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Saturday Nights at Café Jazz

The Jon Crespo Quartet returns to Café Jazz as the resident Saturday house band! Originating from Canada, Jon and his Quartet will be playing straight ahead Jazz to Funk with some twists and turns. Jon has an extensive range of experience having played with The Beachboys, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Platters and Lenny Kravitz.The Quartet will feature Jon Crespo on Trumpet, Dave Jones on Piano, Ashley John Long on Bass and Greg Evans on Drums

Resident House Band from 7.00pm until 10pm followed by our Resident DJ until 2.00am. Every Saturday!

Admission: £2.00

Donnie Joe's American Swing

Café Jazz Monday 22nd May 2017

Witty Tunes, Swinging Jazz, Satirical Lyrics, and Poignant Songs ... Donnie Joe’s American Swing brings them all together for the best in Swing from the 1930s, 40s, 50s & Beyond.
Swinging Live Band from 9pm.

Admission £3.00 (£2.50 concessions)

AVAILABLE FOR HIRE

Café JAZZ is available for hire on Monday evenings FREE of charge for musicians. We will allow you to use our equipment (subject to availability) and we will staff the bar. You can make a cover charge on the door All styles of music considered.

Please ring us on 029 20232161 if you are interested.

Café JAZZ is also available for hire for Birthday, Retirement, Anniversary Parties etc.

The Sandringham Six

Café Jazz Tuesday 2nd May 2017

Steve Graham (tpt), Paul Munnery (tbn), John Scantlebury (Reeds), Sarah Thatcher (banjo/guitar), Spike Kennedy (bass) and Clarence Nugent (drums)

The Preservation Jazz Society present good-time jazz and swing in the traditional styles of the ’20s and ’30s.
Admission is normally £4.50 (£4.00 members/ £2 students) except *** listings.
See www.pjscardiff.co.uk for more information.

The Panama Jazz Band

Café Jazz Tuesday 9th May 2017

The Preservation Jazz Society present good-time jazz and swing in the traditional styles of the ’20s and ’30s.
Admission is normally £4.50 (£4.00 members/ £2 students) except *** listings.
See www.pjscardiff.co.uk for more information.

Donnie Joe's American Swing

Café Jazz Tuesday 16th May 2017

The Preservation Jazz Society present good-time jazz and swing in the traditional styles of the ’20s and ’30s.
Admission is normally £4.50 (£4.00 members/ £2 students) except *** listings.
See www.pjscardiff.co.uk for more information.

Trombones for Two

Café Jazz Tuesday 23rd May 2017

Pete Locke, Paul Munnery, Sarah Thatcher, Phil Blandford and Mike Kennedy
The Preservation Jazz Society present good-time jazz and swing in the traditional styles of the ’20s and ’30s.
Admission is normally £4.50 (£4.00 members/ £2 students) except *** listings.
See www.pjscardiff.co.uk for more information.

Hot Strings Café

Café Jazz Tuesday 30th May 2017

Heulwen Thomas, Howel Maggs, John Frost and Donnie Sweeney
The Preservation Jazz Society present good-time jazz and swing in the traditional styles of the ’20s and ’30s.
Admission is normally £4.50 (£4.00 members/ £2 students) except *** listings.
See www.pjscardiff.co.uk for more information.

Bay Rum Hounds

Wednesdays 3rd, 10th, 24th May 2017

The Bay Rum Hounds feature harmonica and guitar. Playing country blues, hokum, early Chicago style electric, gospel and swing.

From 8pm onwards

Bella and Gareth Blues Duo

Wednesdays 17th, 31st May 2017

From 8pm onwards

The Bella Collins Band

Friday 26th May 2017

Cardiff based band. Formally Bella & The Blue - the band's new line up consists of Bella Collins on vocals and guitar, Paul Higgins (Snatch It Back) on bass, Pete Mathison (Junior Hacksaw, Ray Davies) on guitar and for this gig highly regarded drummer John Munro. The band plays a mix of blues, jazz & soul, also playing a number of self penned originals.

Admission £4.00 (£3.00 concessions)

Eden Root Reggae Band

Friday 14th April 2017

Red hot Reggae Band and Wide range of party covers original songs

Admission £4.00 (£3.00 concessions)

The Fugitives

Friday 5th May 2017

It might get loud, it might get sweaty but it'll definitely be rocking !!!
From Bayonne to Bristol, the Basque country to Barry Island they are still just as lairy, and just as hairy. For the 16th year in succession, they have been voted the 4th best R&B outfit within a radius of 8.7 miles of Whitchurch village. By the most modest of estimations, they have now played almost 1000 gigs. That’s 1000 Princess Margaret jokes and 1000 times Jason has tripped over the microphone stand. Good things never change. The Fugitives. Still the same, still brilliant.

Admission £4.00 (£3.00 concessions)

Dansette

Friday 19th May 2017

Dansette is a 7-piece band that specialises in playing sweet soul music straight out of the 60s. In support of a distinct vocal sound the band features a tight, tight, tight rhythm unit augmented by a killer three-piece horn section to deliver a collection of soul classics from the likes of Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Eddie Floyd and Wilson Pickett et al. Come feel the heat, tap your feet and you'll have to dance when you get the chance.

Admission £4.00 (£3.00 concessions)

Hackensack

Thursday 4th May 2017

Hackensack is a double bill night dedicated to the fresh and the new and occurs on the first Thursday of every month during the students' term times.

First set - Bears with wings
A fresh collective of RWCMD students came together to play music influenced by many genres like jazz, folk, film, dance and classical. They are going to play all originals written by them either individually or collectively and share their take on fusion jazz.
Dave Bush (tenor sax) - Frazer McIntosh (piano) - Ben Manning (bass) - Eddie Jones-West (drums)

Second Set - Partikel
Partikel take unique and fresh look at the saxophone trio format. They will be launching their fourth album "Counteraction" this year. They spent 2016 touring extensively and developing the music that eventually made it onto the album. This CD documents their explorations into the more electronic side of music whilst maintaining their exciting and high energy approach.

Duncan Eagles (saxophones) - Max Luthert (double bass) - Eric Ford (drums and percussion) - Ant Law (guitar). www.partikel.co.uk

Choose which you pay
Big Price - £10 - for the arts supporter who would like to chip in that bit extra towards Hackensack's longevity
Medium Price - £7 - for the awesome audient, supporting the Hackensack without quite the glamour and philanthropy associated with the big price
Little Price - £5 - for the music lover who's thinking "that's all well and good but I'm on a budget here and I come to bloody everything anyway so stop pestering me for cash"

Libardo Cardozo Trio

Café Jazz Thursday 11th May 2017

Libardo Cardozo Chamorro (guitar) - Ben Manning (double bass) - Ben Hunt (drums).
Playing a new repertoire of originals.

Admission £6 / £5 concessions

Andrew Fawcett Quartet

Café Jazz Thursday 18th May 2017

Andrew Fawcett - tenor saxophone
Graham Dent - piano
Adrian Smith - bass
Ian Poole - drums

Admission £6 / £5 concessions

Kathy Davies Quartet

Café Jazz Saturday 18th May 2017

Dave Jones (piano) - Paul Hillman (double bass) - Greg Evans (Drums) - Kathy Davies(vocals).

A classy line up of experienced musicians bring to Kathy Davies and her unique narrative style; a vibrant evening ‘s entertainment of Jazz classics from Johnny Mercer, Jerome Kern, Dave Frishberg, Louis Jordan; Gershwin et al! 5 track CD Available on the night.

Admission £6 / £5 concessions

Jack McDougal Quartet

Café Jazz Thursday 25th May 2017

Jack McDougal - tenor saxophone
Guy Shotton - piano
Matheus Prado - double bass
Alex Goodyear - drums

Admission £6 / £5 concessions

Hot Club Swing - Amigos Trio

Sunday 14th May 2017