Find out more below about our most recent jazz club events, including St Ives September Festival 2022. You just missed these great bands, but never fear - there are more gigs coming soon!
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TUESDAY 15TH NOVEMBER
Music Starts @ 7.30pm - FREE ENTRY - PWYC
The Coltrane Project: A Love Supreme
This performance is part of a major UK tour exploring the lyrical and spiritual music of John Coltrane, including his masterpiece - the Love Supreme suite. The show is accompanied with video projections to provide a multimedia experience and allow audience to connect with deeply with the music on many levels.
This performance by Josh Kemp’s Coltrane:Project is the result of a deep study of the original material, yielding an authentic yet personal recreation of the Love Supreme suite. The full programme emphasises the lyrical and communicative music of John Coltrane and is accompanied by a video backdrop of images of Coltrane and including real-time scrolling of the words of the Coltrane’s prayer for the fourth movement ‘Psalm’ which provide the basis for the improvisation, and carry the meaning and message of the whole work.
Josh Kemp, is a musician with a unique approach, a rich, melodic and lyrical sound whatever the context. A saxophonist deeply rooted in the tradition, Josh cut his teeth playing jazz standards and the blues is always a central reference in his playing. A unique sound, combining both contemporary inflections and deeply swinging playing has made him a regular at jazz clubs and festivals around the UK, from Ronnie Scotts, to St Ives and Newcastle. As band leader and composer, Josh leads a variety of projects across many styles, united by a common communicative and melodic approach.
Josh is a member of the e17 Jazz collective based in Walthamstow, London. After studying philosophy at Oxford, Josh trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire, winning prizes and scholarships for his playing and studies. Since then he has released 5 albums and completed 4 Arts Council funded tours, including collaborations with Pianist Tim Lapthorn and Organist Ross Stanley. Current projects include a standards quartet with Nigel Price and Andy Clynedert, and work with singers such as Liz Fletcher and Shireen Francis as part of his Sunday night sessions in Walthamstow.
A Love Supreme is Coltrane's masterpiece, a work of deep spiritual power, representing a struggle for purity, an expression of gratitude, and an acknowledgement that the musician's talent comes from a higher source.
A suite with four parts: "Acknowledgement", "Resolution", "Pursuance", and "Psalm", the music ranges from hard bop to modal and free jazz in an epic aural poem to man's place in God's plan. The album's hymn-like quality transcends the normal limits of jazz genre, to allow for an intensely personal and moving communication with the audience.
Rolling Stone called it a "legendary album-long hymn of praise" and stated, "the indelible four-note theme of the first movement, 'Acknowledgement,' is the humble foundation of the suite. But Coltrane's majestic, often violent blowing (famously described as 'sheets of sound') is never self-aggrandizing. Aloft with his classic quartet...Coltrane soars with nothing but gratitude and joy. You can't help but go with him."
Music Starts @ 7.30pm - FREE ENTRY - PWYC
The Coltrane Project: A Love Supreme
This performance is part of a major UK tour exploring the lyrical and spiritual music of John Coltrane, including his masterpiece - the Love Supreme suite. The show is accompanied with video projections to provide a multimedia experience and allow audience to connect with deeply with the music on many levels.
This performance by Josh Kemp’s Coltrane:Project is the result of a deep study of the original material, yielding an authentic yet personal recreation of the Love Supreme suite. The full programme emphasises the lyrical and communicative music of John Coltrane and is accompanied by a video backdrop of images of Coltrane and including real-time scrolling of the words of the Coltrane’s prayer for the fourth movement ‘Psalm’ which provide the basis for the improvisation, and carry the meaning and message of the whole work.
Josh Kemp, is a musician with a unique approach, a rich, melodic and lyrical sound whatever the context. A saxophonist deeply rooted in the tradition, Josh cut his teeth playing jazz standards and the blues is always a central reference in his playing. A unique sound, combining both contemporary inflections and deeply swinging playing has made him a regular at jazz clubs and festivals around the UK, from Ronnie Scotts, to St Ives and Newcastle. As band leader and composer, Josh leads a variety of projects across many styles, united by a common communicative and melodic approach.
Josh is a member of the e17 Jazz collective based in Walthamstow, London. After studying philosophy at Oxford, Josh trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire, winning prizes and scholarships for his playing and studies. Since then he has released 5 albums and completed 4 Arts Council funded tours, including collaborations with Pianist Tim Lapthorn and Organist Ross Stanley. Current projects include a standards quartet with Nigel Price and Andy Clynedert, and work with singers such as Liz Fletcher and Shireen Francis as part of his Sunday night sessions in Walthamstow.
A Love Supreme is Coltrane's masterpiece, a work of deep spiritual power, representing a struggle for purity, an expression of gratitude, and an acknowledgement that the musician's talent comes from a higher source.
A suite with four parts: "Acknowledgement", "Resolution", "Pursuance", and "Psalm", the music ranges from hard bop to modal and free jazz in an epic aural poem to man's place in God's plan. The album's hymn-like quality transcends the normal limits of jazz genre, to allow for an intensely personal and moving communication with the audience.
Rolling Stone called it a "legendary album-long hymn of praise" and stated, "the indelible four-note theme of the first movement, 'Acknowledgement,' is the humble foundation of the suite. But Coltrane's majestic, often violent blowing (famously described as 'sheets of sound') is never self-aggrandizing. Aloft with his classic quartet...Coltrane soars with nothing but gratitude and joy. You can't help but go with him."
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TUESDAY 25TH OCTOBER
Music Starts @ 7.30pm - FREE ENTRY - PWYC Shirley Smart is recognised as one of the UK’s most versatile and creative cellists – being equally at home and well versed in jazz and Middle Eastern music, as well as classical music. Originally trained under Raphael Wallfisch at the Guilldhall School of Music, and Janos Starker in Paris, she subsequently moved to Jerusalem, where she remained for 10 years, studying and performing a wide variety of musical traditions from the North Africa, Turkey and Middle East. She was also highly active on the jazz scene, working with artists including Avishai Cohen, Omer Avital and Yasmin Levy. Since returning to the UK, she has quickly become known as one of the most creative cellists on the music scene and has worked with many leading jazz and world music groups, including Antonio Forcione, Mulato Astatke, Gilad Atzmon, Neil Cowley, Julian Ferraretto, Robert Mitchell, and Alice Zawadski. She leads her own trio, with John Crawford on piano, and Demi Garcia Sabat on drums, and band Melange. Shirley is Head of Performance and a Lecturer in Music at City University, and also teaches Improvisation and Jazz at the Royal College of Music Junior Department. She is a visiting tutor for the National Youth Jazz Collective, and an in demand workshop leader. 
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TUESDAY 27th August 2022 Liane Carroll & Roger Carey Liane Carroll is one of the hottest singers on the UK jazz scene. Double BBC jazz-award winner, she has also won Best emale Jazz Vocalist at the first Ronnie Scotts Jazz Awards, presented by Tony Bennett and Michael Parkinson, and she made a head-line appearance at the Glastonbury Festival. Featuring bassist Roger Carey. 'Swinging like Hell one minute, brutally expressive and heart-breakingly tender the next... Utterly brilliant' (Time Out) 'Smooth jazz raised to a high art' (The Independent on Sunday) '... a whole new dimension of her talent stands revealed’ (The Observer). 
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TUESDAY 12th July 2022
The Karen Lane Quartet
We are delighted to be hosting Karen Lane Quartet.
It's a brilliant band:
Karen Lane (Vocals)
Dominic Ashworth (Guitar)
Andy Hamill (Bass)
Andrea Trillo (Drums)
Sensational vocalist and songwriter Karen Lane showcases her passion for the music of Brazil in her own inimitable way on her 6th album PASSARIM - a unique take on a beautiful range of timeless material singing in both Portuguese and English.
Raised in Perth Western Australia, Lane settled in London around the millenium, quickly establishing herself on the UK jazz scene and attracting the ear of the legendary chat show host Sir Michael Parkinson, who championed her music in several of his broadcasts. Her 2004 Bossa Nova album Taste, was described by leading magazine Jazzwise as:
“So laid back that to listen to it, you risk slipping a disc - delightful. Perfect for those balmy summer evenings - a genuinely heartfelt homage to the profound allure of bossa nova.”
Having launched at Sunset-Sunside in PARIS, Lane has played at world famous venues, including Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Pizza Express and Café de Paris in Monte Carlo.
The Karen Lane Quartet
We are delighted to be hosting Karen Lane Quartet.
It's a brilliant band:
Karen Lane (Vocals)
Dominic Ashworth (Guitar)
Andy Hamill (Bass)
Andrea Trillo (Drums)
Sensational vocalist and songwriter Karen Lane showcases her passion for the music of Brazil in her own inimitable way on her 6th album PASSARIM - a unique take on a beautiful range of timeless material singing in both Portuguese and English.
Raised in Perth Western Australia, Lane settled in London around the millenium, quickly establishing herself on the UK jazz scene and attracting the ear of the legendary chat show host Sir Michael Parkinson, who championed her music in several of his broadcasts. Her 2004 Bossa Nova album Taste, was described by leading magazine Jazzwise as:
“So laid back that to listen to it, you risk slipping a disc - delightful. Perfect for those balmy summer evenings - a genuinely heartfelt homage to the profound allure of bossa nova.”
Having launched at Sunset-Sunside in PARIS, Lane has played at world famous venues, including Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Pizza Express and Café de Paris in Monte Carlo.
TUESDAY 14th JUNE 2022
JOHN HORLER TRIO
John Horler (Piano)
Ron Phelan (Bass)
Ronnie Jones (Drums)
Critically acclaimed British pianist John Horler returns to St Ives Jazz Club to celebrate the music of Bill Evans.
Accompanist for Dame Cleo Laine for 20 years and a former member of Sir John Dankworth’s bands, John has performed with a 'who’s who’ of modern jazz… household names like Art Farmer, Chet Baker, Zoot Sims, Maynard Ferguson, Tony Coe, Ronnie Ross, Pete King, Kenny Wheeler and Tommy Whittle.
But it’s the music - and musicianship - of Bill Evans which has left an indelible impression on John and his career; inspiring him to become a jazz musician: “Embracing the music of European composers Debussy, Ravel and even Brahms, which he welded into his own very special jazz language”; says John… “Even today, Bill Evans is still the most influential figure in my playing… in an inspirational way…”
'A tribute to Bill Evans’ pays homage to the man, the music and the magic of the groundbreaking Bill Evans trio, 60 years on from the pioneering trio’s heyday at the forefront of modern jazz.
Supported by a well-regarded West Country rhythm section, last seen at St Ives Jazz club as a trio back in 2019, this is a priceless opportunity to see one of Britain's most acclaimed and cherished jazz pianists - an extraordinary, genuine world-class talent - playing the music he loves.
JOHN HORLER TRIO
John Horler (Piano)
Ron Phelan (Bass)
Ronnie Jones (Drums)
Critically acclaimed British pianist John Horler returns to St Ives Jazz Club to celebrate the music of Bill Evans.
Accompanist for Dame Cleo Laine for 20 years and a former member of Sir John Dankworth’s bands, John has performed with a 'who’s who’ of modern jazz… household names like Art Farmer, Chet Baker, Zoot Sims, Maynard Ferguson, Tony Coe, Ronnie Ross, Pete King, Kenny Wheeler and Tommy Whittle.
But it’s the music - and musicianship - of Bill Evans which has left an indelible impression on John and his career; inspiring him to become a jazz musician: “Embracing the music of European composers Debussy, Ravel and even Brahms, which he welded into his own very special jazz language”; says John… “Even today, Bill Evans is still the most influential figure in my playing… in an inspirational way…”
'A tribute to Bill Evans’ pays homage to the man, the music and the magic of the groundbreaking Bill Evans trio, 60 years on from the pioneering trio’s heyday at the forefront of modern jazz.
Supported by a well-regarded West Country rhythm section, last seen at St Ives Jazz club as a trio back in 2019, this is a priceless opportunity to see one of Britain's most acclaimed and cherished jazz pianists - an extraordinary, genuine world-class talent - playing the music he loves.
TUESDAY 17TH MAY 2022
EMMA RAWICZ
EMMA RAWICZ
We are delighted to be hosting young jazz talent Emma Rawicz
at St Ives Jazz Club this Tuesday 17th May, at 7.30pm.
It's a brilliant band:
Emma Rawicz (saxes, flute and bass clarinet)
Ant Law (guitar)
Ivo Neame (piano)
Freddie Jensen (bass)
Here are some links to live performances on YouTubehttps://youtu.be/4K3JNSUPWZ8
https://youtu.be/x6QPzL-XRtU
at St Ives Jazz Club this Tuesday 17th May, at 7.30pm.
It's a brilliant band:
Emma Rawicz (saxes, flute and bass clarinet)
Ant Law (guitar)
Ivo Neame (piano)
Freddie Jensen (bass)
Here are some links to live performances on YouTubehttps://youtu.be/4K3JNSUPWZ8
https://youtu.be/x6QPzL-XRtU
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
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
Tuesday 14th December 2021
mama tokus
Tuesday 12th October 2021
Liane Carroll
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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
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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) |
TUEsday 14th September 2021
Samba Azul
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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) |
monday 20th September 2021
family band
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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) |
Tuesday 21st September 2021
Nicolas Meier
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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. |
