Friday, June 27, 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 4th July 2014, we've Bill Dudley on cornet lead, Gary Walford on piano and Joel Davis on drums....

With Bill Dudley having his regular Sunday gig cancelled by the venue's publican, Club Ashfield is the place to see this entertaining trumpet player perform, leading the Bridge City Jazz Band with a favourite piano player of his ( and ours...!), Gary Walford and Joel Davis back on the drum stool....
Club Ashfield is beside the Ashfield Railway station on the northern side in Charlotte Street, Ashfield with the gig starting at 7.30pm through to 10.30pm on the first floor in the bistro/function area.
Bill and the other special guests join the Bridge City Jazz Band regulars this coming Friday 4th July 2014....Colin Davies on double bass, Colin Beal on reeds, myself Dennis Quinlan on banjo and John Bates on trombone/vocals....
Be a great night......come and join use...
Admission to the venue is free.....


Where is Club Ashfield....?
Future special guest with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield and other Bridge City Jazz Band gigs...

Tuesday, June 24, 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 27th June 2014, we've Paul Furniss back leading the band on soprano sax and other reeds with Monique Lysiak on the Club's grand piano and Joel Davis on the drum seat....

Paul Furniss is always a welcome guest player at Club Ashfield and no more so than when he is leading the Bridge City Jazz Band on soprano saxophone.
A powerful player he takes to the lead role that is usually the provenance of a trumpet played with ease....
He was at Club Ashfield last Friday to help Mike Hallam celebrate his 80th birthday...
 Mike is pictured with wife Maggie after cutting his large birthday cake....
But as mentioned he's leading the Bridge City Jazz Band this coming Friday 27th June with Monique Lysiak on the Club's grand piano and Joel Davis on drums.....
The usual Bridge City Jazz Band members are all playing...John Bates, trombone/vocals; Colin Beal, reeds; Colin Davies, double bass and myself, Dennis Quinlan on banjo....
Where is Club Ashfield and the gig....??
Club Ashfield is beside the Ashfield Railway Station on the northern side in Charlotte Street, gig on the first floor bistro/function area...7.30pm to 10.30pm...
Future special guests for Club Ashfield and other Bridge City Jazz Band gigs...

Friday, June 13, 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 20th June 2014, we've a big birthday bash celebration for Mike Hallam who'se 80! As well he will play trumpet lead with Frank Watts on piano and Craig Lee on drums...

Mike Hallam, who regularly plays trumpet lead for us at Club Ashfield turns 80 around next Friday 20th June, so we've a special night arranged for him...A Bridge City Jazz Band Birthday Bash....
Mike will play trumpet lead with good friend Frank Watts on the Club's grand piano and stepson Craig Lee on the drum kit....
Regular Bridge City JB members, John Bates, Colin Davies, Colin Beal and myself Dennis Quinlan make up the seven piece jazz band, although throughout the night there is likely to be muso friends drop in for a sit-in....
Why not come and celebrate with us and Mike......
We'll have a large birthday card such as this one we did for Mike's 75th at Club Ashfield....
The front of Mike's 75th card....
Colin Beal, Colin Davies, John Bates and Dennis Quinlan.
Club Ashfield...5 Charlotte Street, Ashfield, beside the Ashfield railway station on the northern or Parramatta Road side....gig is on the first floor in the bistro/function area from 7.30pm to 10.30pm...



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


Friday, June 6, 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 13th June 2014, sees Kym Till leading the band on trumpet with Bradley Newman on the Club's grand piano and Jim Morrell on drums...

Kym Till is as adept on trumpet lead as his his on piano and this Friday 13th June we've got him leading the Bridge City Jazz band at Club Ashfield with Bradley Newman on the Club's grand piano and our old mate Jim Morrell on drums....with the regular Bridge City JB crew...John Bates, trombone & vocals, Colin Beal on alto sax and clarinet, Colin Davies on double bass and myself Dennis Quinlan on banjo...the night will be a great swinging one...
Future special guests with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield...
and other Bridge City Jazz Band gigs....

Where is Club Ashfield...??
5 Charlotte Street, Ashfield beside the Ashfield Railway Station on the northern or Parramatta Road side...the gig is on the first floor of the Club in the bistro/function area, 7.30pm to 10.30pm....

Sunday, June 1, 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 6th June 2014, sees Geoff Bull back leading the band with Gary Walford on the Club's grand piano, Paul Furniss on reeds and Graham Hilgendorf on drums...

It was only two weeks back that we welcomed Geoff Bull, Gary Walford and Graham Hilgendorf as the special guests of the Bridge City Jazz band and we're pleased to have them back this coming Friday, 6th June 2014 but with Paul Furniss on reeds replacing Colin Beal who is down in Merimbula for the Jazz Festival....
With them of course is John Bates, Colin Davies and myself Dennis Quinlan....
Scroll down to the earlier post.....
A likely plan will be to play some of the music from the recently released CD by Kate Dunbar of the Clarence Williams Tribute Concert held by the Sydney Jazz Club on May 24th 1995.....the band then was lead by Geoff Bull....
sounds like a super reason for you to come along to Club Ashfield, 5 Charlotte Street Ashfield, beside the Ashfield Railway station on the northern side...up on the first floor bistro/function area with the gig starting 7.30pm through to 10.30pm.....







The band's future special guests are....
As well as other gigs...