Programme 2008

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Concerts are 8:30-11:00pm at The Goodfellowship Inn in the Kenilworth Suite. Information...

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Wed 16/Jan Players Session
£2 Our regular sitters~in session. The Hulljazz House band presides. Participating bands and individual players welcome.
   
Wed-23/Jan Sally Doherty Quartet
£8
Sally Doherty - vocals, Piero Tucci - piano and accordion, Colin Elliot - double bass, John Perry - drums
 
A latin inspired band fronted by Sally along with Canadian pianist and accordion player Piero Tucci.
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Wed-30/Jan Ron Bottomley's Quintessential Five
£8 Jim Corry & Joel Purnell - saxes, Graham Hearne - piano, Rus Pearson - bass, Ron Bottomley - drums
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Wed-6/Feb Tam de Villiers' Paris-London Quartet
£8
Tam de Villiers - guitar Josephine Davies - tenor sax Bruno Schorp - double bass Nick Smalley - drums/percussion
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Wed-13/Feb Rod Mason's Elements
plus Mike Walker
£8 Rod Mason -saxes, Mike Walker - guitar, Richard Weatherall - keyboards, Dave Tyas - drums, Richard Hammond - bass guitar.
  Storming tenor sax virtuoso and one of UK's top guitarist with some of the best musicians in the region Rod's web-site   Mike's Web-site
   
Wed 20/Feb Players Session
£2 Our regular sitters~in session. The Hulljazz House band presides. Participating bands and individual players welcome.
   
Wed 27/Feb 'The Friday Play'
£6 Gareth Parry - guitar, Kris Wright - drums, Chris Hargreaves - bass
  Leeds-based band led by Kris Wright. Inspired by the guitar-fronted trios of Bill Frisell and Wayne Kranz
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Wed 05/March Julie Edwards - Kevin Dearden Band
£8 Julie Edwards - vocals, Kevin Dearden - saxes & guitar, Piero Tucci - piano, Warren Jolly - bass, John Perry - drums.
  Swing standards and latin material. Classy vocals and terrific playing.
   
Wed 12/March 'A Tribute to Atlantic Jazz'
£8 Jim Corry - Alto sax, James Russell - Baritone sax, Stuart McDonald - Tenor sax, Steve Parry - Trumpet, Andy Cholorton - Piano, Chris Sykes - drums, Richard Hammond - Bass
  Septet led by Jim Corry playing music associated with the great record label.
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Wed 19/March Players Session & Hulljazz 25th anniversary
£2 Our regular sitters~in session. The Hulljazz House band presides. Participating bands and individual players welcome. Special guest: Matt Smith - tenor sax
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Easter Break
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Wed 16/April Players Session
£2 Our regular sitters~in session. The Hulljazz House band presides. Participating bands and individual players welcome.
   
Wed 30/April Thom Whitworth (trumpet, guitar)
£5 with The Melody Jazz Trio
  Thom Whitworth - trumpet, guitar, Keith Stutt - drums, Ollie Hopkins - bass, Kevin Leach - piano
   
Wed 7/May Rob Lavers Quartet
£8 Rob Lavers - tenor/soprano sax, Jamil Sheriff - piano, Laurent Robin (France) - drums; Jon Thorne - bass.
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Wed 14/May David Barton Trio
£5 David Barton - piano, Ollie Hopkins - bass, Kris Wright - drums.
  Winner of the recent 2008 'Hull Daily Mail Talent Trail Contest', David plays funky jazz inspired by the bluesy piano style of Jools Holland. In 2005 he appeared at the Royal Albert Hall supporting Jamie Cullum as part of the London Jazz festival.
   
Wed 28/May Players Session
£2 Our regular sitters~in session. The Hulljazz House band fronted by guest Graham Galtrey (clarinet) presides. Participating bands and individual players welcome.
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Wed 11/June The East Coast Big-Band
  A dozen of the region's best big-band players assemble under the leadership of Mike Smith whose skilled trombone style is nurtured through a lifetime playing with top people in UK and rest of Europe. In his long career, among many famous associates, he has played with the bands of Ted Heath, Johnny Macintosh, the BBC Big-Band and backed Sammy Davis Jnr, Shirley bassey, Buddy Greco, Tom Jones and many other musical household names.
   
Wed 25/June Trombone Poetry
£5 Paul Taylor - trombone with Gary Hammond - percusion and The Melody Jazz Trio who are: Peter Elsdon - piano; Ollie Hopkins - double bass, Keith Stutt - drums.
  An evening featuring Paul Taylor's excellent trombone playing and flavoured with his own entertaining jazz-inspired poetry. More...

And another Festival performance with a jazz element:
Jazz Troubadours - Stan Tracey & Michael Horovitz

These concerts promoted in association with THE HUMBER MOUTH Literature Festival http://www.humbermouth.org.uk/
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Wed 9/July Players Session
£2 Our regular sitters~in session. The Hulljazz House band presides fronted by guest trombonist, Dave Crossley. Participating bands and individual players welcome.
   
Wed 23/July Jenny Smith Band
£8 Jenny Smith-vocals Andy Cholerton-piano Adrian Knowles-double bass Paul Smith-drums
  Up and coming young singer fronts a talented group playing ‘fresh and fun’ arrangements of standards. In 2006 she won Leed's College of Music's prize for jazz vocals. In 2007 she was impressive at the Jazz Yorkshire 'NuNight' concert at 'Howden Live' Jenny's 'myspace' pages
   
Wed 6-August Dave Barry's 'Precious Time'
£12 Dave Barry -drums, Steve Waterman -trumpet/flugel, Don Weller -tenor sax, Arnie Somogyi -double bass, Gareth Williams -piano
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Summer Break