Pianist/composer Kate Williams (daughter of guitarist John Williams) has gained a reputation as both a distinctive writer and performer. She has released several CDs, each one to critical acclaim. In 2016 she formed Four Plus Three, an ensemble featuring her trio with string quartet. The following year, they performed at the 606 with special guest John Williams (Kate’s father) on guitar. John also features on Kate’s album with vocalist Georgia Mancio: Finding Home: Kate Williams’ Four Plus Three Meets Georgia Mancio. It won album of the year at the 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Awards.

We are delighted to welcome Kate to our lunchtime jazz at the Institute with her trio which also features the wonderful Dave Ingamells on drums, and Marianne on bass.

“…crisp, incisive and totally at one with the rhythmic ebb and flow.” 

“Williams has a quality rare among jazz composers: a musical vocabulary that’s all her own” The Observer **** 
The performances are held in historic Assembly Room at The Guildford Institute . Lunch is available from 12 to 2pm, and the performance is a single one-hour set from 2 to 3pm,

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The performance is upstairs in the historic Assembly Room at The Guildford Institute, Ward St, North St, Guildford GU1 4LH

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

If you would like to eat lunch, please let us know when you book and we will reserve a table for you!

The café – V Café at the Institute – has been run by Nick Humble since 2019. Joined by his friendly team, they offer a welcoming space to relax, have a coffee, and enjoy delicious vegetarian and vegan lunches. The regularly changing menu is based on seasonal, locally-sourced produce. Their vegetables are grown by The Halow Project and they also offer freshly-roasted Surrey Hills coffee.. You can see a sample menu and book a table here: https://www.guildford-institute.org.uk/v-cafe-at-the-institute/

Food is served from 12 to 1pm and the music is from 2pm to 3pm

There is a lift for disabled access

Full Price £12

Guildford Jazz or Guildford Institute Members £10

Kate Williams - piano

Marianne Windham - bass

Dave Ingamells - drums

The Guildford Institute, Ward St, North St, Guildford GU1 4LH

Seating is unserved at tables. Please choose your seat when you arrive

This special concert brings together San Francisco jazz vocalist Noa Levy and UK pianist and composer Paul Edis for a rare transatlantic collaboration, featuring special guest saxophonist Alan Barnes!

Centred around the music of Bill Evans—one of the most influential and beloved jazz pianists of all time—the performance offers a fresh perspective on his work through rarely heard vocal interpretations.

You’ll hear Evans’ compositions in a new light – some with original lyrics written by Paul and Noa – arranged with care and respect for the legend’s music & art. In between songs, hear snippets about Evans’ life and creative journey, giving insight into the emotional world behind the notes.

Whether you’re a lifelong fan of Bill Evans or discovering his music for the first time, this is a chance to experience his renowned “Universal Mind” & artistry from a more personal angle—through music & song. Click here for a taster!

With Joel Barford on drums and Marianne Windham on bass.

Pre gig menu from Mandira’s Kitchen (please see the Event Info tab for the menu)

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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

• Chicken Xacuti (Tender Goan style chicken cooked with roastedcoconut and red chilli)

• Or Panch Mesali (A vibrant vegetable curry featuring five differentvegetables, cooked in a medley of spices)

• Lemon Rice (Fragrant Basmati infused with lemon and mustard seeds)

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz Members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £15.50

Paul Edis

Paul Edis stands as one of the UK’s leading creative musicians, earning prestigious recognition including Best Album at the 2023 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Described by Jazz Journal as “a major voice in British Jazz,” Paul brings depth and sophistication to every performance.

Noa Levy

Currently lighting up San Francisco Bay Area’s jazz scene, Noa Levy captivates audiences with a swinging, authentic sound that JAZZIT Magazine calls “at the same time classic and contemporary.” Noa’s performances at prestigious venues like SFJAZZ and The Fillmore showcase her “expertly rendered selections” (NYC Jazz Record), and draw inspiration from her heroines Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae.

Alan Barnes

One of the UK’s most popular jazz musicians, 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.

​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

Joel Barford

Without doubt one of the most talented young drummers in the UK today, Joel Barford has already performed with a variety of people such as the Nigel Price Organ Trio, Alfie Boe, Omar, Ball & Boe, Anthony Strong, Roy Wood, Michael Ball, Louis Dowdeswell Big Band, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Orchestra, Dennis Rollins, Jo Harrop, Callum Au, Dave Douglas, Marshall Gilkes, Jim Mullen, Laurence Cottle, Tom Seals, Chris Montague, Trish Clowes, Tom Ollendroff, Alessio Menconi, The Filthy Six, Alex Garnett, Andrew McCormack, Alex Hitchcock, CC Smugglers, Greg Coulson, Ashton Jones, Dave O'Higgins, Big Daddy Wilson, Liane Carroll and many more. ​

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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

Enjoy an afternoon of jazz with live musicians and singers in an intimate setting.

Born and raised in Manchester, jazz vocalist and songwriter Sarah Jane Eveleigh moved to the south of England to study a diploma in performing arts and developed her stage craft playing her own compositions in London venues and working as a vocalist in high end function bands before returning to her first love of jazz. Respected for her passionate delivery and interpretations of American Songbook standards Sarah is a gifted storyteller who brings a level of style, accuracy and class to her performances.

Hugh Turner is a superbly accomplished and prolific musician, and is recognised individually as one of the region's finest jazz guitarists. With a playing style steeped in the blues he combines elements of jazz and funk to create a sonically exciting soundscape that fizzes with power, groove and stunning musicality. Hugh’s music appeals to a wide range of audiences from jazz aficionados to lovers of raw, musical energy. His performances have been a huge success at jazz clubs and music venues throughout the UK for over two decades.

Together, Sarah Jane and Hugh will present a varied and exciting programme of jazz, Latin and swing repertoire.

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Terms and Conditions for the Fallen Angel:

Arrival Time: Please plan to arrive between 2 PM -2:30 PM

Entertainment Start Time: Live entertainment will begin at approximately 3 PM.

Outside Food and Drink: No outside food or beverages are allowed within the venue.

Entry Policy: The Fallen Angel reserves the right to refuse entry to any guest. No refunds will be offered of you are refused entry.

Age Restriction: Only guests aged 18 and above are allowed, ID may be required.

Accessibility: Unfortunately, our venue does not have disabled access facilities.

Responsible Drinking: For the safety and enjoyment of all guests, we promote responsible drinking. Guests arriving visibly intoxicated will not be admitted, and no refunds will be provided.

Refunds and Exchanges: The Fallen Angel do not offer refunds or exchanges on tickets.

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Guildford Chantries Rotary Club presents the Trads Army Dixieland Jazz Band

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Experience the magic of Enrico Tomasso, one of the finest jazz trumpet players in the UK, with the terrific Australian sax and clarinet player Duncan Hemstock and their fantastic all-star rhythm section, for an evening of joyful, foot-tapping jazz from the Jazz Swing era.

A lifelong friend of Louis Armstrong, Enrico Tomasso has five British Jazz Awards to his credit, while Duncan brings his joy for life and music to every performance, always delivering with a smile and a cheeky quip.

Guaranteed to bring a smile and dancing all the way home!

With Will Barry on piano (winner of the coveted Musician’s Company 2017 Young Jazz Musician of the Year), Marianne Windham on bass and the ever-swinging Dave Ingamells on drums.

An evening not to be missed!

Guildford Jazz members please contact us for the discount code!

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Friday 27th June

7.30pm start

Select Cabaret or Balcony seating

Tickets £20

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

Enrico Tomasso - trumpet

Enrico Tomasso started playing the trumpet at the age of 5 having been inspired by a recording of Louis Armstrong. When Louis Armstrong paid his final visit to England Tomasso’s father took the 7-year-old Enrico to meet Louis and play for him. Louis Armstrong was greatly impressed and gave the budding trumpet player many tips on playing jazz trumpet. Louis kept in touch with Enrico for the rest of his life. After music college Enrico spent many years working in bands including twelve years with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, then a long stint with Ray Gelato, and with visiting American players. Among those he has played with are Scott Hamilton, Ken Peplowski, Bucky Pizzarelli, John Dankworth, and Tommy Whittle and the Piazza All Stars.

Enrico has won best trumpet player in the British Jazz Awards six times and continues to be rated at the very top of his profession.

Duncan Hemstock was given his first clarinet and a Benny Goodman cassette when he was 13. Upon hearing the first phrase, he fell in love with Jazz and Swing music and eventually he made his way to the local jazz club. There he learnt from and worked with many talented and experienced musicians, and was lucky to be taught by virtuoso clarinet player Andy Firth. Growing up in Adelaide, he toured in the much loved Royal Garden Jazz band and as a soloist all across Australia.

Now living in London, Duncan is relishing the many opportunities to perform for dancers and concert audiences alike throughout the UK and Europe. He brings his joy for life and music to every performance, always delivering with a smile and a cheeky quip or two. His clarinet playing is not only influenced by Goodman, but also the fiery intent of Edmond Hall, while his Tenor Saxophone approach is inspired by the great Lester Young.

Will Barry - Piano

Dave Ingamells - Drums

Marianne Windham - bass

Cranleigh Arts Centre

1 High Street

Cranleigh

GU6 8AS

STUART HENDERSON & KAREN SHARP QUINTET “PARTNERS IN TIME”

Celebrating the historic trumpet/saxophone partnerships of jazz!

Think of Miles Davis/John Coltrane, Chet Baker/Gerry Mulligan, Lee Morgan/Joe Henderson, or Clifford Brown/Harold Land, and you see a theme, two lead instruments working as one to create amazing harmony, punchy unison lines and unforgettable jazz improvisation.

Trumpeter Stuart Henderson and award winning saxophonist Karen Sharp join forces to celebrate the music of these fantastic partnerships from the 40s 50s and 60s!

With the swinging rhythm section of the sensational LEON GREENING on piano, Marianne Windham on bass and ALFONSO VITALE on drums

Opening set from the wonderful FARNHAM BIG BAND

Come rain or shine, this is always a fabulous event! Enjoy outstanding musicianship in the relaxed atmosphere of this most beautiful of settings, raising money for GUTS, fighting bowel cancer.

Doors open 4.30pm, music 5.15pm to 7.30pm
Feel free to bring a picnic and picnic chairs/rugs. There are details at the bottom of the page on how to find us.

Every penny raised at this event supports GUTS, fighting bowel cancer

The evening will open with a set of fantastic big band swing from our friends in the wonderful FARNHAM BIG BAND.

Guests are welcome to bring picnics, rugs and chairs and garden gazebos as necessary. The garden kiosk will be open where refreshments, including alcohol, will be available

Tickets £20 (£18 for Guildford Jazz Members)

Group booking for 4 people £75

Under 18s free

Stuart Henderson - trumpet

Karen Sharp - sax

Leon Greening - piano

Marianne WIndham - bass

Alfonso Vitale - drums

The address Loseley Park, Guildford GU3 1HS

Directions: take the B3000 New Pond Road and the main entrance is in Stakescorner Road, signposted ‘Loseley House’ on a brown sign. The turning to the Loseley estate is then on the left after a few hundred yards.

Please bring your own picnic chairs/rugs/garden gazebos

Small Blue is a jazz trio led by drummer/composer Martin Pyne with Marianne Windham on bass and David Beebee on piano. The group’s debut album, The Stealthy Moon, was released in February 2024 to enthusiastic critical acclaim. Small Blue’s music is intimate, but ranges far and wide in mood and tempo, taking in heartfelt ballads, mysterious grooves, evocative atmospheres and melodic swing along the way.

“Pyne has written twelve exceptional compositions for the new group that immediately gives the trio an identity and repertoire that marks them out as rather something special” – Jazz Views

Performing Martin's original music from their brand new album (released in May on Discus Music), expect to hear a huge variety of compelling and groovy tunes delivered with complete conviction, with an intriguing (and often very quirky) back story which really engages the listeners.

The performances are held in historic Assembly Room at The Guildford Institute . Lunch is available from 12 to 2pm, and the performance is a single one-hour set from 2 to 3pm, Capacity is limited so early booking is advised.

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The performance is upstairs in the historic Assembly Room at The Guildford Institute, Ward St, North St, Guildford GU1 4LH

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

If you would like to eat lunch, please let us know when you book and we will reserve a table for you!

The café – V Café at the Institute – has been run by Nick Humble since 2019. Joined by his friendly team, they offer a welcoming space to relax, have a coffee, and enjoy delicious vegetarian and vegan lunches. The regularly changing menu is based on seasonal, locally-sourced produce. Their vegetables are grown by The Halow Project and they also offer freshly-roasted Surrey Hills coffee.. You can see a sample menu and book a table here: https://www.guildford-institute.org.uk/v-cafe-at-the-institute/

Food is served from 12 to 1pm and the music is from 2pm to 3pm

There is a lift for disabled access

Full Price £12

Guildford Jazz or Guildford Institute Members £10

Martin Pyne - drums and percussion

David Beebee - piano

Marianne Windham - bass

The Guildford Institute, Ward St, North St, Guildford GU1 4LH

Seating is at tables,

Tim Whitehead  and Tony Woods are two of the UK’s finest saxophonists. Their styles are contrasting yet complementary, and they have been described as “blood brothers in music”. Their close musical affinity is evident in many collaborations, such as their pianoless “Kwartet”.

With fantastic chemistry between these two great players, this will be an evening of exciting and passionate exchanges between two masters. Highly recommended!

Tenor saxophonist Tim Whitehead is renowned throughout the UK, Europe and the USA as a remarkable performer and composer with a dazzling CV. In the 70’s he toured with Ian Carr’s “Nucleus” and “Graham Collier Music” winning the Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award on the way. In the 80’s he was a member of the ground breaking big band Loose Tubes and in the 90’s he made several critically acclaimed albums, winning The Andrew Milne Award for Jazz, as well as the BBC Music Magazine Jazz Album of the Year.

"Whitehead has a highly personal, always gorgeous sound on tenor and an infinite vocabulary - in a country of fine saxophonists he is one of the finest.” Peter Bacon, Jazz CD of the Week, Birmingham Post *****

”There are many fine tenor players on the current British scene but Tim Whitehead is undoubtedly one of the best we have” Peter Lund - Crescendo

A graduate of Leeds College of Music and The Guildhall School of Music,alto saxophonist Tony Woods received awards for saxophone, outstanding performance and the soloist’s prize at the Dunkirk International Jazz Festival. In the mid 90’s, the Tony Woods Project was formed.  It has recorded four highly acclaimed albums of original, folk inspired compositions: High Seas (1997), Lowlands (2004), Wind Shadows (2009) and Hidden Fires (2017). The band has attracted airplay on BBC Radio 3, Jazz FM, UK Jazz Radio, has toured the UK extensively and performed at festivals across the country

With Simon Cook on piano, Martin Pyne on drums and percussion and Marianne Windham on bass

Pre gig menu from Mandira’s Kitchen (please see the Event Info tab for the menu)

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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 (MurghTender chicken in a delicate sauce of groundcashews, coconut and fresh coriander)

• Or Shahi Vegetable Korma (A Royal Mughal dish of nine vegetables representingthe jewels of King Akbar’s Court)

• Jeera aur Mattar Pulao (Fragrant basmati rice cooked with cumin seeds and tender green peas)

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz Members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £15.50

Tim Whitehead - tenor sax

During his career, Tim has played extensively throughout the UK and Europe, and more recently in the USA with American pianist Phil DeGreg. In the 70s he toured with Ian Carr’s Nucleus and Graham Collier Music and won the Young Jazz Musicians of the Year Award with his own band South of the Border in 1977.

In the 80’s he was a member of the groundbreaking big band Loose Tubes, and continued to develop his own music, recording for Spotlite Records and Editions EG - English People (1983) and Decision (1987) with his own bands, featuring at different times John Parricelli, Django Bates, Nic France and Pete Jacobsen. In the 90’s he recorded Authentic and Silence Between Waves, on Ronnie Scott’s Jazz House Label with Dave Barry, Pete Jacobsen and Arnie Somogyi, and received The Andrew Milne Award for Jazz, as well as several other commissions during this period. In 1999 Tim released Personal Standards, an album of soul and pop tunes arranged for jazz quartet, which received widespread interest and critical praise including Jazz Album of the Year in the BBC Music Magazine, and led to an educational project at Trinity College of Music under the same title. In 2000, Contemporary composer Colin Riley and Tim won the Peter Whittingham Award to complete and record Tides with the Homemade Orchestra. This was the beginning of a long term collaboration. Since then the HomeMade Orchestra have toured extensively and received several awards and commissions as well as releasing their second album, Inside Covers in 2005.

In 2009 he was the first ever musician Artist in Residence at Tate Britain (funded by an award from The Leverhulme Trust), to research and compose music in response to the work of JMW Turner. During the residency he wrote 'Colour Beginnings', a series of compositions written from transcribed improvisations performed in front of and in response to a selection of JMW Turner's watercolour sketches. The work was performed at Tate Britain in November 2009 following a series of lecture demonstrations in October. The performance was also recorded for release in 2010 and filmed for a profile on the project by Gwynhelek Productions. December 2009 saw a collaboration with Colin Riley and The Royal College Of Music String Orchestra, to perform 'Landscapes With Birds' by Riley for tenor and soprano saxes, which Tim performed with them at St James Church Piccadilly in London , and which was also performed at The Royal College Of Music in January 201

Tony Woods - alto sax

Tony began playing folk music with his father at the age of five. A graduate of Keele University, Leeds College of Music and The Guildhall School of Music, Tony received awards for saxophone, outstanding performance and the soloist’s prize at the Dunkirk International Jazz Festival.  
​In the mid 90’s, the Tony Woods Project was formed.  It has recorded three highly acclaimed albums of original, folk inspired compositions: High Seas (1997), Lowlands (2004), and Wind Shadows (2009).  The band has attracted airplay on BBC Radio 3, Jazz FM, UK Jazz Radio, has toured the UK extensively and performed at festivals across the country including Manchester, London, Swanage, Ealing, Ascot and Teignmouth. To explore the possibilities of improvising on English classical music Tony formed the Avalon Trio with Pete Churchill and the debut album Forlana was released in 2011 to great critical acclaim resulting in interviews on BBC Radio 3 and Jazz FM. Tony has also performed at the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, Pizza Express Jazz Club and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. He has worked as a session musician in many of London’s studios including Lansdown Studios, Angel Studio, Abbey Road and Maida Vale Studios.

Tony has frequently performed with Michael Garrick, both live and on disc, in large and small ensembles, often with his wife: singer Nette Robinson. In 2010 Nette’s Little Big Band released its debut CD The Little Big Band Plays and in 2012 Michael Garrick’s Lyric Ensemble, which features Nette and Tony, released “Home Thoughts” - Michael Garrick’s final album. 2012 also saw the release of “Seventh Daze”,  the debut album from  Kwartet -Tony’s collaboration with long time musical associate Tim Whitehead.

Simon Cook - piano

Martin Pyne - 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

Proudly supporting Cherry Trees, providing a lifeline for families of children with complex disabilities

Jazz in the Vineyard at the stunning High Clandon Estate Vineyard brings a celebration of the distinctively funky soul jazz of the late, great American pianist and composer HORACE SILVER, from an all-star quintet featuring some of the UK’s top jazz musicians!

Featuring award-winning UK jazz trumpeter Steve Waterman and Clare Hirst, a UK saxophonist with a distinguished career in pop and jazz music, along with the fantastic rhythm section of composer and pianist Andrea Vicari, Guildford Jazz founder Marianne Windham on bass, and Matt Fishwick on drums.

The Horace Silver Project promise to win you over with their all-action and swinging tribute to a founding father of soulful hard bop, including favourites from his enduring Blue Note recordings such as The Preacher, Song for my Father and Sister Sadie.

“How could anyone resist the powerful rhythmic drive of five virtuoso musicians at the top of their form playing music drenched with an intoxicating blend of bebop, blues, funky soul and gospel” – ***** Jazz in Reading

Bring along a delicious picnic or dig-in to one of our stone-baked pizzas, complete with a complimentary glass of Shakespearean Cuvée 2019 vintage on arrival.

Take advantage of our early bird offer of £40 per person with all proceeds supporting the children and families who rely on Cherry Trees. 

**Early Bird ends on Monday 21 April**

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Saturday 7th June

Matinee performance 13:00- 14:45

Evening performance 18:15-20:00

Picnics or Pizzas on the Lawn 

Make the most of your time in the glorious surroundings by rustling up your own delicious picnic to enjoy before the Jazz. Feel free to make your picnic as lavish or simple as you choose with drinks of your choice. 

There is also the option to treat yourself to a freshly baked wood-fired pizza from our high-quality pizza vendor. From classic favourites to gourmet specialties, their pizzas promise to be a tasty highlight of the evening! 

You’ll also be served a complimentary glass of Shakespearean Cuvée 2019 vintage on arrival with additional glasses available for purchase from the High Clandon bar throughout the evening. 

You’re welcome to bring anything else you may need to make your evening comfortable, such as tables, chairs and cushions. Only thing we ask is please not to bring any barbeques or open flames for safety reasons.  

Upgrade Your Experience  

Add that little bit extra to your evening and pre-book one of our cabaret-style seats. Chairs are £10 per person and will be spread around shared tables.   This can be added to your booking when purchasing your tickets. 

Early Bird Tickets £40 with all proceeds supporting the children and families who rely on Cherry Trees.

STEVE WATERMAN

Steve Waterman is undoubtedly one of Britain’s top jazz trumpet players. He began his career while studying at Trinity College of Music, playing with the European Community Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Since then, he has worked regularly on the British and European jazz scene with John Surman, Andy Sheppard, Tony Coe, Carla Bley, Don Weller and many others. He has recorded many critically acclaimed CDs under his own name as well as a number of CDs under the ECM label with John Surman’s Brass Project and Carla Bley.

Steve has won numerous BBC British jazz awards over the years and is very committed to Jazz education. Previously professor of Jazz Trumpet at Trinity College of Music in London and visiting Jazz Trumpet specialist at The Royal Northern College Of Music, he is currently professor of Jazz at The Welsh College Of Music And Drama and has co-written a highly acclaimed Jazz Trumpet tutor book.

ANDREA VICARI

Pianist and composer Andrea Vicari was born in Florida and grew up in Birmingham. Educated at Cardiff University she won a scholarship to study at The Guildhall School of Music in London and was soon in demand as a ‘side-man” working with bass guitar legend, Dill Katz in a band that included the then unknown guitarist Phil Robson. Soon after she formed her first important group with Julian Argüelles on saxophone & Stuart Hall, then of Django Bates’ “Human Chain”, on bass. Other employers included GRP recording artist, Phil Bent; jazz warrior David-Jean Baptiste with whom she recorded her first commercially released CD; and the all-women band “Birds” led by Kathy Stobart.

Andrea played a successful season at London’s sadly defunct jazz club “The Bass Clef” with the late great American saxophone innovator, Eddie Harris, and gigged with the US trumpet legend Art Farmer. Andrea has to date five albums in her own name and has contributed to others such as ‘Round Trip’ and “East and West’ with Jazz Extempore plus ‘The Vortex Foundation big band’. A prolific composer, she has been commissioned by the Arts Council, the BBC, Jazz Umbrella, the Peter Whittingham trust, and other projects. Andrea is also a well known and respected jazz educator holding a senior lecturer post and professorship at Trinity Laban College of music and dance (jazz).

CLARE HIRST  

Clare Hirst was born in Cumbria and studied piano and clarinet until managing to get hold of a saxophone. She moved to York and then to Leeds before eventually making it to London where a successful career in pop music ensued. Having played live and on recordings with artists such as David Bowie, The Communards,Mica Paris, The Bellestars and Maxi Priest, she spent some time working with Mervyn Africa before embarking on a solo career based around her Quartet. Since then she has played with many of the country’s finest jazz musicians including Tony Kofi, Art Themen, David Newton, Alan Barnes, ClareTeal, Mark Nightingale, Byron Wallen, Don Weller, Claude Deppa, Jim Mullen and Dick Pearce. She has performed concerts in USA, Japan, Hong Kong and extensively in Europe including many TV performances. Her performance with David Bowie on Live-Aid can be seen on the Live-Aid DVD. 

Clare’s experience with such a diverse mixture of musical styles ranging from salsa to reggae to funk and African music, along with a heavy influence from jazz players such as Sonny Rollins and Chick Corea, has created a unique style. The Clare Hirst Quartet has performed at many festivals, clubs and arts centres throughout the country and she currently has three CD’s out; the first entitled “Tough and Tender” called “Summer Song” and the third CD “Touchy”.

 MATT FISHWICK

One of the most highly regarded drummers on the UK jazz scene, Matt grew up in Manchester with his twin brother Steve, where they played their first gigs together before moving to London in 1994 to study at the Royal Academy of Music.

Since graduating, Matt has lived and worked in New York and London, performing at renowned venues such as Small's, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, Smoke, The Iridium and Ronnie Scott's, and worked throughout Europe and performed on any recordings in the UK, Europe and USA.

Matt has shared the stage/studio with many great musicians including Bass players Bob Cranshaw, George Mraz, Peter Washington, Earl May, Dave Green, Michael Moore, Mike Karn, Clovis Nicholas, David Wong; Piano players Jeb Patton, Cedar Walton, Michael Weiss, Sacha Perry, John Colianni, John Bunch; Saxophone players Grant Stewart, Scott Hamilton, Harry Allen, Ken Peplowski, Pete King, Frank Basile, Osian Roberts, Dmitri Baevski, Frank Wess; Trumpet players Steve Fishwick, Joe Magnarelli, Joe Wilder, Jeremy Pelt, Warren Vache, Anders Bergcrantz; Guitarists Joe Cohn, Larry Coryell, Philip Catherine, Colin Oxley, Jim Mullen, Howard Alden, Dave Cliff.

MARIANNE WINDHAM

The founder and driving force behind Guildford Jazz, and co-founder of Fleet Jazz, Marianne started her musical life playing cello, taking up playing bass later in life. She left a successful career in software consultancy to pursue learning bass full time and has since become a well established and in demand player on scene, and performs regularly with many of the UK’s top jazz musicians.

“A valuable player… Brown-like musicality and drive” - Peter Vacher, Jazzwise

High Clandon Estate Vineyard, East Clandon, GU4 7RP

If travelling by car, parking is available on site with the option for accessible parking if needed. Please specify your requirements for this on our booking form so we can plan accordingly.  

There will also be a designated drop off area for those arriving or being collected via taxi, friends or family.

What better way to spend a Sunday than in the company of friends or loved ones, with live jazz, brunch and fine wines? And this week you can enjoy the wonderfully talented Emily Windham Quartet perform live, performing favourites from the Great American Songbook including Ellington, Shearing, Gershwin and Miles Davis, as well as contemporary grooves from Stevie Wonder and Bobby Hebb.

A versatile and skilled vocalist with an engaging stage presence, Emily Windham is an actress, singer and performer who has toured shows across the UK and Europe and worked in feature and short films since graduating from RADA and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her quartet also features Andrew Sturmey on piano, Marianne Windham on bass and the extraordinary drummer and percussionist Martin Pyne, all skilled instrumentalists and jazz improvisers.

Please click the link below for more details and to book from the Login Lounge website

Timings

12pm: Doors open - come and enjoy a drink and a leisurely brunch in our 1st floor wine bar.

1 - 3pm: Soak up the sounds of live jazz, catch up with friends, and watch the world go by. A perfect way to finish the weekend.

3 - 4pm: Stay and relax - we're in no hurry.

Tickets from £5

Emily Windham - vocals

Andrew Sturmey - piano

Martin Pyne - drums

Marianne Windham - bass

The nearest carpark is The Atrium (Park Street, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 3QL) - Exit the Atrium on the ground floor (with Starbucks on your left) and then turn left at Zizzi's and Login Lounge is approx 200m on your left (next to Pandora and opposite The Bear pub).

Seating will be reserved for you

One of our most popular – and certainly most virtuosic – guests returns to Guildford Jazz with his outstanding band: Nicolas Meier!

His ‘World Group’ has a unique sound, incorporating a meld of Middle Eastern, Turkish, jazz and fusion influences. Meier has had a glittering career, including three years of touring with Jeff Beck and subsequent recordings with Yellowjackets bassist, Jimmy Haslip and Sting/Zappa/everybody! drummer, Vinnie Collaiuta!

The World Group offers a massive range of colours: Nick himself plays various types of guitar (including his masterly work on the fretless and the fretless 11-string!), and the group benefits from the rich sonorities of Richard Jones’ electric violin and the keyboard wizardry of Alex Hutton. Completing the band is the super-versatile bassist, Tom Mason (Gwilym Simcock, Anoushka Shankar, Jamie Cullum, Lily Allen etc.) and the outrageously talented percussionist, Demi Garcia-Sabat!

Nick never fails to woo and wow an audience; this will be fabulous fare, and will be a gig that will sell out quickly. So really folks... BOOK NOW!!!

Pre gig menu from Mandira’s Kitchen (please see the Event Info tab for the menu)

Please click the tabs for more information

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

• Punjabi Murgh Masala - Tender chicken cooked in a rich, spiced tomato gravy with aromatic Punjabi flavors.

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

• Yakhni Pulao Fragrant basmati rice cooked in a flavorful, aromatic brothand spices

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz Members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £15.50

Nicolas Meier - guitars

Richard Jones - violin

Alex Hutton - piano

Tom Mason - bass

Demi Garcia-Sabat - drums/percussion

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

May’s lunchtime trio jazz concert features guitarist NICOLAS MEIER and pianist ALEX HUTTON.

A rare opportunity to hear one of the world's most original and uniquely talented guitarists, Nicolas Meier, in an intimate trio setting! Drawing from a love of Turkish, Eastern & Middle Eastern music, Flamenco, Tango, and more—all mixed with jazz— Nicolas’ versatility and musical fluency are well known and loved by Guildford audiences.

Pianist Alex Hutton is one of the UK Jazz’s hidden treasures. A fine composer, with an ear for folk and classical influences, he is a gifted, thoughtful improviser and a mainstay of the London Jazz scene who has worked with the leading figures from Jim Mullen and Pete King to Pete Wareham. Marianne Windham completes the trio on bass.

The performances are held in historic Assembly Room at The Guildford Institute . Lunch is available from 12 to 2pm, and the performance is a single one-hour set from 2 to 3pm, Capacity is limited so early booking is advised.

* SOLD OUT. Please contact us if you would like to go on the waiting list, thank you *

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The performance is upstairs in the historic Assembly Room at The Guildford Institute, Ward St, North St, Guildford GU1 4LH

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

If you would like to eat lunch, please let us know when you book and we will reserve a table for you!

The café – V Café at the Institute – has been run by Nick Humble since 2019. Joined by his friendly team, they offer a welcoming space to relax, have a coffee, and enjoy delicious vegetarian and vegan lunches. The regularly changing menu is based on seasonal, locally-sourced produce. Their vegetables are grown by The Halow Project and they also offer freshly-roasted Surrey Hills coffee.. You can see a sample menu and book a table here: https://www.guildford-institute.org.uk/v-cafe-at-the-institute/

Food is served from 12 to 1pm and the music is from 2pm to 3pm

There is a lift for disabled access

Full Price £12

Guildford Jazz or Guildford Institute Members £10

Nicolas Meier - guitar

Alex Hutton - piano

Marianne Windham - bass

The Guildford Institute, Ward St, North St, Guildford GU1 4LH

Seating is at tables,

Join us for an afternoon of live jazz courtesy of the talented Nicolas Meier Trio, celebrating music from around the globe including the Latin American rhythms of Samba, Bolero, Tango and, of course, jazz!

Nicolas Meier has carved a reputation out as one of the world’s most original and uniquely talented guitarists. Drawing from a love of Turkish, Eastern & Middle Eastern music, Flamenco, Tango and more — all mixed with jazz — Meier’s versatility and musical fluency extends well beyond that (… so much so, that his considerable talents drew the attention of rock guitar legend, Jeff Beck, who made Nicolas a mainstay in The Jeff Beck Group — carrying him on two world tours during the course of the last several years!).

Eric Ford is on drums who , as well as being part of world renowned jazz trio, Partikel, is an in demand drummer and percussionist playing with several artists in recent years, including Clare Teal, Pee Wee Ellis and Jason Rebello as well as many festivals across the globe. "...exquisitely subtle drumming, superbly delicate” – All About Jazz

Marianne Windham, the founder of Guildford Jazz and a well-respected and in demand player, completes the line-up on double bass.

Please click the link below for tickets

1-3pm at the Login Lounge, The Atrium, 34 Park St, Camberley, GU15 3PL

Tickets £7.50 (£5 for over 60’s)

Nicolas Meier - guitars

Eric Ford - drums

Marianne Windham - bass

Please visit: https://www.loginlounge.co.uk/find-us

Seating is cabaret style at tables

An all star line-up featuring a rare UK appearance from trombonist, composer, arranger and educator Andy Baker, and the great tenor saxophonist Mark Lockheart, a ground breaking musician and a key figure in the development of British jazz, well known to jazz audiences from his performances with Loose Tubes and Polar Bear.

In addition to a full-time performing career, Andy Baker is a assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a Michael Roth trombones performing artist.

We are delighted to welcome Andy to Guildford for this rare UK performance!

With Andrea Vicari on piano, Matt Fishwick on drums and Marianne Windham on bass

Pre gig menu from Mandira’s Kitchen (please see the Event Info tab for the menu)

Please click the tabs for more information

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 Sabzi Wali Dal - A nutritious and flavorful lentil dish cooked with mixedvegetables and spices for a hearty meal

• Jeera Pulao A festive dish of aged Basmati with cumin seeds

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz Members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £15.50

Andrew Baker

Trombonist, composer, and conductor Andrew Baker, born and raised in London, began performing professionally at the age of 14 and had appeared on recordings and TV shows by the age of 18. During his four years at the Guildhall School of Music, Andy played two seasons with the Covent Garden Festival Orchestra, toured Europe with the Desford Colliery Band and the show Carmen Jones, performed and recorded with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and began substituting in London’s West End theatres. Although his studies were in orchestral trombone playing, Andy took part in graduate jazz classes and ensembles and conducted his first recital before graduation. Andy spent the next four years touring extensively with the Ray Gelato Giants and freelancing in all aspects of London’s extensive music scene before relocating to Chicago in 2001.

Quickly establishing a reputation as one of the most versatile musicians in town, Andy was a member of Jon Faddis’s Chicago Jazz Ensemble from 2006–2012 and has been a core-member of Fulcrum Point New Music Project since 2010. In the early 2000s, Andy joined the faculties of Northwestern University and Elmhurst College and co-founded the bands BakerzMillion and the New Standard Jazz Orchestra. Returning to school to pursue his interests in education and composition, Andy earned a master’s degree from DePaul University and joined the full-time faculty at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2012.

Andy appears as a guest artist and clinician across the United States, England, and France and continues to perform and record in jazz, classical, and commercial music. Andy is a Michael Rath Trombones and Denis Wick performing artist.

Mark Lockheart

From Loose Tubes to Polar bear, Mark Lockheart has been a key figure in the development of British jazz. His albums for Edition records are genre and career defining, running the gamut from big band to classical, experimental to electric, his talent knows no bounds.

Saxophonist and composer Mark Lockheart first came to prominence in the mid 1980s with the influential big band Loose Tubes. Although classically trained as a clarinetist and saxophonist Mark’s love of Jazz was always destined to define his artistic direction. In 1992 Mark formed the eclectic co-led quartet Perfect Houseplants, a group that released six albums and collaborated with many adventurous classical artists including the Orlando Consort and violinist Andrew Manze.

The mid-90s saw Mark recording and performing with many jazz, folk and pop artists including Django Bates, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, June Tabor, Stereolab, Jah Wobble, Robert Wyatt, Prefab Sprout, Don Um Romao, Thomas Dolby, Anja Garbarek and Radiohead.

In 2003 Mark joined Seb Rochford’s Polar Bear, which over a period of twelve years went on to record six ground-breaking albums. The band’s second CD, ‘Held On The Tips Of Fingers,’ was nominated for the 2005 Mercury Award and later appeared in Jazzwise’s ‘100 Albums That Shook the World.’ The band’s fifth album ‘In Each And Every Way’ was also nominated for a Mercury award in 2013.

In 2007 Mark was a featured soloist (along with John Pattitucci and Gwilym Simcock) in Mark Anthony Turnage’s ‘About Water,’ which was premiered at the Southbank in June 2007. Mark collaborated several times more with Turnage, performing his ‘A Man Descending’ with the Southbank Sinfonia in 2008 and more recently as one of the featured musicians in Turnage’s opera ‘Anna Nicole’ which was premiered at the Royal Opera House in London.

In 2009 Mark’s quintet album ‘In Deep’ was released on the Edition record label to critical acclaim – the Manchester Evening News awarded it five stars and said it was ‘the key record of the second golden age of British jazz.’ The following year saw the release of Mark’s first big band album ‘Days Like These’ with the Hamburg-based NDR big band. That same year Mark was awarded APPJC ‘Parliamentary Jazz Musician of the Year 2010.’

In 2013 Mark released ‘Ellington In Anticipation,’ a radical reworking of Ellington melodies with an all-star line up which included Seb Rochford and Liam Noble. The CD of the project had many four and five-star reviews and was MOJO magazine’s ‘Jazz Album of 2013’ and nominated as ‘Best Jazz CD of 2013’ by the APPJC at the 2014 Parliamentary Awards.

An invitation to perform at the New York Rochester Jazz Festival in 2014 led to the formation of ‘Malija’, a trio with bassist Jasper Hoiby and pianist Liam Noble. Malija’s debut album ‘The Day I Had Everything’ was released on Edition in 2015 to critical acclaim and the group’s second CD, entitled ‘Instinct’, was released in 2017 and followed by a 21 date tour.

In 2016 Mark was awarded Jazz FM Instrumentalist of the year at the Jazz FM Awards and was nominated for the British Composer Awards for his composition ’With One Voice’

Andrea Vicari - piano, Matt Fishwick - 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

For the final show of the 2nd BEAT Series Guildford Jazz presents a celebration of jazz, funk and soul in a double header gig featuring Motet & The Joe Garland Band, playing Yellowjackets, Al Jarreau, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars.

MOTET

MOTET brings rich horn arrangements and high energy rhythms to well-known soul and jazz funk songs, from artists such as Patrice Rushen, Snarky Puppy, Tim Akers, Al Jarreau and Stevie Wonder. Composer arranger and drummer, Seb Guard, is the source of much of the band’s creative arrangements, with fellow rhythm section Robin Clayton (bass), David Kirby (keys) and Andy Jackson (guitar) completing an established and highly accomplished unit.

MOTET’s horn section is composed of three highly regarded performers from the Surrey jazz scene: Sam Parker (saxes), Tom Parsons (trumpet) and Stuart Goodburne (trombone). The band delivers a modern, danceable groove that is fresh and uplifting – the essence of the BEAT vibe! Motet is joined by accomplished live performer and in-demand session vocalist, Debby Bracknell. Debby has sung for top artists such as Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande and Shakatak.

The Joe Garland Band 

Headed by guitarist Joe Garland, this talented group of young musicians from London perform boisterous, groovy jazz funk and fusion in the vein of the Yellowjackets, John Scofield and Tribal Tech. Joe is one of the most popular acts to have featured in the BEAT series and we are delighted to welcome him back with an 8-piece band made up of fellow graduates from London's music academies.

Joe will perform a mix of originals destined for his first album, some of which are based on tunes composed for previous Boileroom shows. Joe's music represents the essence of the BEAT vibe and we are thrilled he can perform at this final show of this second BEAT Series.

Follow the link to buy your tickets now, or use the tabs below to read about the event in more detail.

Doors open 7pm; Music from 7:45 - 8:30pm to 10:15pm

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

MOTET are:

Seb Guard – drums

Robin Clayton – bass

Dave Kirby – keys

Andy Jackson – guitar

Sam Parker – saxes

Tom Parsons – Trumpet 

Stuart Goodburne – Trombone

Debbie Bracknell - Vocals

THE JOE GARLAND BAND are:

Joe Garland-Johnston - Guitar

Simon Spies - Drums

Will Inscoe - Keys

Jules Jackson - Bass

Josh Short - Trumpet

Ed Hogben - Trumpet

Tom Jarvis - Tenor Saxophone

Matt Cooper - Trombone

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

Click here for directions and parking

Come and relive the decadent Parisian jazz scene of the 1930s with The Transatlantic Hot Club as they make a first visit to Guildford Jazz on their 2025 UK tour!

Featuring Adrien Chevalier (New York) on Violin, Ben Creighton Griffiths (Cardiff) on Harp, Jeremy Lohier (Corsica) on Accordion, and Ashley John Long (Cardiff) on double bass. Expect to hear Swing classics, Django standards, and Latin Bossa Nova during this exciting performance. 

Pre gig menu from Mandira’s Kitchen (please see the Event Info tab for the menu)

** Online sales are sold out. Please contact us below to go on the waiting list ““

Please click the tabs for more information

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

• Chicken Xacuti - A Goan dish made with boneless chicken, freshly grated coconut and a special blend of spices

• Or Rajma - A hearty and comforting dish of red kidney beans andpotato cooked in a flavorful, spiced tomato gravy

• Mattar Pulao - Fragrant basmati rice cooked with green peas andaromatic spices for a flavorful, comforting dish.

Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz Members £18

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Meals £15.50 (please note the new price)

Ben Creighton Griffiths (Cardiff - harp)

Adrien Chevalier (New York - violin/vocals)

Jeremy Lohier (Corsica - accordion/vocals)

Ashley John Long (Cardiff - bass)

The Transatlantic Hot Club was formed by Ben Creighton Griffiths (Harp) and Adrien Chevalier (Violin) in 2013 when they met whilst both performing at ‘Journées de la Harpe’ - a harp festival on the French Caribbean islands of Martinique, Guyane, Guadeloupe, St Anne, and St Lucia. The following year they began an annual tradition of performing in Cardiff and have been expanding this into a full tour ever since. In 2019 they adopted the Transatlantic Hot Club name. As well as returning to the French Caribbean in 2016 and 2022, the Hot Club has performed extensively in the UK including at venues such as Acapela Studios (Pentyrch), Cafe Jazz (Cardiff), Le Quecumbar (London),  Insole Court (Cardiff), Elsing Hall (Norfolk), Oxnead Hall (Norfolk), and Pavilions (Teignmouth). They have performed at a number of jazz clubs in the UK including Aberjazz (Fishguard), Brecon Jazz Club, Spice Jazz Soho at Crazy Coqs (London), Speakeasy Jazz (Portishead), and Black Mountain Jazz Club (Abergavenny). Festival appearances in the UK include Aberjazz Festival (Fishguard), Django in the Bay (Rutland), Brecon Online Jazz Festival, Edinburgh International Harp Festival, Wales Harp Festival (Caernarfon), and the World Harp Congress 2022 (Cardiff).

In France they have performed at the Camac Space and Le Piano Vache in Paris, and at the Conservatoire Zino Franscescatti (La Ciotat) and Le Lido (St Raphael) in the South. In Corsica they have performed at Spaziu Culturale Natale Rochiccioli (Cargese), the CNCM VOCE Auditorium of Pigna, and Spaziu Edmond Simeoni (Lumio). In the USA they have performed at the American Harp Society National Conference (2024, Orlando), and at a number of venues in New York City including St Mazie's Jazz Club, The Keep, Centurion Lounge, Motto Chelsea, and Linden's. Musicians who have performed in the Transatlantic Hot Club line up include - Jeremy Lohier (accordion), Ashley John Long (bass), Tatiana Eva-Marie (vocals), Don Sweeney (bass/guitar), Philip Ambuel (bass), Vincent Simonelli (guitar), John Dufosse (bass), Alex Gilson (bass), Edouard Pennes (bass), Adrien Tarraga (guitar), Neil Saidi (reeds), Tara Minton (vocals), Irene Serra (vocals), Abe Pollack (bass), and James Robbins (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 first in a new series of monthly lunchtime trio jazz concerts at Guildford Institute in the heart of Guildford!

The performances are held in historic Assembly Room at The Institute which boasts a grand piano !

Lunch is available from 12 to 2pm, and the performance is a single one-hour set from 2 to 3pm,

This opening concert features the prodigiously talented pianist and composer TERENCE COLLIE with the sensational SOPHIE ALLOWAY on drums and Marianne Windham on bass.

With sold-out shows in 2024 at prestigious venues like the 606 Club and Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho, Terence Collie continues to captivate audiences with his virtuosity and innovative compositions, solidifying his reputation as a preeminent figure in contemporary jazz. “Goddess of groove” Sophie Alloway has played drums for all the finalists in the BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024 and is the musician of choice for a wide variety of high-profile artists,

"mesmerising" Jazzwise

“Stunning…Terence Collie is an artist whose work deserves to be celebrated” - Jazz In Europe

Please click the tabs for more information

The performance is upstairs in the historic Assembly Room at The Guildford Institute, Ward St, North St, Guildford GU1 4LH

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

If you would like to eat lunch, please let us know when you book and we will reserve a table for you!

The café – V Café at the Institute – has been run by Nick Humble since 2019. Joined by his friendly team, they offer a welcoming space to relax, have a coffee, and enjoy delicious vegetarian and vegan lunches. The regularly changing menu is based on seasonal, locally-sourced produce. Their vegetables are grown by The Halow Project and they also offer freshly-roasted Surrey Hills coffee.. You can see a sample menu and book a table here: https://www.guildford-institute.org.uk/v-cafe-at-the-institute/

Food is served from 12 to 1pm and the music is from 2pm to 3pm

There is a lift for disabled access

Full Price £12

Guildford Jazz or Guildford Institute Members £10

Terence Collie - piano

Terence Collie, a prodigious talent, embarked on his musical journey at age 12, honing his skills as a self-taught keyboardist before delving deeply into jazz during his formative years in Jersey. Mentored by seasoned musicians, he refined his craft and shared stages with icons like Teddy Edwards and Georgie Fame.

Relocating to mainland UK, Terence secured a prestigious residency at Pizza Express in Cambridge, expanding his repertoire and earning accolades. His passion for jazz-fusion led to the formation of Prison Break, yielding two acclaimed albums showcasing his prowess as a composer and producer.

In 2011, he co-founded Mood Indigo Events, curating unforgettable jazz experiences, including the celebrated TW12 Jazz Festivals. As a sideman, Terence has graced stages with luminaries such as Kyle Eastwood and Jo Harrop, captivating audiences across the UK's premier jazz clubs and festivals.

Amidst the challenges of the pandemic, Terence embraced live-streamed performances and remote collaborations, garnering a substantial following on the Mood Indigo Jazz YouTube Channel. Recent highlights include a triumphant performance at the 2022 Brecon Jazz Festival and the release in 2023 of two lauded albums, "Reminiscent" and "384,400," showcasing his versatility as a soloist and bandleader.

Marianne Windham - bass

Drums tbc

The Guildford Institute, Ward St, North St, Guildford GU1 4LH

Seating is at tables,

MOBO nominated musician Rod Youngs brings his sensational quartet to Guildford to celebrate the music of the iconic Blue Note Record label!

Rod Youngs has established himself as one of the most expressive and versatile drummers on the contemporary music scene. For over two decades his approach to music has covered a wide spectrum of genres while remaining firmly rooted in the jazz tradition. 

Rod is joined by the incomparable Denys Baptiste, a legend of British jazz and one of the most sought-after saxophonists in the country; celebrated guitarist Artie Zaitz and formidable bassist Larry Bartley.

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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 £16

Students £7 / Student Members £5

Rod Youngs - bandleader + drums

A native of Washington D.C., Rod developed an interest and appreciation for music at an early age. This interest grew into a passion that eventually led to his studies at Howard University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Percussion. He later continued his studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. under the tutelage of Keith Copeland. 

Since those formative years Rod’s consummate musicianship has garnered him a wide variety of work from concerts and recordings to sessions for radio, TV and film. He has performed/recorded with a formidable array of artists including Lee Konitz, Bennie Maupin, Jon Hendricks, Gil Scott-Heron, Chico Freeman, Hugh Masekela, Gary Crosby, Natalie Cole, Mica Paris, Denys Baptiste, Abdullah Ibrahim, BBC Concert Orchestra, Julian Joseph, Nu Civilisation Orchestra, Courtney Pine, Ronnie Laws, Jazz Jamaica All Stars, and David Murray.

In addition to performing, Rod is actively involved in music education. He has served as an instructor on the Glamorgan University jazz course and has conducted performance workshops for Southampton University, Tomorrow’s Warriors, Serious International Music Producers and The Roundhouse. He currently provides private instruction for students of all levels and ages and serves as a guest artist at the Planet Drum School and the Julian Joseph Jazz Academy. 

Denys Baptiste - sax

Iconic saxophone player Denys Baptiste is a keystone in the British jazz scene and a hero to the younger generation of London jazz players.

From the moment he joined the London jazz circuit, Denys displayed extraordinary talent, energy and commitment. Spotted by veteran Jazz Warriors double bassist, Gary Crosby at the bassist’s regular Tomorrow’s Warriors jam sessions, Denys was immediately invited to join Crosby’s new band, Nu Troop. Since then, Denys has soared in his development as a soloist and bandleader, earning enormous respect from his peers.

His colossal talent – based on a powerful technique and an ability to improvise fluently and effortlessly across a wide range of musical styles – is matched only by his unfettered energy which takes him and his audiences into the musical stratosphere. An evening with Denys guarantees a display of unsuppressed expression, ranging from sweet “saxuality” to breathtaking, edge-of-your-seat virtuosity. Over the years, Denys has evolved into what the Time Magazine describes as “the icon of British jazz”, with a most distinctive and immediately recognisable sound.

His album The Late Trane, recorded for Edition Records, was an internationally praised re-imaging of the late music of John Coltrane.

Artie Zaitz - guitar

Artie has been working and recording on the London and international scene for over a decade with artists such as Moses Boyd, The Banger Factory, Camilla George, Maisha, Theon Cross, Jordan Rakei and Tom Waters Electric People to name a few. Having studied jazz guitar at Trinity College of Music, Artie is also a Hammond organ aficionado and often performs on his vintage C3. You can hear him on 'Back to Back' available on Banger Factory Records  (2022).

Larry Bartley - bass

Larry Bartley has become one of the most sought after bass players on the London jazz scene. He studied at Goldsmith College from 1988 - 1991 with Howard Riley and Laurence Couty giving him a wide and open outlook to the music scene. Larry Bartley's presence can be felt through his identifiable sound and through his deep commitment to music.

Larry Bartley has worked with bands led by Courtney Pine, Jean Toussaint, Denys Baptiste,Cleveland Watkiss, Byron Wallen ,Steve Williamson, Julian Joseph, AndySheppard, Soweto Kinch, Juliet Roberts, Alex Wilson and Robert Mitchellas well as backing visiting musicians such as Stanley Turrentine and Steve Grossman. Larry Bartley has also on the stage of the Royal Opera House with dancer Sharon Wrey's.

Larry Bartley's playing is featured on many recordings by some of London's best-known jazz players.

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,

Sensational vocalist VIMALA ROWE joins guitar legend JOHN ETHERIDGE, with his the Blue Spirits Trio featuring Pete Whittaker on organ, George Double on drums. and Marianne guesting on bass.

John Etheridge's reputation in the jazz world cannot be overstated. A genuinely virtuosic fusion guitarist, Etheridge is one of a handful of players who can claim to have helped shape the character of modern jazz guitar. He has been described by fellow fretsman Pat Metheny as 'one of the best guitarists in the world', and The Blue Spirits Trio came about through John’s love of electric guitar and organ combined, and a desire for a vehicle for the bluesier side of John’s playing. There are plenty of typical swing elements, augmented by soulful ballads, fiery funk outings all presented with warm humour by John. The band has been popular on the club circuit for many years and always delivers.

John Etheridge and Vimala Rowe scored a resounding critical success with their album ‘Out of the Sky’ ,which was in the Top Ten Critic’s lists for 2016 in both the Guardian and Sunday Times. Vimala is a sensational singer who has mesmerised audiences since she emerged a few years ago and has the same wide ranging skills and tastes as John They are ideal partners, alike in their search for musical adventure and authenticity.

Their last visit to Guildford in January 2023 was a complete sell-out - not to be missed!

Pre gig menu from Mandira’s Kitchen (please see the Event Info tab for the menu)

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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 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

Huw Warren Piano, Tori Freestone flute, Yuri Goloubev  bass, Andrew Bain drums

 ‘Music for the head, heart and feet!”

Celebrating Choro, the vibrant beating heart of Brazilian music, Choro Choro Choro explores music from the 1880's to the present day by composers such as Ernesto Nazareth, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Pixinguinha, and modern masters such as Guinga and Hermeto Pascoal,as well as newly commissioned pieces by Huw Warren. By turns virtuoso, lyrical, and naively sentimental - Choro Choro Choro will bring new twists on this great dance music and is guaranteed to leave you smiling!

Huw Warren has created several previous projects around the music of Brazil, including collaborations with Jovino Santos Neto, a critically acclaimed recording of Hermeto's music (Hermeto+) in 2009, A trio record for CAM Jazz Everything in Between in 2019 and  Core Coracao from 2017 with Maria Pia de Vito, Gabriele Mirabassi, Roberto Taufic, and the legendary Chico Buarque.

Choro Choro Choro features an international line up including Anglo/Spanish flautist Tori Freestone, virtuoso Russian bassist Yuri Goloubev and Scottish drummer Andrew Bain!

Huw Warren and Yuri Goloubev will be holding an afternoon masterclass for students at the University before the evening performance. If you would like to observe the masterclass we have are a limited number of seats available .

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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

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“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.

From storming post-Coltrane energy to beautiful ballad playing, Los Angeles-based Benn Clatworthy has matured into a truly great tenor player. He was a huge hit with our Guildford Jazz audience on his last visit in 2013 (!), for his emotional playing and his dry sense of humour, we are delighted to welcome him back with a top-class rhythm section featuring the fantastic ALEX HUTTON on piano and MATT HOME on drums.

Playing from the songbook of Blue Note and more contemporary jazz, his tone is extraordinarily beautiful, and his melodic ideas come from the heart. As someone said recently 'It’s as though he’s talking to us and telling us a story through the saxophone!’

Born in Hastings in 1955, grandson of the famous theatre and revue artist, Gertrude Lawrence, Benn Clatworthy grew up in London. As a teenager he took sax lessons from Ronnie Scott who recommended him to Berklee College, Boston. Benn’s distinctive, muscular saxophone and flute feature in his unique arrangements of standards from Cole Porter to Marvin Gaye, John Coltrane to the Beatles. His work credits include such notables as Cedar Walton, Lionel Hampton and Jimmy Cleveland. Benn has released eleven CDs to critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.

“While forty years in Los Angeles seem to have had little effect on expatriate Brit Ben’s Bow Bells speech, his tenor sax playing has acquired strong US characteristics, not least a tough personal tone and a wide emotional range that extends from ballad tenderness to gladiatorial torrents of controlled aggression at fast tempos.” Chris Lee

“…Scattering notes around the room with a deliciously dry loquacity in a fast-moving hard-bop manner” John Fordham

Pre gig menu from Mandira’s Kitchen (please see the Event Info tab for the menu)

*** SOLD OUT

Please click the tabs for more information

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 band is impressively hip…with a variety of rich melodies, vibrant harmonies and infectious grooves… The optimism of the music shines through like a shaft of sunlight on a winter’s day.” – London Jazz News

Hexagonal is John Donaldson – piano, Greg Heath – tenor sax/flute, Rob Leake - alto/baritone sax, Sid Gauld – trumpet, Simon Thorpe – bass, Joe Edwards – drums

This high energy sextet, with African and Jazz influences, was formed in late 2016, to perform the music of two titans of jazz, drawn from different eras and cultures – 1960s American icon McCoy Tyner and 1980s South African jazz pianist and saxophonist Bheki Mseleku .  The band was an ambition born of love and experience of working and touring with both Bheki and McCoy, which bring an authority and authenticity to the group’s music as well as having a strong influence on their original material.

Since the bands inception it has released its critically acclaimed debut album and has played to enthusiastic audiences at club and festival appearances including  Love Supreme, Scarborough, and Herts festivals as well as concert recordings for BBC Radio 3’s Jazz Now and in session for Radio 3’s J-Z.

Pre gig menu from Mandira’s Kitchen (please see the Event Info tab for the menu)

Please click the tabs for more information

** SOLD OUT **

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

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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

Sensational Danish-born singer Sara Oschlag and Director of the Ronnie Scott’s Big Band Pete Long pay tribute to the 1957 recording session “Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook' , arranged by Billy Strayhorn.

The music is stunning, the band is swinging, and we wholeheartedly advise you to get a ticket while they are available!

With Colin Good on piano, Matt Skelton on drums and Marianne Windham on bass.

Pre gig menu from Mandira’s Kitchen (please see the Event Info tab for the menu)

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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 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

Dele Sosimi, the Nigerian-British Afrobeat Ambassador, Musician and Educator, has been at the heart of the global Afrobeat scene since relocating to the UK in December 1995. Having started his musical career with Fela's Egypt 80 band in his teens, he then teamed up with childhood friend Fela's son Femi Kuti (back in the late eighties) to kick start the Positive Force - touring, recording and performing worldwide. Over forty years later, he remains a tireless ambassador for the unique musical movement all over the world. His blend of complex funk grooves, traditional Nigerian music, African percussion and an underlying sense of jazz combines with his virtuoso keyboard skills and rhythmic singing to make him one of the most respected Afrobeat authorities of his era. 

Hackney-born and UK-based Dele has performed all over the planet, from the Montreux Jazz Festival to Mawazine Festival in Rabat Morrocco; Ollin Khan in Mexico, South Korea and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival to name a few. London's Jazz Café has said before “we're honoured that for so long we've been able to call Jazz Café the home of Dele's seminal afrobeat orchestra.” Dele was also Afrobeat music consultant for the National Theatre's production of Fela!, often performed with the late great Tony Allen.

"The love and passion I have for composing, writing, performing and teaching Afrobeat Music is my main motivation," says Dele, adding; "my aim is to build upon the rich heritage of music worldwide by creating opportunities for young people to learn. I want them to experience Afrobeat forms of music and music-making activities that will expand knowledge and broaden the horizons of the musicians young or old." 

For those of you who follow the ‘World’ Music scene in the UK, Justin Thurgur will also be a familiar face; through his long term collaborations with both the Afrobeat Maestro Dele Sosimi and with Kishon Khan, plus working with the likes of Afrobeat drum legend Tony Allen and Cuban giants Julito Padron and Giraldo Piloto, he has cemented a place at the forefront of that community.

Support from Pleco

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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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