio but also The Amigos, gypsy jazz champions of West Wales.
Paul Smith has, quite simply, been playing drums for ever.
A jazz pedigree unsurpassed is coming this way, so catch it!
Duski is the coming together of Wales’ finest improvising musicians. Their original material has been described as ‘Progressive jazz at its best’ (Aberjazz) and ‘A refreshing taste of ambient grooved out jazz’.
This tour sees Duski tackle the great American standards with their own approach.
Duski is Paul Jones – drums, Mark O’Connor – keyboard, Aidan Thorne – bass guitar, Greg Sterland – tenor sax
Tenby Jazz 