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Berkhamsted Jazz Club Doors open at
7.15pm for 8.00pm (6.45 for 7.30pm on Sundays). Saturday September 10th 2011 8.00pm One Hundred Years Of Jazz in 90 Minutes: Richard
Pite (drums, sousaphone, double bass, piccolo, theramin) Enrico
Tomasso (trumpet, trombone, vocals) Nick
Dawson (piano, clarinet, vocals) Martin
Williams (clarinet, saxophones, flute) “Every era is evoked with complete conviction,
during the musical equivalent of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, in which
none of the major musical soliloquies gets left out.” Alyn Shipton (Presenter of
Radio 3's Jazz Library, jazz critic for The Times, author of A New
History of Jazz). Sunday October 9th 2011 7.30pm Acoustic Triangle: Tim Garland (reeds) Gwilym
Simcock (p) Malcolm
Creese (bs) “A trio of world-class virtuosi...exquisitely
passionate and inspired“ BBC Music Magazine Sunday October 23rd 2011 7.00pm The Dennis Newman Memorial Concert: Please click on the Memorial link for information. Saturday November 5th 2011 8.00pm The Gordon Campbell Quintet featuring: Robert Fowler (ten) Graham
Harvey (p) Jeremy Brown (bs) Matt
Skelton (d) “What a great afternoon’s entertainment this
concert turned out to be…. Gordon Campbell is … a world class trombone
player. “ Marion Fry Thursday November 10th 2011 7.30pm Annual General Meeting in the Court House, Berkhamsted. Please come along – cheese and wine provided. Saturday December 17th 2011 8.00pm The Michael Garrick Big Band A two-part programme featuring The Great Big Band Hits, and Mike’s
own Peter Pan Suite (to be recorded for a BBC Christmas Day concert). “The prolific Mike Garrick never ceases to amaze. He goes from strength to strength.” Crescendo magazine Saturday January 7th
2012 8.00pm
Keith Nichols plays the Music Of Fats Waller “Keith Nichols, an authority on
Fats Waller and exponent of the Harlem Stride style of piano-playing, hosts
the programme and delivers vocals and an amusing narration, describing Fats
Waller's larger-than-life personality and natural gift for timeless comedy.“ Sunday February 12th 2012 7.30pm Eriko Ishihara (p, voc) with
Colin Oxley (g) Simon
Thorpe (bs) Sebastiaan
deKrom (d). Eriko began her career as a pianist in Tokyo at the
age of 19. In 1994 she moved to London to study at the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama. Since then she has
worked all over Britain as a singer and pianist, performing in such places as
the 606 Club, Vortex, Pizza On The Park.” and the Royal Festival Hall Foyer,
as well as many hotels and restaurants. Sunday March 4th 2012 2.00pm – 10pm Thirtieth Anniversary Festival Full information later, but we will be presenting the bands of: The
Karen Sharp Quintet, Jim Hart/Michael Garrick Tribute To The MJQ, The Gresty/White Ragtimers, Elaine Delmar with Brian Dee, Sweet Chorus, Digby Fairweather’s Half-Dozen. Please note that special ticketing arrangements will
apply for the Festival. Tickets for
this event will only be available at concerts or by post [with ssae] from BJ
Festival, Hillcroft, 21 Ashley Green Road, Chesham, HP5 3PE. They will be sold to MEMBERS ONLY (click
the Membership link for more information) between September
and November 2011 and, thereafter, to non-members as well. Saturday March 24th 2012 8.00pm
Aylesbury Music Centre Big Band The internationally famous youth band, with guest stars to be
announced. The AMC Big Band has an average age of only 16 years & is directed by Nick Care. They have received 24 national awards to date including: Outstanding Performance Awards at the Montreux Jazz Festival, National Festival of Music for Youth & winners of the BBC National Big Band Competition four times! Saturday April 14th 2012 8.00pm The Scott Hamilton Quartet with: Scott
Hamilton (ten) John
Pearce (p) Dave
Green (bs) Steve
Brown (d) “…. a Scott Hamilton solo is like listening to a
great conversationalist in full flow. First comes the voice, the inimitable,
assured sound of his tenor saxophone, then the informal style and finally the
amazing fluency and eloquent command of the jazz language.” Dave Gelly Saturday May 12th 2012 8.00pm The Sidewinder Quintet Gabriel Garrick (tp,
flg) Sam
Walker (reeds) Mike
Garrick (p) Matt
Ridley (bs) Chris
Nickolls (d). A tribute to the music of Lee
Morgan and Horace Silver: Saturday June 2nd 2012 8.00pm Laurie Chescoe Reunion Laurie Chescoe leads his band featuring
original members Lord Arsenal, Tony Pitt, Dave Hewett and Pete Skivington. Saturday June 30th 2012 8.00pm Lee Gibson with the Geoff Eales Trio “At a Lee Gibson performance
you know that you’re in the presence of an artist with both deep musical
intuition and well-trained skill and professionalism. Her control over her
voice as she moves from warm intimacy to soaring power is a joy to hear. I
rate her CD ‘You Can See Forever’ as one of the best recordings by a British
jazz singer.” Chris Howes “JAZZ NOTES” “Maturity – in its most complimentary sense
– is perhaps Eales's hallmark; to a superb technique honed over years of
professional playing in a wide variety of musical contexts, he is able to add
more elusive qualities, chief among them grace, wit, control and musicianly
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