Friday, June 24, 2011

Jazz in Sydney ....Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield Friday 1st July 2011...Bill Dudley's back!

This coming Friday 1st July is a welcome return for Bill Dudley as the trumpet lead for the Bridge City Jazz Band...
Bill as you may recall had his long running gig at the Strawberry Hills Hotel in Surrey Hills terminated after management decided to reduce music at the venue...
Gary Walford is on piano, a great New Orleansee player with Joel Davis on drums....
All the regular Bridge City JB guys to back them....
Colin Beal, back from Merimbula Jazz Festival, Colin Davies, Dennis Quinlan and John Bates...
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Bill Dudley, trumpet and vocals...
Joel Davis on drums....
John Bates, trombone and vocals...
Gary Walford on piano....
Club Ashfield location.....
Dennis Quinlan on banjo...
Colin Davies , double bass.....
Colin Beal, clarinet....

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Jazz in Sydney ....Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield Friday 24th June 2011...

English trumpet player Chas.McDevitt...well he seems pretty domiciled in Sydney now with a great young family...leads the Bridge City Jazz band with the occasional vocal on this coming Friday 24th June 2011 at Club Ashfield....
Last week Kym Till was on trumpet lead, but his week Kym will fill the piano chair...a great jazz pianist and we're always keen to have him back.
Popular Sydney drummer Graham Hilgendorf  makes up the three special guests on the night to complete the band with the usual Bridge City JB members...John Bates on trombone and vocals, Colin Beal, clarinet and alto saxophone, back from the Merimbula Jazz Festival.
Colin Davies on double bass and myself, Dennis Quinlan on banjo make up the rhythm section....
Hope to see you there...
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The bands gig guide....
Chas McDevitt....
Still no suitable photo of Kym Till...
Graham Hilgendorf....
How to get to Club Ashfield....
John Bates, trombone; Dennis Quinlan, banjo and Colin Davies, double bass...
Colin Beal, clarinet and alto saxophohne-  likely to have "downed" a drop or to on the long ride back to Sydney....

Friday, June 10, 2011

Jazz in Sydney ....Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield Friday 17th June 2011...

This coming Friday we've multi instrumentalist Kym Till playing, likely his Bach trumpet, as lead for the night...
Likely as well he may play some piano in the sit-in set that inevitably happens during the night....
Regretably I've no photo of Kym and havent been able to secure one...one more reason to pop along for the evening...
Frank Watts is on piano..always welcome  at Club Ashfield....
Joel Davis is on drums and as Colin Beal is still travelling back from the Merimbula Jazz Festival...would you believe he rode down most of the way and is riding back on his pushbike...CB is a longtime long distance bicyclist having ridden twice before to Merimula...carries an older clarinet and when he stops for a "breather" gets it out and plays it!
So replacing Colin is Paul Furniss.........
A super night shaping up...
Myself, DQ, John Bates and Colin Davies make up the Bridge city Jazz band....
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Kym Till on trumpet...sadly no pic and the trumpet illustrated is a Vega..Kym plays a Bach....
Frank Watts on piano....
Paul Furniss on reeds....
Joel Davis on drums....
John Bates, vocals and trombone....
Colin Davies, double bass....
Dennis Quinlan, banjo...
Club Ashfield with the future Bridge City lineup...
Where is Club Ashfield.....

Friday, June 3, 2011

Jazz in Sydney....Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield Friday 10th June 2011....

Some of the Bridge City JB members are down at Merimbula for the Jazz Festival over the long weekend, leaving myself and John Bates and five special guests to make up the band for this Friday 10th June 2011.
And what a band it is.....most of the New Wolverine Jazz band in fact...
Geoff Power is leading on cornet and vocals, Trevor Rippingale on reeds, Harry Harman on double bass, Peter Locke on piano, Jim Morrell on drums....
A real swinging night in store for those of you attending.......
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Geoff Power and Trevor Rippingale...
Peter Locke.....
Harry Harman OAM.....
Jim Morrell....
Bridge City program....
Geoff Power...
John Bates, trombone....
Trevor Rippingale...
How to get to Club Ashfield....
Peter Locke.....
Dennis Quinlan...