Celebrating the Joy of Jazz
The Frog Island Jazz Band are famed for featuring 1920/30s New Orleans Jazz. Theirs is the music of Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Papa Celestin and a
young Louis Armstrong.
BOOK NOW!
Tel: Brian Smith (“Smiffy”) on 01707 880569
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: Lemsford Jazz Club
To request early reminders about Lemsford Jazz Club events, email:
[email protected]
Congratulations Ian Wallis on the successful launch of your new MK11 Storyville Jazz Club and on presenting jazz Live and Alive in Milton Keynes.
And who better than award winning jazz pianist Craig Milverton, along with Esther Ng on Bass and Neil Wells on Drums, to get the show on the road. Here they are with
Oscar Peterson’s “Night Train”.
Great session to capture for Jazz&Jazz YouTubes.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(YouTube © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
The Bateman Brothers Jazz Band is renowned for its faithful renditions of the music of
Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars.
Walnut Tree Jazz Club fans at Blisworth, Northants, were enthralled by an entire Satchmo Session on Sunday, 17th April. Featured here is just one of a number of Jazz&Jazz YouTubes filmed during the afternoon.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(YouTube © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
Jazz&Jazz is delighted to support Plymouth Jazz Club in
Promoting Live Jazz!
Sunday, May 1st • 7.00 for 7.30pm
John Beckingham’s lively band plays Jazz, Jump-Jive, Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll
in the famous Louis Jordan style.
The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Crownhill, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Admission £9, Members £7, Full-Time Students £5 Tickets on the door.
Tel: 01752 721179
Sunday, May 15th • 7.00 for 7.30pm
Traditional New Orleans dance music of the ’20s by a group steeped in the New Orleans heritage.
Music in the style of the ‘Kid’ Thomas Valentine band.
The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Crownhill, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Admission £9, Members £7, Full-Time Students £5 Tickets on the door.
Tel: 01752 721179
Sunday, June 5th • 7.00 for 7.30pm
Fraser Weekes
Chris Costin’s excellent local band featuring guitarist Fraser Weekes
in a programme of mainstream jazz standards.
The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Crownhill, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Admission £9, Members £7, Full-Time Students £5 Tickets on the door.
Tel: 01752 721179
Sunday, June 19th • 7.00 for 7.30pm
Kevin Grenfell
A fine quintet featuring the talented trombonists Kevin Grenfell and Richard Leach.
Entertaining music with a big helping of fun.
Kevin and Richard Leach
The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Crownhill, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Admission £9, Members £7, Full-Time Students £5 Tickets on the door.
Tel: 01752 721179
On Sunday, 10th April, in keeping my longstanding promise to Elaine Hatton to feature her Quintet, Cool Jazz Collective on Jazz&Jazz, I took in jazz at The Landsdowne Club, Luton, for the first time. It was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon – great music, great musicians and a very fine vocalist!
I filmed several numbers for YouTubes to be featured on Jazz&Jazz, beginning with “Deed I Do”.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
And to restore the balance!
WEEKEND PASSES
Covering all Jazz Gigs £60.00
BOOK BY POST: £60 per person, cheques payable to Ramsgate Seaside Shuffle, enclose SAE to:
John H Morgan, 20 St Clements Court, Canterbury Road, Herne Bay, Kent. CT6 5RT
ENQUIRES: Ron Sheldrake 01843 596789 & John Morgan 01227 361238
Always quote: “Seaside Shuffle”
Visit: www.jazzandjazz.com for regular updates
Natalie de Jager is the daughter of my old Aussie chum, Garry de Jager. When Garry and his wife Roberta visited us during a trip to the UK last August they told us Natalie is a jazz singer.
So here, especially for Jazz&Jazz followers down under who live in the vicinity of Brisbane, is news of a very special concert on Sunday, 17th April, featuring Natalie and Sarah Collyer.
And here is where you can book tickets!
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
Trevor Stent emailed me “Dizzy Birds are a superb group in my opinion!”
So as Trevor has booked them as one of the star turns for Fest Jazz, 2016, I took a look and came across this magical YouTube which surely evokes the mood and musical frivolity of this wonderful annual festival at Châteauneuf-du-Faou in Brittany, France.
Plus their very latest YouTube which Francois Perdriau has just supplied:
A truly international band, Dizzy Birds’ young musicians are based in Berlin but come from Denmark, Spain, France, Germany and the USA. Established as recently as 2013, the band interprets New Orleans Jazz and Ragtime with a flourish and energetic free style that attracts younger audiences right back to Jazz. They started out busking on the streets of Berlin but now play at clubs and prestigious jazz festivals throughout Europe.
Darktown Strutters Ball
“What I see are six young men playing the oldest jazz in the world. These are the Dizzy Birds, and they are part of the great revolution in jazz and swing music that is bringing back to the forefront a music that is far from dead.… They are playing Darktown Strutters Ball (Shelton Brooks, 1917) with dexterity and style within the tradition of New Orleans jazz music from the 1920s… they are having fun and they’ve tapped into the roots of what made jazz music hot 100 years ago.”
Patrick Faurot, Just Jazz, April, 2016.
Band Members
Eldar Tsalikov (RUS: alto saxophone and clarinet); Laurent Humeau (C.I.: guitar, soprano sax and clarinet); Paul Voit (GER: guitar, banjo); Francois Perdriau (FR: bass drum, cymbal, woodblock and bell); Flocko Motion (GER: double bass and tuba); Carlos St. Ana (ESP: piano and trombone)
This year Fest Jazz falls on the weekend of Friday, 29th till Sunday, 31st January.
Book NOW and we’ll see you and Dizzy Birds there!
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
BOOKING
Booking online for the Festival only
Brittany Ferries have once again teamed up with Fest Jazz Organisers to offer a special weekend ferry crossing plus reduced entry to the festival.
Special weekend ferry crossing plus ticket offer.
Don’t delay, book online NOW!
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(YouTube & photo courtesy of Dizzy Birds)
See also:
“Beauty” and Ben Holder Set to Enthral Fans at Fest Jazz 2016
Fest Jazz 2016 Preview: Joan Chamorro & The Sant Andreu Jazz Band at Fest Jazz 2014
Newly Released YouTubes of The Sant Andreu Jazz Band Herald Countdown to
Fest Jazz 2016
Prelude to Fest Jazz, 2016: “I Remember Clifford” Eva Fernández, at Fest Jazz 2014
Re-Release! Fest Jazz 2016 to Feature Joan Chamorro’s Incredible Sant Andreu Youth Band
Jazz Promoter Ian Wallis is backing up his pledge to improve and encourage music in and around Milton Keynes with the second of his MK11 Jazz Club’s monthly events.
Special guest Craig Milverton will play with Ian’s House Band on Wednesday, 20th April.
“I am a small music promoter in Milton Keynes and have just started a Jazz Club at MK11 Live Music Venue. We have two fantastic house bands that will alternately play alongside a soloist on the third Wednesday of every month.”
L to R: Jesper Larson (clarinet), Brian Turnock (bass), Dan Vercruysse (trumpet), Emile Martyn (drums), Paul Sealey (banjo), Philippe de Smet (trombone)
Brian Turnock’s New Orleans Z’hulus began their Spring, 2016, UK Tour with a stunning session at a packed Olney Jazz Club on Tuesday, 5th April, with each and every number rapturously applauded. Here Jazz&Jazz YouTubes present just two on their numbers.
Full Tour: 15 Great Venues on The New Orleans Z’hulus’ 2016 UK Spring Tour
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
