Moonscape “Fresh and Joyous” (Manchester Jazz Festival). Moonscape is an exciting contemporary group playing original music drawn from a wide range of influences. Taking the 60s chordless quartets of Ornette...
Trumpeter Andy Hague ran his popular salsa/jazz octet Conjunto Gringo from 2010 to 2018, and now presents a slimmed-down sextet version to play rearranged versions of the Conjunto repertoire, plus...
Gaz Hughes is a renowned jazz drummer and band leader, who first gained wide public attention as the original drummer in the Matthew Halsall Band. He has played a significant...
The Alex Merritt/Antonio Fusco Quartet reunites friends and musical compatriots Alex and Antonio, who will be joined by sterling bassist Henrik Jensen and rising star pianist Nick Manz for this...
Ross Hicks is a young Cardiff based pianist who made a great impression on a short tour with saxophonist Simon Spillett last summer: "Hicks was a revelation, ideas emerged and...
The Sophie Stockham Quartet pay tribute to the great hard-bop saxophonist Lou Donaldson. Known for his soulful bluesy approach to the saxophone, Donaldson was one of the pioneering voices in...
Martin Kern grew up in Bülach near Zürich in Switzerland and first started to play classical cello, then later at age 17 picked up the saxophone. He studied in Paris...
Double bassist James Owston last appeared at the club back in December with saxophonist Alex Clarke, playing alongside Dave Newton and Clark Tracey, and has a growing national reputation both...
Pianist John Donegan's visit last year was one of our most enjoyable gigs of 2023, in which a Bristol line-up performed music from John's album Shadows Linger, originally recorded by...
John Law (“one of our finest pianists” - Jon Turney, London Jazz News, Feb 2024) presents his Re-Creations project. The idea is simple: creatively re-work some of the best known...
Sara Colman makes her debut visit to The Be-Bop club, bringing her quintet of longstanding collaborators. The ensemble will perform music from Sara’s album Ink on a Pin: A Celebration...
The melodic and inventive guitar playing of Matt Hopkins has been featured in groups as stylistically diverse as Andy Sheppard’s Hotel Bristol, Emily Wright & The Royals and the Hopkins-Hammond...
