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Wednesday Nights @ Mill Hill Jazz Club
from 8.30pm
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Wednesday 8th February |
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Graham Pike Quartet
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Another club favourite, the talented multi-instrumentalist Graham Pike opened the MHJC at our new venue last year. As well as being a horn player, vocalist and harmonica virtuoso Graham is a composer, producer and music director with a formidable history in film, TV and theatre as well as a soloist in Jazz venues throughout the UK and Europe.
Supported by equally famous musicians Barry Parfitt on keyboard, Jason Simpson on bass and Eric Ford on drums tonight promises to be a super session.
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Price: £6 Members / £8 Guests |
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Wednesday 15th February |
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Kelvin Christiane Quintet
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Kelvin Christiane has been leading his own bands for the past fifteen years and has released twelve CD’s of his originals and standards.
A graduate from the Leeds College of Music he has played with artists such as Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie, Pucho & the Latin Soul Bros, Jim Mullen, Gilad Atzmon, Alan Barnes, Don Weller, Bob Martin, Roland Perrins’ Blue Planet Orchestra, Dave O'Higgins, Derek Nash, Steve Waterman, Peter King, Alex Garnett, John Etheridge, Dave Cliff.
Kelvin performs regularly at the major festivals in the UK and Europe which has included Nice and Montauban, France.
He is accompanied tonight by Paul Jayasinha on trumpet, Robin Aspland on piano, Adam King on bass and Noel Joyce on drums.
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Price: £8 Members / £10 Guests |
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Wednesday 22nd February |
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Clark Tracey Quartet
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Percussionist Clark is the son of Stan Tracey, one of the UK's greatest Jazz pianists. He has toured worldwide and recorded extensively throughout his working life drumming with globally renowned players including Django Bates, Alec Dankworth, Johny Griffin, Bud Shank, Scott Hamilton and our own Ronnie Scott. Clark is a bandleader, composer, teacher and performer whose work includes TV, film, radio and stage performances.
"He is one of the sharpest jazz drummers in the country" - Birmingham Evening Post.
"If Blakey has a UK equivalent, it is fellow drummer Clark Tracey" - The Independent.
"An apprenticeship in the top flight has forged Clark into one of the most impressive jazz drummers in Britain today" - The Times.
The Quartet includes Arnie Somogyi on bass, Gareth Williams on keyboard, and Simon Allen on sax.
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Price: £10 members and £12 guests |
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Wednesday 29th February |
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Val's Jazz Jam Night
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Leaping into action Val will be proposing a host of top flight Jazzers to join her on stage to demonstrate their skills and other attributes.
Our house band of John China on keys, Steve Picking on bass and Mike Paxton on drums will provide their usual back up and encouragement to keep things swinging and bouncing.
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Price: £5 members and £6 guests |
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Our Jazz CD
Like Jazz? Well we have a great CD of some of the great bands who have played at the Mill Hill Jazz Club - all yours for just £10, for more information call
01923 85 95 11 or come down to the Jazz Club and speak to Paul Amsterdam. Click the image to the right for a list of tracks and some exerts. |
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“This CD crackles with creativity and demonstrates that, with its blend of old & new, conventional & contemporary, that the Mill Hill Music Festival is an important part of the bedrock on which our jazz scene is built. I’m proud to be one of its patrons.”
-- Humphrey Lyttelton |
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