Sam Lightwing Quintet
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Smoke & Honey
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Kazutoki Umezu 'KIKI' Band
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Dave Burgoyne Quartet
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Jeremy Sassoon Quartet
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The Gelatos
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Jeffrey Hewer Quartet
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Will Tang Clan
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Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience
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Nimbus Sextet
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The Mudez Project
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The Chanteuse
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The Chanteuse, Lucy Hope, is one of the UK’s leading and most devoted exponents of French chanson. These powerful songs that she reinterprets with her own je ne sais quoi have become a Gallic soundtrack to love, passion and heartbreak.
Throughout the night, Lucy will be staging the songs from her album, “The Chanteuse sings Modiano”. The record is a collection of the songs written in the 1960s and 1970s by the Nobel Prize for Literature winning French author, Patrick Modiano.
The Chanteuse will also be performing chanson classics from the oeuvres of Jacques Brel to Edith Piaf; Georges Brassens to Barbara!
J-Bear & The Giants
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J-Bear And The Giants are a 3 piece British blues rock band who pen tale-telling songs of swamp and swagger. The band play an array of Blues classics from the likes of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Etta James, Freddie King, some of their utterly brilliant original songs, as well as a taking a few twists and turns towards some massively catchy and popular pop classics from across the decades.
Roaring drums and bass, sure to give you a ‘bass face’ and tapping your feet, met with the ultimate in funky riffs and electric showmanship.
Dean Stockdale Quartet
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The Dean Stockdale Quartet brings together four of the UK’s finest musicians to celebrate the music of the great Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.
Featuring Tim Williams on guitar, Gavin Barras on bass and Gaz Hughes on drums the quartet will be showcasing new arrangements of Oscar’s compositions and music from his most famous albums such as ‘Night Train’, ‘We Get Requests’ and ‘The Canadiana Suite’, this is a show that brings the infectious swing and virtuosity that symbolised Oscar’s groups such as those with Ray Brown, Joe Pass and Ed Thigpen.
The quartet has recently recorded a new album featuring tonight’s music to be released in the Spring.
Dean Stockdale is a highly regarded jazz pianist, arranger and composer based in the North of England who is known for his sensitive, swinging style. He regularly appears around the UK with his trio and some of the best names in UK jazz. His biggest influences in jazz are the piano styles of Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Gene Harris, Mulgrew Miller and Erroll Garner.
Dean continues to be in demand as a performer with his trio, and as pianist for touring jazz artists, accompanist for vocalists and as a teacher and session pianist. 2021 saw the release of his second trio album entitled 'Promise the Moon’.
"Stockdale's playing is consistently engaging and uniformly excellent" - Ian Mann
"The musicianship is of the highest order" - Bebop Spoken Here
Dave Bristow Trio
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Dave Bristow is a pianist and composer from Birmingham. Currently based in Paris, he is fast emerging as one of the most original and talented jazz musicians of his generation. His main project is the Dave Bristow Quintet – a multinational supergroup – for which he writes all the compositions.
He studied Classical Music for three years at the University of Manchester before taking a Master’s Degree in Jazz Piano Performance at Leeds College of Music studying with Les Chisnall, Jamil Sheriff, Gwilym Simcock, Kit Downes.
His debut album ‘Unknown Unknown’, featuring a bevy of top class musicians, is a tour de force – an album of substance, simplicity and sophistication – but most importantly, an album with a huge heart!
The String Beans
Traditional gypsy jazz standards and modern rock/pop classics with a gypsy twist
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The String Beans were formed in 2014 by guitarists Chris Twigg and Jake Stentiford. The plan was to play a mixture of traditional gypsy jazz standards and modern rock/pop classics with a gypsy twist.
Having quickly made an impact on the Manchester acoustic scene. Known for their frantic and heavily improvised live shows mixed with intricately arranged medleys, The String Beans are guaranteed to get everyone in the club moving!
On the night, The String Beans will be playing a mix of upbeat gypsy jazz, blues, and retro soul, pop and rock classics with a gypsy twist. Featuring the vocals of Matt and Phred's favourite Manchester soul songstress, the one and only Charlie Cooper!!!