St Ives Jazz Club at the Western Hotel
Band starts 7.30pm 
Food available (please order direct with the hotel  on 01736 795277 and arrive by 6.30pm latest)
Free entry / pay what you can

Singer Mama Tokus appears with the King TUT Trio (AKA The Blow-Up) in a marriage of soul-jazz and mod mayhem. You'll get soulful improvisations, unexpected cover versions, electric keyboard grooves and some hard-funkin' fun too.
 
Listen out for some spoken word in the mix, as Mama riffs verbally over the improvisations of her jazzbros.
 
MAMA TOKUS - Vocals
TOM UNWIN - Piano
MARCUS VERGETTE - Double Bass
RIC BYER - Drums

"Great music, clever and thoughtful poetry"

Recent events at st Ives Jazz Club 

all St Ives Jazz club events

Find out more below about our most recent jazz club events, including St Ives September Festival 2021. You just missed these great bands, but never fear - there are more gigs coming soon! 

Check out What's On for our upcoming events... 

Tuesday 26th april 2022
Hugh Pascall Quartet

St Ives Jazz Club at the Western Hotel
Band starts 7.30pm 
Food available (please order direct with the hotel  on 01736 795277 and arrive by 6.30pm latest)
Free entry / Pay What You Can

* Hugh Pascall - Trumpet and Flugelhorn * Liam Dunachie - Piano and Fender Rhodes *
* Oli Hayhurst - Bass * Jay Davis - Drums *

Hugh Pascall tours the UK in April, May and June, presenting new music from his debut album Borderlands with a quartet of star musicians from the UK scene. Influenced by musicians like Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Tom Harrell, Coltrane and Miles, Hugh’s music is a lyrical, vibrant and modern approach to post-bop jazz. It’s straight-ahead jazz with melody, where swinging, modal explorations are complimented by beautiful, atmospheric and expressive ballads rich in harmony and character. Hugh also brings interpretations of choice standards and tunes in the classic jazz tradition, weaving these into the set alongside music from the new album and other brand new compositions. An award-winning trumpeter and composer, Hugh studied jazz at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Paris Conservatoire and has since developed a highly respected career as a soloist. Recent projects include playing with such luminaries as The Last Poets, with UK legend Tony Kofi’s Inside Straight and rising star guitarist Aidan Pope’s new Octet. His eclectic career has included performances and recordings with a huge variety of artists, regularly performing at festivals and venues across the country and throughout Europe as a sideman. Forthcoming projects include a recording with guitarist Peter Bernstein as a member of the acclaimed David Ferris Septet. Borderlands is his much anticipated first album as Bandleader. For more information please follow this link http://hughpascall.co/
 
“An outstanding soloist” – London Jazz News
“Exemplary hard bop” – Jazz Journal
“The most beautiful, elegant and melodic delivery” – London Jazz News
“Fluent, lyrical solos that unfold gradually and gracefully” – The Jazzmann

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Tuesday 14th December 2021
mama tokus

Tuesday 12th October 2021
Liane Carroll

St Ives Jazz Club at the Western Hotel
Band starts 7.30pm 
Food available (please order direct with the hotel  on 01736 795277 and arrive by 6.30pm latest)
Free entry / pay what you can

London born and Hastings raised, multi-award-winning singer-pianist, Liane Carroll, is one of the UK’s greatest musical treasures. A soulful, emotive singer, she can move an audience to tears with her heart-breaking ability to inhabit a lyric and in the very next moment have them jumping for joy with her breath-taking vocal virtuosity.

“She seems, in some magical way, to be made out of music” – The Observer

Liane is an award-winning jazz singer described by Jamie Cullum as "one of the greatest singers we have in this country". Awards include 'Best British Vocalist' (BBC Jazz Awards), 'Best Female Jazz Vocalist' (Ronnie Scott's Awards) and 'Best Jazz Album of the Year' (Parliamentary Jazz Awards). Liane will appear solo at St Ives Jazz Club - don't miss this intimate gig.

"Liane Carroll has that rare ability to meld effortless, often transcendent vocal and piano technique, with heart stopping emotion and soul bearing power. [She] combines all this with a savvy sophistication befitting of one of Britain’s finest jazz singers." - Jazzwise

Monday 13th September 2021
​Ian Shaw

St Ives Jazz Club at the Western Hotel
Band starts 7.30pm 
Food available (please order direct with the hotel  on 01736 795277 and arrive by 6.30pm latest)
Tickets: £18 / £15 (for members)

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE 

One of the most distinctive, original and creative jazz singers that the UK has produced, Ian Shaw is also a talented pianist, songwriter, actor, presenter and record producer. Twice voted “Best Jazz Vocalist” at the prestigious BBC Jazz Awards, the recorded output of the London based singer and consummate showman includes three US releases. His solo shows and performances with his regular piano trio become ever more popular but he is also much in demand as the featured soloist with big bands and orchestras both in the UK and internationally. 

Over the years he has collaborated with the likes of Quincy Jones, Van Morrison, Georgie Fame, Cleo Laine, Kenny Wheeler, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nigel Kennedy, Kurt Elling and The Who’s Pete Townsend and has toured with Abdullah Ibrahim, The Boston Pops and Cedar Walton. His current project, “What’s New” features renowned saxophonist Iain Ballamy with pianist Jamie Safir. A regular headline draw at London's iconic Ronnie Scott's (he presents their worldwide radio show also), Shaw has toured the US and Canada many times as well as across Europe, and more recently performed in Australia and the Far East also.

“a brilliant vocal chameleon . . . there’s actually more heart in Ian Shaw’s cleverness than in many singers who wear their hearts conspicuously on their sleeves” (The Telegraph)

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TUEsday 14th September 2021
​Samba Azul

St Ives Jazz Club at the Western Hotel
Band starts 7.30pm 
Food available (please order direct with the hotel  on 01736 795277 and arrive by 6.30pm latest)
Tickets: £15 / £13 (for members)

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE 

Samba Azul is a Brazilian-inspired jazz outfit highlighting many of the rich musical landscapes found throughout Brazil from Samba and Pagode, to Forró, Bossa Nova, MPB and Tropicália.

Members of the band hail from four different continents, each with their own unique connection to the music of Brazil and each bringing that personality to the group.

At the St Ives September Festival the band will perform some of their favorite Brazilian classics as well as material from their debut album.

The band features: Adam Osmianski (percussion/vocals), Joy Ellis (vocals/piano), Pedro Velasco (guitar), Jonny Wickham (bass), and Alex Talbot (percussion).

“Samba this good only comes around once in an azul moon” (Songlines Magazine)

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monday 20th September 2021
​family band

St Ives Jazz Club at the Western Hotel
Band starts 7.30pm 
Food available (please order direct with the hotel  on 01736 795277 and arrive by 6.30pm latest)
Tickets: £15 / £13 (for members)

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE 

Comprising four long-term collaborators and friends (thus the ‘family’ tag), the band takes as its starting point the freewheeling music of those musicians who, back in the 1960s, were at the forefront of the free jazz revolution, but whose opening up of jazz’s constraints is now recognised as not a break from the past but an integral part of the music’s development. So the Family Band doesn’t recreate the work of Ornette Coleman and others, but shares its powerful and freewheeling momentum – moments of fierce intensity, introspection and the blues all combining into an emotionally complex and often cathartic whole.

The band features: Kim Macari (trumpet), Riley Stone-Lonergan (tenor saxophone), Tom Rivière (double bass) and Steve Hanley (drums). 

‘You simply HAVE to get to see them – you won’t be disappointed’ (Martin Powell, JATP)

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Tuesday 21st September 2021
Nicolas Meier

St Ives Jazz Club at the Western Hotel
Band starts 7.30pm 
Food available (please order direct with the hotel  on 01736 795277 and arrive by 6.30pm latest)
Tickets: £15 / £13 (for members)

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE 

UK-based guitarist 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, even. Meier originally hails from Switzerland; born in 1973, to parents who are great lovers of the arts. 

Never short on ambition, Meier founded his own record label, MGP Records, in 2009. To date, he's produced twelve albums: as a solo artist; in various group formats (The Nicolas Meier Group; Nicolas Meier Trio; Eclectica!; Nicolas Meier World Group); with his heavy metal band, Seven7, and; in a duo format, with long-time partner, fellow guitarist and collaborator, the fabulous UK master, Pete Oxley. 

Having made a lasting impression on gentlemen the likes of the great Bill Bruford, (the aforementioned) Jeff Beck and Steve Vai, Nicolas Meier is unquestionably one of today's most well-rounded, ambitious and masterful up-and-coming talents on guitar. Stay tuned ... this is one star that is still on the rise!

Nicolas will be playing as part of a quartet at the St Ives Jazz Club - line-up TBA.

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