« July 2011 Programme »
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10:00pm JP THREE Blues Dragon



www.bluesdragon.org.uk

ADMISSION: £4.00
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11:00pm DISCO
ADMISSION: £2.00
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8:30pm PAUL MUNNERY QUARTET Trad Jazz

The Preservation Jazz Society
ADMISSION: £4.00 / £.3.50 (PJS + Concessions)
Special Student Rate £2.00 (on production of S.U. card) for All events
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9:00pm ALEXANDER DOUGLAS


Since having made his first Café Jazz appearance as a solo piano artist, Alexander Douglas has gone on to win the Jazz Factor Artist Development Award for 2011 for his solo piano work in sacred jazz. Fresh from the Glasgow Jazz Festival, he returns to Cafe Jazz with the Sacred Jazz Project - an ensemble that will bring the worlds of gospel music and jazz together in his own inimitable manner. This promises to be another evening of beautiful, spiritual music.

ADMISSION: £5.00/ £4.00 concessions.
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9:00pm 3 SQUARE
Gethin Liddington – trumpet
Dave Jones – piano
Jon Goode – bass
Ian Poole – drums
This electric jazz quartet bring their unique blend of traditional and cutting edge material to the Café. They perform everything from radically rearranged versions of Well You Needn’t and Maiden Voyage to originals and Zawinul classics. They produce a modern hard edged funky sound which mixes hip hop, acid jazz and classic Blue Note material.


ADMISSION: £6.00 / £5.00
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10:00pm METROPALIS Blues Dragon



www.bluesdragon.org.uk

ADMISSION: £4.00


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11:00pm DISCO
ADMISSION: £2.00
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9:00pm A NEW OLD-FASHIONED JAZZ BAND
Clasic jazz and swing, light-hearted songs, and original writing, in the style of the 1930s New York.

ADMISSION: £3.00 / £2.50 concessions
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8:30pm JEFF MEREDITH – JOHN EVANS QUARTET Trad Jazz

The Preservation Jazz Society
ADMISSION: £4.00 / £.3.50 (PJS + Concessions)
Special Student Rate £2.00 (on production of S.U. card) for All events
13
9:00pm JAZZ ATTIC

This session has been home to many of South Wales’s finest musicians and enthusiastic amateurs for over sixteen years. Jazz Attic offers the chance for all budding musicians to ‘sit in’ with the talented house trio. All are welcome. Anyone who arrives early enough is given the chance to play.

FREE ADMISSION
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9:00pm ALICE LEGGETT QUARTETAlice Leggett - saxophone Alex Haines - guitar Huw Williams - bass Lloyd Haines - drums Alice Leggett has appeared as soloist with 'The New Generation' in CafeJAZZ and now leads some of her friends from that initiative. This new band play standards with the freshness of youth.

ADMISSION: £6.00 / £5.00
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10:00pm PAT GROVER & THE HAWKS Blues Dragon


www.bluesdragon.org.uk

ADMISSION: £4.00


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11:00pm DISCO
ADMISSION: £2.00
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8:30pm NORMAN THATCHER'S RAGTIME BAND Trad Jazz

The Preservation Jazz Society


ADMISSION: £4.00 / £.3.50 (PJS + Concessions)
Special Student Rate £2.00 (on production of S.U. card) for All events
20
9:00pmAREK MAZUREK QUARTET


Jazz - bebop, hardbop, postbop
Young Polish guitarist Arek Mazurek leads an energetic four piece presenting an eclectic and exciting mix of material, including arrangements of tunes by Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Ahmad Jamal and Thelonious Monk. Grounded in the swinging straight ahead style of jazz, they draw on rhythmic inspirations ranging from funk, reggae and world music. Arek leads on guitar and is supported by Mark Sambell on piano, Casper Hoedemaekers on bass and Mike Smith on drums.
ADMISSION: £5.00 / £4.00
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9:00pm SAM COOMBES QUARTETA Cardiff Jazz Society presentation



Saxophonist Sam Coombes lived in France for seven years until 2007. His music has been referred to as 'contemporary post-bop mainstream'. With experimentation and some unconventional time signatures Sam's originals are not to be missed.

www.cardiffjazz.org


ADMISSION: £7.00/ £5.00
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8:45pm BLUE STEELE Blues Dragon





www.bluesdragon.org.uk
ADMISSION: £4.00

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11:00pm DISCO
ADMISSION: £2.00
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8:30pm NORMAN THATCHER'S with JOHN SCANTLEBURY Trad Jazz

The Preservation Jazz Society
ADMISSION: £4.00 / £.3.50 (PJS + Concessions)
Special Student Rate £2.00 (on production of S.U. card) for All events
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9:00pm JAZZ ATTIC JAM SESSION


Jazz Attic offers the chance for all budding musicians to ‘sit in’ with the talented house trio. All instruments and singers are welcome. Anyone who arrives early enough is given the chance to play.


FREE ADMISSION
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9:00pm FRASER ALLIBONE QUARTET
A Cardiff Jazz Society presentation



www.cardiffjazz.org


ADMISSION: £7.00/ £5.00
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10:00pm BURNT CURTAIN Blues Dragon


www.bluesdragon.org.uk

ADMISSION: £5.00


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11:00pm DISCO
ADMISSION: £2.00