To ease us in to the new year we launch with Andy Hague's Double Standards, focusing on some less commonly played melodic standards with maybe a couple of originals thrown in for variety. A rare appearance at the club for pianist Dale Hambridge who is always super busy - he has previously played at the...
Amazing new line-up put together by phenomenal saxophonist Alex Merritt. Back in 2016 Alex’s debut album ‘Anatta’, featuring legendary American drummer Jeff Williams, received critical acclaim as a “promising debut, of striking quality” from the Guardian’s John Fordham and was praised as “one of the best UK jazz recordings I’ve heard this year” by Marlbank’s...
Saxophonist Sam Crockatt returns to the club with his new trio line-up. Having graduated from the Royal Academy, Sam Crockatt formed a band with Gwilym Simcock, Oli Hayhurst and Ben Reynolds leading to debut recording Howeird in 2008, which won a Parliamentary Jazz Award later that year. Flood Tide followed commended by The Guardian for...
Since their previous visit in Feb 2023 the Jon Lloyd Quartet have released their album Earth Songs, which has been met with huge critical acclaim and has achieved close to a million worldwide track streams. “The interplay between the quartet members is magical, instinctive… creating music of often startling beauty.” - Peter Vacher, Jazzwise magazine,...
