A special co-promotion between the Jazz Defenders and The Be-Bop Club to launch new single "Rolling On A High" featuring guest vocalist Doc Brown. Please note that this gig is on Wednesday not our usual Thursday, and will be in the Hen and Chicken's larger upstairs Studio room. Doors open 7.45 pm, band onstage at...
daoud is a trumpet player, record producer, mixer, songwriter, and composer based in France - he visited the UK last year for a short tour which produced some very well-received gigs. For tonight's appearance, he is joined in the front-line by Dan Newberry on sax, a favourite at the club whose mature playing belies his...
Trumpeter Andy Hague reunites the line-up which recorded his Coming of Age CD back in 2018, this will actually be only the band's second appearance since Covid struck. The music will be a mixture of tunes from Coming of Age and some of Andy's earlier albums. “So impressed with this record, wow, it’s current, it’s...
Saxophonist Duncan Anselm was a prominent member of Bristol's jazz community through the 1990s before he moved out of the city. Whilst in Bristol Duncan was a member of the fondly remembered Charles Mingus tribute Mingus Fingers, a septet led by bassist Dave Griffiths. He now revisits the Mingus repertoire with a new quintet. Bassist...
