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.
For 2025 (so far):
20 January Will Butterworth Trio
Described by Time Out Magazine as a jazz pianist ‘who plays with spacious and fractious beauty', Will Butterworth and his trio perform a programme of intense and exhilarating music.
Will is joined by bassist Marcus Vergette and drummer Preston Prince to play a programme of Will’s compositions and standards. To quote a review by Jazzmann of the album Will Butterworth Trio Live their music is ‘a stimulating three way discussion for piano, bass and drums, an encapsulation of all that's good about this exceptional trio.’ Ian Patterson of All About Jazz has written about Will’s ‘starkly beautiful melodies and simple rhythms juxtaposed against intricate contours and free-wheeling improvisations...’
3 February Neil Maya Quartet (Tribute to Dave Brubeck)
The late pianist Dave Brubeck was an enormously popular and influential figure who possibly did more than anyone to bring jazz in to the mainstream. Assessing Brubeck’s achievement jazz critic, John Fordham wrote in The Guardian that he blended ‘European compositional ideas, very demanding rhythmic structures, jazz song-forms and improvisation in expressive and accessible ways’.
Neil Maya will bring his quartet to North Devon Jazz Club to play a tribute to the great man, performing a programme which will include some of Brubeck’s best work, including It’s a Raggy Waltz, Blue Rondo a la Turk, Unsquare Dance and, of course, Take Five.
17 February Sam Braysher Trio
3 March Sarah Gillespie
17 March To Be arranged
31 March Derek Nash/ Martin Dale Quintet
14 April Jonathon Gee Trio with Roberto Manzin (sax)
12 May Jim Mullen Organ Trio
26 May Simon Spillett +Trio
9 June Neil Burns/Roger Beaujolais Quartet
7 July J.D.Lenz Trio
29 Sept Liane Carroll
10 November Howl Quartet
24 November Martin Dale Quartet plus Amy Roberts
Further details of the above to follow when available
