Coming up
Coming up at North Devon Jazz Club in 2024:
NB Gigs at the North Devon Jazz Club are almost always on Mondays, starting at 8.30 unless otherwise stated. They take place at the Beaver Inn in Appledore. Entrance is free but there's a collection (please don't be mean - it helps pay the band). For more information, see the dedicated NDJC page.
9 September Liane Carroll.
Multi-award winning singer/pianist Liane Carroll returns to North Devon Jazz Club, together with her husband Roger Carey on bass guitar.
Voted several times as the UK’s best jazz vocalist Liane sings every song as though she owns it. She has been described as ‘deeply soulful, wonderfully honest’ by The Times, and by Jazzwise Magazine as possessing ‘ that rare ability to meld effortless, often transcendent, vocal and piano technique, with heart stopping emotion and soul-baring power’.
Accompanying herself in a rollicking, bluesy piano style she has enthralled audiences at Ronnie Scott's Club, Pizza Express, Glastonbury Festival, the Proms and many other venues in the UK and abroad.
16 September Nicolas Meir World Group
7 October tbc
14 October Tomorrow’s New Quartet
4 November Steve Buckley + Trio
18 November Ben Crosland's Threeway
2 December Out Front (Nick Malcolm Quintet)
16 December QOW TRIO (Riley Stone-Lonergan – tenor sax, Eddie Myer – double bass, Spike Wells – drums)
QOW TRIO is a cross-generational ensemble that takes its name from a composition written by the late saxophonist Dewey Redman. The saxophone chair is occupied by QOW TRIO’S youngest member, Riley Stone-Lonergan An accomplished large ensemble player, he learned his trade as a member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO).
Bassist Eddie Myer is based in Brighton and is a musician, composer, bandleader, promoter, educator and journalist. He leads his own five piece group, The Eddie Myer 5tet, a band that also includes Stone-Lonergan. A professional bass player (both acoustic and electric) since 1996, Myer was worked regularly with the rock act Turin Brakes and with the Afro-Cuban ensemble Son Guarachando.
Now based in Brighton, drummer Spike Wells is the veteran of the trio. He came to prominence on the London jazz scene in the 1960s and has worked with many of the greats of the music. Wells is probably best known for his associations with saxophonists Tubby Hayes and Bobby Wellins but he has also performed with saxophonists Ronnie Scott, Joe Harriott, Peter King, Don Weller, Dick Morrissey, Tony Coe, Alan Barnes and Simon Spillett, trumpeters Humphrey Lyttleton and Henry Lowther, pianists Mick Pyne, John Horler, Mark Edwards and Gwilym Simcock, bassists Ron Matthewson and Dave Green and many, many more.
As well as working with some of the legends of British Jazz Wells’ association with Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club also led to him accompanying a range of international musicians, mainly from the USA. These included saxophonists Dexter Gordon, Teddy Edwards, Johnny Griffin, James Moody, Charles MacPherson, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Sonny Stitt, trumpeter Art Farmer, valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, pianist Cedar Walton and vocalist / pianist Blossom Dearie. Wells also enjoyed an association with the Norwegian musicians Arild Andersen (bass) and Jon Balke (keyboards).
In this piano-less format the three musicians tackle their chosen material in a highly adventurous manner, taking inspiration from the free jazz of the 1960s and 70s but still sounding remarkably contemporary. There’s a strong reliance on improvisation and spontaneous interaction, this is very much a trio of equals and with Myer acting as mediator the musical conversation between the trio’s youngest and oldest members is sometimes quite exceptional.
“We see QOW TRIO as looking back to the heroes of the music, and looking forward to a future of endless, unlimited possibilities” explains Myer, summing up the trio’s approach.
And, for 2025:
14 April Jonathon Gee Trio with Roberto Manzin (sax)
26 May Simon Spillett +Trio
7 July J.D.Lenz Trio
Further details of the above to follow when available
