Seven Jazz - the Jazz Cafe

Our last Jazz Cafe jam session in November was our biggest yet! 31 musicians joined in the afternoon session, including pianist Al McSween and Caroline Boaden on drums who provided fantastic support to everyone. The Seven Jazz workshop band opened proceedings and led the final C Jam Blues jam session under the watchful eyeof Martin Townshend.

The March Jazz Cafe will be even bigger! Come alsong and watch or bring that guitar or saxophone and join in. Chapel Allerton's great jazz talent show!

Seven Jazz Jam Session is at lunchtime 1-4pm on March 21st 2010 £5/£4 concessions (concessions includes performers and unwaged) kids under 16 free.   

Anita Wardell Quartet

Anita Wardell  with Robin Aspland piano, Zoltan Dekany bass and Steve Brown drums

Seven Arts, Thursday  25th March 8pm

If you like real swinging improvising jazz singers then Aninta Wardell is your woman. Steeped in the bebop tradition she scats just like a horn player, with great lines, a great feel and interacts with her band. You won't have heard jazz vocals as exciting as this in a long time. Not only can she improvise like a demon, she can sing a ballad with such tenderness and honesty and you know you are right there with her. 

One of the UK’s most creative and best loved vocalists, her recent album "Kinda Blue" has had rave reviews : "...the singer's mercurial musicality and acute sense of improvisation freedom can at times take the breath away." Jazzwise

The band is swinging too - watch out for Robin Aspland on piano, and the fine duo of Zoltan Dekany on bass and Steve Brown drums. 

 Here Anita and her quartet here

Anita Wardell and her Quartet are at Seven Arts on Thursday 25th March at 8pm. Tickets are £15/12 concessions from Seven Arts or online from Jumbo records www.jumborecords.co.uk. 

Tony Faulkner Quintet

Tony Faulkner drums, Jamil Sheriff piano, Pete Turner bass,  Richard Iles flugelhorn and Russel VanDenburg sax.

Some bands you just know are going to be fantastic. With this line up how could the gig be anything but? Tony Faulkner is a fine musician who has built an impressive body of work over the last 50 years. He is a stylish Composer and Arranger, a great drummer and one of the UK’s foremost experts on the life and work of Duke Ellington. He provided the arrangements for the Alan Barnes Ellingtonians at Seven in November 2009. He has enjoyed a long career as a Jazz educator, and has helped many of the finest British Jazz musicians of the last 35 years hone their compositional, performance and ensemble skills.

He has vast experience as a drummer for both Big Bands and small group jazz. His small group arrangments always make bands sound bigger than they are! The Quintet features two of the best frontmen in the business - Ruseel VanDenburg on tenor saz and Richard Iles on flugel both of whom have delighted the  Seven jazz audience many times in the past. Here Tony's music through this link

Sunday afternoon 28th March Seven Arts 1-4pm £5/4 concessions