Monthly Archives: September 2019
Julia Titus Quartet: Jazz River Cruise | Reading
Sun 1 Sep | Julia Titus Quartet: Jazz River Cruise | Julia Titus vocals, Phil Craddock piano,, Marianne Windham bass, Jim Wade drums | Caversham Pier, Reading | Jazz River Cruise | 2.15 – 5.15pm | Admission: £27
Ade Holland Trio | Caversham
Sun 1 Sep | Ade Holland Trio | Ade Holland guitar | Phil Mason guitar/vocals | John Monney bass | Caversham | The Griffin | 3.30pm | No charge
Pangbourne Jazz Club | Mark Nightingale trombone
Sun 1 Sep | Mark Nightingale trombone, Rory McInroy piano, Terry Hutchins guitar, Brian Greene drums and Keith Howard bass | Pangbourne | PWMC | 7.30pm | £9.00
Jazz at the Four Horseshoes | Sherfield-on-Loddon
Tues 3 Sep | Equinox with Sarah Jane Eveleigh | Sarah Jane Eveleigh vocals, Peter Bingham tenor sax,, John Clarke guitar, Derek Alford bass, Paul Kaluza percussion | Sherfield-on-Loddon | Four Horseshoes | 8:00pm | No charge for admission (donations are welcomed)
Fleur Stevenson | The Crooked Billet, Stoke Row
Wed 4 Sep | Fleur Stevenson | Fleur Stevenson vocals, Pete Billington piano, Andy Crowdy double bass, Simon Price drums | Stoke Row | The Crooked Billet | 7pm for food and drinks, show starts circa 8.35pm | £15
Claire Jones Quartet | Global Cafe, Reading
Thur 5 Sep | Claire Jones Quartet | Claire Jones vocals, Dorothy Shaw piano, Keith Howard bass, Jim Wade drums | Reading | Global Cafe | 8:30pm | Free, donations welcomed
Bracknell Jazz – Gary Willcox quartet | South Hill Park
Fri 6 Sep | Gary Willcox quartet | Stephen Main alto sax, Ross Stanley piano, Oili Hayhurst bass, Gary Willcox drums | Bracknell | Tickets – South Hill Park Arts Centre | Bracknell Jazz website | 7.30pm | £12.00/£5.50 U18s
New Jazz Sextet | Global Cafe, Reading
Sat 7 Sep | New Jazz Sextet | Chris Dee tenor sax | Ross Law trombone | Andy Townsend trumpet | Nick Hill piano | Al Pirrie bass | Mike Goff drums | Reading | Global Cafe | 8:30pm | Free, donations welcome
Sunday Jazz at The Retreat, Reading – Fleur Stevenson and Hugh turner
Sun 8 Sep | Fleur Stevenson vocals and Hugh turner guitar today, NOT Definite Collective | Reading | Retreat Pub | 3.30pm | No charge
Gin and Jazz | Three Guineas Reading
Sun 8 Sep | Gin and Jazz | Karl Charity vocals/trumpet/flugelhorn, Nick Cooper piano. Pete Maxfield bass | Reading | Three Guineas | 2-5pm | No charge and tonic is free with all gins | In collaboration with Jazz in Reading
Jam in Reading – Mark Burton Quartet | Global Cafe | Reading
Tues 10 Sep | Jam in Reading – Mark Burton Quartet | Jam session with house band, open to singers and instrumentalists | Les Foden saxophone, Mark Burton keyboards, Nick Hill bass, Mike Goff drums | Reading | Global Café | 8.30pm | No charge, donations welcome
The Rebellion Big Band with star singer Louise Cookman | Marlow
Tues 10 Sep | The Rebellion Big Band with star singer Louise Cookman | Terrific 17 piece outfit with vocalist from the Pasadena Roof Orchestra and BBC Big Band | Marlow Jazz Club | 8.30pm | £10
The Goring Gap Gig | Derek Nash and Noel McCalla celebrate the music of Stevie Wonder
Fri 13 Sep | Derek Nash and Noel McCalla celebrate the music of Stevie Wonder | Derek Nash saxes, Noel McCalla vocals, plus supporting band | Goring Village Hall, Goring on Thames | Doors 7.30pm | Music 8pm | £15 | Ring John on 01491 874492 to book seats | Goring Gap Gigs
The Supertonics Big Band, plus vocalists Tricia Bassett & Jeremy Lassen | Bracknell
Sat 14 Sep | The Supertonics Big Band, plus vocalists Tricia Bassett & Jeremy Lassen | Popular 17-piece Swing Band | Bracknell | South Hill Park Arts Centre | 8.00pm | Tickets £10, via SHP, davidbennett470@gmail.com or 07739-314261 or www.thesupertonics.co.uk
Crooners | Newbury
Sat 14 Sep | Crooners | Newbury | Corn Exchange | 7:45pm | £26.50 | Book tickets
The Definite Collective | Global Cafe | Reading
Tue 17 Sep | The Definite Collective, transform often well known and popular Jazz, Latin, Pop, Fusion and Funk tunes, into obscure musical explorations. Jamie Howell guitar, Matthew McNaughton sax, James Newman bass, Tony Imbierski organ, Monte Hall percussion, Paul Glover drums | Reading | Global Café | 9:00 – 11.00pm | No charge, donations welcome
Bracknell Jazz – Young Musicians evening | South Hill Park
Tue 17 Sep | Bracknell Jazz – Young Musicians evening | Jonny Ford sax, Simon Cook piano, Steve Riddle bass, Ted Hayes drums | Bracknell | Tickets – South Hill Park Arts Centre | Bracknell Jazz website | 7.30pm | £12.00 and £5.50 U18s
Silver Heels Swing Jive Jazz Band | Global Cafe | Reading
Thur 19 Sep | Silver Heels Swing Jive Jazz Band | Live Swinging Jazz Juice with plenty of dancing room for all you Katz | Reading | Global Café | 9.00pm – 11.00pm | No charge, donations welcome
Steve Waterman | Norden Farm
Fri 20 Sep | Steve Waterman | Steve Waterman (trumpet / flugel), Piers Green (saxophone) Supported by Pendulum Rhythm Section; Alex Hutton (piano), Andy Cleyndert (bass) and Clark Tracey (drums). | Maidenhead | Norden Farm Centre for the Arts | 8pm | £15 (£13 conc) (£5 under 16s)
Jazz at Progress | The Scott Willcox Ten-piece Big Band | Buy tickets
Friday 20 Sep | Progress Theatre, Reading | 7:30pm | £17.00 (£15.00 concessions) plus maximum 5% booking fee
Scott Willcox leading, Gabriel Garrick, Andy Gibson trumpets, Martin Gladdish trombone, Samuel Eagles, Bob McKay, Julian Costello, Pete Hurt saxophones, Dave Frankel keyboard, Andy Cleyndert bass, Gary Willcox drums. Read more…
Rhythms at The Yurt – The Dream Duo | Didcot
Fri 20 Sep | The Dream Duo | Julian Marc Stringle clarinet & saxophone, Dominic Ashworth guitar | Tickets here
Jazz at Progress | The Scott Willcox Ten-Piece Big Band | Buy tickets
Friday 20 September | Progress Theatre, Reading | 7:30pm | £17.00 (£15.00 concessions) plus maximum 5% booking fee
Scott Willcox leading, Gabriel Garrick, Andy Gibson trumpets, Martin Gladdish trombone, Samuel Eagles, Bob McKay, Julian Costello, Pete Hurt saxophones, Dave Frankel keyboard, Andy Cleyndert bass, Gary Willcox drums
Scott Willcox makes a welcome return to Jazz at Progress with his Ten-Piece Big Band comprising an all-star line-up of outstanding players, many of whom will be familiar to Progress audiences.
Scott, a classically trained composer and Fellow of Trinity College of Music, is a real power of musical and dramatic expression. His writing is subtly arranged, rich in musical colour, full of vibrant, sometimes startling rhythms and changing time-signatures, and often deeply moving.
In his 3-star Jazz Journal review of the band’s recent album ‘All Change’, which features several tracks with star vocalist Georgia Mancio, John Adcock wrote, ‘The opener ‘Bouncing Back’ is in 5/4, but sounds nothing like ‘Take Five’, showing what an imaginative arranger can do with any material’.
Writing in Cross Rhythms Lins Honeyman commented, ‘Willcox and his band are at their best when pushing the experimental boat out and the likes of the driving ‘Can’t Complain’ – featuring an impressive recording debut from Gabriel Garrick on trombone – and the fascinatingly abstract ‘Mixed Feelings’ highlight the band’s sheer talent and willingness to take a chance musically … a captivating offering from Mr Willcox and his talented associates.’
Challenging, highly original, a sheer joy … a big band experience with a difference, Scott’s music has been likened to a meeting between Stravinsky and George Russell.
Andrew Cartmel, author of the hilarious and enthralling ‘Vinyl Detective’ series of novels described the band as being ‘reminiscent of a skilful Mingus traffic jam’. Enjoy!
Paul Glover and Friends | Global Cafe | Reading
Sat 21 Sep | Come and watch Paul Glover and Friends cover Hugh Turner Heavy Funk Quartet’s regular session this month at the Global Café | Reading | Global Café | 9.00pm till 1.00am | £5.00
Purdy and full band | Wallingford
Sat 21 Sep | Purdy aka Rebecca Poole vocals, Hugh Turner guitar, Stuart Henderson trumpet, flugelhorn, cornet , drums and percussion, Raph Mizraki acoustic bass, cello, tuba and melodica | Wallingford | Corn Exchange | 7.45pm | £12
Sunday Jazz at Jagz | Damon Brown Quartet | Ascot
Sun 22 Sep | Damon Brown Quartet | Ascot | Jagz | 12.30 to 3.30pm | £10
Jean Toussaint with the Frank Toms Trio | Marlow
Tues 24 Sep | Jean Toussaint with the Frank Toms Trio | World famous tenor and soprano saxophonist who came to fame in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers | Marlow Jazz Club | 8.30pm | £10
Jazz at the Magpie and Parrot – Lloyd Payne/Otto Caretta & friends | Shinfield
Thu 26 Sep | Lloyd Payne/Otto Caretta & friends | Lloyd Payne trumpet/flugelhorn, Otto Caretta saxes, Simon Cook piano, Brian Throup bass, Mike Goff drums | Shinfield | Magpie and Parrot | 8pm | £5
Fleur Stevenson hosts Jazz Singers Night | Global Cafe | Reading
Thur 26 Sep | Fleur Stevenson hosts Jazz Singers Night in Reading | Fleur Stevenson vocals, with house band | Reading | Global Café | 9.00pm – jam from 9.30pm | No charge
Jazz in Reading and Bracknell Jazz present Mark Lockheart’s Orchestral Jazz Suite ‘Days on Earth’ | Buy tickets
Friday 27 September | Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park Arts Centre | 7:45pm | £23.00, Members/Senior Citizens/Unemployed £22, NUS students £10.00, School and music groups of 5+ £5.50pp. Disabled with companion tickets available.
Photo by Dave Stapleton
Jazz in Reading and Bracknell Jazz have joined forces to present Mark Lockheart’s epic orchestral jazz suite in six movements, Days on Earth, at the Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park Arts Centre, as part of a major UK tour.
The star studded jazz ensemble, comprising Mark Lockheart saxophone, multi-award-winning Laura Jurd trumpet, Roland Sutherland flute, Alice Leggett alto sax, Liam Noble piano, Mike Outram guitar, Tom Herbert bass and Seb Rochford drums, will play the first half. They will be joined after the interval, for Days of Earth, by Sam Rapley clarinets, Jim Rattigan and Lawrence Davis French horns and a string section.
Mark Lockheart is an innovative force of world class as both a saxophonist and composer, with a CV that includes Loose Tubes, In Deep, Fellow Creatures, and Perfect Houseplants.
Days on Earth, officially premiered at Milton Court Concert Hall, London on 9 January of this year and recorded at Mark Knofler’s famous British Grove Studios, is Mark’s most ambitious project to date. It captures the broad range of emotion by interweaving the spiky lines and smooth contours of contemporary European jazz with the shifting textures of the augmented strings – a magnificent culmination of the over two billion seconds that Mark Lockheart has been ‘eating, sleeping, thinking, playing and composing music’.
Described by MOJO as ‘cinematically compelling’, Days on Earth received a four-star review in John Fordham’s ‘Guardian’ review. He wrote: ‘Lockheart’s laconically Wayne Shorter-ish sax sound and influences including Duke Ellington, Gil Evans and Burt Bacharach, as well as his Loose Tubes and Polar Bear alumni have brought him now to the most ambitious recording of his two decades as a leader … Lockheart’s inclusive imagination invites a wide audience … and the fine improvisers are right on his wavelength.’
Ian Mann commented on his Jazzmann website that ‘His most ambitious project yet and an obvious labour of love, Days on Earth is shaping up to be a major triumph for Lockheart.’
This is a rare opportunity to see a major jazz work outside of London and not to be missed.
Buy tickets or call the Box Office on 01344 484123
Dinner Jazz at The Angel – Claire Jones Quintet | Woolhampton
Sat 28 Sep | Dinner Jazz at the Angel – Claire Jones Quintet | Claire Jones vocals, Annie Parker flutes, Phil Craddock piano, Marianne Windham bass, Jim Wade drums | Woolhampton | The Angel | 8pm | No charge
The Fusion 6 | Global Cafe, Reading
Sat 28 Sep | The Fusion 6 (acid Jazz, funk, afro-cuban) | Global Cafe, Reading | Fern ‘Mr Cool’ Rose – percussion; Andy Kennedy – saxophones and EWI; Tony Imbierski – Hammond organ; Steve Brooks – guitar; Paul Wallace – bass; Tony McKenna – drums; and featuring vocalist Alison Rolls | Reading | Global Cafe | 21:00-1:00 with Whitehouse DJs support | £4 entry | Facebook page
Sunday Jazz at The Retreat – Stuart Henderson Simon Price Star Quintet
Sun 29 Sep | Sunday Jazz at The Retreat | Stuart Henderson trumpet, Vasilis Xenopoulos sax, Tom Berge piano, Andy Crowdy bass, Simon Price drums | Reading | Retreat Pub | 3.30pm | No charge
Acid Brass Fairey Brass Band – Acid Jazz at The Reading Thames Festival
Sun 29 Sep | As part of The Reading Thames Festival, The Acid Brass Fairey Brass Band perform a repertoire of acid house music | For a video clip of what to expect check out: Acid Brass Fairey Brass Band | Reading Concert Hall in Reading Town Hall, Blagrave Street | 7.30 to 9.00pm | Tickets £13/£8 conc | Special offer 2-4-1 price tickets with Code: ‘RTF2019’ | Tickets and more details
Andrew Waite | Norden Farm
Sun 29 Sep | | Andrew Waite (accordion) | Maidenhead | Norden Farm Centre for the Arts | 7.30pm | £14 (£12 conc)
