Live music

It was only a matter of time before Cuban born trumpeter and trombonist Michel Padrón crossed paths with ‘gringo’ Jim Blomfield, one of the South West’s best-known Jazz and Latin...

Born in the UK but raised in New Zealand, Cordez has lived and worked in London, Madrid and New York before settling in Bristol where he has become a major...

Guitarist Dan Waldman is well known both in Bristol and London, where he has presented his own band at Ronnie Scott's. He spent several years living in New York and...

Split Tone is a new project put together by saxophonist Craig Crofton, an Anglo-American sax and flute player who has lived in the UK for over 20 years and has built up...

Double Standards return to the Hen and Chicken to play a mixture of tunes from lockdown CD Release plus some new material. The group also has appearances coming up for...

For our first visiting band of 2022, we welcome Estraven as part of a tour taking in The Lescar, Sheffield, The Hive, Shrewsbury and The Vortex in London. Their debut...

James Chadwick - guitar, Nick Malcolm - trumpet, Henrik Jensen - bass, Andy Hague - drums

Ray D'Inverno - piano, Andy Hague - trumpet, Terry Quinney - tenor sax, Luke Belcher - bass, Andy Tween - drums

Saxophonist Alex Merritt has circulated in the upper echelons of London jazz society for a number of years, appearing at Ronnie Scott's, Pizza Express and so on, but fairly recently moved to...

Our special guest soloist tonight is Simon Spillett, who over the past twenty years or so has established himself as one of the UK's pre-eminent saxophonists. Simon is a firm...

Tonight we head over to the funky side of jazz with the irrepressible and slightly mystical Jingu Bang, who cite as their main influences Herbie Hancock and Weather Report alongside...

Jonny Bruce is a superb trumpeter, based in Bristol but with a national reputation. He is fluent in the whole history of jazz trumpet as he demonstrated some years back...