Club to restart monthly jazz sessions on small scale after 18 music-free months
fter 18 jazz-free months, Loxwood Jazz is reopening on September 21 returning to the North Hall with Simon Bates and Nigel Price Quartet. The club is unable to present the bigband sound yet. Due to Covid recommendations it is starting a little smaller. Only 50 tickets will be available with no tickets sales on the door – more details can be found at loxwoodjazz. co.uk; tickets can be booked through Peter Winney on 01403 752377 or patpet.winney@ gmail.com at £15.
Nigel Price is an awardwinning jazz guitarist acknowledged as one of the hardest working musicians in the business. His career highlights include a support show for Gladys Knight at
The Royal Albert Hall and an appearance on Van Morrison’s recent album Keep Me Singing.
Nigel has played on more than 50 albums, including nine as a leader, spent ten years with acid jazz outfit The Filthy Six, was a member of James Taylor’s band for three years and has picked
Aup a Parliamentary Jazz Award (Best Jazz Ensemble, 2010) and a British Jazz Award (Best Guitarist, 2016) along the way. Simon has had a busy period including seven gigs in four days in the north of England with The Acoustic Collective, the wedding of a former Mufassa (the Lion King), the Hungerford Festival, gigs at the Boisdale restaurant in London and the Loxwood Jazz, Gin & Blues. He is also delighted to add the British Army Band to his teaching commitments from September, meaning he will now be professor of saxophone for the Royal Marines and the British Army Bands.
Nick Mills Blue Note Sextet will perform at Loxwood Jazz club on October 19. Trombone virtuoso Nick Mills presents his sextet playing music from the Blue Note era. It features the sounds of the amazing Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Curtis Fuller and Lee Morgan. The line-up includes Simon on tenor saxophone.
On November 16 the club presents Carl Hudson’s Funk Extravaganza – jazz funk was a genre that captivated the nation in the ’70s and beyond.
You can see the Simon Bates Big Band perform at the Empire Hall, Graffham, near Petworth, on October 16 starting at 8pm. Tickets via – buytickets.at/ empirehallgraffham/322105
Simon originally launched the Loxwood Jazz and Blues Club to raise funds to extend and improve the Loxwood village hall. The first night in December 2009 was a sell-out and it continues to sell out most months. UK-based and international professional musicians join Simon to provide a variety of highly entertaining evenings in the hall. There is a bar and the hall is set up in a relaxed way with candlelit tables to create a fantastic atmosphere. Simon released an album earlier this year, Rags to Riches, Simon’s collaborations with Harry The Piano, has been released on Spotify. Search for Simon Bates New York Jazz Café.
December 21 is the Loxwood Jazz Christmas Party where you can expect superstar musicians having seasonal fun.