Live music

Multi-instrumentalist, composer and film-maker Kevin Figes returns to the club to launch new album, Turning Corners, featuring Denny Ilett on guitar, Chris Jones on bass and Kasabian's Ian Matthews on drums. The record follows two critically acclaimed releases ('Wallpaper Music' and 'Changing Times') which featured all original compositions. “The idea behind 'Turning Corners' was to...

London-based saxophonist and Dankworth Prize-winning composer Matt Anderson presents his third album, The Town and the City, which follows 2018’s Rambling also by this long-running quartet. The title refers in part to the diverse influences on the music, such as from the whole spectrum of the jazz tradition and various rhythmic traditions from around the world, but...

Damon Brown is one of the UK's top jazz trumpeters, who released his debut album A Rhythm Indicative back in 1998 to great acclaim. He went on to work alongside most of the UK's best known players such as Peter King and Don Weller, and began to forge international links with players from Europe, Japan...

Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter was one of the most revered figures in jazz, a truly original and distinctive voice both in his playing and writing. He passed away at the beginning of March at the age of 89. The 1960s saw Shorter composing for Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, classic Blue Note albums under his...

Saxophonist Fraser Smith is touring to promote the release of his debut album Tip Top! on the prestigious Ubuntu label, and it's one of the hardest swinging recordings to land on the Be-Bop desk in quite a while. Two decades of study and scholarship have informed this album of original material. Wholly inspired by the music and...

Following in the footsteps of players such as Ant Law, Tom Ollendorff is one of the most rapidly rising contemporary guitarists of the UK jazz scene, and is touring to promote new recording Open House. Known for his distinctive sound which blends virtuosic guitar playing with sophisticated harmonic and melodic ideas, Ollendorff’s music elegantly mixes gracefully...

Radhika de Saram – bass guitar, Zhenya Strigalev - alto sax, Charles Kieny – accordion, Jamie Murray – drums A new project from bassist and composer Radhika de Saram performing original compositions from her upcoming debut album, influenced by jazz, world music and Sri Lankan folk song and rhythm. Radhika de Saram has toured with her...

Hugh Pascall - trumpet and flugelhorn, James Allsopp - tenor sax, Liam Dunachie - piano, Oli Hayhurst - bass, Jay Davis - drums Having visited us with a quartet in 2022, trumpeter Hugh Pascall returns with a quintet of star musicians from the UK scene to present new music from his forthcoming second album Viewfinder, alongside music...