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| Date | Performing | Admission | Members |
| 18/08/2010 | Trefor Owen Quartet | £8 | £6 |
| Guitarist Trefor has toured the U.K. extensively and performed in the U.S.A with many American musicians, and has appeared with many European and British musicians. He has made several appearances at the New York Guitar Show, Long Island and at the NAMM Show, Los Angeles. Originally from Anglesey, Trefor organises events for the North Wales Jazz society. The Quartet are all North Wales based musicians. www.treforowen.com |
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| 25/08/2010 | Berry Ray’s Bank Holiday gig | £10 | £7 |
| Berry moves from the door to take centre stage for the night. He will be playing the sax and singing in his Louis Armstrong style voice. Expect some surprise guests also! | |||
| 01/09/2010 | Pukl’s Slavic Soul Trio Featuring Guest pianist Dave Cottle | £10 | £7 |
| A collaboration between the musical worlds of three leading younger generation jazz musicians, all with one distinct commonality between them: their slavic heritage. Pukl, from Slovenia, is one of the mainland Europe's top reedsmen, will be alongside first call Austrian drummer Klemens Marktl, and US born, London based powerhouse bassist Michael Janisch. This unique blend of jazz will showcase arrangements from Pukl's songbook, specifically reworked for this tour, from his 4 critically acclaimed albums. Expect dense yet ear pleasing harmonies, Slavic melodies, songs and rhythms, and compositions as modern as the minute, alongside a nice pick of classic jazz standards in a welcomed melting pot of musical culture and ideas. Augmenting the trio throughout the performance will be Dave Cottle. Jure Pukl is a Slovenian born tenor saxophonist who currently resides between the Big Apple and Vienna, Austria. A protege of the legendary George Garzone, Jure has performed in the US and Europe with such artists as Aaron Goldberg, Jeremy Pelt, Mark Turner, and Dave Liebman. His music is an ecclectic mix of contemporary jazz and the soulful Slavic rhythms and harmonies of his homeland, and also conceptually influenced by some of the most genre breaking jazz musicians: Steve Lehman and Rudresh Mahanthappa. He has released 4 critically acclaimed albums, and his most recent features wunderkind drummer, and Roy Hayne's grandson, Marcus Gilmore. Jure's tenor sound is rich and beautiful, and he uses his virtuosic technique with wit and aplomb, with strong emphasis on melody and motivic development. |
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| 08/09/2010 | Oliver Nezhati Quintet | £8 | £6 |
| Oliver is a twenty three year old sax player originally from Llandeilo and in his final year of study at Trinity College of Music London. He currently plays with The Tomorrows Warriors Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and has played with Alan Barnes and Steve Waterman. Oliver has had the honour of supporting artists such as Stevie Wonder and Deejays Junior Jack and Kid Creme. His band features Mitch Jones from Capel Hendre who is now playing for trombonist Dennis Rollins' band. Kwobina Adjebong is studying at the Royal Academy and is one of the finest young singers around today, his influences are very diverse and you can hear elements of soul and Sinatra like crooners in his voice. A vocalist not to be missed!!
Oli Nezhati-Sax Kwobina Adjebong-Vocals Mitch Jones- Piano Douglas Mariner- Drums Ferg Ireland- Drums |
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| 15/09/2010 | Tom Harris Quartet | £8 | £6 |
| Saxophonist Tom Harris leads his quartet through a repertoire of jazz standards along with original compositions that he has arranged. Tommy Harris-Sax Dave Jones-Piano Martin Webber-Drums Frank Hughes-Bass |
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| 22/09/2010 | Steve Waterman With the Dave Cottle Trio | £10 | £7 |
| Steve Waterman is renowned as one of the top British jazz trumpet players both at home and on the international scene, Steve began his career while studying at the Trinity College Of Music, and since then has worked regularly on the British and European jazz scene. Steve has a remarkable recording career, spanning the past 20 years, and has worked with a great variety of jazz and cabaret artists worldwide. Steve has his own quintet and in 2003 formed his 18-piece jazz orchestra playing his original competitions.
He is professor of Jazz Trumpet at The Royal Academy Of Music and Trinity College of Music in London and visiting Jazz Trumpet specialist at The Royal Northern College Of Music and The Royal Welsh College Of Music And Drama. Steve also teaches on many summer jazz courses and has conducted numerous Trumpet master classes and workshops ranging in size from small groups to big bands throughout the UK and in Spain, Finland, Latvia and Cuba.
Steve Waterman-Trumpet Dave Cottle-Piano Paul Smith-Drums Alun Vaughan-Bass www.stevewaterman.co.uk |
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| 28/09/2010 | Monthly sitters in Night | Free | Free |
| Come along from 8pm onwards and join in playing some jazz!! Free Admission |
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| 29/09/2010 | Simon Spillett/Danny Moss Jnr Quartet | £10 | £7 |
| Simon Spillett is well known to Jazzland audiences with his fierce, fast blowing Tubby Hayes style of saxophone. We are delighted that he will be joined by Danny Moss Jnr on double bass, an unashamed disciple of the great Ray Brown. Danny, who lives in Australia, has toured the UK regularly for many years playing with his sadly missed father, saxophonist Danny Moss. This time around he is touring with many of the best of the current British jazz musician. Simon certainly fits this bill! Described in Jazz Review as "A formidable musician and composer playing and writing in an uncompromising Hard Bop style", Simon Spillett has risen meteorically in the past few years to become one of the most dynamic and distinctive tenor saxophonists on the UK jazz scene.
Simon Spillett-Trumpet Danny Moss Jnr-Bass Dave Cottle-Piano Tom Cottle-Drums www.simonspillett.com |
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| 06/10/2010 | Susan Valliant Speer and her band | £8 | £6 |
| Born in San Francisco, California, USA, Susan has been singing jazz since her graduation from the University of Oregon. She began her career with the Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band in Seattle, Washington where she and the band appeared frequently throughout the Pacific Northwest as well as at jazz festivals throughout the USA and Canada including the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, The Pismo Beach Jazz Festival, Central City Colorado Jazz Festival, Butte Montana Jazz Festival, Scottsdale Arizona Jazz Festival, and Vancouver BC jazz festivals. She has also appeared as guest artiste at the Bessie Smith Memorial Jazz Festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee and aboard The Royal Viking Star Cruise ship through the Panama Canal. www.susanvalliantspeer.co.uk |
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| 13/10/2010 | Hamish Stuart Band *Ticketed Event* | £15 | £10 |
| Glasgow-born Hamish Stuart shot to fame in the 1970's as the falsetto voice and guitarist of the AVERAGE WHITE BAND, his distinctive songwriting, vocal and guitar style helped pave the way to AWB's extraordinary worldwide success. After AWB split. Hamish spent the rest of the ‘80's touring, writing and recording with a galaxy of soul legends, including: Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin and George Benson. During this time, Hamish also worked in the studio with numerous high-profile soul artists; he co-wrote and produced Jeffrey Osborne’s ‘Soweto’;, he arranged and played on Chaka Khan’s debut hit single ‘I'm Every Woman’ and then co-wrote her US no.1 ‘Whatcha Gonna Do for Me?’ and its follow up ‘If Your Heart Isn't in It’; he wrote and produced Atlantic Starr’s debut hit; worked with Diana Ross and The Temptations, who recorded Hamish Stuart songs during the 1980's. However, in 1988 Hamish changed direction when he was invited to become the cornerstone of PAUL McCARTNEY’s 1989 - 1993 record-breaking touring and recording band, crossing the world, recording 5 albums with McCartney, including Paul's last UK no.1 album ‘Flowers in the Dirt’ and the first-ever ‘MTV Unplugged’ album. After McCartney stopped touring at the end of ‘93, Hamish re-located from Los Angeles to London, where he has since pursued all manner of musical escapades, including solo albums with his regular HAMISH STUART BAND and with his respected collaborators Jim Mullen, Pino Palladino and Ian Thomas as JIM JAM. From time to time Hamish makes stunning guest vocal appearances at events such as Quincy Jones’ 64th birthday party, or with Michael McDonald at the Royal Albert Hall and with Bonnie Raitt. Guitar & Vocals: Hamish Stuart Keyboards: Graham Harvey Bass: Nick Cohen Drums: Ian Thomas Guitar & Vocals: Adam Phillips Percussion Bosco D’Oliviera *Tickets on sale NOW* www.sulphuricrecords.co.uk |
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| 20/10/2010 | Byron Jones Big Band | £8 | £6 |
| Great swinging Big Band made up of musicians mostly drawn from The Cardiff and Newport areas. Most of the music has been arranged by top American arrangers, giving the band a sound of the highest quality. www.byronjonesbigband.com |
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| 24/10/2010 | Matt Ford With the Dave Cottle Trio | £15 | £15 |
| *** Sunday Jazz Lunch *** Swansea Rugby Club 1pm – 4pm (Includes 2 course carvery dinner served @2pm) Vocalist Matt Ford was voted “Big band singer of the year 2009”. Matt's career includes concerts with the Halle and BBC Radio Orchestras, and is lead vocalist with the Syd Lawrence Orchestra. His repertoire includes the songs of Frank Sinatra, Matt Munroe, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin amongst others. 2 course carvery lunch is included. *Tickets on sale NOW £15* (limited) |
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| 26/10/2010 | Monthly sitters in Night | Free | Free |
| Come along from 8pm onwards and join in playing some jazz!! Free Admission |
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| 27/10/2010 | Simon Allen & Martin Shaw with Dave Cottle Trio | £10 | £7 |
| Master Class & workshop session at Swansea Rugby club. 10.45am – 4pm The morning session will be individual workshops split into trumpet or sax. Afternoon session will be working with the rhythm section Refreshments & Lunch is included. Tickets need to be reserved, Limited places! *Tickets on sale NOW* Adults, £5 under 16, £3* 8.30pm St James Club Two of Swansea Jazzland best loved jazz musicians join forces with the Dave Cottle Trio. Simon is one of a young group of rising stars on the London jazz scene and a firm favourite of ours at Swansea Jazzland. Equally at home on Alto or Tenor Saxophonist, he has already built up a CV that includes playing with Stan Tracey, Don Weller and the Laurence Cottle Big Band. He is currently a member of Clark Tracey's New Quintet and is one of the most exciting improvisers around today. Martin is regarded as one of the top jazz soloists in the country; you will hear him in an extraordinary range of settings from big band to quartet, cutting edge jazz to contemporary pop and funk. After studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London he went on to hone his jazz chops at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Martin is professor of Jazz Trumpet at the Birmingham Conservatoire. |
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| 03/11/2010 | The Alan Barnes Quartet | £6 | £5 |
| One of the UK’s leading saxophonists’ brings his own all star quartet to Swansea Jazzland. Alan has enjoyed a prolific career as a sideman, playing and recording for many bands. He broadcast regularly over a ten-year period with the BBC Big Band and Radio Orchestra and has toured and recorded with big band leaders, Dick Walter, Kenny Baker, Bob Wilber, Don Weller, Stan Tracey, Mike Westbrook and John Dankworth. Other bands he has toured and recorded with include the Tina May Trio, Bill LeSage’s Genetically Modified Quintet, Spike Robinsons Tenor Madness, Clare Teale, and a sextet with Don Weller playing the music of Cannonball Adderley. Alan has also toured the U.K. with Freddie Hubbard. Alan has long associations with pianist David Newton, going back to their college days, and with blistering be-bop trumpeter Bruce Adams, with whom he has co-led a quintet since the early nineties.
Alan Barnes – sax Jim Hart – Vibes Andy Cleyndert – bass Paul Clavis - drums www.alanbarnesjazz.com |
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| 10/11/2010 | Nigel Price Organ Trio | £8 | £6 |
| Nigel is a well established member of the jazz community and is an in-demand sideman, as well as leading his own groups; he prefers the organ/drums/guitar combo, but is versatile enough to feel comfortable in a variety of musical scenarios. His blend of flowing bebop lines, blues feeling and the will to swing has made him instantly accessible and popular with jazz audiences. Nigel performed with the legendary David Axelrod at the Royal Festival Hall in 2004, and also spent more than two years as the regular guitarist with the Sheena Davis Group. In 2005 he returned to his jazz funk roots and spent three years with the UK's leading jazz funk band, JTQ. Nigel is also a member of The Filthy Six, a Blue Note-esque band spearheading the 21st anniversary revival of the acclaimed Acid Jazz label . Nigel will be playing material from his forthcoming album “Nigel Price Organ Trio – Live!” (Jazzizit records) and will be playing with Pete Whittaker on REAL Hammond organ and Matt Home on drums. The trio won “best jazz ensemble” at the 2010 parliamentary jazz awards Nigel Price – Guitar Peter Whittaker – Hammond Organ Matt Home – drums |
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| 17/11/2010 | Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble | £10 | £7 |
| Led by fiery saxophonist and award-winning composer Gilad Atzmon, The Orient House Ensemble was founded in London in 2000 and is renowned as one of the world’s most brilliant and inspirational jazz groups. Drawing on the music of Coltrane and Bird as well as the beautiful music of the Middle East to create something new and wonderful the Ensemble has been touring constantly all over Europe and the UK and recorded six albums to date, have won many awards and received constant worldwide critical acclaim. The musical history of the OHE is a story of a relentless attempt to cross the divide, blending East and West and forming a new improvisational language out of Jazz and ethic music. For Atzmon, artistic freedom is the true meaning of cultural resistance. He insists that that this is the exact quality that transformed Black American music from beauty into spirit. For Atzmon the true meaning of being a musician is a constant attempt to keep reminding yourself why you decided to play music in the first place. Though the Ensemble blends many musical ideas and styles it is always within the Jazz idiom: the energy, the subliminal communication, the poetic pain and ecstatic laughter. The Orient House Ensemble is there to keep Jazz as a spirit of resistance: a struggle against musical stagnation and oppression of any kind. Gilad Atzmon - alto & soprano saxophone and clarinet Frank Harrison – piano Yaron Stavi - double bass Eddie Hick - drums www.gilad.co.uk |
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| 24/11/2010 | Mark Nightingale Quintet | £10 | £7 |
| Mark Nightingale began playing at the age of nine and his outstanding talent became widely recognized when he won the coveted Don Lusher Award at the age of fifteen. At sixteen he was already lead trombonist in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Great Britain and developing his creativity as a composer and arranger. Whilst in NYJO he formed and lead the 5 trombone band, 'Bonestructure', producing their debut album in 1988.
Since graduating from Trinity College of Music, London, Mark has not only flourished as one of the busiest session-musicians on the London scene, but also become highly respected and sought after internationally as a jazz trombone soloist. Although still in his thirties, his rich and varied musical life has already taken him from playing on countless film soundtracks and TV shows to writing educational books and pieces for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, recording for Sting, Tom Jones, The Spice Girls or Robbie Williams, to playing in the orchestras of Henry Mancini, Michel Legrand or Frank Sinatra. Mark has been featured with London Brass and at many BTS and ITA Festivals, and he has also performed in such esteemed jazz company as Clark Terry, Bill Holman, Slide Hampton, James Morrison and Ray Brown.
In the 1990's Mark produced two critically acclaimed solo CDs under his own name, 'What I Wanted to Say' and 'Destiny', but on his most recent release 'The Rath Pack, Live in London' he is joined by fellow Rath endorsees Bert Boeren (Netherlands) and Marc Godfroid (Belgium). In recent years Mark has also produced a growing catalogue of popular educational studies and short pieces published by Warwick Music.
Mark Nightingale – Trombone Nigel Hitchcock – Saxophone Graham Harvey – Keyboards Ian Thomas – Drums Laurence Cottle - Bass www.woodvillerecords.com/Mark%20Nightingale.htm |
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| 30/11/2010 | Monthly sitters in Night | Free | Free |
| Come along from 8pm onwards and join in playing some jazz!! Free Admission |
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| 01/12/2010 | Capital City Jazz Orchestra | £10 | £7 |
| The Capital City Jazz Orchestra was formed in 2008 by some of the best jazz and big band players in South East Wales. Musical director Ceri Rees will be swinging the band through a repertoire of Basie, Ellington, Herman and Goodman, plus more! During 2008 the band played successful gigs at Brecon Jazz Festival, Margam Festival and Cardiff's St David's Hall with Alan Barnes. www.ccjo.co.uk |
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| 08/12/2010 | Jiggs Whigham With the Dave Cottle Trio | £10 | £7 |
| Jiggs Whigham is an internationally acclaimed trombonist, band leader and educator. This versatile performer, born Oliver Haydn Whigham III (the nickname Jiggs was given by his grandfather) in Cleveland Ohio on 20 August 1943, first came to the attention of critics and fans at 17, as featured soloist and first trombonist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, directed by Ray McKinley. Two years later, he was first and solo trombonist with Stan Kenton. Following a year of studio and Broadway Musical engagements in New York, he became featured soloist with the Kurt Edelhagen Jazz Orchestra at the West German Broadcasting Company in Cologne, Germany in 1965. In 1966 his was awarded 1st Prize at the first competition for Modern Jazz in Vienna He uses Bonn, London and Cape Cod as home bases, In 1979 he was named Professor and Head of the Jazz Department at Cologne University College of Music, the first appointment of its kind in Germany. In 1995 he was named "Professor for Life" and head of the Jazz-Popular Music Department at the "Hanns Eisler" College of Music in Berlin. From 2000-2001 he was visiting professor at Indiana University. He was bandleader of the Swiss Radio Band (Radio DRS) from 1984-1986. From 1995-2000 he was chief conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Radio Orchestra (RIAS Big Band Berlin). He is currently soloist and clinician worldwide, conductor of the BBC Big Band in Great Britain, artistic director of the Berlin Jazz Orchestra and visiting Professor at the Guildhall School Of Music And Drama in London and visiting tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. He was recently appointed musical director of the LaJJOB (Brandenburger Youth Jazz Orchestra). In addition, as of 2008 he is one of the musical directors of 'BUJAZZO' (German national Youth Jazz Orchestra). www.jiggswhigham.com |
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| 15/12/2010 | Jazzland Christmas Party Dave Cottle's "Power of Gower" Big Band & Support | £15 | £10 |
| *** STARTS AT 7:30 *** The music at the Swansea Jazzland Christmas Party starts at 7.30pm with support band from many of the fine young musicians in Swansea. Buffet is included and the newly formed Dave Cottle "Power of Gower" Big Band will make its inaugural performance! *Tickets on sale NOW* Admission Price: Standard £15 Jazzland Members £10 |
Swansea
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