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Fumi

Okiji Fumi Okiji leads the Old Time Jazz Band, a fantastic group that combines the spirit of early blues and gospel influenced jazz with a contemporary take on that era’s sound.

Their album Old Fashion was released in January, and the accompanying tour is supported by Jazz Services’ Rural Touring Support Scheme, provided in partnership with the National Rural Touring Forum.

Fumi Okiji spoke to Jazz Services’ John Norbury-Lyons about the project.

“My mother was a great singer”, recalls Okiji, speaking of her early introductions to music. “She had this piercing, direct and pure alto, quite unlike mine. She would sing spirituals and hymns as she went about her day. She is surely my first influence, although it’s probably taken me most of my life to realise it. My parents had us very education-focused and so TV was strictly forbidden for much of the week. We were allowed to watch a bit on Saturdays and when I was little they used to show those old MGM musicals which I loved, mainly because of all the singing and dancing. For ages, being in a film musical from the 1940s was my number one goal. It was only in my mid-teens, when I discovered Ella and Chet Baker, that I realised how tame Fred Astaire and Rita Heyworth’s rendition of ‘I’m Old Fashioned’ was!”

Okiji came to jazz via a more rambunctious route. “I found jazz through Jimi Hendrix,” she explains. “I went through a Sixties phase, listening to Small Faces, the Beatles, the Stones

and the Kinks, as well as Hendrix. I wore out Axis: Bold as Love and a compilation of Hendrix’s blues, and this eventually led me to Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. They were a short step to Billie Holiday and Dexter Gordon, the first jazz musicians that I really listened to.”

A little after this Okiji started attending a community music workshop led by trumpeter Jim Dvorak. “It was a project in which we learnt Mingus tunes and freely improvised around them,” she says. “It was great, a really formative experience. I was taught to value space and silence, how to listen to the whole sound and how to focus on what I was attempting to convey. It taught me the importance of keeping hold of my voice and intention while making music communally. This set me on a path which I’m still following.” The experience

has stayed with her, too; “Mingus still means so much to me. I can’t listen to him without a lump in my throat.”

The Old Time Jazz Band is most directly inspired by a fairly specific period in jazz’s history, and there’s obviously something special about the early days of jazz that appeals to and inspires Okiji’s musical drive. “I really love jazz,” she enthuses, “from its beginnings, when you don’t really know whether you should really be calling it blues or vaudeville, to its present forms. The free jazz and avantgarde of the late Fifties and the Sixties is perhaps what I enjoy most of all – Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, late Coltrane, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Archie Shepp, Jeanne Lee and others. I’ve had the opportunity to sing in that freely improvised vein, with Black Top (Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas), Noel Taylor, Olie Brice and others. Olie and I are at the beginnings of a duo exploring standards in a free way – something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. As I mentioned earlier, Mingus is a massive influence on me, and I am currently working with Zac Gvi and Fred Thomas on a project of Mingus songs.”

Okiji feels the connection between these periods is an important and interesting factor.

“I hear a real affinity between some early jazz and the later free and avant-garde eras,” she says. “The blues feeling is important in both, the voice is celebrated. Musicians seem to use their instruments to speak or sing in a way that is certainly not lost in modern jazz but perhaps does not take pride of place. I love the experimentation with sound and texture the vocal, trumpet, harmonium trio of Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong and Fred Longshaw on St. Louis Blues is surreal! Ellington is just brilliant in bringing the most distinctive of instrumentalists together, making something with such unity yet packed full of idiosyncrasies. These are things that draw me to that early era.”

It’s not all rooted in the past, however. “Some of the tunes we perform are not really that early,” asserts Okiji. “Mount Harissa is a later Ellington/Strayhorn composition from the Far East Suite, ‘I’ll Look Around’ was written in the late Forties. Similarly, I’m not sure that standards such as I’m Old Fashioned and Sophisticated Lady can really be seen as ‘early jazz.’

But I think much of the later material we do, in the main, has that off-kilter, blues-imbued quality that much of the genuinely early stuff

that we do has.”

The group came about through a series of personal connections as Okiji explains. “My partner, Ben Davis, got the band together – despite the name of the band, it is definitely not an autocracy! Ben had worked with Stuart, Idris and Roy in the past and thought as well as being fantastic players that they would great to work with, and bring their distinctive personalities and sense of fun in making the music.”

Each of the players brings their own unique qualities to the proceedings, and Okiji is warmly enthusiastic about each of their contributions. “Stuart is such an amazing musician. He’s the agitator of the band which, I think, is the key to tackling the material that we do. While many of the tunes we perform cannot be described as tired (you don’t often hear Big Stuff, and West End Blues, while perhaps a staple in the Dixieland tradition, is not often sung), it is important to hear the tunes afresh and Stuart is without a doubt at the heart of all that.”

“Ben has a really distinctive lyrical approach to improvisation,” she continues, “and this

also comes through in his comping which is often intertwined with what the others are doing.

My voice, being so dark, is able to cut through more easily than when I sing with bass. The warm, woody sound created by the band is really important.” Having Idris on clarinet is, Okiji says, “like having another singer in the band. He effortlessly communicates with the

audience, really getting to the heart of what a tune is about. The blues is really important to me and listening to Idris makes me want to laugh and cry, often at the same time! He’s a great storyteller. And Roy is such a great drummer. Singers and drummers can sometimes have strained relations as, for some of us singers, a drummer is rarely too quiet! But working with Roy has shown me that, actually, it’s not all about volume.”

One of the worries the band had on starting out was exactly how to tackle the material. “I was quite sure that I didn’t want to ‘update’ the material in a self-conscious way,” says Okiji, “by putting things in odd time signatures or reharmonization. On the other hand, we didn’t want it to be museum music either.” She wanted to get past the notion – one that probably comes to many creative singers - that singing standards was a bit of a cop-out, “and past the thought that said, ‘do your really think you can add anything more to what those great singers and musicians before you have already said?’

But actually once we started playing together all those doubts were dispelled. Our aim is to engage with the standard, and tell the story of the song (hopefully showing something new), rather than fulfil any obligation to update and refresh.”

It’s probably fair to say the majority of Okiji’s contemporaries take their cue from a more ‘current’ place in jazz. Does she think there’s a risk of music from this era (as played by the OTJB) not being preserved by current musicians? “Well, people are starting to look again at early jazz,” she muses, citing Pigfoot (with Chris Batchelor, Liam Noble, Oren Marshall and Paul Clarvis), as “a fantastic band. But the great thing about jazz music is that it is an oral form in which the material is passed on through recorded sound. We don’t need to rely on our contemporaries or immediate predecessors to know about the Hot Fives and Sevens or Ethel Waters. We can find and listen for ourselves. Even if no-one wants to play or listen to this music today, the chances are someone will in the future thanks to records and CDs.” With the initial part of the tour completed in November, Old Fashion was released in midJanuary; as Okiji says, “we’d been playing together for two years and thought it was about time! We never rehearse, and working things through in performance is exciting if a little nerve-wracking. But that focus and adrena-

lin makes good music and finding a way to replicate that in the studio is what I find most challenging of anything I do. We recorded the album over a couple of days and tried to recreate something of a live performance, all of us in one room in an attempt to retain some of the spontaneity. I find recording stressful and I’m neither Zen nor experienced enough to rise above it all, but it was still the most fun I’ve ever had in a studio.”

The Old Time Jazz Band’s Rural Tour continues in February (see dates below), and it seems to be an ideal forum for the group’s approach.

“It’s been great to get the support from Jazz Services to tour the band for the first time.

It’s near impossible to get music out to audiences across the country without some sort of funding and as a band without a released album that difficulty was compounded. Many of the venues are small and intimate spaces, and as we prefer to perform virtually acoustic it really suits us. It’s perhaps the most sustainable kind of help we could have got as we have made contact with venues and promoters we’ll hopefully be able to visit again in the future.”

The Old Time Jazz Band’s Rural Touring Support Scheme dates continue throughout February and beyond, and the album Old Fashion is out now on Jes Grew Records. For more information see www.fumiokiji.co.uk and follow on Twitter @FumiOkiji.

Rural Tour dates: 5th Feb - Stoke Prior, Leominster 6th Feb - Memorial Hall, Clun 7th Feb - Market Theatre, Ledbury 12th Feb - Charlton Horethorne 13th Feb - West Coker, Yeovil 14th Feb - Curry Mallet, Taunton 24th Apr - Nancegollan, Helston 25th Apr - Warleggan, Bodmin 7th May - North Muskham, Newark 8th May - Ketton, Rutland 9th May - North Thorseby, East Lindsey

East Midlands Derbyshire Cube Cafe Bar Chapel Street, Derby DE1 3GU 01332 370911 Feb 2 Alex Garnett’s Bunch of Fives 6 Bunch of Fives 8pm

Leicestershire Angel Hotel 37 High Street, Market Harborough LE16 7AF 01858 462702 Feb 8 Nigel Price Trio w Vasilis Xenopoulos 12.30pm

Northamptonshire Studio The Castle Theatre, Castle Way,Wellingborough NA8 1AX 01933 229022 Feb 26 Wild Flower Sextet 8 pm

Nottinghamshire Bonington Theatre Arnold Leisure Centre, High Street, Nottingham NG5 7EE 0115 9670114 Feb 5 Impossible Gentlemen 8pm 19 Christine Tobin 8pm

Eastern Bedfordshire The Five Bells Station Road, Stanbridge, Leighton Buzzard LU7 9JF Feb 12 Bobby Wellins Quartet 8.15pm

Cambridgeshire Great Northern Hotel Station Approach, Peterborough PE1 1QL 01733 552 595/01733 571764 (Peterborough Jazz Club) Feb 8 Louise Clare Marshall 7.30pm Hidden Rooms The Basement, 7A Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 8BA 01223 514 777 or 07912 62 77 62; online@http://www.cambridgejazz.org Feb 26 Tom Green Septet 8pm Quality Hotel Thorpe Meadows, off Thorpe Road , Peterborough PE3 6GA Feb 5 Peterborough Big Band 8pm Saffron Hall Audley End Road, Audley End

CB11 4UH 01799 522399 Feb 7 Penguin Cafe The Six Bells 9 High Street, Fulbourn, Cambridge CB21 5DH Feb 4 Cambridge Riverside Jazz Band 8.30pm 18 Cambridge Riverside Jazz Band 8.30pm

Essex Bardswell Social Club Weald Road, Brentwood CM14 4TJ 01245 420475 Feb 10 Skelton/Skinner All Stars Big Band 8pm 17 Simon Spillett 8pm Colchester Arts Centre Church Street, Colchester CO1 1NF 01206 500900 Feb 14 Eduardo Niebla 8.30pm Cramphorn Theatre Fairfield Road, Chelmsford CM1 1JG 01245 606505 Feb 1 Vasilis Xenopoulos w Sam Miles 12.15pm Saffron Walden High Street, Saffron Walden CB10 1AZ 01799 522676 Feb 19 Pete Neighbour 8.30pm St Mary’s Church High Street,Wivenhoe, Colchester CO7 9BJ Feb 13 Gilad Atzmon & the Orient House Ensemble 7.30pm

Hertfordshire Civic Centre High Street, Berkhamsted HP4 3HD 01442 228925 Feb 7 Budapest Cafe Orchestra f Chris Garrick 8pm Herts Jazz Club Hawthorne Theatre Hawthorne Theatre,Welwyn Garden City AL8 6BX 01707 357117 Feb 1 Alec Dankworth World Spirit 8 Liane Carroll Trio 15 Gilad Atzmon & the Orient House Ensemble 22 Barbara Jay Tribute to Tommy Whittle

Norfolk Norwich Arts Centre Reeves Yard, St Benedicts Street, Norwich NR2 4PG 01603 660352 Feb 12 Gilad Atzmon & the Orient House Ensemble 8pm

Suffolk

Apex 1 Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds IP33 3FD 01284 758103 Feb 5 Jo Harman & Company 8pm 6 Sinatra Sequins and Swing 7.30pm 13 Ruby Turner 8pm Cock Inn 3 Callis Street, Clare CO10 8PX 01787 237653 Feb 1 Jo Fooks 8pm 15 Kevin Fitzsimmons 8pm Hotel Hatfield The Esplanade, Lowestoft NR33 0QP 01502 568684 (Milestones Jazz Club) Feb 1 Julian Costello Quartet Stoke by Nayland Hotel Golf & Spa, Keepers Lane, Leavenheath CO6 4PZ 01787 211865 (Fleece Jazz) Feb 6 Tammy Weis 8pm 13 Pete Oxley & Nicholas Meier 8pm 20 Robin Phillips Trio 8pm

London

606 Club 90 Lots Road, London SW10 0QD 020 7352 5953 Feb 1 Cecilia Stalin 8.30pm 2 Trio Manouche 8.30pm 3 Jonathan Gee’s Skydive 9.45pm 5 Neil Angilley Trio 8.30pm 7 Peter King 9.30pm 8 606 Gospel Group 1.30pm 9 Alan Darby’s Guitar Deluxe 8.30pm 10 Dan Reinstein + Dill Katz 8pm 13 Wayne Hernandez Pre-Valentine Night Special 9.30pm 14 Louise Clare Marshall Valentine Night Special 9.30pm 15 Zoe Francis Post-Valentine Night Special 8.30pm 16 Morrissey/Mullen Legacy Band 606 Club Special 8.30pm 19 Peter Ind 606 Club Special 8.30pm 20 Protect The Beat 9.30pm 21 Brandon Allen 9.30pm 22 Johanna Graham Quartet 8.30pm 23 Tommy Blaize Band 8.30pm 25 Emmanuel Waldron 8pm 26 Julian Arguelles/John Taylor 606 Club Special 8.30pm 27 Samara 9.30pm 28 Bobby Wellins 9.30pm Artigiano 12 Belsize Terrace, London NW3 4AX 0207 794 4288

Feb 6 Dario Di Lecce Trio 13 Marco Marconi Trio 20 Cristina Rubio 27 Graham Pike Trio Bulls Head 373 Lonsdale Road, Barnes, London SW13 9PY 020 8876 5241 Feb 14 Katriona Taylor 8pm Cafe In The Crypt St Martins In The Field, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ 020 7766 1158 Feb 4 The Silver Ghosts 11 Urban Jazz Collective 17 Jumoke Fashola 25 The Fabulations Cockpit Theatre Gateforth Street, Marylebone, London NW8 8EH 020 7258 2925 Feb 23 Jazz In The Round Front Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall South Bank Centre, Upper Ground, London SE1 8XX 020 7960 4242 Feb 13 Robert Mitchell’s Panacea 5.30pm Gunnersbury Tavern 590 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5RP 0208 742 7466 Feb 1 On The Slide f Jessica Radcliffe 12.30 - 3pm 8 Trinity Laban Jazz 12.30 - 3pm 15 Jim Barton Big Band 12.30 - 3pm 22 Winston Rollins Big Band 12.30 - 3pm Hideaway 2 Empire Mews, Streatham, London SW16 2ED 020 8835 7070 Feb 20 Shez Raja Collective Jamboree Courtyard of Cable Street Studios, 566 Cable Street, London E1W 3HB 07931 474 379 Feb 5/12/19/26 Ewan Bleach Presents: Golden Era of Jazz 7pm - 11pm Jazz Cafe 5 Parkway, Camden Town, London NW1 7PG 020 7916 6060 Feb 7 YolanDa Brown 7.30pm (doors) 27-28 Omar Kings Place 90 York Way, London N1 9AG 020 7520 1490 Feb 7 Julian Joseph Trio 8pm Long White Cloud 151 Hackney Road, London E2 8JL 0207 033 4642 Feb 5 Andrew Woolf Quintet 8.30pm

12 Word of Moth 8.30pm 19 Elision Quartet & Rubik Trio 8.30pm 26 Dave Kane/Alex Bonney & Alec Harper/Andrew Lisle/ Tom Wheatley 8.30pm Omnibus 1 Clapham Common, Northside, London SW4 0QW 020 7498 4699 Feb 15 Tommy Andrews Quintet 7pm Orford House Social Club 73 Orford Road, London E17 9QR 07930 544 312 Feb 25 Asaf Sirkis Trio w Gareth Lockrane 8.30pm Pheasantry 152 Kings Road, London SW3 4UT 020 7351 5031 Feb 6 Zeeteah 8.30pm Pizza Express Jazz Club 10 Dean Street, London W1D 3RW 08456 027017 Feb 1 Jacqui Dankworth 8pm 2 Edana Minghella Sings Billie Holiday 8.30pm 3-4 Renato D’Aiello Confluences 8.30pm 5 Tammy Weis Celebrates Julie London 8pm 6 Clark Tracey Quintet Celebrates Julie London 9pm 8 Louise Balkwill 1.30pm 9 Wild Flower Sextet 8.30pm 10 Beth Rowley 8.30pm 11 Pete Oxley & Nicholas Meier 8.30pm 12 Alex Mendham and his Orchestra 8.30pm 13 Kansas Smitty’s House Band 6pm & 10pm 14 Tina May w London FILMharmonic & Guillermo Rozenthuler 6pm & 10pm 15 Durham University Big Band 12noon 16-17 Ant Law Quintet 8.30pm 19-20 Bob Dorough & Friends 8.30pm 21 USONIC 10pm 21 Berenice Scott 6pm 23 Trish Clowes Quintet 8.30pm 24 Mads Mathias 7pm 25 Harry Allen Quartet f Andrea Pozza 8.30pm 26-28 Kim Waters Red Lion 92-94 Linkfield Road, Isleworth TW7 6QJ 020 8560 1457 Feb 2 Henry Armburg Jennings 8.30pm 9 Dave O’Higgins 8.30pm 16 Alan Barnes 8.30pm 23 Jim Mullen 8.30pm Rich Mix 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, Tower Hamlets, London E1 6LA 020 7613 7498

Feb 12 Troyka 8pm Ronnie Scott’s 47 Frith Street, London W1D 4HT 020 7439 0747 Feb 1 Simon Spillett Tubby Hayes at 80 - A Celebration of a British jazz Legend 12noon 1 Metheny Big Band 6.30pm 2-4 Ruby Turner 6pm 5-7 Pee Wee Ellis Funk Assembly f Huey Morgan (Fri/ Sat) 6pm & 10.30pm (Fri/Sat) 6pm & 10.30pm (Fri/Sat) 8 Elaine Delmar w Brian Dee Quartet 12noon 11-13 Kenny Garrett Quintet 6pm (& 10.30pm Fri) 14 Joe Stilgoe & Natalie Williams Valentines Day Special 6pm & 10.30pm 15 Ben Cox Band 12noon 15 Natalie Williams’ Soul Family 6.30pm 16 Chris Potter’s Underground 6pm 18 Zhenya Strigalev’s Smiling Organizm 8.30pm 19-21 Arturo Sandoval 6pm (& 10.30pm Fri/Sat) 22 Kate Dimbleby & Friends 12noon 22 Ronnie Scott’s Blues Explosion! 6.30pm 23-28 Billy Cobham 6pm (& 10.30pm Fri/Sat) Royal Albert Hall: Elgar Room Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP 020 7589 8212 Feb 5 Chris Ingham Quartet Celebrating Hoagy 9.45pm 12 Benoit Viellefon & his Orchestra 9.45pm 14 Blue Harlem Valentine’s Jazz 9.45pm 26 Kai Hoffman 9.45pm Royal College of Music Recital Hall Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BS Feb 11 Royal College of Music Big Band 7.30pm Ryans 181 Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 0UL 020 7275 7807 Feb 3 Astrakan p VLookUp Trio 8.30pm The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB 020 7837 5371 Feb 18 Andreya Triana 7pm The Vortex Dalston Culture House, 11 Gillett Square, London N16 8AZ 020 7254 4097 Feb 1 Alister Spence Quartet and Kit Downes/ Robert Landfermann 3 Olie Brice Quintet 4 Leo Blanco w Christine Tobin

5 John Butcher 8 London Jazz Orchestra 3pm 8 Thelonious 6pm 8 Roland Ramanan Tentet 8pm 9 Jazz Warriors Freedom 8pm 10 Nia Lynn 8pm 11 Blow The Fuse 8pm 14 Ian Shaw 8pm 15 Mopomoso 3pm 16 Hans Koller w John O’Gallagher 8pm 17 Mike Hobart’s Urban Jazz Collective 8pm 18 Maurizio Minardi Trio/ Quartet 8pm 19 James Allsopp 8pm 22 Anita Wardell 8pm 23 Gary Curson’s The Number 8pm 25 Mazaika Swing 8pm 26 Evan Parker 8pm 27 Steve Melling Trio 8pm White Lion 232 Streatham High Road, London SW16 1BB 020 8677 3341 Feb 28 Helen McDonald & Future Groove 8pm

North East Cleveland Blue Bell Lodge Acklam Road, Acklam, Middlesbrough TS5 7HL 01642 593939 Feb 22 Tees Valley Jazzmen 8pm Middlesbrough Theatre The Avenue, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough TS5 6SA 1642 815181 Feb 20 Big Chris Barber Band 7.30pm Oxbridge 17 Oxbridge Lane, Stockton on Tees TS18 4AW 01642 678129 Feb 5/12/19/26 New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band 8.30pm Park Inn Park Road, Hartlepool TS26 9HU 01429 233126 Feb 1/8/15/22 Musicians Unlimited 12noon Saltburn Community Hall & Theatre Albion Terrace, Saltburn-by-theSea TS12 1NN 01287 624007 Feb 6 Yorkshire Stompers 7.30pm

Co Durham Devonport Hotel 16-18 The Front, Middleton One Row, Darlington DL2 1AS 01325 332255 Feb 14 & 28 Tees Valley

Jazzmen 1.30pm Gala Theatre Millennium Place, Durham DH1 1WA 03000 266 600 Feb 7 Elkie Brooks 7.30pm 20 Dean Stockdale Trio 1pm New Inn 29 Church Street Head, Durham DH1 3DN 0191 384 7308 Feb 3/10/17/24 Gavin Lee 9pm No.1 Champagne Bar 1 Market Place, Bishop Auckland DL14 7NJ 01388 665533 Feb 26 Tees Valley Jazzmen 1.30pm St Augustine’s Parish Centre Larchfield Street, Darlington DL3 7TG 01325 469046 (jazz info) Feb 7 Funky Butt Hall N’Awlins Jazz Band 12.30pm Ushaw College Durham DH9 7HL 0191 373 8501 Feb 27 Paul Edis Sextet 7.30pm

Northumberland Black Bull Etal, Cornhill on Tweed TS12 4TL 01890 820200 Feb 14 Amjazz Experience 7.30pm Elephant Newbiggin Road, Ashington NE63 0SZ 01670 813983 (jazz info) Feb 4 Paul Skerritt Band 8pm Queens Hall Arts Centre Beaumont Street, Hexham NE46 3LS 01434 652477 Feb 3 Jazz Club 8pm 20 Djangologie 8pm Tarset Village Hall Lanehead NE48 1NT Feb 20 Shoeshop Quartet p Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra 7.30pm

Tyne & Wear Bell & Bucket 37-39 Norfolk Street, North Shields NE30 1NQ 0191 2570680 Feb 3/10/17/24 Paul’s New Orleans Music Show 1pm Black Horse 68 Front Street, Monkseaton NE25 8DP 0191 243 6931 Feb 6/13/20/27 Rendezvous Jazz 1pm Bridge Hotel

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Castle Garth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1BQ 0191 2326400 Feb 1/8/15/22 Live Jazz Music 8pm Caedmon Hall Central Library, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead NE8 4LN 0191 388 8776/0191 488 4353 (jazz info) Feb 12 & 26 Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society 5pm Cherry Tree Restaurant 9 Osborne Road, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 2AE 0191 2399924 Feb 4/11/18/25 Live Jazz Music 8pm Chillingham 89-91 Chillingham Road, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 5XL 0191 2655915 Feb 4/11/18/25 Take It To The Bridge 8pm Cullercoats Crescent Club 1 Hudleston, Cullercoats NE30 4QS 0191 253 0242 Feb 2/9/16/23 Jazz In The Afternoon 1pm 4/11/18/25 Vieux Carre Jazzmen 1pm Globe 11 Railway Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 7AD 0191 222 2222 Feb 2 Saxophones Together 7pm 3 Advanced Guitar 5pm Play More Jazz! 7.30pm 7 Swing Soup 8pm 8 Am Jam 3pm 9 Saxophones Together 7pm 10 Play More Jazz! 7.30pm 13 Dean Stockdale Trio 8pm 16 Saxophones Together 7pm 17 Advanced Guitar 5pm Play More Jazz! 7.30pm 21 Paul Skerritt Band 8pm 22 More Jam 3pm 23 Saxophones Together 7pm 24 Play More Jazz! 7.30pm 28 Redemption Jazz 8pm Hoochie Coochie 54-56 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6SF 0191 222 0130 Feb 8 Jason Isaacs 5pm 19 Pilgrim Street Set 8pm Jazz Cafe 25 Pink Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5DW 0191 222 9882 Feb 3 & 17 Jam Session 8pm 6/7/13/14/20/21/27 Live Jazz Music 8pm 10 Improvisers Workshop 8pm 12 Indigo Jazz Voices 7.30pm 24 Tom Green Septet 8pm

28 James Birkett Band w Giles Strong 9pm Jesmond Royal British Legion West Jesmond Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 3EX 0191 2810736 Feb 3/10/17/24 Maine Street Jazzmen 8.30pm King’s Hall International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS), Armstrong Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU Feb 3 Alister Spence Quartet p Paul Taylor 8pm 12 Zoe Rahman 8pm Millstone Haddricks Mill Road, South Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 1QL 0191 2853429 Feb 5/12/19/26 Vieux Carre Jazzmen 1pm 26 Strictly Smokin’ Big Band 7pm New Crown Hotel Mowbray Road, South Shields NE33 3NG 0191 455 7323 Feb 1 Customs House Big Band 7.30pm Potter’s Wheel Sunniside, Gateshead NE16 5EE Feb 5/12/19/26 Maine Street Jazzmen 8.30pm Red House Farm Hepscott Drive,Whitley Bay NE25 9XJ 0191 251 0824 Feb 1 Vieux Carre Jazzmen 8pm Sandpiper Farringdon Road, Cullercoats NE30 3ER 0191 253 5050 Feb 7 Rendezvous Jazz 8.30pm Springwell Village Hall Fell Road, Springwell, Gateshead NE9 7RP 0191 416 9747 (jazz info) Feb 4 Levee Ramblers New Orleans Jazz Band 9pm St Joseph’s CMS Parish Centre Birtley Lane, Birtley DH3 1LJ 0191 4102541 Feb 5 Live Jazz 8.15pm The Lit & Phil 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1SE 0191 2320192 Feb 6 Dean Stockdale & Lucy Baker 1pm Victoria 244 Whitley Road,Whitley Bay NE26 2TE 0191 251 3753 Feb 17 Jazz Machine 8pm 24 Jazz Machine 8pm

North West Cheshire Bollington Arts Centre Wellington Road, Macclesfield, Macclesfield SK10 5LW 01625 574410 Feb 28 Spats Langham’s Hot Fingers w Emily Campbell Cheshire Yeoman Ledsham Road, Little Sutton, Ellesmere Port CH66 4QR 0151 3393106 Feb 1/8/15/22 Roy Potts Five & a Penny 1pm Dog & Partridge 97 Palmerston Street, Bollington, Macclesfield SK10 5JX 01625 572177 Feb 9 Annie’s Saints & Sinners Horseshoe Sandbach Road, Alsager ST7 3RA 01270 876070 Feb 5/12/19/26 Giants Of Jazz Mill Hotel Milton Street, Chester CH1 3NF 01244 345635 Feb 2/9/16/23 Walled City Jazz Band & Irene Martyn Pierpoint & Bryant Recreation Club Thelwall Lane, Latchford, Warrington WA4 1NQ 01925 634083 Feb 2/9/16/23 Harry Goulden Big Band Players Theatre 59 Church Street, Davenham, Northwich CW9 8NF 01606 74502 Feb 26 Slowlight Quartet 8pm Poynton Royal British Legion Georges Road West, Poynton SK12 1JY 01625 873120 Feb 19 Mart Rodger Manchester Jazz Vagrants Club Newcastle Road,Willaston, Nantwich CW5 7EP 01270 623940 (jazz info) Feb 10 Bryan Jones Big Band Widnes Rugby Union Football Club Heath Road,Widnes WA8 7NU 0151 4242575 Feb 3/10/17/24 Savoy Jazzmen Wilbraham Arms Sandbach Road North, Alsager ST7 2AX 01270 877970 Feb 1 & 15 Willy’s Weepers

Wilmslow Conservative Club 15 Grove Avenue,Wilmslow SK9 5EG 01625 528336 Feb 3 Dave Newton w Dave Minshull & Dave Turner 8.30pm 10 Marilyn Royle w Dave Roberts & Steve Hall Trio 8.30pm 17 Len Skeat w Tom Kincaid & Gaz Hughes 8.30pm 24 Don Weller w Andrzej Baranek Trio 8.30pm

Cumbria Brewery Arts Centre Highgate, Kendal LA9 4HE 01539 725133 Feb 12 Impossible Gentlemen 8pm Hawkshead Beer Hall Mill Yard, Staveley LA8 9LR 01539 720172 Feb 10 Lez Bull Band 8pm Zeffirellis Compston Road, Ambleside LA22 9AD 01539 433845 Feb 7 Wild Flower Sextet 8.30pm 14 Slowlight Quartet 21 Freddie Garner Quartet 28 Paul Birchall Trio

G Manchester Albert Tennis & Bowling Club 39-41 Old Lansdowne Road, Didsbury M20 2PA 0161 4451056 Feb 2 Jazz OD w Alexandra Lennon Arden Arms 23 Millgate, Stockport SK1 2LX 0161 4802185 Feb 2/9/16/23 Louisiana Highway Bakers Arms Market Place, Stockport SK1 1ES 0161 477 7312 Feb 3/10/17/24 Live Jazz Music Band on the Wall 25 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JZ 0161 2375554 Feb 3 Impossible Gentlemen 7.30pm 14 James Taylor Quartet 7.30pm Beaconsfield Conservative Club The Gables, Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 6QL 0161 3302653 Feb 18 Tame Valley Stompers Big Hands 296 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NS 0161 2727779 Feb 25 Robin Sunflower

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Band Brackley Conservative Club Hazlehurst Road,Worseley, Manchester M28 1JU 0161 7941735 Feb 5/12/19/26 Ronnie Hayes Big Band Broadoak Hotel Broadoak Road, Ashton-underLyne OL6 8QD 0161 3302764 Feb 3 Julian Gregory Cheadle Hulme Conservative Club Mellor Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle Hulme SK8 5AT 0161 4851087 (jazz info) Feb 5 The Sinatra Swingers w Debbie Wilson 8.30pm 27 Salford University Big Band 8.30pm Cinnamon Club The Bowdon Rooms,The Firs, Altrincham WA14 2TQ 0161 926 8992 Feb 5 Sue Barron Quintet 6 Magic Beans 7 Theo Jackson Trio 12 Dominic Halpin 14 Smooth Edge 27 Mike Walker & Stuart McCallum 28 Mads Mathias 7.30pm De La Salle RUFC Lancaster Road, Salford M6 8FX 0161 7892261 Feb 10 Terry’s Dead Good Boys 24 Rae Owens’ Happy Five Delph Band Club Lawton Square, Delph, Oldham OL3 5DT 01457 874465 Feb 6/13/20/27 Spirit of New Orleans Denton West End Social Club Grosvenor Street, Denton M34 3WN 0161 3363171 Feb 10 Tony Greenwood Big Band Didsbury Cricket Club Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 2ZY 0161 4455347 Feb 5 Tame Valley Stompers 12 Savannah Jazz Band 19 Chicago Teddy Bears 26 Harlem Hot Stompers Dunscar Conservative Club Hardmans Lane, Bromley Cross, Bolton BL7 9HJ 01204 303661 Feb 2 Old Fashioned Love Band Fuel Cafe Bar 448 Wilmslow Road, Withington, Manchester M20 3BW 0871 2076787 (jazz info) Feb 12 Noise Upstairs free improv jam session

High Lane Conservative Club 23 Buxton Road, High Lane, Stockport SK6 8DG 0161 4499495 Feb 2 Mart Rodger Manchester Jazz Hillary Step 199 Upper Chorlton Road, Whalley Range, Manchester M16 0BH 0161 8811978 Feb 1 Dave Roberts Quartet 8 Dan Wheildon Hyde Cricket & Squash Club Werneth Low Road,Werneth Low, Hyde SK14 3AD 0161 3683078 Feb 6/13/20/27 Dave Hodges & Vinnie Parker Trio w Guests Klondyke Club Burnage Range, Manchester M19 2HQ 0161 224 4122 Feb 5 Atlas Forge Mix Up Leigh Liberal Club Church Street, Leigh WN7 1AY 01942 743153 Feb 2/9/16/23 Brian Ward Big Band Matt & Phred’s Jazz Club 64 Tib Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M4 1LW 0161 8317002 Feb 2 Blues Jam 3 Gypsies of Bohemia 4 Lee Parry + Canter Semper 5 Matt Holborn Quartet 6 Kamikaze 7 Soul Tubes 9 Jazz Jam w Johnny Hunter 10 No Good Beatniks 11 Keith McGee Trio 12 Neil C Young Quartet 13 New York Brass Band 16 New Orleans Jam 17 Blind Monk Trio 18 Stuart McCallum 19 Jamie Brownfield Quartet 20 Skamel 23 Soul Jam 24 Charlie Cooper 25 Kyla Brox 26 Ocan Oni Band 27 Chinese Marbles 28 Dreamer Newtown National Club 3 Nixon Street, Rochdale OL11 3JN 01706 640713 Feb 8 Tame Valley Stompers 22 Millennium Eagle Jazz Band Palace Sports Bar Mill Lane, Stockport SK6 1QH 0161 494 0093 Feb 16 New Lights Big Band Petit Bijou 9 Massie Street, Cheadle SK8 1BW 07746 784949 (jazz info) Feb 12 Jazz Guitar Club w

Trefor Owen Railway 74-76 Wellington Road North, Stockport SK4 1HF 0161 4773680 Feb 1 Dean Masser 3 Steve Oakes Quartet 8 Tim Franks 10 & 24 Paul Hartley RNCM Theatre 124 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9RD 0161 907 5555 Feb 7 Matthew Halsall & the Gondwana Orchestra p GoGo Penguin + Mammal Hands 14 National Youth Jazz Orchestra 20 Troyka Sedgley Park Rugby Union Football Club Park Lane,Whitefield, Manchester M45 7DZ 0161 766 5050 Feb 1/8/15/22 Gerry Tomlinson Trio w guests 1pm Slug & Lettuce 651 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury M20 6QZ 0161 4341011 Feb 3 Ed Kainyek Quartet 10 Steve Pimlott Quartet 17 Rob McWhirter & Co. 24 Mark 5 Smiths Restaurant 1-3 Church Road, Eccles, Manchester M30 0DL 0161 7887343 Feb 3/10/17/24 Jeremy Sassoon & Friends Stockport Masonic Guildhall 169 Wellington Road South, Stockport SK1 3UA 0161480 6531 Feb 4/11/18/25 Double B Jazz Orchestra Thirsty Scholar New Wakefield Street, Manchester M1 5NP 0161 236 6071 Feb 4/11/18/25 Jazz Fraternity Jazz Jam Whelley Ex-Serviceman’s Club 180 Vauxhall Road,Wigan WN1 3LU 01942 241583 Feb 22 Swingshift Big Band 12.30pm Woodhouses Working Mens Club 62 Medlock Road, Failsworth, Manchester M35 9WN 0161 6813562 Feb 2 Freddie Garner Trio 9 Chris Holmes Trio 16 Steve Buckley Quartet 23 Vinnie Parker Trio

Lancashire Ashley Conservative Club

Victoria Road East,ThorntonCleveleys FY5 5HQ 01253 854284 Feb 2/9/16/23 Alan Riley Big Band Atrium Clitheroe Castle, Castle Hill, Clitheroe BB7 1BA 01200 442630 Feb 6 Wagon Train Bitter Suite 53 Flyde Road, Preston PR1 2XQ 01772 827007 Feb 12 Silver Bell Band Garstang & District Arts Centre The Old Grammar School, Croston Road, Garstang PR3 1HQ 01995 606648 Feb 6/13/20/27 John Towers Big Band Grand 18 York Street, Clitheroe BB7 2DL 01200 421599 Feb 14 The Al Wood Nine Hothouse 13-17 Devonshire Road, Morecambe LA3 1QT 01524 831997 Feb 28 Troyka 8pm KSC Club 10 Forest Street, Nelson BB9 7NB 01282 616883 Feb 2/9/16/23 Forest Jazz Band Monterey Beach Hotel 20-22 North Promenade, St Annes-on-Sea FY8 2NQ 01253 721317 Feb 2/9/16/23 Ray Gordon’s Big Band Robert Gillow 64 Market Street, Lancaster LA1 1HP 01524 360092 Feb 1/8/15/22 Sun Street Stompers 12.30pm St Teresa’s Catholic Club College Road, Up Holland, Skelsmerdale WN8 0PY 1695 622186 Feb 5 Chicago Teddy Bears Station Tavern Station Square, Lytham St Annes FY8 1RF 01253 734252 Feb 3/10/17/24 Jazz Aces Swan With Two Necks 2-4 Holinshead Road, Chorley PR7 1EP 01257 266649 Feb 1/8/15/22 Rae Owen Quintet 2-5pm Wings Club 135 Victoria Road West,Thornton, Cleveleys FY5 3LA 01253 852709 Feb 5/12/19/26 Wyre Levee Stompers

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Ye Olde John O Gaunt 53 Market Street, Lancaster LA1 1JG 01524 65356 Feb 2/9/16/23 Jazz Unlimited

Merseyside Alma de Cuba St Peters Church, Seel Street, Liverpool L1 4BH 0151 7027394 Feb 5/12/19/26 Musica en Vivo 10.30pm Capstone Foyer Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, Shaw Street, Liverpool L3 8QB 0151 7093789/ 0844 8000 410 Feb 28 Jazz Worriers Capstone Theatre Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, Shaw Street, Liverpool L3 8QB 0151 7093789/ 0844 8000 410 Feb 27 Troyka 28 Dennis Rollins’ Velocity Trio Grapes 35 Knight/Roscoe Street, Liverpool L1 9BW 07950 828674 (jazz info) Feb 1/8/15/22 Jazz Confusion 9.30pm Liverpool Cricket Club Aigburth Road, Liverpool L19 3QF 0151 4272930 Feb 2/9/16/23 Merseysippi Jazz Band Maghull Town Hall Hall Lane, Maghull L31 7BB 0151 5201633 (jazz info) Feb 12 Chicago Teddy Bears 26 Merseyside Big Band Royal British Legion Rose Lane, Mossley Hill, Liverpool L18 5EA 0151 7245753 Feb 3/10/17/24 Blue Magnolia Jass Orchestra Royal Clifton Hotel The Promenade, Southport PR8 1RB 01704 541790 Feb 6 Jazz on a Winter’s Weekend f Alexander Bone Quintet / Alan Barnes/David Newton Sextet/ Theo Jackson Quartet 7 Jazz on a Winter’s Weekend f Jump Monk/ Marius Neset & Daniel Herskedal/ Dmitry Baevsky Quintet/ Vive A Capella 8 Jazz on a Winter’s Weekend f Josh Kemp Quartet/ Birmingham Conservatiore Jazz Orchestra/ Pete Long’s Jazz-At-The-Phil/ Alan Benzie Trio f Gordon Vernick 22 Pete Oxley & Nicholas Meier 8pm

Shrimper Fylde Road, Southport PR9 9XP 01704 833 159 (Jazz at the Shrimper) Feb 4/11/18/25 Live Jazz Music Trad Jazz St Helens Bowling Club Regents Road, St Helens WA10 3HU 01744 230093 Feb 8 Jazz Gentlemen Studio 2 Parr Street Studios, 33-45 Parr Street, Liverpool L1 4JN 0151 7073727 Feb 3 Jazz Worriers 10 Nicki Allan/Rod Mason 17 Tom Green Septet 24 Victor Brox The Kazimier 4-5 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool L1 4JJ 0151 3241723 Feb 26 Gogo Penguin 8pm

Aberdeenshire Blue Lamp 121 Gallowgate, Aberdeen AB25 1BU 01224 647472 Feb 19 Tom Green Septet 8pm Hopeville Social Club 34 Harlaw Road, Inverurie AB51 4SR 01467 621478 Feb 27 Atholl Smith Jazz Band

Edinburgh Jazz Bar 1A Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HR 0131 220 4298 Feb 18 George Crowley’s Can of Worms

Wirral

Shore Bar & Restaurant 3 Shore, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6QW 0131 553 5080 Feb 3/10/17/24 John Elliot Trio 8.30pm

Boathouse 1 The Parade, Parkgate CH64 6RN 0151 336 4187 Feb 3/10/17/24 Parade Jazz Band

Voodoo Rooms 19A West Register Street, Edinburgh EH2 2AA 0131 5567060 Feb 8 Troyka

Brewers Arms 1 Park Street, Neston CH64 3RP 0151 3361627 Feb 2/9/16/23 Alan Jeff’s Jazz Jam Gallaghers Pub & Barbers 20 Chester Street, Birkenhead CH41 5DQ 0151 6499095 Feb 8 Wirrorleans Jazz Band Heswall Royal British Legion 78 Pensby Road, Heswall CH60 7RF 0151 3421297 Feb 3 & 17 Peninsula Jazzmen Melrose Hall Melrose Avenue, Hoylake CH47 3BU Feb 15 Terry Perry’s Big Easy Old Wallaseyans Club 140 Grove Road,Wallasey CH45 0JF 0151 6392832 Feb 5/12/19/26 Tuxedo Jazz Band Royal British Legion 289 Teehey Lane, Bebington CH63 8QS 0151 6082270 Feb 4/11/18/25 Freddie Smith Big Band Ship Inn Market Street, Hoylake CH47 3BB 0151 6324319 Feb 2/9/16/23 Savoy Jazzmen

Scotland

Glasgow Butterfly & Pig 153 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4SQ 0141 2217711 Feb 18 Tom Green Septet 9.30pm Glasgow Art Club 185 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4HU 0141 2485210 Feb 19 George Crowley’s Can of Worms

Inverness-shire Eden Court Theatre Bishops Road, Inverness IV3 5SA 01463 234234 Feb 20 Tom Green Septet 7.30pm The Old Bridge Inn 23 Dalfaber Road, Aviemore, Inverness Feb 21 Tom Green Septet 10pm

South East Berkshire Global Cafe 35-39 London Street, Reading RG1 4PS 0118 958 3555 Feb 17 Fleur Stevenson hosts Jazz Singers Night w Chris Neill/Nick Hill/Ben Robins 9pm South Hill Park Arts Centre

Ringmead, Bracknell RG12 7PA 01344 484123 Feb 13 Simon Spillett w Simon Cook Trio 8 pm/ support band 7.30pm

Buckinghamshire Stables Laine Dankworth Centre, Wavendon, Milton Keynes MK17 8LU 01908 280800 Feb 1 Gerald Albright 8pm 3 Tom Green Septet 8.45pm 4 Eduardo Niebla Experience 8pm 11 Troyka 8.45pm 22 Art Themen Tribute to Tommy Whittle 11.30am 26 James Taylor Quartet 8pm

E Sussex Old Market Arts Centre Upper Market Street, Hove BN3 1AS 01273 736222 Feb 10 Impossible Gentlemen 8pm

Hampshire Anvil Churchill Way, Basingstoke RG21 7QR 01256 844244 Feb 12 Big Chris Barber Band 7.45pm 13 Geoff Eales 8pm Turner Sims University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ 02380 595151 Feb 7 John Surman Special Quartet 8pm 8 John Surman Tales of the Algonquin 7.30pm 20 Courtney Pine/Zoe # Rahman 8pm 28 Ian Shaw 8pm

Kent Langley Park Social Club 2 Hawkesbrooke Lane, Beckenham BR3 3SR 01245 420475 Feb 5 Chris Dean 8.30pm 12 Skelton/Skinner All-Stars 8.30pm 26 Georgia Mancio Quartet 8.30pm Pizza Express 32 Earl Street, Maidstone ME14 1PS 0845 6027017 Feb 27 Mads Mathias 7pm Tower Theatre North Road, Folkestone CT20 3HL 01303 260330 (Folkestone Jazz Club) Feb 5 Humphrey Lyttelton Band 8.30pm 12 Anita Wardell Trio 17 Alison Neale w Nat Steele

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26 Blue Note Project

Oxfordshire Bullingdon Arms Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1UE 01865 244516 Feb 3 Hugh Turner Band 8.30pm 10 Heavy Dexters 8.30pm 17 Stuart Henderson Quartet 8.30pm 24 Alvin Roy’s Reeds Unlimited 8.30pm Carswell Golf & Country Club Carswell Home Farm, Faringdon SN7 8PU 01367 718903 / www.oxfordlivejazz.com Feb 27 Harry Allen w Simon Woolf Trio 8.30pm Hacketts Wine Bar Wesley Walk,Witney OX28 6ZJ 01993 700858 Feb 8 Alvin Roy Trio 1pm 15 Rory McInroy Band 1pm 22 Alvin Roy Trio 1pm The Nag’s Head Bridge Street, Abingdon OX14 3HX 01235 536645 Feb 1 Alvin Roy Quartet 5pm

Surrey Friends Life Social Club Pixham Lane, Dorking RH4 1QA 07415 815784 (Watermill Jazz Club) Feb 1 Watermill Jazz Jam 2-5pm 5 Simon Spillett Quartet/ Bobby Wellins Celebrating Tubby Hayes 8.30pm 12 Jo Fooks Quartet 8.30pm 19 Laura Jurd’s Chaos Orchestra 8.30pm 26 Mads Mathias 8.30pm The Electric Theatre Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZ Feb 3 Jimmy Hastings 7.30pm The Pavilion Guildford Road, Godalming, Guildford GU7 3DH Feb 11 Karen Sharp 8pm

W Sussex North Hall Guildford Road, Loxwood, Billingshurst RH14 0SE 01403 752954 Feb 17 Pete Long/Simon Bates Quintet f Paul Morgan 8 pm

South West Bristol

The Bear 261 Hotwells Road, Bristol BS8 4SF 0117 9877796 Feb 6 Rebecca Nash Quartet 8.30pm 13 Wild Flower Sextet 9 pm 20 Mike Collins Quartet 8.30pm 27 Andy Hague Quintet 8.30pm

Cornwall Bosun’s Quay Road, Charlestown, St Austell PL25 3NX 01726 879 500 Feb 18 Andy Sheppard Trio 8 pm Western Hotel Royal Square, St Ives TR26 2ND 01736 796082 (St Ives Jazz Club) Feb 3 Tommaso Starace Quartet 8.30pm 10 Wild Flower Sextet 8.30pm 17 Andy Sheppard Trio 8.30pm

Devon Barnfield Theatre Barnfield Road, Exeter EX1 1SN 01392 270891 Feb 27 Marcus Vergette 5 8pm Beaver Inn Irsha Street, Appledore EX39 1RY 01237 474822 Feb 2 Wild Flower Sextet 8.30pm Plymouth Guildhall Ker Street, Plymouth PL1 4EL Feb 7 The Paper Moon Band Swing Ball Devon 7pm Queen’s Theatre Gallery Cafe Queen’s Theatre, Boutport Street, Barnstaple EX31 1SY 01271 324242 Feb 10 Troyka 8pm Royal British Legion Club Tailyour Road, Crownhill, Plymouth PL6 5DH 01752 721179 (jazz info) Feb 1 The Gordon Clark Quartet 7.30pm 15 Savannah Jazz Band 7.30pm St Lawrence Chapel Lawrence Lane, Ashburton TQ13 7DD 07980 680052 (jazz info) Feb 1 Wild Flower Sextet 8 pm

Dorset Blue Boar 29 Market Close, Poole BH15 1NE 01202 682247

Feb 12 Wild Flower Sextet 8.30pm Lighthouse Kingland Road, Poole BH15 1UG Feb 13 Eduardo Niebla 8pm

Gloucestershire Everyman Studio Theatre Regent Street, Cheltenham GL50 1HQ 01242 572573 Feb 23 Gilad Atzmon 8pm

Somerset Hen & Chicken 210 North Street, Southville, Bristol BS3 1JF 0117 966 3143 Feb 15 Ant Law Quintet 8.15pm St George’s Great George Street, Off Park Street, Bristol BS1 5RR Feb 26 Tim Garland 8pm

Wiltshire Wiltshire Music Centre Ashley Road, Bradford-on-Avon BA15 1BX 01225 860100 Feb 4 Will Butterworth Quartet 1pm

Wales Cardiff Dempseys Castle Street, Cardiff CF10 1BS 029 2049 6802 (Jazz at Dempsey’s) Feb 11 George Crowley’s Can of Worms 9pm 18 Ant Law Quintet 9pm RWCMD - Dora Stoutzker Hall Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3ER 029 2039 1391 Feb 13 Troyka

Denbighshire Farmers Arms The Waen, St Asaph LL17 0DY 01745 582190 Feb 11 Suzanne Mott Quintet 8.30pm

Isle of Anglesey Victoria Hotel Telford Road, Menai Bridge LL59 5DR 01745 812260 Feb 25 Alan Skidmore 8.30pm

Powys Theatr Brycheiniog

Canal Wharf, Brecon LD3 7EW 01874 611622 Feb 24 Ruth Bowen’s Gardenia Swing w Heinz Hunt

Swansea St James Social Club St James Crescent, Swansea SA1 6DR 07802 912789 (Swansea Jazzland) Feb 4 Gilad Atzmon & the Orient House Ensemble 11 Mark Nightingale 18 Tipitina 25 The ‘J’ Word

Wrexham Royal British Legion Watts Dyke, Llay LL12 0RL 01745 812260 (jazz info) Feb 3 Brownfield Byrne Quintet 8.30pm 10 The Weave 8.30pm

West

Midlands Shropshire Hive Media & Arts Centre 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury SY1 1TE 01743 234970 Feb 21 Dominic J Marshall Trio 8pm

Staffordshire National Brewery Centre Horninglow Street, Burton-onTrent DE14 1NG 01283 532 880 Feb 4 Zoe Gilby Trio 8 pm

W Midlands Birmingham Town Hall Victoria Square, Birmingham B3 3DQ 0121 780 3333 Feb 10 Kenny Garrett Quintet 8pm 16 SIGNUM Saxophone Quartet 6pm MAC: Theatre Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham B12 9QH 0121 446 3232 Feb 25 Troyka Spotted Dog 104 Warwick Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B12 0NH 0121 7723822 Feb 24 George Crowley’s Can of Worms The Blue Piano 24-26 Harborne Road, Birmingham B15 3AA Feb 20 Last Chance Saloon

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6pm The Red Lion 95 Warstone Lane, Hockley, Birmingham B18 6NG 0121 507 9551 (jazz info) Feb 6 Neon Villages 7.45pm 20 Jon Lloyd Group 7.45pm 27 Wild Flower Sextet 7.45pm

Yorkshire E Yorkshire Lairgate Hotel 30-32 Lairgate, Beverley HU17 8EP 01482 882141 Feb 13 & 27 Climax Jazz & Blues Band 8pm

N Yorkshire Cask Inn & Sigma Cambridge Terrace, Scarborough YO11 2LH 01723 500570 Feb 25 Tom Green Septet 8.45pm

S Yorkshire Lescar Hotel S11 8ZF 0114 2367570 (jazz info) Feb 4 Wild Flower Sextet 9pm

11 Jazz Worriers 9pm 18 Tipping Point 9pm 25 George Crowley’s Can of Worms

Feb 23 Tom Green Septet 8.30pm

Dean Clough - Crossley Gallery Dean Clough Administration, Dean Clough, Halifax HX3 5AX S11 8PY www.wegottickets.com 01422 255266 Feb 4 Impossible Gentlemen Feb 6 Liane Carroll Trio 8pm 8.30pm 13 Larry Bartley’s Just Us Glyde House 8.30pm Glydegate, Bradford BD5 0BQ 20 01274 271114 Orchestra 8.30pm Feb 6 Wild Flower Sextet 27 Trish Clowes Quintet 8.30pm 8.30pm Millennium Hall

W Yorkshire Boston Spa Village Hall High Street, Boston Spa LS23 6AA 01937 842636 (Jazz in the Spa) Feb 7 Frank Brooker & The Happy Chappies 8pm 14 Maine Street Jazzmen 8pm 28 Spirit of New Orleans 8pm Caroline Social Club Caroline Street, Saltiare, Bradford BD18 3JZ 7443333110 Feb 13 Bourbon y Tequila 8pm Common Place 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds LS2 7EQ 0845 3457334

Howard Assembly Room 46 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NU Feb 7 Quercus 7.45pm Inkwell Arts 31 Potternewton Lane, Leeds LS7 3LW 0113 30 70 108 Feb 1 Gordon Vernick 1pm 15 Jazz Jam 1pm Leeds College of Music - The Venue 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7PD 0113 2223434 Feb 3 Wild Flower Sextet 7.30pm 9 Troyka Seven Artspace 31(a) Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, Leeds LS7 3PD 0113 2626777

Feb 5 Liane Carroll Trio 8pm 8 Ian Chalk Quartet Firebird 1pm 22 Tom Green Septet 1.30pm 26 Trish Clowes Quintet f Gwilym Simcock 8pm Undercliffe Cricket Club Intake Road, Bradford BD2 3JR 01274 637162 Feb 11 Emily Brown & Jim Corry 9pm 11 Ken Butler Trio w Emily Brown & Jim Corry 9pm 18 Ken Butler Trio w The After Hours Quintet 9pm 25 Ken Butler Trio w Nicky Allan & Rod Mason 9pm College Grove, Eastmoor Road, Feb 7 Alan Barnes Quartet w Liz Fletcher 8.30pm 13 Dave Newton Trio 8.30pm 20 ARQ 8.30pm 27 The De Jong Cleynderts 8.30pm Wharf Chambers 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds LS2 7EQ 0845 3457334 Feb 23 Tom Green Septet 8.30pm

Listings deadline The deadline for the April issue is 18th February Please send all listings information including full venue address and tel. to:

listings@jazzservices.org.uk Listings, Jazz Services, First Floor, 132 Southwark Street, London SE1 0SW

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