Friday, February 24, 2017

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 the 3rd March 2017 sees our trombonist Mike Hallam lead the band on trumpet with Al Davey on trombone, Brad Newman on piano and Craig Lee on drums....

Mike Hallam swaps his trombone in the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield  this coming Friday 3rd March 2017 to lead the band on trumpet with Al Davey a guest on trombone...other guests are, Brad Newman  on the Club's grand piano and Craig Lee on drums....
Likely Mike and Al will swap instruments on the night.....
The Bridge City JB regulars, Colin Davies on double bass, Colin Beal on reeds and Dennis Quinlan make up the great 7 piece traditional jazz band for the night...









Club Ashfield is at 1-11 Charlotte Street, Ashfield beside the Ashfield Railway station on the northern side and the gig is up on the first floor in the bistro/Charlotte Room function area from 7.30pm to 10.30pm with the restaurant serving nice food until 9pm.....I always eat there on Jazz nights....



  Future special guests with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield and other BCJB future gigs...

Sunday, February 19, 2017

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 the 24th February 2017 we are having a special night...a Farewell from Sydney for well known trombonist John Bates and Brenda Potter...leading the band will be Canberrans Tony Thomas on trumpet and Ron Cook on piano with Paul Furniss on extra reeds and Jim Morrell on drums...


John Bates is known Australia wide for his great traditional jazz trombone playing with many bands in the last 60 years or so...a favourite tuba player in local jazz trios, a nice jazz voice for vocals and a six time winner in the Australian Jazz Convention Original Tunes contest held yearly at the AJC in the city chosen in Australia to host the convention... his partner Brenda Potter is a jazz vocalist and they are a popular couple in the Australian jazz scene....with age, ill health has dogged John and following the recent sale of their house in Summer Hill, they will relocate to Melbourne in the next month to be close to family support....
John has played these last 15 years with the Bridge City Jazz Band as its trombonist/vocalist and with the Sydney based San Francisco Jazz Band from its inception by the late Tom Baker in the 1970's and then with Paul Furniss to late last year....
So we've Tony Thomas on trumpet lead and Ron Cook on Club Ashfield's grand piano..both from Canberra, both have played with the Black Mountain and Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield and other gigs with the band ...Paul Furniss will be on reeds with Colin Beal and Jim Morrell who was the dummer for the BCJC with John for a long time make up the special guests for the band tonight....BCJB regulars are Colin Beal on reeds, Mike Hallam on trombone/vocals, Colin Davies double bass and myself Dennis Quinlan on banjo....
We've a "Farewell from Sydney" planned for John and Brenda with, we expect many of his friends, both musician and jazz followers alike coming for the night to wish them well and say goodbye.
A special large farewell card with photos for those attending to sign and a special large cake to celebrate with them.
While John won't play on the night due to health issues he and Brenda look forward to meeting up with you all...




 Club Ashfield is at 1-11 Charlotte Street, Ashfield beside the Ashfield Railway station on the northern side and the gig is up on the first floor in the bistro/Charlotte Room function area from 7.30pm to 10.30pm with the restaurant serving nice food until 9pm.....I always eat there on Jazz nights....





  Future special guests with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield and other BCJB future gigs...



Friday, February 10, 2017

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 the 17th February 2017 Bill Dudley's in town, down from Cairns for the weekend...Bill Dudley leads the band on cornet, Carolyn Packer is on piano, Jim Fletcher on drums and David Ridyard on tenor sax....

BILL's BACK IN TOWN... Bill Dudley's in Sydney this coming weekend and we've got him to lead the Bridge City Jazz Band on Friday 17th Feb.with several members from his old band joining him as special guests at Club Ashfield that night....Carolyn Packer on the club's grand piano, Jim Fletcher on drums and with our regular trombone player Mike Hallam away on a cruise David Ridyard is on tenor saxophone....plus the Bridge City JB regulars....
Great night coming....










 Future special guests with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield and other BCJB future gigs...



SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.....
John Bates who played with us in the Bridge City Jazz Band  and Paul Furniss' San Francisco Jazz Band for many years and many other groups around Australia in his over 60 years of playing is moving from Sydney with his partner Brenda Potter to Melbourne in March....
So we've a special  ""Farewell to John and Brenda" at Club Ashfield on Friday 24th February, 7.30pm.... the band will be led by Tony Thomas tpt, Ron Cook piano, Paul Furniss, reeds and Jim Morrell on drums...
John will socialise and perhaps do a song or two for us. 
His medical issues prevent him playing trombone.....
MARK THIS IN YOUR DIARIES!!



 Club Ashfield is at 1-11 Charlotte Street, Ashfield beside the Ashfield Railway station on the northern side and the gig is up on the first floor in the bistro/Charlotte Room function area from 7.30pm to 10.30pm with the restaurant serving nice food until 9pm.....I always eat there on Jazz nights....







Friday, February 3, 2017

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 the 10th February 2017 we've the Canberra duo with us....Tony Thomas on trumpet, Ron Cook on the club's grand piano and our third guest is Sydney drummer Chris Gentle.....

Fresh from the 71st Australian Jazz Convention we've a favourite duo of ours from the old Canberra Black Mountain Jazz Band at Club Ashfield this coming Friday 10th February 2017...Tony Thomas on trumpet lead,and Ron Cook on piano with Chris Gentle on drums joining the Bridge City Jazz Band regulars....Mike Hallam on trombone/harmonica/vocals, Colin Beal on reeds, Colin Davies on double bass and Dennis Quinlan on banjo...





 Future special guests with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield and other BCJB future gigs...

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.....
John Bates who played with us in the Bridge City Jazz Band  and Paul Furniss' San Francisco Jazz Band for many years and many other groups around Australia in his over 60 years of playing is moving from Sydney with his partner Brenda Potter to Melbourne in March....
So we've a special  ""Farewell to John and Brenda" at Club Ashfield on Friday 24th February, 7.30pm.... the band will be led by Tony Thomas tpt, Ron Cook piano, Paul Furniss, reeds and Jim Morrell on drums...
John will socialise and perhaps do a song or two for us. 
His medical issues prevent him playing trombone.....
MARK THIS IN YOUR DIARIES!!
Club Ashfield is at 1-11 Charlotte Street, Ashfield beside the Ashfield Railway station on the northern side and the gig is up on the first floor in the bistro/Charlotte Room function area from 7.30pm to 10.30pm with the restaurant serving nice food until 9pm.....I always eat there on Jazz nights....