Jazz
2018
Christian Brewer
Quartet: http://www.christianbrewer.com/
Christian Brewer Sax, Leon Greening
piano, Adam King bass and Matt Skelton drums.
Christian Brewer is well known on the
UK Jazz scene as a leading sax player, composer and teacher having performed at
many of the top clubs, venues and festivals both home and abroad.
Christian studied at Leeds School of
Music and The Guildhall School of Music to become one of the most lyrical and
soulful alto players to have emerged on the UK in recent years with his melodic
playing and pure tone. He has performed with far too many leading players from
around the world to include here and is no stranger to the recording studio.
Leon Greening studied at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama and then at Leeds College of Music, where he received
a BA (Hons) in Jazz and Contemporary Music. He was runner up in the Young Jazz
Musician of the Year in 1999 and like Christian, has performed with far too
many leading jazz artists to include here. He is also an experienced teacher,
composer and bandleader and has released a CD with his own trio featuring Sam
Burgess on bass and Steve Brown on drums.
Tickets £10
Rob Barron Quartet: http: www.robbarronmusic.com/
Rob Barron
keyboards, Nat Steele vibes, Jeremy Brown bass and Josh Morrison drums.
Rob Barron is a London based jazz pianist, arranger and composer and has
been described as “one of the most creative and versatile musicians of his
generation.” Born in East Yorkshire he started playing the piano at the age of
five and by the time he was in his teens, was performing his first gigs with
infamous local band Jazz Soup, playing a weekly residency in Hull that lasted
over two years.
Rob moved to Leeds in 2000 to study Jazz at Leeds College of Music where he was awarded the prize for outstanding performance on the
BA Hons programme. After 4 years of working as a pianist in Leeds and
Manchester, Rob moved to London in 2004 to further his studies at The Guildhall
School of Music and Drama.
Since graduating, Rob has become a mainstay of the London jazz and studio
scene and his work as a jazz pianist has taken him all over the UK and the
world where he has played with numerous leading artists. He regularly appears
with the BBC Big Band and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra/Late
Show.
He regularly appears as band leader but as a commercial session musician,
Rob has performed live with numerous bands and artists as well in the house
band for many TV shows for the BBC.
In the studio Rob has played on several film soundtracks as well as TV
series and a children’s animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes. Rob’s piano playing
can be also heard on commercials for M&S, J.Sainsbury (Christmas 2016) H&M, and Boots.
Tickets £10
Clark Tracy Quintet: http://www.clarktracey.com
Clark Tracey drums, Alexandra Ridout trumpet,
Sean Payne alto sax, Elliot Sansom keyboards and James Owston
bass.
Clark Tracey grew up in a jazz environment as the son of Stan Tracey CBE,
the UK's leading jazz pianist, and from an early age played piano and
vibraphones. At 13 he started playing the drums and he turned professional at
17 in 1978 by joining his father's various ensembles, from trio to orchestra.
He formed his first own group in 1981 and has since collaborated with far
too many jazz luminaries to list here. He has played freelance with some of the
most important artists in jazz both at home and abroad, again far too many to
include here. Clark has toured the UK and worldwide performing in over 50
countries bringing him numerous awards including best drummer in the British
Jazz Awards in 2016 & 2017.
He has recorded extensively making over 90 albums and in 2001 he began
his own record company, Tentoten Records and in 2007
he formed Resteamed Records, a label dedicated to his
father's works. Not contented with just performing, Clark regularly composes
and arranges not just for his own groups but for numerous other artists and
ensembles.
Looking to the future of jazz Clark has given master classes in a number of academic institutions and has run numerous
workshops around the UK and overseas and has even written an intermediate level
instructional book for Schott Publishing, "Exploring Jazz Drums".
We are delighted to welcome Clark and his quintet back to Marigolds.
Tickets
£10
Matt
Wates Quartet: http://www.mattwates.com/
Matt Wates sax, Leon Greening keyboards,
Julian Bury bass and Matt Fishwick drums
Matt was born in London in 1964 and
graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1988. As with so many of the
musicians who play at Marigolds Matt has appeared with so many famous
performers they cannot be included here. Similarly, he has played and recorded
with many notable ensembles and the Matt Wates Sextet has recorded nine albums
on the Audio-B label.
John
Dankworth said of Matt that he was, “An incredibly talented musician and
composer" and it has been said that he is a truly remarkable young British alto
saxophonist, a performer of boundless ability and the most swinging alto player
on both sides of the Atlantic. Matt won the Rising Star award in the 1997
BT British Jazz Awards, and the Matt Wates Sextet won the Best Small Group
award in 2001 where the aim is for the band to sound like a band and not just a
collection of soloists. Matt composes and arranges much of the material that
the Sextet plays.
Pianist Leon Greening's is an immense
talent with a hard-swinging style that has made him a favourite on the jazz
scene for a long time given his youthful years. He studied piano at Leeds
College of Music and the Guildhall and makes no apologies for his adoration of
the great bebop pianists, with Wynton Kelly, Bobby Timmons and Bud Powell being
among his primary influences.
His intense performances and
extraordinary solos, inspired by those earlier jazzmen keep audiences on the
edge of their seats and mark him out as one of the finest pianists this country
has ever produced.
Tickets
£10
Ted Beament
Quintet
Ted Beament
keyboards, Jo Fooks sax, Steve Waterman trumpet,
Murray Salmon bass and Les Circle drums.
Ted Beament
keyboards, Jo Fooks sax, Steve Waterman trumpet,
Murray Salmon bass and Les Circle drums. There is far too little space here to
do justice to this fantastic line up of musical talent. Apologies.
A regular at Marigolds, Ted’s superb
musicianship makes him one of the finest pianists in Britain. He has played all
over the UK and abroad but is particularly well known on the London jazz scene.
As well as being a great band player, Ted is equally at home performing as an
innovative soloist or providing an excellent accompaniment for any vocalist. He
is currently a member of the outstanding Humphrey Lyttelton
Band but has also played alongside many fine soloists as always too many to
name here.
After winning 'The Young Scottish Jazz
Musician of the Year', Sottish born Jo went on to study at the Guildhall School
of music in London and later the Berklee School of music in Boston on a full
fee scholarship. After recording her debut album "Here and Now!", the
legendary British trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton
invited her to join his band with whom she toured and performed across the UK
and where Humphs fun filled melodic approach to music
was a big influence on both her playing and composing.
Winning numerous jazz awards over the years
Steve is one of the top British jazz trumpet players both at home and on the
international scene beginning his career while studying at Trinity College of
Music. Since then, as well as playing regularly he has recorded many critically
acclaimed CDs in his own name and with others and has a large portfolio of his
own compositions. He is professor of Jazz Trumpet teaching in several
institutions as well as teaching on many summer jazz courses and numerous
Trumpet master classes and workshops throughout the UK and across the world. He
has co -written with John ONeil a highly acclaimed
Jazz Trumpet tutor book, ‘The Jazz Method for Trumpet’ published by Schott
& Co.
Tickets
£10
Jim Mullen Organ Trio
Jim Mullen guitar, Mike Gorman organ and Tristan Mailliot
drums
Jim is a truly original player in modern jazz guitar. Originally from
Glasgow he moved to London in 1969, going on to work in the groups of Pete
Brown, Brian Auger, Vinegar Joe and Kokomo. In 1975 whilst touring the US with
the Average White Band, Jim met sax player Dick Morrissey. They began a 15-year
association in the legendary British jazz funk band Morrisey Mullen where Jim
found critical notice as joint leader.
After the demise of this band he worked with jazz vocalist Claire Martin
and formed a series of quartets.
Jim has also played and recorded with, among others, Mose
Allison, Hamish Stuart, Joanna Eden, Tam White, Claire Martin, Mike Carr, Jimmy Witherspoon, Dave O'Higgins and Georgie Fame,
Sinan Alimanović, David Tughan
and Frank Holder. He has recorded as part of The AllStars,
a collective of session musicians on their Paul McCartney-produced album All
About the Music, alongside special guests Jocelyn Brown, Hamish Stuart and
Angelo Starr. In 2014, he featured prominently on the Citrus Sun album, 'People
of Tomorrow', produced by Incognito co-founder, Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick.
As sideman he is in demand by visiting U.S. stars like Gene Harris, Mose Allison, Jimmy Smith, Weldon Irvine, Percy Sledge,
Teddy Edwards, Plas Johnson, Jimmy Witherspoon and
Terry Collier.
He is twice winner of 'Best Guitar' in the BT jazz awards and 'Best
Guitar' in the 2000 British Jazz Awards.
Mike Gorman was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. After studying in
Manchester, he moved to London in 1995 to attend the Guildhall School of Music,
Since then he has established himself as one of the UK's leading jazz
pianists and organists. Mike has been an integral part of the London and UK
jazz scene performing with virtually every UK horn player and vocalist of note such
as Don Weller, Bobby Wellins, Alan Skidmore, Georgie
Fame, Peter King, Alan Barnes, Dave Cliff, Stacey Kent, Guy Barker and Danny
Moss, amongst others.
Mike is a key member of the Jim Mullen Organ Trio, with whom he as
recorded 3 acclaimed albums.
Mike is also in great demand as a session player touring and recording
extensively with a wide variety of artists in the field of popular and
commercial music, including Boy George, Mica Paris, Van Morrison, Hamish
Stuart, Marty Pellow, Marlena Shaw, Gwen McCrae, Andrea Bocelli and Tom
Robinson.
Mike also worked with many US artists, including Jimmy Witherspoon, Ken Peplowski, Bill Watrous, Lanny Morgan, Gwen McCrae and
Marlena Shaw, and toured and recorded with major international acts Incognito
and Us3. Mike released his debut album "The Maze" on the label 33
Records in March 2002. The Album received much critical acclaim and was named
Jazz CD of the Month in the Nov '02 BBC Music Magazine.
Tickets
£10
Allison Neale’s West Coast Quartet: http://www.allisonneale.com
Allison
Neale Saxophone, Alex Bryson piano, Darren Macarthy
bass and Matt Fishwick drums.
Allison, who
is no stranger to Marigolds, was born in the USA when her British father was
working for Boeing in Seattle and came to the UK as a young child. She
originally started playing flute when about eight years old and although
classically trained on flute she started playing saxophone in her mid-teens.
Allison was
heavily influenced by listening to her father’s records and in
particular those of West Coast Jazz musicians like Gerry Mulligan and
Stan Getz, the Brubeck Quartet, Paul Desmond, Jim Hall and Chet Baker, Bill
Evans. She has a particular affinity with Paul Desmond
and Art Pepper and the beautifully crafted lines of her compositions often
evoke the spirit of those players.
As a strong
advocate of the melodic West Coast style she has performed alongside leading
international artists such as Adelaide Hall and Bud Shank and more recently tenorist Scott Hamilton as well as featuring in both the
John Dankworth ‘Generations‘ Band and the “Back to
Basie’ Orchestra. She frequently tours the UK and has two CDs to her name
‘Melody Express’ with guitarist Dave Cliff and ‘Blue Concept’ with trumpeter
Gary Kavanagh, both on 33 Records. Her third CD " I Wished on the Moon was
released in January 2015 on the Trio Records label and features her quartet as
well as Milt Jackson influenced vibraphonist Nat Steele.
Tickets
£10
Jo Harrop sings Peggy Lee with special guest
Tony Kofi
Jo Harrop sings Peggy Lee with special
guest Tony Kofi
Jo Harrop vocals, Tony Kofi sax, Alex
Webb piano, Neville Malcolm bass, Joel Prime drums.
Durham born jazz singer Jo Harrop is a
jazz singer who has a refined mellow sound that is warm, intimate &
sincere. She pays tribute to Peggy Lee, the sultry songstress who Duke
Ellington called ‘the queen’. Created
with MD/arranger Alex Webb (piano) ‘Fever’ features Tony Kofi (alto sax), with
the creamy-voiced Harrop delivering moving renditions of Peggy Lee ballads as
well as swinging out on other great songs from the Lee canon.
Born in Nottingham to West African
parents, the playing career of saxophonist Tony Kofi has been long and varied.
After a four-year stint at the legendary Berklee College of Music in Boston
Mass. USA, on a full scholarship music diploma Tony has appeared and played in
numerous different combos both in the UK and abroad. He is particularly committed
to teaching young people the joys of music and not only regularly runs his own
workshops/individual lessons but works in South London with children with
special needs.
Alex Webb has been a jazz-oriented songwriter
and arranger for some years and for a large part of his career he has worked in
and around the music business – in live music promotion, music publishing, as a
music press officer and in music radio. As a piano player he has played with
many notable performers both in the UK and abroad.
Tickets
£10
28th September
Clive Fenner
Quintet
www.martin-hathaway.com/Home.html
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http://www.geoffgascoyne.com/index.html
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https://www.loiremusic.com/info/tutors/42-mark-ridout
Clive Fenner drums, Martin Hathaway sax, Mike Gorman keyboards,
Mark Ridout and Jeff Gascoyne bass.
For more than
10 years Clive has been the resident drummer at The East Side Jazz Club where
he has supported many of the UK’s leading musicians including Kenny Wheeler,
Peter King, Tony Coe, Jean Toussaint, John Etheridge and Liane Carroll.
He started
playing in Blues, Pop and Jazz-Rock bands in clubs and Universities supporting
bands like Fleetwood Mac, The Nice and Free and always had a love of jazz since
hearing “Straight No Chaser” in his teens. He studied with top American drummer
Clifford Jarvis (Freddie Hubbard, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders ) and with Britain’s premier drum teacher, Bob
Armstrong.
As well as
organising and performing at The East Side Jazz Club he is founder and Director
of The International French Jazz Summer School and The Cuban Music School in
Havana Cuba
Tickets
£10
James Scannell Quartet
http://jamespscannell.com/about.html
https://www.gabriellatchin.com/home
http://www.mattfishwick.net/html
James Scannel sax, clarinet, Gabiel Latchin keyboards, Simon
Woolf bass and Matt Fishwick drums.
Born in London 1974 but now living in Berlin, James Scannell works as
freelancer playing a range of woodwind instruments performing jazz, pop and
classical music.
He has recorded for film, TV Shows and commercials, has worked with
classical orchestras (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Session
Orchestra, Deutsches Film Orchestra Barbelsberg) played jazz festivals in France, Spain,
Germany, England, USA, Finland, Denmark and Sweden as well as concert
performances in Singapur, Switzerland, China and UEA.
He has performed with big bands (Echoes of Ellington, Rias, Till Brönner) played on pop albums (one becoming platinum), as
well as co-leading his own jazz band Linejam wíth singer Aline Staskowiak.
The rest of the band have all had long and varied careers and there is
far too little space to even start to document here. However, they can all be
found on the web at the addresses given above.
Tickets
£10
Marigolds All Stars with EnricoTommaso
https://www.deezer.com/en/artist/4467726?autoplay=true
& https://www.fandalism.com/martinguy
http://www.jazzcds.co.uk/artist_id_565/biography_id_565
& http://www.timhuskisson.com/index.html
& https://www.josecanha.com/
Enrico Tomasso trumpet/vocals, Martin Guy
drums, Mark Crooks sax, clarinet, Tim Huskisson keyboards, and Jose Canha bass
Enrico was born into a musical family
and was brought up on the earlier styles, Swing and Dixieland, by his dad
before he discovered Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard and the
‘fusion stuff’, which opened his mind to anything.
When Louis Armstrong came to London in
1976 Enrico’s dad introduced him, age 9, to Louis at London Airport. As Enrico
had taken his trumpet with him, which he had been playing for 3 years, he
serenaded Louis in the airport with ‘Sleepy Time Down South’ as alluded to in
our posters.
Enrico has gone on to become a very top
trumpeter in the jazz world winning numerous awards and playing with many
famous musicians in many prestigious bands as well as leading his own
ensembles.
Unfortunately, there is far too little
space here to do justice to Enrico’s illustrious career or to even scratch the
surface of the careers of the other musicians in the band other than to say in
Greg’s own words that, ‘they are all top blokes’.
Tickets
£10
Alan
Barnes Quartet
Alan Barnes
Sax, Ted Beament keyboards, Simon Thorpe bass and
Clark Tracey drums
Returning to
Marigolds Alan is a prolific international performer, composer, arranger,
bandleader and touring soloist. He is best known for his work on clarinet, alto
and baritone sax that has few peers. His range and brilliance have made
him “first call” for studio and live work and his recorded catalogue is immense
whether as leader/co-leader, alone or supporting other artists. The recipient
of numerous British Jazz Awards, Alan has played residencies and toured
tirelessly, building a warm rapport with audiences making him uniquely popular
in British jazz.
Local lad Ted
Beament needs no introduction to regular patrons at
Marigolds and as space is short……
Simon Thorpe
plays in bands across the jazz spectrum as well as leading his own bands with a
double bass style that is strong and melodic making him one of the UK's most
popular players.
Winston
Clifford is one of the most in demand drummers on the jazz scene to date. His
playing is free from the usual restraints of stylistic expectations and a true
reflection of listening and responding, “in the moment”.
Tickets £10