Live music

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 advocate...

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...