Olney Jazz Club Presents Kim Cypher – Saxophonist, Vocalist and Composer!
The Savannah Jazz Band Back At The Bedford Thursday 28th March
SAVANNAH JAZZ BAND
8.00 pm Thursday 28th March
A special evening of the very best in New Orleans jazz!
Fest Jazz Brittany 2019 Presents a Dream Line Up: 26th/28th July …
Ben Holder at Fest Jazz 2016…
Trevor Stent commented “Ben Holder was so well received, he is an extraordinary talent!”
Two Jazz&Jazz YouTubes and a Photograph in Memory of Departed Friends
The Festive Season is over and 2019 beckons us onwards.
But as the years role by there is always time for reflection, memories
of splendid times gone by and of friends no longer with us.
That is why, for me, the following YouTubes and photograph are especially emotive. Trefor Williams on Big Bertha, his beloved bass, was a wonderful friend and my jazz mentor. He passed away just two years ago in 2017. And Roger Pout, my lifelong friend since early schooldays is in the audience applauding with Sammy’s dedicated fans. After a short illness, he joined departed jazz fans in February last year.
Jazz at The Bedford with Amy Roberts and Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends
8.00pm THURSDAY 29th NOVEMBER
Hot Off The Press: “Le Fest Jazz Sauvé!”…
Fest Jazz Is Saved and
Is In The Pink!
Jazz&Jazz has received this Communiqué De Presse for immediate release:
“Shake ‘Em Up” Packed In the Fans and Dancers at Fest Jazz, 2018
Festival Organiser Trevor Stent messaged me:
“For me the Shake’Em Up Band is the best band in the world at the moment (big statement but I believe it)”.
Fest Jazz Is Unique … and yet Needs Help! Here’s Why!
The cry to attract youngsters back to jazz resonates ever louder. Jazz fans, it’s happening, as is evident from many features posted here on Jazz&Jazz. Not more so than at a jazz festival in the north-west of France launched back in 2005 by English jazz musician and band leader, Trevor Stent.
Calling All Jazz Fans: Fest Jazz Needs Your Help! Here’s Why and How!
Help Save Fest Jazz
“It was the only rainy weekend of the summer and it had to be during Fest Jazz!”
“For the festival it was a catastrophe. On the Sunday 29th July we had only 402 spectators who braved the appalling wind and rain whereas in 2017 (and previous years) we had around 1100.