Olney Jazz Club Presents Kevin Grenfell’s Jazz Giants

February 21, 2022 By Leave a Comment

Don’t miss this grand opportunity to get back into the
pre-pandemic jazz grove at Olney Jazz Club.
To spur you on here’s Kevin Grenfell’s reminder of days gone by:
Gene Austin’s “Girl Of My Dreams” performed by
“Slide By Slide” for Jazz at The Bedford Golf Club, Thursday, 2nd May, 2014.

Kevin Grenfell (trumpet), Richard Leach (trombone), John Fellows (bass),
Graham Smith (drums) and Simon Banks (piano).
Enjoy the repartee!

Take note, restricted numbers so be sure to book posts haste!
Email Tad at: [email protected]

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Jazz at The Walnut Tree

January 5, 2022 By

STATION RD, BLISWORTH, NORTHANTS. NN7 3DS. 
Great venue, three miles from J15 on M1.. free parking, real ales, great hot food, bar snacks, top national and international jazz bands.

A great venue, three miles from J15 on M1.. free parking, real ales, great hot food, bar snacks, top national and international jazz bands. Restricted numbers, socially distanced, waitress service  etc.TICKETS [in advance only] £15. 12.30-3pmReservations can be taken.  Call Tad on 01604858549 or email [email protected]Sunday Nov. 27th-Dave Rance’s Rockin’ Chair Band featuring Sarah Spencer [clarinet/sax/vocals]…entertaining hot jazz! One of the most lively jazz bands on the scene led by the effervescent Dave Rance [trumpet] and featuring special guest the dynamic Sarah Spencer..expect more surprises!Sunday Dec. 4th–Alan Haughton Quartet featuring special guest Alan Barnes[sax/clarinet] “Jazz Piano Favourites”Sunday Dec. 11th–The Simon Spillett Quartet ..Britain’s tenor sax titan brings his award winning band to the Walnut!! Recently sold out at Ronnie  Scott’s and Bull’s Head at Barnes!Sunday Dec. 18th–Mellifluous festive frolics..Christmas Special with Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends and special guests including Lester Brown [rising young jazz trumpet star on the London scene!]OLNEY JAZZ CLUB-Carlton House Club, OlneyTickets £15 8-10.30pm tel 01604858549Tuesday December 6th–Christmas Special with Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends and special guest, the superb, award winning  Julian Marc Stringle [sax/clarinet]…do not miss!!Coming to The Walnut and Olney in 2023..with your continued support!!…The Bateman Brothers, Alan Barnes, Sarah Spencer’s Transatlantic Band, Harlem Big Band, Frog and Henry, Emily Bacon Band, Richard Leach Street Band,Paula Masters Jazz Masters, Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends, Greg Abate…..LIVE JAZZ..USE IT OR LOSE IT!Tad Newton 01604858549    or email: [email protected]    www.tadnewtonsjazzfriends.com  

Restricted numbers, socially distanced, waitress service.

TICKETS [in advance only] £15. 12.30-3pm
Reservations can be taken. 
Call Tad on 01604858549 or email [email protected]

December 6th-Christmas Special with Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends and special guest, the superb, award winning  Julian Marc Stringle [sax/clarinet]…do not miss!!Coming to The Walnut and Olney in 2023..with your continued support!!…The Bateman Brothers, Alan Barnes, Sarah Spencer’s Transatlantic Band, Harlem Big Band, Frog and Henry, Emily Bacon Band, Richard Leach Street Band,Paula Masters Jazz Masters, Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends, Greg Abate…..LIVE JAZZ..USE IT OR LOSE IT!Tad Newton 01604858549    or email: [email protected]    www.tadnewtonsjazzfriends.comCopyright © 2022 Olney Jazz Club, All rights reserved.

Our mailing address is:
Olney Jazz Club Carlton House Club High Street Olney, Bucks MK46 4BB

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It’s Trad Dad!

October 20, 2021 By Leave a Comment

Barber, Bilk and Ball Stars play music by Chris Barber, Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball plus Terry Lightfoot, Alex Welsh, Humphrey Lyttelton and more!
Before The Beatles Britain was Trad mad and our concert celebrates the music of the late ’50s and early ’60s when the sound of Dixieland was adapted in a uniquely British way to create a happy, upbeat swinging style that will be a perfect way of celebrating coming out of long Covid gloom. The seven-piece band led by trombonist Ian Bateman features a group of musicians who worked extensively with the big stars of the Trad era and continue to keep the music alive with their superb playing and sheer love of the music.

Tickets £15 from Tad Newton on 01604 858549
email: [email protected]

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Lemsford Jazz Club Swings Back into Action with the Rockin’ Chair Band!

September 14, 2021 By Leave a Comment

Sunday, 19th September, 1.00pm sharp

Dave Rance describes his Bedfordshire based band as “a little different from the usual jazz bands, often amusing but always entertaining!”

Highly appropriate and spot on, Dave, and Lemsford Jazz Club fans will give you and the gang a resonating post lockdown welcome back to Lemsford on
Sunday, 19th September, 1.00pm sharp.


Dave on Flugelhorn

Earlier at Lemsford Jazz Club, a touch of Rockin’ Chair Magic:

Thanks go to Brian Smith aka “Smiffy” for bringing live jazz back to Lemsford, Hertfordshire, despite the pandemic. Worldwide it may be but Jazz will overcome!

(Photo & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)

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Tel: Brian Smith (“Smiffy”) on 01707 880569

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: Lemsford Jazz Club

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Announcing The Pershore Jazz Festival

May 14, 2021 By Leave a Comment

Scheduled for
13th – 15th August 2021

Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz

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Facing up to Facebook

April 22, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A close friend and long time follower of Jazz&Jazz recently lamented on the current paucity of features on the site. He presumed it might be due to the ongoing shut down of live jazz due to Cobid19.

Not so! A key to the problem is the rapacious omnipresence of Facebook. How so? Simply put, besides my personal Facebook Page I have also launched a Facebook Group entitled “Jazz&Jazzers / Celebrating the Joy of Jazz”. Popularity of the Group has shot up with 1,600 members and counting.

So as of now, my intention is to focus on and lure fans to this, my home site, Jazz&Jazz.com. In recent years I have filmed a series of YouTubes featuring a wide range of jazz bands and musicians. But I have become so entrapped by the easy accessibility of jazz on Facebook that I have sidestepped presenting them here on Jazz&Jazz.com. So much so that to date I have released only 56 of over 400 of my Jazz&Jazz YouTubes.

This has to change!

beginning with:
YouTube No 57 in the Jazz&Jazz Covid 19 Blackout Buster Series

“SOUTH!” (Bennie Moten): The Tenement Jazz Band

During their Spring 2019 tour south of the border, Edinburgh’s
Tenement Jazz Band played at a Tad Newton Jazz Evening at Bedford Golf Club.
In addition to “South” their repertoire included a series of tuneful but
little know numbers.

Paddy Darley – Trombone
Charles Dearness – Trumpet
Tom Pickles – Saxophones
John Youngs – Guitar/Banjo
Doug Kemp – Double Bass

Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz

(YouTube © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)

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Facebook! Friend or Foe?

February 2, 2021 By 1 Comment

I launched my Jazz&Jazz Facebook Page some years ago. My intention? Primarily to feature and promote the contents of, and further the reach of jazz&jazz.com. It has helped. All the more so since adding my Facebook Jazzers Group. But recently Facebook has become top dog with Jazz&Jazz demoted to the wings.

One of my major Jazz&Jazz supporters recently emailed me: “I know everything has come to a near stop as far as jazz is concerned, but, on my frequent visits to your site, I have noticed it is rather spasmodic and quieter than I’ve been used to. I trust this is just down to the current situation we are all in.”

Norman, you may have hit the nail on the head. But this need not and should not be so.

Promotional opportunities lost!
Yes, along with the many members of my Facebook Jazzers Group, I have been featuring and promoting reams of jazz on Facebook. But this has been at the expense of current features here on Jazz&Jazz. Promotional opportunities lost!

A solution to this during the Covid19 Shut Down is to feature more, many more, of my Jazz&Jazz YouTubes here on Jazz&Jazz. I have let this lapse, so entangled have I become in Facebook and my Facebook Jazzers Group.

Facebook can be an encumbrance. It doesn’t get down to the nitty gritty possible here on jazz&jazz.com.

So my plea! Even though I use Social Media to highlight items, I urge fans and enthusiasts to comment in “Speak Your Mind” here on Jazz&Jazz rather than on, or maybe as well as, the Social Media links.

Obviously I will continue to use Social Media. But with increased discretion. I need to get back to spending serious time posting features here on Jazz&Jazz rather than allow Social Media to distract me or my followers.

Jazz&Jazz first and then my Facebook Jazzers Group!

Currently Covid19 prevents me from filming but fans can follow my Jazz&Jazz YouTubes at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbyqlX9cd5D7h2FpXsdS7BQ/videos

Please, help the cause with positive feedback to this and other posts in Comments below. Thank you for your patience and continued support.

Peter M Butler
Editor Jazz&Jazz

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Dave Browning’s Jazz Cats Live at The Walnut Tree

December 23, 2020 By Leave a Comment

Station Road,  Blisworth,  NN7 3DS
Sunday 3rd January, 2021: 12.30-3pm

Admission £15.00 in advance only (reduced numbers strictly limited).

Call 01604 858549 to book and for further information. 

Three miles from J15 on M1.
Free parking.

LIVE JAZZ … USE IT OR LOSE IT!
TAD NEWTON 01604 858549
www.tadnewtonsjazzfriends.com
email: [email protected]

Peter M Butler
Editor Jazz&Jazz

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“The Dime Notes” Live at the Walnut Courtesy of Tad Newton

December 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment

Station Road,  Blisworth  NN7 3DS  NN7 3DS

Sunday 13th December 12.30-3pm

Admission £12.50 by ticket only (Reduced numbers strictly limited).
Call 01604 858549 to book and for further information. 
Bar facilities and good food available.
Superb intimate atmosphere, great jazz, real ales.

Three miles from J15 on M1.
Free parking.

LIVE JAZZ … USE IT OR LOSE IT!
TAD NEWTON 01604 858549
www.tadnewtonsjazzfriends.com
email: [email protected]

Peter M Butler
Editor Jazz&Jazz

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Jazz Back at The Walnut Tree

October 13, 2020 By Leave a Comment

Station Road,  Blisworth  NN7 3DS

Sunday October. 4th 12.30-3pm

TAD NEWTON’S JAZZFRIENDS

A VARIED AND SWINGIN’ REPERTOIRE!

Tad Newton [trombone], Gary Wood [trumpet], 
Alan Haughton [piano] Ronnie Fenn [drums].
Featuring special guests AL SWAINGER [bass] 
SUE GREENWAY [clarinet/saxes]

Admission £12.50 by ticket only
[with reduced numbers strictly limited]
Call 01604 858549 to book and for further information.

Superb, intimate atmosphere, great jazz, real ales
AND good food available.

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