JAZZ IS BACK!

Neil Hughes, BIF’s Jazz Director, introduces this year’s Jazz Line-up Jazz is back in '23 with another fast start at The Palace Hotel. Opening up with New Orleans maestro Dale Storr on Thursday 6 July, we roll through 12 events all the way to Wynton Marsalis on Monday night at the Opera House.

Jazz is such a broad church, and once again we mix solo gigs, Jamie Safir on Friday night, duet gigs, Trish Clowes and Ross Stanley on Saturday night, and an 18-piece big band with the Northern Jazz Orchestra on Sunday lunchtime. Please take a look at the programme, it was so much fun putting it together.

New for 2023, our inaugural Late Night Jazz Cafe in Pavilion Gardens

We have three brand-new late-night shows for you, and if you are attending the musical or opera, you can now join us for food and drink afterwards, from 10pm. With three great bands booked, it is just like a gig downstairs, but book a platter at pavilion.gardens@parkwoodleisure.co.uk, and you can have VIP access upstairs on the mezzanine with table service for your group.

And of course, we have some bona fide superstars for you. John Helliwell, Supertramp's well known saxophonist, brings his Super Big Tramp Band project to Buxton, an 18-piece rearrangement of all those hits. We have Madeline Bell, Dusty Springfield's backing singer, and a star in her own right with Blue Mink, singing the music of Bacharach and Dusty. And the most famous trumpeter of them all, Wynton Marsalis graces us with a late-night show.

I look forward to welcoming you to Buxton very soon for the best in jazz. Thank you for your continued support.

NEIL HUGHES Jazz Director