Friday, October 3, 2014

Welcome to Sydney's traditional jazz scene...live jazz in Sydney......Club Ashfield is the venue and with its long residency, The Bridge City Jazz Band is the band....a nominal 4 piece we have three special guests each Friday taking the band up to a 7 piece swinging trad.jazz band...and this coming Friday 10th October 2014, Ron Cook on piano and Neil Macbeth on drums...The Black Mountain and Bridge City Jazz Band in action!!!. Then on the Sunday 12th the band plays at "The Pines", Dural 12.30pm-4pm...this time with Joel Davis drumming for us....

We always like the Canberra trio, the last of the old Black Mountain Jazz band to come up to Sydney to play with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield...
A great 7 piece traditional jazz band with a New Orleans flavour...The Black Mountain and Bridge city Jazz Band.....
This coming Friday 10th October 2014 sees us together again at Club Ashfield with a further gig on the Sunday 12th October at "The Pines", Old Northern Road, Dural, some 300 metres on the left though the Dural village, with it being an open air gig you'd have to keep an eye on the weather as they could cancel it during the early morning...
Of course the band is Tony Thomas on trumpet lead/vocals, Ron Cook on the club's grand piano, Neil Macbeth on the band drum kit with John Bates, trombone/vocals, Colin Beal clarinet and alto saxophone, Colin Davies on double bass and myself, Dennis Quinlan on banjo.
On the Sunday, Neil is elsewhere on drums, so we've Joel Davis playing with us at The Pines....
As usual it will "swing like a dunny door in a southerly..."
As well the evening on the Friday is a special "birthday bash" for Tony who is celebrating his 75th birthday...fantastic!!
Come along on the night and celebrate with us....a real big cake for Tony to cut and make a thank you speech to one and all and we'll have a special large A3 sized birthday card with space for those there to sign and look at the montage of photos on the front and rear cover....





Neil Macbeth on drums....on Friday 10th


The Black Mountain and Bridge City Jazz Band at an earlier Pines gig...
  Joel Davis with us drumming at The Pines gig on Sunday 12th...

Where is Club Ashfield and then "The Pines".....?
Club Ashfield is at 5 Charlotte Street, Ashfield beside the Ashfield Railway Station on the northern/Parramatta road side, up on the first floor of the Club in the bistro ( good food!! )/function area..7.30pm to 10.30pm...free admission.
The Pines...
On Old Northern Road just through Dural some 300 metres on the left where the large stand of pine trees are..admission $12... the gig is weather dependent and is 12.30pm to 4pm, bring your picnic lunch, for there are limited cakes/devonshire teas, tea and coffee etc at the Council information kiosk on the site...




Future special guests for Club Ashfield gigs.....

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