The melodic and inventive guitar playing of Matt Hopkins has been featured in groups as stylistically diverse as Andy Sheppard’s Hotel Bristol, Emily Wright & The Royals and the Hopkins-Hammond Trio. He also takes the lead role in the “Music of Pat Metheny” project alongside pianist Dave Newton. Matt is also known as an instructor...
Dan Newberry and Andy Hague have played together at the club previously in a quintet with piano and bass, but for tonight's performance have invited Tom Berge to play Hammond organ in a set focusing on the groovier end of Blue Note-style jazz. Saxophonist Dan Newberry is currently studying for a Masters at the Royal...
Saxophonist Vasilis Xenopoulos provided one of our most memorable gigs of 2023 when he visited to present his Dexterity project, playing the music of Dexter Gordon as quintet. For his latest venture he has teamed up with long term collaborator pianist Paul Edis for new album Feels Like Home, released April 2024 on the Ubuntu...
Yalla! An infectiously entertaining mish-mosh of powerful Yiddish music hall songs and whirling klezmer and Middle Eastern dance tunes. Marianna Moralis' impassioned vocals lead the party, driving fabulous New York Yiddish theatre songs, old world Yiddish folk songs, and cheerful singalongs; David Mowat (trumpet), Knud Stüwe (guitar) and Simon Leach (percussion) propel the joyous and...
Threes Up Organ Trio is a high energy trombone-led organ trio playing a mixture of ferociously swinging standards and adventurous original music written by all members of the group. Rory Ingham, jazz trombonist/educator/composer, is a winner of Rising Star in the British Jazz Awards. Rory was chosen as ‘One To Watch’ in Jazzwise, and was...
Juggenaught is a Birmingham based quartet, led by pianist Piera Onacko. Incorporating soundscapes and open passages with heavy grooves and structured basslines, the band bring avant-garde and experimental influences to a modern jazz setting. Following appearances including Lancaster, Moseley, Cheltenham and Marsden Jazz festivals, The Vortex, Matt and Phreds, Spice of Life, Symphony Hall and...
The Dave Storey Trio present material from their third album 'CIRCEO’ featuring their signature quicksilver interplay honed over almost a decade of playing and touring together. The jazz tradition brought to life for the 21st century – communication with love, humour and fire.Featuring long term collaborators multi-award winning saxophonist James Allsopp (Kit Downes, Last Poets)...
Romania v Ukraine, Belgium v Slovakia, Austria v France As the group stages progress, catch the matches downstairs in The Chicken Shed on Monday 17th June. Reserve a table for food in the main bar before the game or order one of our stone-baked pizzas to enjoy during the match. Todays games: Romania v Ukraine...
As the group stages progress, catch the matches downstairs in The Chicken Shed on Tuesday 18th June. Reserve a table for food in the main bar before the game or order one of our stone-baked pizzas to enjoy during the match. Todays games: Turkey v Georgia 18:00 Portugal v chechia 21:00
Bluffing Your Way in Ballet - The Talk Join us to meet a classical ballet dancer and an actor; we'll explain to you how we've 'Bluffed' our way through our long stage careers. Hear the inside story of training and performing as a ballet dancer and an actor. We'll show up close, the fun, hard...
Trumpeter Andy Hague returns with his quintet to close the Be-Bop Club's 23/24 season, and as a warm-up gig for the band's forthcoming appearance at Swanage Jazz Festival in July. The music will be a mixture of tunes from quintet album Coming of Age and Andy's 2021 quartet album Release. “So impressed with this record,...
Slovakia v Ukraine, Poland v Austria, Netherlands v France As the group stages progress, catch the matches downstairs in The Chicken Shed on Friday 21st June. Reserve a table for food in the main bar before the game or order one of our stone-baked pizzas to enjoy during the match. Todays games: Slovakia v Ukraine...
