Celebrating the Joy of Jazz
Left to Right: Angelina Beauvir, Margot Flamery, Mélanie Jouet and Trevor Stent.
Fest Jazz is unusual among jazz festivals because youngsters play a major part in the organisation of the event as well as helping as volunteers. Festival Organiser, Trevor Stent, asked two of this year’s young team, Margot and Mélanie (both 23), about their work:
Take jazz for instance. Whatever is posted, whatever is featured, it’s here today and gone tomorrow as it sinks rapidly lower down the list of billions of entries.
As Jazz&Jazz continues to grow I am reluctant to spend ever more hours reviewing and promoting events that Social Media already enables clubs, bands and musicians to promote for themselves. For instance, many already use my Facebook Jazzers Group for this purpose. In the UK there is also the monthly Just Jazz Magazine, The Jazz Guide and the Jazz Guide Website, not to mention other websites that carry comprehensive
lists of events.
1.00 till 4.00pm
Featuring: Jeff Ross (tpt); John Turner (clt); Gordon Rushton (tbn); Tom Jardine(pno);
Dave Arnold (bs); Sam Hall (bjo); Garrick Arnold (dms)
£10 in advance/£12 on the day.
It’s a Scoop! So be advised, they’re HOT, book quickly:
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Brian ‘Sam’ Ellis (keyboard), Bill Smith (Cornet), Tony Pollitt (bass), Roger Myerscough (clarinet), John Meehan (Drums, Leader), Chris Marney (banjo).
Lemsford Jazz Club fans will be swept along on a tide of nostalgia by
The Frog Island Jazz Band revisiting the 1920s and 30s
on Sunday 8th April.
