Fleet Jazz Club


Ben Holder & Julian Stringle Quintet - "Hot Club Jazz"
February 18th
Doors: 7.15pm / Bar: 7:15pm / Show: 8.00pm
Tickets: £20 Cabaret Reserved

Hot Club excitement with BEN HOLDER, the incredible rising star of Stephane Grappelli-style jazz fiddle and arguably one of the most gifted and exciting jazz musicians you will see live today, with clarinet virtuoso JULIAN STRINGLE, multiple-times winner of the British Jazz Awards. Expect an energetic mix of traditional jazz, mainstream and swing, all harking back to the fun and abandon of the 1920s and 1930s. You can expect to leave the evening filled with infectious happiness, asking yourself "Where do they get their energy?!”

“Get your feet tapping and your jaw dropping at the speed of his fingers. Top quality musicianship and utter entertainment” - Little Live Music Company

 

With Jaz Cook on guitar, Nick Milward on drums and Marianne Windham on double bass

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Lunchtime Jazz

Mark Crooks & Colin Oxley
March 6th
Doors: 11.20am / Bar: 11:20am / Show: 12.00pm noon
Tickets: £10 (cash or card) on the door.

Friends for 30 years , clarinet /saxophone player Mark Crooks and guitarist Colin Oxley,two of the UK’s finest jazz musicians, have been performing together since first meeting at the Guildhall School of Music in 1991. Quickly discovering they liked the same records, the same players and the same humour, they have enjoyed each others playing and company since an early duo residency at Cafe Bohème in Soho in the 1990s.

 

A shared love of learning and playing standards has led to hundreds of gigs together in jazz venues around the country. Join us for an hour of lunchtime jazz with this wonderful duo as they perform a selection of songs from the Great American Songbook along with bossa novas and classic jazz pieces.

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Kate Williams Quartet
March 18th
Doors: 7.15pm / Bar: 7:15pm / Show: 8.00pm
Tickets: £20 Cabaret Reserved

Pianist/composer Kate Williams has gained a reputation as both a distinctive writer and performer. She has released several CDs, each one to critical acclaim, including Made Up and Atlas And Vulcana (with her septet) and Smoke And Mirrors (with tenor saxophonist, the late Bobby Wellins).
 

"...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 
 

With Kate Williams on piano, Mike Outram on guitar, Oli Hayhurst on bass & David Ingamells on drums.

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Lunchtime Jazz

Deirdre Cartwright
April 3rd
Doors: 11.20am / Bar: 11:20am / Show: 12.00pm noon
Tickets: £10 (cash or card) on the door.

Award winning guitarist and composer Deidre Cartwright became well known presenting the BBC TV’s ground-breaking series ‘Rockschool’ and playing with Afro Latin Jazz group The Guest Stars, with whome she recorded three albums and toured in 17 countries.

She currently leads the group PICNIC with trombonist Annie Whitehead, and plays with ARQ, Sea Change, Carol Grimes, Electric Landladies and regularly at Ronnie Scott’s in Soho and as a guest artist in UK jazz clubs. In 1991 she formed the Deirdre Cartwright Group which recorded five albums and played international festivals from Mexico to Warsaw. 

More recently she has toured and recorded three albums with ARQ who won Best UK jazz group in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards and British Jazz Awards in 2018. She won the public vote for Best Guitarist at the 2019 British Jazz Awards and in 2020 was awarded Services to Jazz with Blow the Fuse at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards.

With Alex Eberhard on drums, Marianne Windham on double bass.

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Roger Beaujolais Quartet - Bags of Vibes
April 15th
Doors: 7.15pm / Bar: 7:15pm / Show: 8.00pm
Tickets: £20 Cabaret Reserved

Master of the Mallets Roger Beaujolais celebrates the 100th birthday of the vibraphone with lively anecdotes about the instrument and music from the brilliant jazz vibes maestros, including Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Cal Tjader, Gary Burton & Bobby Hutcherson.
 

“Consummate skill and delicacy” - The Observer
 

Gareth Williams on piano, Milo Fell on drums and Marianne Windham on bass.

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Lunchtime Jazz

Steve Waterman
May 1st
Doors: 11.20am / Bar: 11:20am / Show: 12.00pm noon
Tickets: £10 (cash or card) on the door.

One of the top British jazz trumpet players both at home and on the international scene, Steve began his career while studying at Trinity College Of Music, and since then has worked regularly on the British, European and International jazz scene with a host of internationally renowned jazz names and has recorded many critically acclaimed CDs under his own name.

Steve was our first guest at Fleet Jazz and it’s always a great pleasure to welcome him back!

Pianist tbc, Marianne Windham on double bass.

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TBC
May 20th
Doors: 7.15pm / Bar: 7:15pm / Show: 8.00pm
Tickets: £20 Cabaret Reserved

 

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Lunchtime Jazz

TBC
June 5th
Doors: 11.20am / Bar: 11:20am / Show: 12.00pm noon
Tickets: £10 (cash or card) on the door.

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Emily Masser Quintet
June 17th
Doors: 7.15pm / Bar: 7:15pm / Show: 8.00pm
Tickets: £20 Cabaret Reserved

Emily Masser is a 20-year-old jazz singer and saxophonist from Wigan currently studying at London’s Guildhall School of Music. Besides the superb musical education she received at Manchester’s famous Chetham’s School of Music, Emily was also given invaluable guidance in jazz by her father, the highly respected saxophonist Dean Masser.
 

Emily gained attention and encouragement from jazz luminaries Claire Martin and Liane Carroll and also, during the time she spent honing her craft in the Clark Tracey Quintet. Their acclaimed album, “Introducing Emily Masser” also showcases her arranging skills, taking classic jazz standards such as “So Near So Far” and “The Man I Love” and making them sound newly minted and excitingly different. Her contributions to this album have enhanced Emily’s presence on the scene and also garnered support from jazz media, marking her as a “New Star of British Jazz” (London Jazz News)
 

Her performances draw on influences and inspirations such as Annie Ross, Betty Carter, and Sonny Stitt and has already picked up the attention of reviewers, magazines and radio broadcasters.

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Hejira
July 15th
Doors: 7.15pm / Bar: 7:15pm / Show: 8.00pm
Tickets: £20 Cabaret Reserved

Since their formation just over a year ago, the band has been a tremendous success, with sold out shows, standing ovations, a total of over 100K views on their YouTube channel and more than 700 enthusiastic comments and audience reviews.
 

‘Hejira’ is a 7-piece band set up to celebrate and honour the masterpiece works of Joni Mitchell, mostly from the late ‘70s. Having released the albums ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’, ‘Hejira’, ‘Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter’ and ‘Mingus’ (regarded as her ‘jazz period’), Joni then toured briefly with a band formed from the crème de la crème of contemporaneous jazz musicians (Metheny, Mays, Brecker, Pastorius and Alias).

 

The tour was recorded, producing the outstanding live album, ‘Shadows And Light’; it is from this album that the band Hejira is drawing the body of its repertoire. Comprising highly experienced jazz musicians, this band is fronted by the brilliant Hattie Whitehead who not only has – in her own way – assimilated the poise, power and beauty of Joni’s vocals, but also plays guitar with Joni’s stylistic mannerisms. Expect an evening of the ‘great’ songs from Mitchell’s back catalogue, such as ‘Amelia’, ‘Woodstock’, ‘A Case Of You’, ’Song For Sharon’, ‘Edith And The Kingpin’ etc.!

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