Spring Programme 2008

All events are at the Chipping Hall. Doors open 7.30. Music starts around 8. £2 admission to any event for under-18s.

Your monthly chance to catch some of our excellent house trio (with the occasional excellent guest), sample our excellent bar, and have a chat with some excellent friends (you supply those). Families welcome, excellent or otherwise.

Our first ever solo performance comes from singer and pianist Liane Carroll. Two highly acclaimed solo albums attest to the fact that she needs no assistance, although she can and does work with a range of other artists - from Sir Paul McCartney to drum’n’bass outfit London Elektricity. The only person to win two BBC Jazz Awards in the same year, she also picked up one of the first Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Awards this year, for best female vocalist.
"Swinging like hell one minute, brutally expressive and heartbreakingly tender the next... utterly brilliant" - Time Out
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Originally from Germany, Ingrid has lived in London for the last 18 years, gradually building a reputation as one of the finest of a new generation of saxophonists and composers. She plays baritone, tenor, alto and soprano instruments - the latter being her current preference. A key member of the F-ire Collective, a hotbed of young London jazz talent, she pops up in several of its exciting bands, as well as fronting her own duo, quintet and nontet whose various recordings and live performances (including notable appearances at recent Cheltenham Jazz Festivals) have drawn wide critical acclaim.
"Darkly beautiful and breathtakingly inventive" - All About Jazz
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Drive is a new and exciting project from Gary Husband. Drummer with the hugely popular 80’s outfit Level 42, he has pursued a very successful parallel career in jazz, both as drummer and pianist, playing with the likes of John McLaughlin, Allan Holdsworth, Randy Brecker and Billy Cobham. Drive features the tenor saxophone of Julian Siegel (winner of the 2007 BBC Jazz Award for best instrumentalist) , trumpet of Richard Turner, and double bass of American Michael Janisch. It also offers the chance to see Gary as pianist as well as drummer. The band’s only appearance to date - at London’s Vortex Club - attracted rave reviews.
"a darkly lyrical pianist, a relentlessly inventive drummer and a composer with a voice all his own" - Jazzwise Magazine
"The guy’s a genius." - Billy Cobham
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