Steve Graham & Annie Hawkins
Long Tom Whittingham & Paul Bacon
Sarah Thatcher
Liz Bacon
Gabriele Gad
With thanks to The Winning Post
(Photos courtesy of Laurence Cumming © Jazz&Jazz)
“A Breeze from New Orleans” Winning Post Photo Story 14th January, 2016
January 23, 2016 By 2 Comments
It Was Bound To Be A Sure Fire Sell Out! The Adrian Cox Quartet at Ronnie Scott’s!
January 22, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Ginny and I should have been there on Sunday, 17th January, but I came down sick and so we couldn’t make it! So thanks, Adrian, for finding takers for our places who hadn’t wanted to miss out. Then Tony Leppard came to the rescue with great photos of the show – so all was not lost – except perhaps a YouTube or two! But I do have others of Adrian even if not at Ronnie Scott’s.
Adrian (Leader, Clarinet), Nils Solberg (guitar), George Trabar (bass), Mez Clough (drums) and special guest Tom Kincaid (piano).
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
Photos Courtesy of Tony Leppard
Gypsy Fire at Olney Jazz Club: “I Got Rhythm” blends into “Anthropology”!
January 8, 2016 By 2 Comments
“As this is a jazz club we are going to start out with a very brief history of jazz going back to a very early number, “I Got Rhythm” and blend that into a 50s BeeBop number called “Anthropology”.
Ben Holder (violin, leader); Stuart Carter-Smith (guitar); Will Barnes (guitar); Paul Jefferies (bass)
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
Remembering Johnny
January 7, 2016 By 4 Comments
Jazz&Jazz photographer Laurence Cumming took these photos of Johnny Rodgers at
The Winning Post, Twickenham, in August 2015. He and I thought jazz fans would
appreciate our posting them on Jazz&Jazz in memory of a wonderful and
much loved musician.
Johnny’s funeral is at 1.00pm on Tuesday, 26th January, at St. Mary’s Church, Off Church Road, Burton End, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, CM24 8UB. All are welcome at the church but family only at the graveside, please. There will be a wake which will be announced at the service. Thank you, Barry Palser, for this information.
Latest information received from Barry: “Johnny’s ‘Celebration’ will take place at Bishops Stortford Football Club, Pro-Kit Stadium, Dunmow Road, Bishops Stortford, Essex CM23 5RG. Plenty of parking available.”
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
Gypsy Fire Sweeps Away Post Xmas Blues at Olney Jazz Club
January 7, 2016 By Leave a Comment
No need for a prologue to introduce Gypsy Fire at Olney Jazz Club! Stuart Carter-Smith’s introduction covers all angles: “This place is pretty sexy isn’t it! It’s like being in Vegas with all the lights!” The Jazz&Jazz YouTube reveals all.
Ben Holder (violin, leader); Stuart Carter-Smith (guitar); Will Barnes (guitar); Paul Jefferies (bass)
Happy Jazzin’ in 2016, Olney fans and thanks Alan Haughton for your wonderful Club. It might be somewhat out in the sticks of rural Buckinghamshire but it sure “bucks” the trend of jazz clubs’ declining popularity. And just up the road from Olney is another popular club, The Walnut Tree in Blisworth, Northants, where Alan frequently plays keyboard with Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
“Watermelon Man” with Seasonal Flourishes – Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends at The Walnut Tree Jazz Club Xmas Gig
January 6, 2016 By 1 Comment
Always a great Christmas Season Gig, Tad and his band excelled themselves playing “Watermelon Man” with Xmas flourishes to a packed and enthusiastic
Walnut Tree Jazz Club audience on Sunday, 20th December.
Tad on trombone, Alan Haughton (keyboard), Tomas Pedersen (bass), Ronnie Fenn (drums), Gary Wood (trumpet with that Xmas flourish), Trevor Whiting (saxophone)
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
Coming Soon to The Walnut: Mike Owen’s All Stars, Richard Exall & Amy Roberts, Rachael Johnson & Many More …
January 5, 2016 By Leave a Comment
… including
Simon Spillett, The Krupa Connection, Washington Whirligig, and
The Millennium Eagle Jazz Band and Greg Abate!!!
… Plus
JAZZ AT THE CASTLE
… and
JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY SUNDAY
STOP PRESS
17th April: THE BATEMAN BROTHERS
24th April: RICHARD EXALL’S SHOOTING STARS
& CHRIS CARMELL’S CLASSIC JAZZ BAND
(details to be announced)
Contact Tad Newton for further details:
email – [email protected]
tel – 01604 858549
Web: www.tadnewtonsjazzfriends.com
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
New Year Cheer at Lemsford Jazz Club with Dennis Vick’s Fenny Stompers
January 5, 2016 By Leave a Comment
When Dennis Vick named his band Red River Stompers back in 1977 his wife suggested
that as he was born in Fenny Stratford, the band should be renamed
The Fenny Stompers Jazzband. Almost 40 years on the Fenny Stompers
are always warmly welcomed at Lemsford Jazz Club.
Make sure you don’t miss their Lemsford Gig on Sunday, 10th January.
“La Planche A Laver” Wash Away Lemsford Jazz Club’s Post Xmas Blues
January 4, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Lemsford Jazz Club fans enjoyed a New Year’s treat when French Band “La Planche a Laver” totally resuscitated them from post holiday blues on Saturday, 2nd January. Numbers were well up and spirits were high. A great beginning for jazz in Lemsford, Welwyn Garden City, in 2016.
Thanks “Smiffy” for helping to keep jazz going in Hertfordshire!
Armel Amiot (banjo); Michel Cousin (washboard); Sebastien Vallet (bass saxophone);
Gilles Veron (clarinet)
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
Farewell Johnny Rodgers, You Will Be Greatly Missed
January 4, 2016 By 8 Comments
This morning I was saddened to receive the following message
from Pete Lay.
“It is with deep sadness I have to announce that Johnny Rodgers passed away on Sunday evening January 3rd 2016. Not only a really nice guy, we have lost a wonderful clarinet player. He will be sorely missed.
“I know you all would like to share my condolences to his wife Cathy and to Johnny’s daughter and grandchildren.
“R.I.P. dear friend, your pain is finally over.
With regrets
Pete”
Johnny and Cathy at Pakefield, November last year. (Photo by Damian Lay)
Johnny fought long and hard against his illness and even played his beloved clarinet with Pete’s Gambit Jazzmen at The Autumn Jazz Parade last September, the last time I spoke to him. He was one of the first jazz musicians to inspire my Jazz&Jazz Paintings and as a tribute, here is my portrait of him on saxophone during the 2011 Ramsgate Seaside Shuffle Festival.
At the time I wrote this poem to accompany the portrait:
Passion Personified
Sparkling hues
Rhythm and blues
Dazzling jazz
Razzmatazz
Passion personified
By Johnny on sax.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
