Concerts
We’re now taking a winter break and are due to return on Sunday 15th February with Llandjango, Ceredigion’s answer to the gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelly.
Until then, we hope you continue to follow live music, wherever you go
Pianist Ross Hicks leads a trio completed by bassist Nick Kacal, now based in Cardiff after a couple of decades on the London scene, and drummer Ryan Thrupp, fellow graduate of the Welsh College of Music and Drama with Hicks.
This band is fast making a name beyond Cardiff, enhanced by the recent release of their first album, Three Elms. Ross shows his precocious talent from the getgo, forever encouraging his band to deliver, together, sumptuous music for which Sunday afternoons were surely designed.
Hope you can join us.
The Groucho Club put their own stamp on their carefully selected material. They play tunes by the likes of Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk.
The band features:-
Wynn Phillips – guitar
Chris Ryan – saxophones
Andrew Harries – keyboard
Alan Vaughan – bass guitar
Paul Smith– drums
If you like jazz with a funk, you’re going to love this Swansea based band, revered for its combination of propulsive grooves and powerful, fiery solos.
Hope you can join us.
We’re delighted to present:-
Dick Hamer – saxophone
Jenny Jones – vocals
Dave Jones – piano
John Rodge – double bass
Paul Smith – drums
What a great way to open our Autumn of Jazz Lunches.
Hope you can join us.
We’re taking some August time out but we’ll be back on 28th September with Dick Hamer’s Quartet, featuring Jenny Jones. More about this gig next month.
Meanwhile, please support live music and, of course, especially live jazz whenever and wherever you can.
Instrumental, melodic contemporary jazz, based on new compositions influenced by other genres including folk and classical from these fellows:-
Ben Waghorn (saxes and flutes)
Ashley John Long (bass)
Andy Hague (drums)
Dave Jones (piano)
Together they are pretty close to jazz royalty, representing just the finest current jazz performers in the UK.
Don’t hold back, spoil yourselves …
With roots in Hot Club, a myriad of other influences, including Swing, Latin, Gypsy, Bebop and some exclusive originals, flavours the expansive sets this band produce. Virtuosic guitar, and a bouncing rhythm section, are fronted by clarinet, bass clarinet and vocals in several European languages (including Welsh!) and are all delivered with a heartfelt and highly entertaining joie de vivre.
The band is:-
Susanna Warren – clarinets and vocals
Jeremy Young – lead guitar
Nick Kacal – double bass
Paul Smith – drums
Their unique, eclectic sound will transport you through the smoky jazz clubs of 1930s Paris and Hamburg to the grand cafés of Europe, South America and, best of all, Tenby!
What can one say about this trio from Swansea heaven?
Dave is the keyboard wizard behind Swansea Jazz Club 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 to relaunch for us the Tenby Jazz Lunch series. Hope to see you there ……
More apologies from us as we are currently without a venue – our search for one continues …..
The Coltrane Dedication Quintet is a collective of musicians who recognise the emotional power of the later music of John Coltrane and use those compositions as their own springboard for creating a powerful, engaging, empassioned communication through improvised music.
The band always has two Sax players, Bass, Piano & Drums. For who’s actually playing on the day, we’ll have to wait & see …..
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