Saturday, September 10, 2016

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 16th September with the Canberra duo in town, we've Tony Thomas on trumpet lead, Ron Cook on the Club's grand piano and Chris Gentle on drums.....

The Canberra duo are in town for a series of gigs with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield, starting this Friday evening 16th September 2016...Tony Thomas on trumpet lead, Ron Cook on piano and Chris Gentle on drums...the Bridge City JB regulars, Dennis Quinlan on banjo, Colin Davies on double bass, Colin Beal on reeds and John Bates on trombone/vocals make up the seven piece Black Mountain and Bridge City Jazz Band...
On the Sunday 18th September 2016 this band plays at The Pines on Old Northern Road, Dural 12.30pm to 4pm.
And as a quartet.....Tony Thomas on trumpet, Ron Cook on alto sax, Colin Davies on double bass and Dennis Quinlan on banjo 5-7pm at the motor racing circuit Wakefield Park, on the Braidwood Road, Tirrannaville NSW  some 10km from Goulburn. The event on the day is the 40th anniversary of the 2+4 All Historic Race meeting held in January 1976 at Amaroo Park on the northern Sydney outskirts....







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/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....  
Best of all the admission is FREE....




Where is The Pines gig....??
Just past the Dural shopping centre on Old Northern Road, Dural some 200 metres on the left, the entrance to the information centre... 



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