The Be-Bop Club presents The Alex Clarke & Eddie Gripper Quartet After a short stint of gigs in 2023, the quartet reunites for a swift, heavy hitting UK tour of hard-bop and feel good swing. As a finalist in the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2020, winner of the Rising Star category in...
Jake McMurchie - tenor sax, Huw Warren - piano, Henrik Jensen - bass, Andy Hague - drums
Dee Byrne - alto sax, Nick Malcolm - trumpet, Tom Ward - clarinets, Rebecca Nash - piano, Olie Brice - bass, Andrew Lisle - drums Dee Byrne has a powerful and innovative sound on alto sax, and is a very creative and original composer. Her album Outlines was released on Whirlwind Recordings in June 2023 and...
Jim Blomfield - piano, Jonny Bruce - trumpet, Martin Kern - tenor sax, Roshan 'Tosh' Wijetunge - bass, Jon Clarke - drums, Lisa Cherian - congas Recognised as one of the UK's finest Latin jazz and salsa pianists, Jim Blomfield has worked with such legends of the genre as Roberto Pla, Henry Fiol and Asere...
John Donegan - piano, Andy Hague - trumpet, Luke Annesley - alto sax, Ben Waghorn - tenor sax, Riaan Vosloo - bass, Ryan Thrupp - drums. Pianist John Donegan provided stand-out gigs in 2023 and 2024, and returns to present a new CD and batch of compositions. For his new album "We Will Meet Again,...
Our special guest soloist tonight is Simon Spillett, who over the past twenty years or so has established himself as one of the UK's pre-eminent saxophonists. Simon is a firm advocate of straight ahead hard-swinging modern jazz, and his lack of pretention has made him a huge hit with the UK jazz audience, although he sometimes...
Daan Temmink - piano, Duncan Kingston - bass, Rob Brian - drums The Daan Temmink Trio blends cinematic classical and jazz colours with sophisticated, emotive melodies and harmonies. Pianist and award-nominated film composer Daan Temmink, Grammy-winning drummer Robert Brian (Siouxsie Sioux, Loreena McKennitt), and Bristol-based bassist Duncan Kingston (Matt Owens) bring years of playing together,...
Sophie Stockham - saxes, Adam Stokes - guitar, Ruth Hammond - organ, Matt Brown - drums The Sophie Stockham Quartet pay tribute to the great Hard Bop saxophonist Lou Donaldson. Known for his soulful bluesy approach to the saxophone, Donaldson was one of the pioneering voices in Hard Bop during his time with Art Blakey and The Jazz...
Andy Hague - trumpet, Ben Waghorn - tenor sax, Jim Blomfield - piano, Chris Jones - bass, Lisa Cherian - congas, Mark Whitlam - drums Trumpeter Andy Hague ran his popular salsa/jazz octet Conjunto Gringo from 2010 to 2018, and now presents a slimmed down sextet version to play rearranged versions of the Conjunto repertoire,...
Saxophonist Dan Newberry holds a Masters from the Royal Welsh College and is one of the brightest rising stars of the scene. He studied with sax great Iain Ballamy from an early age, and has acquired an appreciation of all styles of jazz sax, able to switch from 30s swing to the most contemporary sounds...
Ross Hicks is a young Cardiff based pianist who made a great impression on a short tour with saxophonist Simon Spillett in 2023 and played his debut trio gig at the Be-Bop Club in 2024. "Hicks was a revelation, ideas emerged and developed and injected drama even as the pieces unfolded at near terminal velocity"...
London-based saxophonist and Dankworth Prize-winning composer Matt Anderson released his fourth album, Live at Leeds Jazz Festival, in 2024 with his long-running quartet. This live recording from the middle of their May 2023 U.K. tour is a snapshot of the band at their best: stretching out on a set of original tunes with a characteristically...
