Its always a great night when the three former Black Mountain Jazz Band people come up to join with the Bridge City Jazz Band forming a band....The Black Mountain and Bridge City Jazz Band...to play for you on the Friday evening 28th August at Club Ashfield and then again at the 2015 Newcastle Jazz Festival on the Saturday 29th August. The times for the Newcastle sets are...11.30am to 12.30pm in the Chevals Room and then 2-3pm in the Piano Pavilion. The Festival is based in the Jockey Club at the Newcastle Race Course.
The Canberra crew as we loosely call them are Tony Thomas on trumpet lead and vocals., Ron Cook on the piano and Ian Hill on drums.
The Bridge City regulars are John Bates on trombone and vocals, Colin Davies on double bass and myself Dennis Quinlan on banjo.
Our regular reed player Colin Beal is absent due to a medical procedure and we're pleased to have the Sydney clarinetist and soprano sax player Jack Wiard fill the bill for both gigs.
The Friday night gig is of course at Club Ashfield, 1-11 Charlotte St., Ashfield 7.30pm-10.30pm....
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/function area from 7.30pm to 10.30pm with the restaurant
serving nice food until 9pm.....I always eat there on Jazz nights....
Best of all the admission is FREE....
As mentioned the Newcastle Jazz Festival is on at the Newcastle Jockey Club in the grounds of the Newcastle Race Course.....
Future special guests with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield and other BCJB future gigs...
Bill Dudley is with us this coming Friday 21st August at Club Ashfield leading the Bridge City Jazz Band on cornet, and is one of the last few times we'll see him playing in Sydney with he and Lynn Scarrow relocating to Cairns in north Queensland around mid October....
Gary Walford is on piano and Chris Gentle on drums complementing the Bridge City JB regulars, Colin Beal on reeds, John Bates on trombone and vocals, Colin Davies on double bass and myself, Dennis Quinlan on banjo......
Always a great exciting night of traditional jazz.....
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/function area from 7.30pm to 10.30pm with the restaurant
serving nice food until 9pm.....I always eat there on Jazz nights....
Best of all the admission is FREE....
Future special guests with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield and other BCJB future gigs...
Well this coming Friday 14th August we've another of the Bridge City Jazz Bands big birthday bashes....
A double one this time with two muso's hitting 80 yo.....!
Frank Watts is one and plays piano for us as well, one of our special guests.....
The other is our regular reed player, Colin Beal....
Leading the band is Geoff Power with Jim Morrell on drums, our two other special guests.....
some selected sit-ins from muso friends during the evening....
The usual large birthday cake to share amongst you our audience....
Two special large A3 birthday cards, one each, with photo montages of their life on the cover and back page with space in the centre to write some nice comments for them....
Come along...a great night of traditional jazz and a time to celebrate a special time in two guys lives.....
Colin and Frank celebrate their 75ths 5 years ago.....
Future special guests with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield and other BCJB future gigs...
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/function area from 7.30pm to 10.30pm with the restaurant
serving nice food until 9pm.....I always eat there on Jazz nights....
Best of all the admission is FREE....
We've a night that'll take you back to the early days of jazz in New Orleans with Geoff Bull on trumpet lead with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield this coming Friday 7th August 2015....Brad Newman is on the Club's grand piano and Graham Hilgendorf on the bands drumkit....
Together with the other Bridge City Jazz Band regulars...Colin Beal on reeds, Colin Davies on double bass, John Bates on trombone and vocals and myself, Dennis Quinlan on banjo we've a swinging New Orleans oriented traditional jazz band.....
Why not join us for the night.....7.30pm to 10pm...
Future special guests with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield and other BCJB future gigs...
Club Ashfield is at 5 Charlotte Street, Ashfield beside the Ashfield Railway
station on the northern side and the gig is up on the first floor in
the bistro/function area from 7.30pm to 10.30pm with the restaurant
serving nice food until 9pm.....I always eat there on Jazz nights....
Best of all the admission is FREE....
