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Blow, blow, thou winter’s wind. Did someone talk about global warming? It was certainly a night for Good King Wenceslas, but thirty one hardy souls braved the weather to be...
Date Published 16/12/2010
Entertainers supreme, The Tame Valley Stompers are always popular visitors and their enjoyment at playing matches the enjoyment of the listeners so much so that after eleven...
Date Published 06/12/2010
A welcome return to Jazz on a Sunday by Mart Rodger’s Manchester Jazz, and off to a fine start with “All The Girls Go Crazy” and the powerful trumpet of Alan Dent.
Date Published 23/11/2010
Jazz on a Sunday moved into Europe with the visit of Sweden’s Jelly Babies Jazz Band, a nine piece ensemble entertaining with numbers in the New Orleans genre. Neatly attired...
Date Published 22/11/2010
With a nine number first set, the Tuxedo Jazz Band stormed into Rochdale with a flourish. Drummer Brian Woods leads a seven piece unit with trombonist Derek Galloway making the...
Brian Carrick is an icon of the traditional jazz world, making regular visits to New Orleans, Sweden and the rest of Europe. This maestro of clarinet and saxophone hardly returns...
Date Published 14/10/2010
Traditional Jazz fans can often be difficult to please, having their own idiosyncrasies with regard to band formation, and pre-murmurings before the visit of this young outfit...
It is two years since the Savannahs visited ‘Jazz on a Sunday’, and an enthusiastic reception greeted one of the best bands on the circuit. Led by drummer John Meehan the gig...
Tony Davis, the whistling banjoist from the world famous folk group ‘The Spinners’ has long been a Jazz aficionado and has been leading Jazz bands in later years, and his...
Date Published 31/08/2010
The return of Peter Frank’s Dixieland All Stars featured Dave Kendall on trumpet in the absence of Ian Royle, and after a delayed start due to a communication ‘mix-up’, the band...
Date Published 30/08/2010
The Les Bull Band rarely travels south of Lancashire, but the Mayfield acoustics are first class, and they receive their rightful acclaim from the discerning ears at...
Date Published 27/07/2010
‘Summer Time’ is a time for eccentricity, and a band which features the exuberant trombonist Terry Brunt with his beret, floor length scarf of many colours and trombone painted in...
Date Published 21/07/2010
The Old Fashioned Love Band play a relaxed style of jazz, and are always popular visitors. Twelve months ago, their integral reeds player Mike Turner lost his battle with...
Date Published 29/06/2010
Always a popular visitor to Jazz on a Sunday, the Harlem Hot Stompers produced another fine performance of the best of Jazz. Led by reedsman Tony Foulkes the band set the gig...
Date Published 20/06/2010
You could say that the visit of the Yorkshire Stompers to Jazz on a Sunday was “fair dinkum”, as the Jazz Club hosted two visitors from the Victoria Jazz society all the way from...
Date Published 03/06/2010
A visit from the John Shillito Select Six from glorious Devon is always awaited with expectation and this year’s northern expedition was greeted with multitudinous applause....
Date Published 25/05/2010
The Roy Potts Five and a Penny ensemble play a nice selection of Dixieland favourites with lead trumpeter and vocalist Potts directing operations. Potts has the ideal voice...
Date Published 14/05/2010
The Tame Valley Stompers are ‘entertainment’ plus. Happy music makes happy people but some traditionalists with a capital T like to seriously analyse between jazz presentation and...
Date Published 27/04/2010
The Forest New Orleans jazz band is exactly as their title states, a band playing an acoustic set of traditional New Orleans style, impeccable attired, seated and standing in...
Date Published 23/03/2010
Derek Galloway’s Bunters Imperials breezed into town for a cornucopia of Jazz entertainment with Galloway’s vocals very much to the fore. A last minute ‘team change’ brought in...
Date Published 18/03/2010
The Peter Frank Dixieland Allstars is a band made up of bandleaders and if you thought you would find six musicians pulling in different directions, you could not be more...
Date Published 25/02/2010
Valentine’s Day meant love was in the air, and Mayfield’s clubhouse manager Catherine’s imagination had run riot, as Jazz on a Sunday was welcomed with the tables, walls and band...
Date Published 18/02/2010
A rare visit from Barnsley’s Silver Leaf Jazz Band attracted a full house, and apart from the odd ‘hiccup’ the jazzers enjoyed an evening of musical entertainment.
Date Published 10/02/2010
The Chicago Teddy Bears Society Jazz Band have been around for a long time and always provide an evening of first class entertainment. Led by trumpeter Kenny Doran straight into...
Date Published 08/02/2010
New Orleans Heat are one of the most popular bands in the country, and even though three regulars were absent due to difficult illnesses a stranger would never have known. With...
Date Published 05/01/2010
Sammy Rimington has been entertaining Jazz aficionados with his reeds mastery since the sixties, playing all over the world, and he has been visiting the North of England for a...
Date Published 09/12/2009
Matt Palmer brought his Millennium Eagle Jazz band to Castleton for another evening of pure entertainment. This Midlands outfit features teenage drummer Jack Cotterill the latest...
Date Published 25/11/2009
The Jazz Club lost a long standing regular with the passing of Harry Cameron in January 2009. Harry was always happiest at Castleton, and he chose to leave his collection of...
Date Published 11/11/2009
Always popular, always well received, the Harlem Hot Stompers were back in town to entertain, and the Rochdalians are beginning to realise that ‘Jazz on a Sunday’ is the place to...
Date Published 10/11/2009
The Yorkshire Stompers rode into town to an enthusiastic welcome by appreciative fans. Led by veteran trumpeter (his words) Tony Smith, the band included Phil Campen on double...
Date Published 19/10/2009