The performance is upstairs in Guildford Pavilion, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.

Doors open and supper available from 7pm, performance 8pm to about 10:15pm (with interval). Licensed bar. Seating is cabaret style and there is a lift for disabled access.

Pre-gig Menu from Mandira’s Kitchen: (please select chicken or vegetarian )

• Vegetable samosas served with tamarind chutney

• Kaju Dhania Murgh - Tender chicken in a delicate sauce of ground cashews, coconut and fresh coriander

• Or Mattar Paneer - A rich, flavourful curry made with paneer and green peas in a spiced tomato gravy, finished aromatic spices

• Vegetable Pulao - Basmati with a mix fresh vegetables and whole spices

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz Members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £15.50 (please note the new price)

john Etheridge

“No doubting his awesome authority when he touches the guitar” – The Guardian

John Etheridge rightly enjoys a glowing reputation throughout the jazz world and beyond and has been described by Pat Metheny as, “One of the best guitarists in the world”. He is a prodigiously gifted and creative player whose approach to music can only be described as eclectic, his range being well illustrated by his years of touring and recording with Stephane Grappelli while simultaneously doing likewise with the legendary jazz-fusion group, The Soft Machine.

"I never wanted to be a star, just a highly respected musician like John Etheridge" Sting (THE GUARDIAN 1981)

VIMALA ROWE

A Fortuitous meeting in North London brought together legendary guitar veteran John Etheridge and extravagantly talented singer Vimala Rowe, who have developed a highly personal repertoire from an eclectic mix of musics – original and traditional. Both performers have a protean range of influences. Etheridge has over the years worked in contexts from Classical, Jazz to Progressive Rock, whereas Rowe’s span seems almost instinctive – effortlessly absorbing and blending the worlds of all the great soul and jazz singers into a personal mix including Indian Classical, African Folk and Syriac Aramaic.

One of the defining features of the duo’s work is the commitment and passion of their delivery. Rowe is a fiery performer by any standards- yet the paring down to just two produces intimacy and drama alike. Explosive but chambered. The big effect and the delicate gesture. The pieces are carefully chosen to surprise, but above all to take the listener on an emotional journey through joy and pain, sombre or swinging. There’s dark and light. A real musical journey.

“Rowe…A captivating and seemingly effortless soulful voice” KISS FM

pete Whittaker - organ

In a style that draws from Blues, Gospel, Funk as well as Bebop Pete has featured with many of the UK’s top jazz musicians especially in the organ/guitar/drums trio line-up. As such, he aims for a style which is improvisatory and expressive, but firmly tied to an all-pervading groove.

“Pete Whittaker, an object lesson in soulfulness” LONDON JAZZ NEWS

George Double - drums

A favourite with Guildford Jazz audiences, George's playing and recording credits include Dame Shirley Bassey, Grammy Award Winner Jack Jones, Marc Almond, Mica Paris, Ruthie Henshall and Kym Mazelle. His West End and touring theatre record includes stints on Wicked, Guys and Dolls, Avenue Q, Sinatra and Anything Goes.

He is active on the British jazz scene and appears regularly at Ronnie Scott’s club in London and elsewhere as a freelancer (with Chris Ingham, John Etheridge, Art Themen, Digby Fairweather, Derek Nash and many others). He is also curator of Hadleigh and Southwold Jazz Clubs.

“Swinging, pithy and unerringly apt” - MOJO Magazine

Marianne Windham - bass

Guildford Jazz anchor Marianne Windham completes the lineup on double bass

The performance is upstairs in the Pavilion building at the Guildford County Cricket Club, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

For sat navs please check the postcode takes you to Wharf Road. There’s a car park alongside, entry from Wharf Road. If you’re approaching from Guildford town centre, Wharf Road is on the left just before the Sports Ground. If you’re approaching from the A3/Ladymead there’s no right turn into Wharf Road, but continue to the next roundabout to double back.

The car park next to the Pavilion holds about 40 cars (to enable emergency access, cars can only park in the marked bays). Unless it’s very wet, the overflow car park at the far end of the Cricket ground will be open.

To access the overflow car park, turn left as you come out of Wharf Road and carry on along Woodbridge Road towards the railway bridge, and the entrance to the ground is just before the end of the green fence that runs along the perimeter of the ground, next to the Woodbridge Café.

You might prefer to use one of the larger public car parks which are just a few minutes walk away: the open air Mary Road Car Park (GU1 4QU) or multi-storey Bedford Road Car Park (GU1 4SJ)

Seating is either in front row settees/armchairs, central round tables, or rear high chairs/tables. Seats will be reserved for you when you book. If you’re a Guildford Jazz member, please let us know if you have a seating preference in on the booking form. Notes on the layout:

Front row: Seats 1 to 5 are sofas or armchairs

Middle tables: Tables 6 to 23 and 32 are small tables , each seating 4 (for bookings of 1 or 2 seats, we’ll seat you at a table with others, please let us know if you have friends coming who you’d like to sit with!).

Rear tables: Tables 24 to 29 are tall tables suitable for 2 people, with high stools.

Groups: Table 31 and 32 are suitable for larger group of 6 or more

High stools : 30 and 34 are single high stools (no table) , suitable for 1 to 3 people

Evening Performance 8pm to 10.20pm

The event is at the Performing Arts Studio at the University of Surrey.

Doors open from 7.15pm. Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’s a bar available beforehand and at the interval.

Tickets: General admission £20 (Guildford Jazz members £18). Students £10

Masterclass 2.30 to 4pm : Huw Warren and Yuri Goloubev will be holding an afternoon masterclass for University music students before the evening performance. There are a limited number of tickets available if you would like to watch, at £10 each.

If you have any questions please contact us by emailing info@guildfordjazz.org.uk

General admission £20

Guildford Jazz Members £18

Students £7

Masterclass observer £10

All prices include booking fees

By purchasing a ticket, you confirm to Guildford Jazz that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by our terms and conditions which are available here

“Finally, a special word for Huw Warren’s solo interpretation of Hermeto’s Mente Clara (clear mind), whose emotive, sustained and lush harmonies, combined with pellucid runs, are delivered so affectingly. Words, on this occasion, cannot do it justice”. London Jazz News

“Apart from the joyful pleasure it created in abundance, this concert was a powerful argument for our learning to think and talk purely in terms of ‘music’ and ‘musicians’ rather than jazz or classical music or, indeed, Brazilian music….Glyn Pursglove

Huw Warren

Welsh pianist and composer Huw Warren has achieved an international reputation for innovative and eclectic music making over a thirty year career. Equally at home crossing the often exclusive worlds of Jazz, World and Contemporary music; he has a distinctive and personal voice, and has collaborated with a huge variety of artists worldwide

Huw has recorded 2 albums for ECM (as Quercus with June Tabor and Iain Ballamy) and in 2018 released a solo piano recording Nocturnes and Visions. In 2019 he released 2 albums for Italian label CAM Jazz Everything in Between (with Dudley Phillips and Zoot Warren) and New Day (with Mark Lockheart) His previous albums and projects have included themes and source material as diverse as John Dowland, Plainchant and Hermeto Pascoal. In 2023/2024 he will release two new projects including a new solo piano recording of Choro and a recording of Plygain arrangements with Angharad Jenkins.

His writing style combines quirky rhythmic grooves with simple melodic beauty; and manages to be both complex and approachable.

His best known projects include Dialektos (duo with Italian singer Maria Pia de Vito) Hermeto+ (A reworking of the music of Hermeto Pascoal with drummer Martin France and bassist Peter Herbert) 100s of Things a Boy Can Make (with NY violinist Mark Feldman) Infinite Riches in a Little Room (a solo piano set centred around a beautiful reworking of a melody by John Dowland) Perfect Houseplants (Huw Warren, Mark Lockheart, Dudley Phillips, Martin France), A Barrel organ Far From Home (a nine piece mixed line up with strings and penny whistle) and a long standing collaboration with singer June Tabor. He has also performed and collaborated with a wide array of musicians including Mark Feldman, Peter Herbert, Joanna Macgreggor, Iain Ballamy, Kenny Wheeler, Jim Black, Theo Bleckmann , Neil Yates, Pamela Thorby, Mose Se Fan Fan, Mat Maneri and Thomas Strønen .

Awarded the BBC Jazz award for Innovation, and the ACW Creative Wales Award, he has also written for many ensembles including Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Welsh Chamber Orchestra, RSC, LPO Renga ensemble, National Youth Brass Band of Wales, The Orlando Consort, Ensmble Plus, Koch Ensemble and Tango Siempre. Recently he has further broadened his collaborative pool to work with spoken word artists, visual artists, filmmakers, choreographers and photographers.

Currently a jazz lecturer/tutor at RWCMD,Cardiff, Huw is also head of Jazz Ensembles at Cardiff University.

Tori Freestone

Saxophonist, flautist and Ivor Novello Award winning composer Tori Freestone has performed with Internationally renowned players from the world of jazz, folk and world music including world renowned Brazilian composer and multi instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal, Ingrid and Christine Jensen, Cleo Laine/Dankworth Band, world renowned Arabic vocalist Natacha Atlas, Yazz Ahmed, (featuring on her album Polyhymnia), Ivo Neame Quintet and Octet working alongside musicians including Iain Ballamy, Stan Sulzman, Jasper Hoiby, Jami Cullum, Andy Sheppard and Jason Yarde. She also currently plays with many large ensembles including the Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra, Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra, Zoe Rahman Octet and holds the tenor 1 chair in the London Jazz Orchestra.

As a bandleader she has featured at jazz clubs and festivals worldwide including Cuba, Reykjavik, Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain with recordings/interviews for Jazz FM, Radio 3, Radio 2, Radio Bremen (Germany), ORF (Austria National Radio) and Jazz Canarias (Spain).

She won an Ivor Novello Award for Jazz ensemble composition in 2022 for a track on the soon to be released duo album with pianist Alcyona Mick and her recent trio release was 'Jazz Album of the Month' in the Guadian 2019. Commissions include the 2014 EFG London Jazz Festival which was performed at the QEH supporting Henry Texier and she was shortlisted for the 2017 Arts Foundation Award for Jazz Composition and the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year 2017 plus awarded PRS funding and the Help Musician's Transmission fund, Do it Differently and Record and Release Awards in 2020.

As an educator she has performed workshops for the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Welsh College of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire, Leeds Conservatoire, Kingston University, Falmouth University and Truro College, and has lectured at the Royal Academy of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Middlesex University and Trinity Laban. She is currently Professor in Jazz Performance and Jazz composition at Leeds Conservatoire, visiting lecturer at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and tutors for the National Youth Jazz Collective alongside some of the UK's finest musicians including Soweto Kinch, Norma Winstone

Tori is a Borgani artist (Italy)

"Freestone has clearly listened widely, but her musicality and broad experiences have stirred all that input into an imposingly original sound", John Fordham, The Guardian 4 * review

“a flute and reeds player of nicely sinuous melodic invention” – The Telegraph

I really dig her; she’s so organic..She sounds very relaxed, but she’s got a real burn to her playing ...my ears never get tired", Ingrid Jensen' 'Artist Choice' Article Jazz Times, USA

Andrew Bain

Head of Jazz at the Royal Welsh College of Music, Andrew is one of the leading performers and educators in Europe having performed with luminaries such as Wynton Marsalis, Natalie Cole, Kenny Wheeler, Randy Brecker, John Taylor, NDR Big Band, Dave Liebman and Bob Mintzer, including a New York residency.

He has performed across the UK, Europe and America, including performing and conducting at the BBC Proms. He has had professional ties with institutions across the world, having been artist-in-residence at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia (2019) and the University of Stavanger, Norway. He was visiting Jazz tutor to both the Conservatorio di Musica Vincenzo Bellini di Palermo, Sicily (2016 & 2017), and the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria (2019). Andrew is also director of Summer Jazz Camp Scotland with the first course running this August.

Andrew has a number of his own projects in action at the moment: Player Piano (2015) with Mike Walker, Gwilym Simcock, Iain Dixon, and Steve Watts; Embodied Hope (Whirlwind Recordings 2017) with George Colligan, Jon Irabagon, and Michael Janisch; and his latest project – (no)boundaries (Whirlwind Recordings 2020) – a free improv exploration featuring Peter Evans, Alex Bonney, and John O’Gallagher released in March 2020. His latest project, Mosvatnet, features Angelica Sanchez, John O’Gallagher, Tori Freestone and Per Zanussi.

Yuri Goloubev

For sure, one of the greatest of contemporary jazz bassists.- Ian Patterson, All About Jazz, May 2020

One of the most interesting and sought-after jazz double bassists in Europe, Yuri Goloubev has toured nearly 60 countries across continents appearing at such venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Barbican Centre in London, Sydney Opera House, Berlin Philharmonie, Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris and festivals as Montreux Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz, London Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz, Festival of Perth, Jazzahead, Boheme Jazz – to name just a few. His collaborations include various household names – Bob James, Till Brönner, Kenny Werner, Ralph Towner, Billy Kilson, Julian Arguelles, Norma Winstone, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Paolo Fresu, Enrico Pieranunzi, Gwilym Simcock, Pablo Held, Tim Garland, Rosario Giuliani, Rick Margitza and others.

A multi-award winner (1st prize in the All-Soviet Union Student Competition, New Names Scholarships, Honoured Artist Title granted by President Putin), Yuri has participated as leader, co-leader or sideman in well over 100 albums to date, released by SONY, EMI, ACT, Universal, Basho and many more. Some of these records have been used by British Airways, Swiss, Lufthansa, Emirates, Air France for their inflight entertainment programs.

A Moscow Conservatory graduate (1995), he has been serving as Principal Bass of the famed Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra directed by Yuri Bashmet for nearly 13 years, when in 2004 he decided to move to Milan and dedicate himself entirely to his jazz career. This switch from performing at the world’s most important classical venue for many years with the likes of Rostropovich and Richter, Galway and Quasthoff and recording for EMI and SONY Classical (including a Grammy nominated album), to reaching the same top level in jazz music made Yuri Goloubev a true rarity and exception in the music world.

Performing Arts Studio (PATS), University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH

There’s a large car park along the perimeter road – drive straight on at the roundabout once you get on campus and it’s signposted on the left after a little way. Parking is free after 5pm and if you require a disabled parking bay please let us know.

Download campus map (PDF)

The Performing Arts Studio is building 20 on the map  . There’s a footpath that runs from the perimeter road between the AQA and Austin Pearce Building (buildings 4 and 5) – turn right at the top, over the mini roundabout, and the PATS studio is along the road on the left.

Seating is unreserved, please select your seats when you arrive.

The performance is upstairs in Guildford Pavilion, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.

Doors open and supper available from 7pm, performance 8pm to about 10:15pm (with interval). Licensed bar. Seating is cabaret style and there is a lift for disabled access.

Pre-gig Menu from Mandira’s Kitchen: (please select chicken or vegetarian )

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz Members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £13

BENN CLATWORTHY - tenor sax

ALEX HUTTON - piano

MATT HOME - drums,

Marianne Windham on bass

The performance is upstairs in the Pavilion building at the Guildford County Cricket Club, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

For sat navs please check the postcode takes you to Wharf Road. There’s a car park alongside, entry from Wharf Road. If you’re approaching from Guildford town centre, Wharf Road is on the left just before the Sports Ground. If you’re approaching from the A3/Ladymead there’s no right turn into Wharf Road, but continue to the next roundabout to double back.

The car park next to the Pavilion holds about 40 cars (to enable emergency access, cars can only park in the marked bays). Unless it’s very wet, the overflow car park at the far end of the Cricket ground will be open.

To access the overflow car park, turn left as you come out of Wharf Road and carry on along Woodbridge Road towards the railway bridge, and the entrance to the ground is just before the end of the green fence that runs along the perimeter of the ground, next to the Woodbridge Café.

You might prefer to use one of the larger public car parks which are just a few minutes walk away: the open air Mary Road Car Park (GU1 4QU) or multi-storey Bedford Road Car Park (GU1 4SJ)

Seating is either in front row settees/armchairs, central round tables, or rear high chairs/tables. Seats will be reserved for you when you book. If you’re a Guildford Jazz member, please let us know if you have a seating preference in on the booking form. Notes on the layout:

Front row: Seats 1 to 5 are sofas or armchairs

Middle tables: Tables 6 to 23 and 32 are small tables , each seating 4 (for bookings of 1 or 2 seats, we’ll seat you at a table with others, please let us know if you have friends coming who you’d like to sit with!).

Rear tables: Tables 24 to 29 are tall tables suitable for 2 people, with high stools.

Groups: Table 31 and 32 are suitable for larger group of 6 or more

High stools : 30 and 34 are single high stools (no table) , suitable for 1 to 3 people

The performance is upstairs in Guildford Pavilion, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.

Doors open and supper available from 7pm, performance 8pm to about 10:15pm (with interval). Licensed bar. Seating is cabaret style and there is a lift for disabled access.

Pre-gig Menu from Mandira’s Kitchen: (please select chicken or vegetarian ):

• Vegetable samosas served with tamarind chutney

• Kadai Murgh (Succulent chicken cooked in aromatic spices creating a rich and smoky flavour) OR

• Alu Mattar (Potatoes and green peas cooked in a delicately spiced tomato sauce)

• Jeera Rice (Fragrant basmati rice cooked with cumin seeds)

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz Members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £13

By purchasing a ticket, you confirm to Guildford Jazz that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by our terms and conditions which are available here

John Donaldson – piano

Greg Heath – tenor sax/flute

Rob Leake - alto/baritone sax

Sid Gauld – trumpet

Simon Thorpe – bass

Joe Edwards – drums

The performance is upstairs in the Pavilion building at the Guildford County Cricket Club, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

For sat navs please check the postcode takes you to Wharf Road. There’s a car park alongside, entry from Wharf Road. If you’re approaching from Guildford town centre, Wharf Road is on the left just before the Sports Ground. If you’re approaching from the A3/Ladymead there’s no right turn into Wharf Road, but continue to the next roundabout to double back.

The car park next to the Pavilion holds about 40 cars (to enable emergency access, cars can only park in the marked bays). We recommend parking in one of the larger public car parks which are just a few minutes walk away: the open air Mary Road Car Park (GU1 4QU) or multi-storey Bedford Road Car Park (GU1 4SJ)

Seating is either in front row settees/armchairs, central round tables, or rear high chairs/tables. Seats will be reserved for you when you book. If you’re a Guildford Jazz member, please let us know if you have a seating preference in on the booking form. Notes on the layout:

Front row: Seats 1 to 5 are sofas or armchairs

Middle tables: Tables 6 to 23 and 32 are small tables , each seating 4 (for bookings of 1 or 2 seats, we’ll seat you at a table with others, please let us know if you have friends coming who you’d like to sit with!).

Rear tables: Tables 24 to 29 are tall tables suitable for 2 people, with high stools.

Groups: Table 31 and 32 are suitable for larger group of 6 or more

High stools : 30 and 34 are single high stools (no table) , suitable for 1 to 3 people

The performance is upstairs in Guildford Pavilion, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.

Doors open and supper available from 7pm, performance 8pm to about 10:15pm (with interval). Licensed bar. Seating is cabaret style and there is a lift for disabled access.

Pre-gig Menu from Mandira’s Kitchen: (please select chicken or vegetarian ):

• Vegetable samosas served with tamarind chutney

• Kaju Dhania Murgh (Tender chicken in a delicate sauce of ground cashews, coconut and fresh coriander)

• Or Navratan Korma (A Royal Mughal dish of nine vegetables representing the jewels of King Akbar’s Court)

• Lemon RiceFragrant basmati rice cooked with lemon & mustard seeds

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz Members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £13

Sara Oschlag - vocals

Danish-born Brighton resident Sara Oschlag has quietly established herself as one of the UK’s premier jazz vocalists. She is a regular performer at leading jazz festivals and venues, including Ronnie Scott’s, Love Supreme Festival, Jazz at The Lincoln Center and The Pheasantry in Chelsea.

Sara is equally at home in the role of band leader and is a much-in-demand special guest, she has recently appeared as a featured vocalist with Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra, Pete Long’s Echoes of Ellington Big Band and Arnie Somogyi’s Scenes in The City Band, and duetted with US trumpet/vocal star Benny Benack III for Brighton Jazz Festival.Sara’s honest stage presence and effortless sense of swing have made her a firm favourite with jazz audiences across the UK

. She has been hailed a ‘musician’s singer’ due to her wonderful way of using dynamics, texture and rhythm to sing the songs. An effortlessly hip, intelligent interpreter of songs in the jazz tradition, her vocal influences include Sarah Vaughan, Betty Carter, Anita O’Day, Shirley Horn, Cecile McLorin Salvant., and of course Ella Fitzgerald.

“Sara’s stylish, imaginative phrasing and insouciant verve blew everyone away”– Jon Newey – Jazzwise editor

Pete Long - clarinet/sax

Pete’s career began fairly inauspiciously at the age of 18 deep within the bowels of the Nat West bank in Marble Arch putting bank statements into envelopes. An unfortunate incident involving a picture of a lady and a horse being accidentally sent to the Convent of the Sacred Heart along with their financial records led to a re-think and a few days later, Pete had enrolled at the Royal London College Of Music. After a couple of years of hard study, ruthless self-denial and curry, Pete was out on the road with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and during his time there, got to play all five saxophone parts, the solo flute part, the bass guitar, and on one rather messy occasion, the fourth trumpet. Having the unusual inclination to play modern jazz on the rather “old-fashioned” Clarinet led to several works for Clarinet and big band being commissioned during his stay, and established a tradition of Clarinet solos in NYJO which has plagued the saxophone section ever since.

After the apprenticeship had been served, fame and endless riches were only around the corner in the form of the John Simons Rhumba Showband on the QE2, and Pete’s orange frilly flamenco shirtsleeves and sassy sombrero became one of the familiar sights in the bars, clubs and clinics around the ports of the Caribbean Sea. At this time, Pete acquired the knack of bandleading, assembling ad-hoc ensembles on the ship for various passenger and crew functions. Serious playing work followed on the return to Blighty, as the award winning Sax Quartet “Itchy Fingers” had a job going on Alto Sax. Pete passed the audition, and toured Brazil, Venezuela, North Africa, Russia and Europe during his three year stay there, working with, amongst others, Dizzy Gillespie, John Scofield, Chick Corea and Supersax.

Due to an inspired bit of orchestral management by “a friend”, The bulk of Pete’s work for the next six years was in and around the West End theatres, where his versatility on many different woodwind instruments has stood him in good stead, most notably on the notorious Clarinet solo in the closing sequences of the hit show “Oliver”. During this time, Pete developed an interest in the Oboe, and after a rigorous six-hour a day practice schedule for several months, no calls at all came flooding in, and the oboe went forlornly back under the bed. Some time later, a call came to play a session doubling baritone sax and oboe. That session was for “Handbags and Gladrags” for the hit Welsh beat combo “Stereophonics” and the single held a chart position in Europe for the next eighteen months, becoming the single best selling recording in the UK for 2002, a sales figure no doubt boosted by its use as the theme for the comedy series “The Office”.

A five-year stint playing and arranging for with Jools Holland’s Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, saw Pete working with Tom Jones, Norah Jones, Solomon Burke, Dr. John, Lulu, Georgie Fame and Lionel Richie, to name but a few, and producing arrangements for John Cale, Texas, Sir Paul McCartney, Candi Staton, Marti Pellow and Chrissy Hynde. Pete is also the first musician in Europe to use the Tubax commercially, on a Ringo Starr track, and much more recently with The Guillemots.

Over the last couple of years, Pete’s career has divided into three distinct streams- as an educator, working in master classes and as soloist with young musicians all over Britain, from the furthest point of West Wales to the orchestras at the Royal Academy, The Guildhall and the Royal College. In conjunction with this work, Pete has helped develop a new series of student woodwind instruments with a leading UK Manufacturer. As a jazz soloist, Pete has appeared with resident trios in the provinces, and has often been caught at Ronnie Scott’s, in London’s West End.

It is however, as a bandleader and orchestrator that Pete spends most of his time currently, and directing the Big Band at Ronnie Scott’s alongside his own projects. These include his award-winning repertory orchestra Echoes Of Ellington, whose 2018 album “The Jazz Planets” won the Times “Must Have Jazz CD Of The Year”. Further commissions have involved a re-imagining of Swan Lake in the style of Duke Ellington, and a transcription and re-orchestration of “The Days Of Future Passed” for the Moody Blues. In the course of this work, Pete has provided musicians and arrangements for Claire Sweeney, Jane MacDonald, Humphrey Lytlleton, Sir John Dankworth, the entire cast of Emmerdale (!) and a host of others.

Colin Good - piano

At the age of 11 Colin became choral scholar at Magdalen College School, Oxford. In the 1980s he studied composition and keyboards at Oxford University and, all the while, he was developing his jazz playing and arranging skills in the clubs of London.Over the next decade, Colin worked as player, composer and arranger, mixing TV and theatre work with his role as musical director of the 30's-style orchestra Vile Bodies.

He was enlisted as pianist and musical director on the Roxy Music reunion tour 2001. Colin has gone on to work closely with Bryan Ferry in arranging and production for some of the 'Frantic' album and is also the pianist & musical director on the 'Frantic' 2002 tour.

Influenced by Earl Hines and Teddy Wilson, Colin is an internationally renowned authority on the jazz piano stylings of the 1920s and 1930s. His career has seem him tour with ensembles such as The Ink Spots and he is the musical director and pianist in the Brian Ferry Orchestra, whose music was featured on the soundtrack to the 2013 Hollywood blockbuster The Great Gatsby.

Matt Skelton - drums

Marianne Windham - bass

The performance is upstairs in the Pavilion building at the Guildford County Cricket Club, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

For sat navs please check the postcode takes you to Wharf Road. There’s a car park alongside, entry from Wharf Road. If you’re approaching from Guildford town centre, Wharf Road is on the left just before the Sports Ground. If you’re approaching from the A3/Ladymead there’s no right turn into Wharf Road, but continue to the next roundabout to double back.

The car park next to the Pavilion holds about 40 cars (to enable emergency access, cars can only park in the marked bays). Unless it’s very wet, the overflow car park at the far end of the Cricket ground will be open.

To access the overflow car park, turn left as you come out of Wharf Road and carry on along Woodbridge Road towards the railway bridge, and the entrance to the ground is just before the end of the green fence that runs along the perimeter of the ground, next to the Woodbridge Café.

You might prefer to use one of the larger public car parks which are just a few minutes walk away: the open air Mary Road Car Park (GU1 4QU) or multi-storey Bedford Road Car Park (GU1 4SJ)

Seating is either in front row settees/armchairs, central round tables, or rear high chairs/tables. Seats will be reserved for you when you book. If you’re a Guildford Jazz member, please let us know if you have a seating preference in on the booking form. Notes on the layout:

Front row: Seats 1 to 5 are sofas or armchairs

Middle tables: Tables 6 to 23 and 32 are small tables , each seating 4 (for bookings of 1 or 2 seats, we’ll seat you at a table with others, please let us know if you have friends coming who you’d like to sit with!).

Rear tables: Tables 24 to 29 are tall tables suitable for 2 people, with high stools.

Groups: Table 31 and 32 are suitable for larger group of 6 or more

High stools : 30 and 34 are single high stools (no table) , suitable for 1 to 3 people

Doors open 7pm; Support 7:45 - 8:30pm ; Headline band 8:55 to 10:10pm

Tickets £18 General admission, £16 Guildford Jazz Members, £10 concessions +£1 booking fee

Please note this event is standing only, please let us know if you need seats

* concession tickets apply if you are in receipt of universal credit, income support or job seekers allowance, are registered disabled or are under 25

Dele Sosimi (keys and vocals)

Justin Thurgur (trombone and bv’s)

Suman Joshi (bass)

Afla Sackey (percussion and bv’s)

Kunle Olofinjana (drums and bv’s)

Support band - Pleco

A delicate fusion of influences ranging from Casiopea and Gentle Giant through to Stevie Wonder and Keith Mansfield, Guildford's very own six-headed jazz beast has been roaming the musical plains of Surrey since 2023. Featuring Ethan Celinski on drums, Will Good on saxophone, Michael Hain on bass, Caitlin Pittol-Neville on trombone, Joey Price on keys, and Jacob Treasure on guitar.

The Boileroom,13 Stoke Fields, Guildford. Surrey, GU14LS

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The performance is upstairs in Guildford Pavilion, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.

Doors open and supper available from 7pm, performance 8pm to about 10:15pm (with interval). Licensed bar. Seating is cabaret style and there is a lift for disabled access.

Pre-gig Menu from Mandira’s Kitchen: (please select chicken or vegetarian ):

Vegetable samosas served with tamarind chutney

Kaju Dhania Murgh: Tender chicken in a delicate sauce of ground cashews, coconut and fresh coriander

or

Alu Gobi (Veg): Baby potatoes and cauliflower with tomatoes and our garam masala

Lemon Rice

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz Members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £13

By purchasing a ticket, you confirm to Guildford Jazz that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by our terms and conditions which are available here

Jo Fooks - sax

Jo Fooks, born in Edinburgh, began learning the saxophone at 15. In 1992 she won 'The Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year'. Inspired and encouraged by local Edinburgh musicians, Jo went on to study saxophone at the Guildhall School of Music in London (1995-99). She also studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston after receiving a full-fee scholarship for the summer jazz program.After recording her debut album "Here and Now!", the legendary British trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton invited her to join his eight-piece band. With whom she toured and performed in some of the most amazing theatres and venues in Britain. Humph's fun-filled and melodic approach to music was to be a huge influence. And through performing in his band Jo also recorded and worked with Acker Bilk and played alongside Tina May, Joe Temperley, Scott Hamilton, Elkie Brooks and many others.Jo's other influences include Illinois Jacquet, Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gorden. Her mellow tone is often compared to Stan Getz and Zoot Simms.Jo began to compose her own music in 2004 and has produced three albums of original music with her quartet. 

John Pearce - piano

Buster Birch - drums

Marianne Windham - bass

The performance is upstairs in the Pavilion building at the Guildford County Cricket Club, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

For sat navs please check the postcode takes you to Wharf Road. There’s a car park alongside, entry from Wharf Road. If you’re approaching from Guildford town centre, Wharf Road is on the left just before the Sports Ground. If you’re approaching from the A3/Ladymead there’s no right turn into Wharf Road, but continue to the next roundabout to double back.

The car park next to the Pavilion holds about 40 cars (to enable emergency access, cars can only park in the marked bays). Unless it’s very wet, the overflow car park at the far end of the Cricket ground will be open.

To access the overflow car park, turn left as you come out of Wharf Road and carry on along Woodbridge Road towards the railway bridge, and the entrance to the ground is just before the end of the green fence that runs along the perimeter of the ground, next to the Woodbridge Café.

You might prefer to use one of the larger public car parks which are just a few minutes walk away: the open air Mary Road Car Park (GU1 4QU) or multi-storey Bedford Road Car Park (GU1 4SJ)

Seating is either in front row settees/armchairs, central round tables, or rear high chairs/tables. Seats will be reserved for you when you book. If you’re a Guildford Jazz member, please let us know if you have a seating preference in on the booking form. Notes on the layout:

Front row: Seats 1 to 5 are sofas or armchairs

Middle tables: Tables 6 to 23 and 32 are small tables , each seating 4 (for bookings of 1 or 2 seats, we’ll seat you at a table with others, please let us know if you have friends coming who you’d like to sit with!).

Rear tables: Tables 24 to 29 are tall tables suitable for 2 people, with high stools.

Groups: Table 31 and 32 are suitable for larger group of 6 or more

High stools : 30 and 34 are single high stools (no table) , suitable for 1 to 3 people

The performance is upstairs in Guildford Pavilion, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.

Doors open and supper available from 7pm, performance 8pm to about 10:15pm (with interval). Licensed bar. Seating is cabaret style and there is a lift for disabled access.

Pre-gig Menu from Mandira’s Kitchen: (please select chicken or vegetarian ):

• Vegetable samosas (served with tamarind chutney)

• Butter Chicken (One of our most popular dishes - a smooth, silky, slightly spicy chicken dish) Or Navrattan Korma (Veg)

• A mix of nine vegetables made with tomatoes, spices, and cashew nuts)

• Lemon Rice(Fragrant basmati rice cooked with lemon & mustard seeds)

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz Members January Special Price of £16

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £13

James Davison - trumpet

Callum Au - trombone

Sam Watts - piano

Matt Skelton - drums

Marianne Windham - bass

The performance is upstairs in the Pavilion building at the Guildford County Cricket Club, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

For sat navs please check the postcode takes you to Wharf Road. There’s a car park alongside, entry from Wharf Road. If you’re approaching from Guildford town centre, Wharf Road is on the left just before the Sports Ground. If you’re approaching from the A3/Ladymead there’s no right turn into Wharf Road, but continue to the next roundabout to double back.

The car park next to the Pavilion holds about 40 cars (to enable emergency access, cars can only park in the marked bays). Unless it’s very wet, the overflow car park at the far end of the Cricket ground will be open.

To access the overflow car park, turn left as you come out of Wharf Road and carry on along Woodbridge Road towards the railway bridge, and the entrance to the ground is just before the end of the green fence that runs along the perimeter of the ground, next to the Woodbridge Café.

You might prefer to use one of the larger public car parks which are just a few minutes walk away: the open air Mary Road Car Park (GU1 4QU) or multi-storey Bedford Road Car Park (GU1 4SJ)

Seating is either in front row settees/armchairs, central round tables, or rear high chairs/tables. Seats will be reserved for you when you book. If you’re a Guildford Jazz member, please let us know if you have a seating preference in on the booking form. Notes on the layout:

Front row: Seats 1 to 5 are sofas or armchairs

Middle tables: Tables 6 to 23 and 32 are small tables , each seating 4 (for bookings of 1 or 2 seats, we’ll seat you at a table with others, please let us know if you have friends coming who you’d like to sit with!).

Rear tables: Tables 24 to 29 are tall tables suitable for 2 people, with high stools.

Groups: Table 31 and 32 are suitable for larger group of 6 or more

High stools : 30 and 34 are single high stools (no table) , suitable for 1 to 3 people

The performance is in the function room of The Stoke, 103 Stoke Road, Guildford, GU1 4JN

The function room has it’s own entrance, behind the pub, and it’s own toilets and private bar.

There is a small car park outside the pub but we would recommend parking at the Guildford College student car park, Stoke Road GU1 1EZ (located off the Recreation road roundabout). Parking is free after 6pm and is a couple of minutes walk from The Stoke .

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive.

Doors open from 7.15pm, and the performance starts at 8pm. There will be an interval and there is a licensed bar.

Seating is unreserved cabaret style. - please select your sets when you arrive.

Food is available, order in the main pub with your table number when you order and they’ll deliver it to your table.

If you have any questions please contact us by emailing info@guildfordjazz.org.uk

Full Price £18 /Guildford Jazz Members January Special Price of £14

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Dave Limina

Dave Limina is a pianist, Hammond organist, and chair of the Piano Department at Berklee College of Music.
Dave has performed and recorded all over the world with four-time Blues Music Award winners Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, since 2002. Other artists he has appeared with include Brooke Benton, Martha Reeves, Toy Caldwell, Felix Cavaliere, Duke Robillard, Steve Forbert, Bernard Purdie, Ernie Watts, Scott Hamilton, Joey DeFrancesco, Sinbad, Lori McKenna, Gloria Estefan, Mark Walker, Robert Lee Castleman, Gary Nicholson, and Paula Cole.
He has toured/recorded with Mighty Sam McClain, Michelle Willson, Lori McKenna, Catie Curtis, the Courage Brothers, Steve Leslie, Freedy Johnston, Chris Collingwood (Fountains of Wayne), the Redtenbacher’s Funkestra featuring funk legends Fred Wesley and Pee Wee Ellis, Eric Krasno (Soulive), Lenny Pickett, and many more.

Ross Stanley

Ross Stanley is a pianist and organist who was born in 1982 in Frimley, England. Beginning piano at age 4, by a teenager, he was awarded an organ scholarship to Marlborough College. Upon leaving Marlborough, Ross was invited to study for his music degree at several renowned institutions including Trinity College of Music, Guildhall School of Music and a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in the USA. He decided to stay in London, however, and completed a BMUS in classical and jazz piano at Guildhall in 2004. Since leaving, Ross’s musical skills have kept him in high demand, seeing him play with jazz names such as Will Vinson, Dennis Rollins, Guy Barker, Michael Janisch, Joel Frahm, Liane Carroll, Stan Sulzman, Steve Arguelles, John Paracelli, Bobby Wellins, Clark Tracey, as well as being a regular member of the Jim Mullen Organ Trio, the Mark McKnight Organ Quartet and the Jacqui Dankworth band and performing in many small and large ensembles – Nostalgia 77 Octet, The Heritage Orchestra. Ross has also toured with Steve Howe Trio, Deodato and has recorded for Goldie, US3, Trevor Horn and Simply Red among others. Ross is a Hammond endorsee

Steve Brown - drums

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The performance is i the function room of The Stoke, 103 Stoke Road, Guildford, GU1 4JN

There is a small car park outside the pub but we would recommend parking at the Guildford College student car park, Stoke Road GU1 1EZ (located off the Recreation road roundabout). Parking is free after 6pm and is a couple of minutes walk from The Stoke ..

Seating is reserved cabaret style,

Doors and welcome drink 7pm, performance 8pm to approx 10pm (with interval).

Tickets £30 includes a complimentary glass of wine on arrival

Alan Barnes - sax/clarinet

Alan Barnes is a prolific international performer, composer, arranger, bandleader and touring soloist. He is best known for his work on clarinet, alto and baritone sax, where he combines a formidable virtuosity with a musical expression and collaborative spirit that have few peers.

His range and brilliance have made him a “first call” for studio and live work since his precocious arrival on the scene more than thirty years ago.

His recorded catalogue is immense. He has made over thirty albums as leader and co-leader alone, and the list of his session and side-man work includes Bjork, Bryan Ferry, Michel LeGrande, Clare Teale, Westlife, Jools Holland and Jamie Cullum. He has toured and played residencies with such diverse and demanding figures as Ruby Braff, Freddie Hubbard, Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache, Ken Peplowski, Harry Allen and Conte Candoli.

In British jazz, the young Barnes was recognized – and hired – by the established greats of the time: Stan Tracy, John Dankworth, Kenny Baker, Bob Wilber, and Humphrey Lyttelton. But he is equally respected for his longstanding and fruitful collaborations with contemporaries such as David Newton, Bruce Adams, and Martin Taylor.

Alan Barnes’s unique musicianship, indefatigable touring, and warm rapport with audiences have made him uniquely popular in British jazz. He has received over 25 British Jazz Awards, most recently in 2014 for clarinet, and has twice been made BBC Jazz Musician of the Year.

“His stylistic range is quite phenomenal… He has a wonderful capacity for suggesting a given style without actually imitating anyone.” Dave Gelly, Masters Of The Jazz Saxophone.

David Newton - piano​

Growing up in Renfrewshire, Scotland, Newton had a musical upbringing with the piano trio sound of Peterson, Tatum or Garner an ever-present feature in the Newton household.

After graduating from Leeds College of Music in 1979 David Newton freelanced around Yorkshire and eventually became a resident musician at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough for two and a half years. A move to Edinburgh followed where theatre work using local musicians quickly led to an established position on the Scottish jazz scene but after some four years there, his old roommate from college, Alan Barnes, persuaded him to move to London where he rapidly became a much sought after pianist teaming up with Barnes, guitarist Martin Taylor and saxophonist Don Weller.

Newton's recording career had begun in 1985 with Buddy De Franco and Martin Taylor and his first solo album was released in '88 in association with producer Elliot Meadow who oversaw the next nine years of recording for Linn Records followed by Candid Records. Once again, in 1997, David Newton and Alan Barnes teamed up and together with Concorde Label agent Barry Hatcher, made four CDs for that label. By 2003, Newton had learned a great deal of the ways a record company operated and he set up a business partnership with former pupil Mike Daymond and they established "Brightnewday Records" initially as a vehicle for Newton's own music but with an eye to opening up the catalogue to other artists later on.

In the first five years of the nineties, Newton's reputation as an exquisite accompanist for a singer, spread rather rapidly and by '95 he was regularly working with Carol Kidd, Marion Montgomery, Tina May, Annie Ross, Claire Martin and of course Stacey Kent, with whom he spent the next ten years recording and travelling all over the world. While all this was going on, Newton was composing music which he would record on his own CDs as well as writing specifically for Martin Taylor, Alan Barnes, Tina May or Claire Martin and Newton's music can now be heard on many television productions, especially in the United States where over twenty TV movies benefit from Newton's haunting themes. In 2003, after a twenty year gap, David Newton was reunited with playwright Alan Aykbourn having been involved with eight world premiers in Scarborough and London back in the early eighties, and he was asked to write the music for two new productions, 'Sugar Daddies' and 'Drowning on Dry Land'. Currently, with the release of a new CD called "Portrait of a Woman", on the 'Brightnewday' label, David Newton is relishing the musical freedom of his Trio and the special sound it makes whilst working on two other new recording projects, as an arranger and a composer.

David Newton has been voted best Jazz Pianist in the British Jazz awards for the thirteenth time in 2014 and was made a Fellow of Leeds College of Music in 2003..

With Marianne Windham on double bass

County Club 158 High St, Guildford GU1 3HJ

Doors and welcome drink 7pm, performance 8pm to approx 10pm (with interval).

Tickets £25 includes a complimentary glass of wine on arrival

Please note that as this is a members event, all ticket holders must be Guildford Jazz Members.

Alan Barnes - sax/clarinet

Alan Barnes is a prolific international performer, composer, arranger, bandleader and touring soloist. He is best known for his work on clarinet, alto and baritone sax, where he combines a formidable virtuosity with a musical expression and collaborative spirit that have few peers.

His range and brilliance have made him a “first call” for studio and live work since his precocious arrival on the scene more than thirty years ago.

His recorded catalogue is immense. He has made over thirty albums as leader and co-leader alone, and the list of his session and side-man work includes Bjork, Bryan Ferry, Michel LeGrande, Clare Teale, Westlife, Jools Holland and Jamie Cullum. He has toured and played residencies with such diverse and demanding figures as Ruby Braff, Freddie Hubbard, Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache, Ken Peplowski, Harry Allen and Conte Candoli.

In British jazz, the young Barnes was recognized – and hired – by the established greats of the time: Stan Tracy, John Dankworth, Kenny Baker, Bob Wilber, and Humphrey Lyttelton. But he is equally respected for his longstanding and fruitful collaborations with contemporaries such as David Newton, Bruce Adams, and Martin Taylor.

Alan Barnes’s unique musicianship, indefatigable touring, and warm rapport with audiences have made him uniquely popular in British jazz. He has received over 25 British Jazz Awards, most recently in 2014 for clarinet, and has twice been made BBC Jazz Musician of the Year.

“His stylistic range is quite phenomenal… He has a wonderful capacity for suggesting a given style without actually imitating anyone.” Dave Gelly, Masters Of The Jazz Saxophone.

David Newton - piano​

Growing up in Renfrewshire, Scotland, Newton had a musical upbringing with the piano trio sound of Peterson, Tatum or Garner an ever-present feature in the Newton household.

After graduating from Leeds College of Music in 1979 David Newton freelanced around Yorkshire and eventually became a resident musician at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough for two and a half years. A move to Edinburgh followed where theatre work using local musicians quickly led to an established position on the Scottish jazz scene but after some four years there, his old roommate from college, Alan Barnes, persuaded him to move to London where he rapidly became a much sought after pianist teaming up with Barnes, guitarist Martin Taylor and saxophonist Don Weller.

Newton's recording career had begun in 1985 with Buddy De Franco and Martin Taylor and his first solo album was released in '88 in association with producer Elliot Meadow who oversaw the next nine years of recording for Linn Records followed by Candid Records. Once again, in 1997, David Newton and Alan Barnes teamed up and together with Concorde Label agent Barry Hatcher, made four CDs for that label. By 2003, Newton had learned a great deal of the ways a record company operated and he set up a business partnership with former pupil Mike Daymond and they established "Brightnewday Records" initially as a vehicle for Newton's own music but with an eye to opening up the catalogue to other artists later on.

In the first five years of the nineties, Newton's reputation as an exquisite accompanist for a singer, spread rather rapidly and by '95 he was regularly working with Carol Kidd, Marion Montgomery, Tina May, Annie Ross, Claire Martin and of course Stacey Kent, with whom he spent the next ten years recording and travelling all over the world. While all this was going on, Newton was composing music which he would record on his own CDs as well as writing specifically for Martin Taylor, Alan Barnes, Tina May or Claire Martin and Newton's music can now be heard on many television productions, especially in the United States where over twenty TV movies benefit from Newton's haunting themes. In 2003, after a twenty year gap, David Newton was reunited with playwright Alan Aykbourn having been involved with eight world premiers in Scarborough and London back in the early eighties, and he was asked to write the music for two new productions, 'Sugar Daddies' and 'Drowning on Dry Land'. Currently, with the release of a new CD called "Portrait of a Woman", on the 'Brightnewday' label, David Newton is relishing the musical freedom of his Trio and the special sound it makes whilst working on two other new recording projects, as an arranger and a composer.

David Newton has been voted best Jazz Pianist in the British Jazz awards for the thirteenth time in 2014 and was made a Fellow of Leeds College of Music in 2003..

With Marianne Windham on double bass

County Club 158 High St, Guildford GU1 3HJ

The club is situated towards the top of Guildford High Street. The entrance is located on the High Street  a few doors down from Holy Trinity Church and next to the Sainsbury’s shop front.

Access : There should be someone to greet you at the door but, if not, simply ring on the bell to alert staff who will let you in and make your way to the bar on the first floor where drinks will be served. If you arrive late the concert will be in the dining room  

Parking : If there are no spaces free on the High Street itself, we suggest parking in the the Sydenham Road car park GU1 3RW.

Seating is concert-style

The performance is at St John’s Church, Farncombe, Godalming GU7 3EJ

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.

Doors open from 7.15pm, and the performance starts at 8pm.

Licensed bar available beforehand and at the interval

If you have any questions please contact us by emailing info@guildfordjazz.org.uk

General admission £20

Guildford Jazz members £18 (click here to find out about membership benefits)

Students £7

Student members £5

Jo Harrop (vocals)

Freddie Gavita (trumpet/flugel)

Robert Fowler (alto sax/clarinet)

Matt Anderson (tenor/soprano sax)

Rory Ingham (trombone)

Gareth Lockrane (flute/piccolo)

Johanna Burnheart (violin)

Paul Edis (piano/arrangements)

Marianne Windham (double bass)

Matt Home (drums)

St John’s Church, Farncombe, Godalming GU7 3EJ

St. John’s Church is situated in St. John’s Street right in the centre of the village just opposite the Co-op store. It was built over 160 years ago and was extensively refurbished in 2012 with new seating, flooring and lighting. It has wonderful acoustics for all types of music as well as a unique atmosphere.

There is no parking at the church itself, but there is some street parking and a number of public car parks within 5 minutes walk of the church. We’d recommend Meadrow car park, just off the A3100 (the Guildford-Godalming road) – the postcode is GU7 3HY. It’s free in the evenings and it’s a short walk direct to the church from the car park, up Church Path.

Seating is unreserved

The performance is upstairs in Guildford Pavilion, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.

Doors open and supper available from 7pm, performance 8pm to about 10:15pm (with interval). Licensed bar. Seating is cabaret style and there is a lift for disabled access.

Pre-gig Far Pavilions Menu from Mandira’s Kitchen. Please select chicken or vegetarian (menu to be confirmed)

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £13

Katya Gorrie - vocals

Jonny Bruce - trumpet

Mirek Salmon - accordian

Andy Bowen - guitar

Andy Crowdy - bass

The performance is upstairs in the Pavilion building at the Guildford County Cricket Club, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

For sat navs please check the postcode takes you to Wharf Road. There’s a car park alongside, entry from Wharf Road. If you’re approaching from Guildford town centre, Wharf Road is on the left just before the Sports Ground. If you’re approaching from the A3/Ladymead there’s no right turn into Wharf Road, but continue to the next roundabout to double back.

The car park next to the Pavilion holds about 40 cars (to enable emergency access, cars can only park in the marked bays). Unless it’s very wet, the overflow car park at the far end of the Cricket ground will be open.

To access the overflow car park, turn left as you come out of Wharf Road and carry on along Woodbridge Road towards the railway bridge, and the entrance to the ground is just before the end of the green fence that runs along the perimeter of the ground, next to the Woodbridge Café.

You might prefer to use one of the larger public car parks which are just a few minutes walk away: the open air Mary Road Car Park (GU1 4QU) or multi-storey Bedford Road Car Park (GU1 4SJ)

Seating is either in front row settees/armchairs, central round tables, or rear high chairs/tables. Seats will be reserved for you when you book. If you’re a Guildford Jazz member, please let us know if you have a seating preference in on the booking form. Notes on the layout:

Front row: Seats 1 to 5 are sofas or armchairs

Middle tables: Tables 6 to 23 and 32 are small tables , each seating 4 (for bookings of 1 or 2 seats, we’ll seat you at a table with others, please let us know if you have friends coming who you’d like to sit with!).

Rear tables: Tables 24 to 29 are tall tables suitable for 2 people, with high stools.

Groups: Table 31 and 32 are suitable for larger group of 6 or more

High stools : 30 and 34 are single high stools (no table) , suitable for 1 to 3 people

The Guildford Townhouse

58-62 HIGHSTREET, GUILDFORD GU1 3ES

Live music from 11am to 1pm

There is no charge for the music, please book a table for brunch from the link above

Stacey Dawson - Alto sax

Paul Stead - guitar

Marianne Windham - bass

The Guildford Townhouse

58-62 HIGHSTREET, GUILDFORD GU1 3ES

Town centre car parks nearby

Please click the link above to book a table

Doors open 7pm; Support 7:45 - 8:30pm ; Headline band 8:55 to 10:10pm

Tickets £18 General admission, £16 Guildford Jazz Members, £10 concessions +£1 booking fee

Please note this event is standing only, please let us know if you need seats

* concession tickets apply if you are in receipt of universal credit, income support or job seekers allowance, are registered disabled or are under 25

Funkestra are:

Pete Billington | keyboards

Piers Green | tenor saxophone

Terry Lewis | guitar

Stefan Redtenbacher | bass

Mike Sturgis | drums

Bluejay are:

Erin Rowlatt - vocals

Joseph Oates - sax

Joey Price - keys

Jacob Treasure - guitar

Joel Allison - bass

James Warren - drums

"We aim to shine a different, funkier, light on vocal tunes you will know and love, as well as bringing pure, unequivocal instrumental groove."

The Boileroom,13 Stoke Fields, Guildford. Surrey, GU14LS

Click here for directions and parking

7.30pm at The Backroom, The Star Inn, Guildford GU13TY

General Admission £15 (+1.26 booking fee)

Concessions (students/seniors): £12 (+ 1.01booking fee)

Dave Kirby - piano

Andy Jackson - guitar

Seb Guard - drums

Robin Clayton - bass

Sam Parker - saxes

Tom Parsons - Tumpet

Stuart Goodburne - Trombone

Ella Clayton-Bell - Vocals.

The Backroom, The Star Inn, Guildford GU13TY

8pm at Growler & Cans Craft Beer Bar, 24 Chertsey Street Guildford GU1 4HD

Tickets £12.50

Steve Waterman - trumpet & Fluget

Alex Hutton - piano

Matt Fishwick - drums

Marianne Windham - bass

Growler & Cans Craft Beer Bar, 24 Chertsey Street Guildford GU1 4HD

Please arrive early for a seat!

The performance is upstairs in Guildford Pavilion, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.

Doors open and supper available from 7pm, performance 8pm to about 10:15pm (with interval). Licensed bar. Seating is cabaret style and there is a lift for disabled access.

Pre-gig “Boogie Biriyani” Menu from Mandira’s Kitchen. Please select chicken or vegetarian :

• Pea Patties (with tamarind chutney)

• Chicken or Vegetable Biryani

• Raita and poppadums

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £13

Steve Fishwick - trumpet

Leon Greening - piano

Matt Home - drums

Marianne WIndham - bass (guest)

The performance is upstairs in the Pavilion building at the Guildford County Cricket Club, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

For sat navs please check the postcode takes you to Wharf Road. There’s a car park alongside, entry from Wharf Road. If you’re approaching from Guildford town centre, Wharf Road is on the left just before the Sports Ground. If you’re approaching from the A3/Ladymead there’s no right turn into Wharf Road, but continue to the next roundabout to double back.

The car park next to the Pavilion holds about 40 cars (to enable emergency access, cars can only park in the marked bays). Unless it’s very wet, the overflow car park at the far end of the Cricket ground will be open.

To access the overflow car park, turn left as you come out of Wharf Road and carry on along Woodbridge Road towards the railway bridge, and the entrance to the ground is just before the end of the green fence that runs along the perimeter of the ground, next to the Woodbridge Café.

You might prefer to use one of the larger public car parks which are just a few minutes walk away: the open air Mary Road Car Park (GU1 4QU) or multi-storey Bedford Road Car Park (GU1 4SJ)

Seating is either in front row settees/armchairs, central round tables, or rear high chairs/tables. Seats will be reserved for you when you book. If you’re a Guildford Jazz member, please let us know if you have a seating preference in on the booking form. Notes on the layout:

Front row: Seats 1 to 5 are sofas or armchairs

Middle tables: Tables 6 to 23 and 32 are small tables , each seating 4 (for bookings of 1 or 2 seats, we’ll seat you at a table with others, please let us know if you have friends coming who you’d like to sit with!).

Rear tables: Tables 24 to 29 are tall tables suitable for 2 people, with high stools.

Groups: Table 31 and 32 are suitable for larger group of 6 or more

High stools : 30 and 34 are single high stools (no table) , suitable for 1 to 3 people

1pm at St Christopher's Church, Church Green, Haslemere, GU27 1DD.

Please visit https://www.hhhconcerts.org.uk/#/alicezawadzkiandrobluft/

St Christopher's Church, Church Green, Haslemere, GU27 1DD.

Friday 1st November

7.30pm start

Tickets include cheese and wine

Select Cabaret or Balcony seating

Tickets £25 cabaret seating, £21 Balcony seating (includes venue levy)

A £2 discount on all tickets for Guildford Jazz Members, please Contact Us for the Discount Code

Nat Steele - vibraphone

Mark Crroks - tenor sax

Colin Oxley guitar

Lorenzo Morabito - bass

Matyas Gayer - pianio

Mark Taylor - drums

Cranleigh Arts Centre

1 High Street

Cranleigh

GU6 8AS

The performance is upstairs in Guildford Pavilion, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.

Doors open and supper available from 7pm, performance 8pm to about 10:15pm (with interval). Licensed bar. Seating is cabaret style and there is a lift for disabled access.

Pre-gig Far Pavilions Menu from Mandira’s Kitchen:

• Vegetable Somosas (served with tamarind chutney)

• Chicken (or Paneer) Rezala (a delicately spiced dish made with poppy sees, mace and whole spices),

• Berry Pulao (Fragrant Basmati rice, spices and cranberries - as served in the Iranian cafes of Bombay)

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £13

Featuring virtuoso violinist Kamila Bydlowska, jazz pianist Adam DYer, Simon Cook on chromatic bandoneon and Juampi Mauro on double bass .

The performance is upstairs in the Pavilion building at the Guildford County Cricket Club, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

For sat navs please check the postcode takes you to Wharf Road. There’s a car park alongside, entry from Wharf Road. If you’re approaching from Guildford town centre, Wharf Road is on the left just before the Sports Ground. If you’re approaching from the A3/Ladymead there’s no right turn into Wharf Road, but continue to the next roundabout to double back.

The car park next to the Pavilion holds about 40 cars (to enable emergency access, cars can only park in the marked bays). Unless it’s very wet, the overflow car park at the far end of the Cricket ground will be open.

To access the overflow car park, turn left as you come out of Wharf Road and carry on along Woodbridge Road towards the railway bridge, and the entrance to the ground is just before the end of the green fence that runs along the perimeter of the ground, next to the Woodbridge Café.

You might prefer to use one of the larger public car parks which are just a few minutes walk away: the open air Mary Road Car Park (GU1 4QU) or multi-storey Bedford Road Car Park (GU1 4SJ)

Seating is either in front row settees/armchairs, central round tables, or rear high chairs/tables. Seats will be reserved for you when you book. If you’re a Guildford Jazz member, please let us know if you have a seating preference in on the booking form. Notes on the layout:

Front row: Seats 1 to 5 are sofas or armchairs

Middle tables: Tables 6 to 23 and 32 are small tables , each seating 4 (for bookings of 1 or 2 seats, we’ll seat you at a table with others, please let us know if you have friends coming who you’d like to sit with!).

Rear tables: Tables 24 to 29 are tall tables suitable for 2 people, with high stools.

Groups: Table 31 and 32 are suitable for larger group of 6 or more

High stools : 30 and 34 are single high stools (no table) , suitable for 1 to 3 people

Evening Performance 8pm to 10.20pm

The event is at the Performing Arts Studio at the University of Surrey.

Doors open from 7.15pm. Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’s a bar available beforehand and at the interval.

Tickets: General admission £29 (Guildford Jazz members £27). Students £10 (limited availability!)

If you have any questions please contact us by emailing info@guildfordjazz.org.uk

General admission £29

Guildford Jazz Members £27

Students £10 (limited tickets available)

All prices include booking fees

Pianist, keyboardist and composer Bill Laurance’s music evokes a striking sense of time and place. As an original member of 5-time Grammy Award-winning group Snarky Puppy, Laurance has toured the world countless times, playing hundreds of concerts to tens of thousands of fans worldwide.

'Bloom', the ACT debut of pianist and composer Bill Laurance as leader, marks the transition from the smallest possible form of musical interaction to a large-scale, broadband format. Following the internationally acclaimed ACT release 'Where You Wish You Were' in duo with multi-instrumentalist and Snarky Puppy bandmate Michael League, Laurance now teams up with Manchester-based 18-piece string orchestra The Untold Orchestra and creates a work of convincingly epic pro-portions. Combining Bill Laurance’s classical sensibilities with jazz, pop grooves, and powerful orchestral synchronicity, 'Bloom' runs the gamut of emotions and moods.

“That’s where the magic is; the space between what is prescribed and what isn’t” says Laurance.

The eponymous opening track of the album impressively demonstrates how organically and naturally, Laurance manages the balancing act between an orchestral sound, the accessibility and groove of pop music and the freedom of jazz: a series of dark, warm string chords introduces a sense of spaciousness and sonic depth.

Featuring his widely lauded improvisational skills, Laurance perfects the balance of straddling virtuosity without becoming self-indulgent. His playing transcends mere technical mastery on the piano, instead weaving these techniques into something that captivates the listener, no matter what music they usually feel at home with. It respects the full instrumentation of his compositions, creating breathing space for each musician to be heard and understood. And so, 'Bloom' ties in with its predecessor album 'Where You Wish You Were', albeit with completely different means: With its vocal and narrative quality, this music creates spaces and dream worlds in which listeners can lose themselves with joy.

How the flint first sparked....

Attending the University of Leeds, he majored in classical composition, exploring jazz, funk and drum’n’bass in addition to classical music. Since then he has honed the melodic immediacy of this approach, along with his intense improvisational prowess, forging a distinctive personal style that embraces English classical, electronica and jazz-rock sensibilities, alongside gritty contemporary grooves.

In the early-noughties, a twenty-something Laurance was trying to make a living on the Leeds music scene, when an unremarkable but timely pick-up gig presented itself with a young Michael League in singer Michael Solomon Williams’ band. Gigs in the north of England forged a friendship with League, who happened to be looking for a new piano player, and League invited Laurance to the US to record the first Snarky Puppy album, The Only Constant, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Since then, Laurance has clocked up recordings and or performances with such renowned artists as David Crosby, Morcheeba, Salif Keita, Terence Blanchard, Susana Baca, Lalah Hathaway, Laura Mvula, Jacob Collier, Musiq Soul Child, Khalid Sansi, Chris Potter, Lionel Loueke, Carlos Malta, The Metropole Orchestra and the WDR Big Band. He has also worked extensively in the dance world with companies including Alvin Ailey, Ballet Rambert, Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures, Phoenix Dance, Northern Ballet Theatre and the English National Ballet. He has also composed music for a variety of different clients including Apple, Sky, Nokia and Hewlett Packard.

He is a champion of cutting-edge keyboard developments and is endorsed by: Moog, Mellotron, Sequential, Korg, Nord, Roli Seaboard, Yamaha, Roland, Arp Odyssey, Keyscape, Sound Brenner, Native Instruments and MXR. Alongside Laurance’s touring as a solo artist and with Snarky Puppy, Laurance is the Artist in residence at Morley College London. He is is a passionate educator and continues to give clinics at music institutions all over the world.

Listen here: https://youtu.be/X3WBuQoGtsc

Performing Arts Studio (PATS), University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH

There’s a large car park along the perimeter road – drive straight on at the roundabout once you get on campus and it’s signposted on the left after a little way. Parking is free after 5pm and if you require a disabled parking bay please let us know.

Download campus map (PDF)

The Performing Arts Studio is building 20 on the map  . There’s a footpath that runs from the perimeter road between the AQA and Austin Pearce Building (buildings 4 and 5) – turn right at the top, over the mini roundabout, and the PATS studio is along the road on the left.

Seating is unreserved, please select your seats when you arrive.

The Keep, 29 Castle Street, Guildford GU1 3UW

Live music from 1pm to 3.30pm

There is no charge for the music

Debby Bracknell (vocals) and Dave Clement-Smith (piano)

The Keep, 29 Castle Street, Guildford GU1 3UW

Town centre car parks nearby

Pub seating available

The performance is upstairs in Guildford Pavilion, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.

Doors open supper available from 6.15pm, interview with Alyn Shipton at 7.30pm, performance 8.30pm to 10:15pm (with interval). Licensed bar. Seating is cabaret style and there is a lift for disabled access.

Pre-gig Far Pavilions Menu from Mandira’s Kitchen. Please select chicken or vegetarian:

• Vegetable Samosas (served with tamarind chutney)

• Chicken (or Paneer) Rezela (a delicately spiced dish made with poppy seeds, mace and whole spices)

• Berry Pulao (Fragrant Basmati rice, spice and cranberries - as served in the Iranian cafes of Bombay)
  

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £13

Alyn Shipton, writer, musician, broadcaster and Jazz historian. A recognized international authority on Jazz, he has written and edited many books on the subject of Jazz and those who make it. Alyn is also a presenter, writer and producer of programmes for BBC radio and was also a Jazz critic for the Times for many years.

He is currently the presenter of Jazz Record Requests. Until May 2012 he produced and presented Jazz Library and many of these shows are still available online to UK listeners. Previously, he presented the weekly show Jazzmatazz on the BBC World Service for six years until March 2003. Later that year, he won the Marian McPartland / Willis Conover Award for lifetime achievement in Jazz broadcasting.

The performance is upstairs in the Pavilion building at the Guildford County Cricket Club, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP

For sat navs please check the postcode takes you to Wharf Road. There’s a car park alongside, entry from Wharf Road. If you’re approaching from Guildford town centre, Wharf Road is on the left just before the Sports Ground. If you’re approaching from the A3/Ladymead there’s no right turn into Wharf Road, but continue to the next roundabout to double back.

The car park next to the Pavilion holds about 40 cars (to enable emergency access, cars can only park in the marked bays). Unless it’s very wet, the overflow car park at the far end of the Cricket ground will be open.

To access the overflow car park, turn left as you come out of Wharf Road and carry on along Woodbridge Road towards the railway bridge, and the entrance to the ground is just before the end of the green fence that runs along the perimeter of the ground, next to the Woodbridge Café.

You might prefer to use one of the larger public car parks which are just a few minutes walk away: the open air Mary Road Car Park (GU1 4QU) or multi-storey Bedford Road Car Park (GU1 4SJ)

Seating is either in front row settees/armchairs, central round tables, or rear high chairs/tables. Seats will be reserved for you when you book. If you’re a Guildford Jazz member, please let us know if you have a seating preference in on the booking form. Notes on the layout:

Front row: Seats 1 to 5 are sofas or armchairs

Middle tables: Tables 6 to 23 and 32 are small tables , each seating 4 (for bookings of 1 or 2 seats, we’ll seat you at a table with others, please let us know if you have friends coming who you’d like to sit with!).

Rear tables: Tables 24 to 29 are tall tables suitable for 2 people, with high stools.

Groups: Table 31 and 32 are suitable for larger group of 6 or more

High stools : 30 and 34 are single high stools (no table) , suitable for 1 to 3 people