About Seven Jazz

Seven Jazz is a voluntary organisation supported by Jazz Yorkshire to promote jazz from Yorkshire and around the UK.  Seven Arts Centre, our home, is a friendly venue with great acoustics and a wide range of drinks and food. It is in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, close to the city centre with good public transport and free local parking. Our concerts run every Sunday between 1pm and 4pm with the best of regional bands, and a series of evening gigs that feature national and international jazz stars. We also run a number of vocal and instrumental workshops for people who want to learn more about the music or to play and sing with other musicians; We also feature one jam session in every season where we encourage people to play and sing with a top local rhythm section -  a jazz talent show!

We  want people to come and enjoy the music and have fun - Seven is a family friendly place and kids up to the age of 15 can come to our concerts free of charge. We also have concessions for people who are unwaged and for students. .

Seven Jazz is run by volunteers - the people who help and you will see at gigs are Martin Briggs, Steve Crocker, Tom Swire, Steve Ross, Jamil Sheriff, Paul Smith, Colin Watson and Jean Watson. Ma\rtin Townshend and Colin Byrne run our jazz workshops. We are always looking for help - just come to one of our gigs and offer!

The Jazz Committee band  are pictured playing at Seven's third anniversaryparty on 7th July 2010- Steve Crocker (double bass) Jami Sheriff (keyboards), Colin Watson (guitar), Paul Smith (drums) Jean Watson (vocals) and Martin Townshend (tenor sax)-   - photo by Tom Swire