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I am delighted to be the first in the country to place the music of Carole Westwood and The Archie Cotterell Trio on my web page. This is their second CD and is even better than their first. This is number 14 of 17 tunes, and is just a taste. The full trio are Carole, vocals. Archie Cotterell, keyboard. Derek Brown, bass and Barry Watts, drums. To purchase the CD please contact Barry 07731 900442 price £10-00. or better still go to one of their gigs. If you are on dialup please allow time for loading, the first download may stop briefly, but should be OK when you play the second time. Quality of music is limited by file size so please do order the CD. Broadband users should have no problems |
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a large town there are many places where jazz is on offer. I would
expect the best known venue is The Trumpet at Bilston situated
in Bilston High Street and presents jazz seven days a week.
It has some fine Beer at very resonable prices
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01902 493723 THE TRUMPET ****************** March Monday 1st Reg & Musti Tuesday 2nd Dutch Lewis Quartet Wednesday 3rd Casablanca 5 Thursday 4th Style Unlimited Friday 5th Swing Parade Saturday 6th Andy Hamilton & the Blue Notes. He is 92 this month Sunday 7th Esinti Monday 8th Reg & Musti Tuesday 9th Steve Pacitto Band Wednesday 10th Wishbone Frenzy Thursday 11th Carol Westwood & Archie Cotterell Trio Friday 12th Swing Parade Saturday 13th Old Comrades Sunday 14th Tim Amann Quintet Monday 15th Reg & Musti Tuesday 16th The Morgan Brothers Band Wednesday 17th Mercia Jazz Five Thursday 18th Style Unlimited Friday 19th Swing Parade Special Guest *Roy Williams* Saturday 20th New Washboard Syncopators Sunday 21st Ben Holder Band Monday 22nd Reg & Musti Tuesday 23rd Laszlo’s Diary Wednesday 24th Patsy Gamble Band Thursday 25th Trevor Emeny & Archie Cotterell Trio Friday 26th Swing Parade Saturday 27th Bank Street Syncopators Sunday 28th Henry Newman Band Monday 29th Reg & Musti Tuesday 30th Strumpit (Gypsy & Latin Jazz) Wednesday 31st Mike Turner Band.Special Guests *Ben Holder and John Smith*. www.trumpetjazz.org.uk 2nd set 10.00pm to 11.00pm |
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The Bonded Warehouse Canal St Stourbridge ************************************************ Friday 12th March The Tim Amann XTET Soulful and melodic contemporary jazz from a group headed by one of the most talented pianists in the region. Tel 01384 395216 ********************************************8 
"Community Radio Station for Stourbridge and the Southern
Black Country"If you like Jazz, then tune in to The 'Bridge is also now available on line at the last nine decades. |
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Dog Kennel Lane (A456/A459 Junction) 'Jazzers' Sunday Night Jazz – 8.30 – 11.00 ************ March 14th Bob Dwyer’s Hot Seven 28th The New Georgia Jazz Band Enquiries: Trevor (0121-550-6335)
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March 13th 12-30pm Keith Nicholls & Francis Fox two pianos performing the stride music of Fats Waller and James P Johnson. |
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The White Lion West Castle St Bridgnorth WV16 4AB 2nd April Carole Westwood vocals Paul Sawtell piano. 7th May Warren Latham reeds Paul Sawtell piano 4th June Laura Collins vocal Paul Sawtell piano. ************************************* The Down Inn Ludlow Road Bridgnorth Cancelled Friday March 12th 8pm Tickets £15-00 Keith Nicholls and his Rhythm with Andy Woon & Norman Field ******************************************* George Hotel Hollybush Rd Bridgnorth WV164AX Saturdays March 13th Keith Nicholls & Francis Fox March 20th Roy Williams trombone Paul Sawtell piano March 27th Digby Fairweather Paul Sawtell piano ************************************* Sundays 12-30pm April 11th Laura Collins vocals Craig Milverton piano. May 16th Louise Parker & Craig Milverton piano. ***************************************** Bridgnorth Jazz Festival Friday October 29th to Sunday October 31st More details to follow |
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for Wolverhampton Jazz Fans  Listen on the net www.wcrfm.com |
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The Summer House, 290 Newhampton Road West, Wolverhampton WV6 0RS Tel 01902 745213 |
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present March 7th Rachael Cohen Trio 14th Wishbone Frenzy 21st Tailgate Trad 28th Hold it Down Ensemble Start Time 8-30pm |
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The Village Hall Little Witley Worcester |
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Roy Williams trombone. Enrico Tomaso trumpet. Julian Stringle clarinet. Alan Barnes baritone sax. with Paul Sawtell piano. Erika Llyons bass. Nick Milward drums and guest vocalist Carole Westwood. Tim has always promoted quality jazz and musicians, but this time he excelled. |
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A Lunch Time Gig. 30th August with Karen Sharp and Paul Sawtell It is my pleasure to advise this was a very fine lunch time gig. Karen. Tenor & Baritone. Paul. Keyboard I understand that this was the first time she had met Paul and, I am sure, after the first few bars she had no further worries. I have seen Paul many times and rate him the finest piano player in Midlands and beyond. His support and quality of playing for Karen was excellent. Note. Bridgnorth Jazz Festival will be 24th to 26th October. Details on this web page soon |
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Lowtown Bridgnorth We were not sure what to expect as Carole stated it was not a jazz group. However, we need not have worried, as they played with quality and style. I can only put the music under the banner of modern folk. It was quite obvious from the start that the group had rehearsed as the vocals were not from the standard song book. The quality of sound produced by Chris Woodley on guitar and, so well supported by Doug Mc Kendrick bass, was excellent. However, added to this sound was the wonderful flute of Annie Rees-Jones (What a delight) I am sure Carole could not wish for better. The gig started at 8-30 and we were still there at 11pm. That's how good it was ! |
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Charlie Wright tenor & Paul Sawtell piano.
click on pictures to enlarge Paul Sawtell and Charlie Wright are two musicians whose style and true ability to produce fine jazz are a delight. Throughout the two sets they produced a good programme of well known standards with fine interpretation The audience were hushed when Charlie played a very slow number of Stardust. What a treat. Paul,as ever, was his usual self, never lacking style or support for Charlie. A very good lunchtime gig indeed. I will look forward to more of the same at the Bridgnorth Festival. |
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27th to 29th October The Bridgnorth Jazz Festival has proved a considerable success with some outstanding jazz. The Liane Carroll concert on the Friday can only be described as magical. It was a near capacity audience and superb value at ten pounds a ticket. Archie Cotterell was at the gig describing Liane as 'an international level star" This is the fourth Bridgnorth Jazz Festival and each year the weather has held fine. This certainly helps with a Jazz Trail. This year we had eight locations one of which was in Low Town at the Falcon Hotel. The trail proved popular with all our tickets being sold by 11.15 am on the day. We had booked and planned for a final session running into an 'all star jam session' at the Crown. At the last minute the Crown cancelled due to a preferred football match on the day. We consequently had to split the jam session over two venues, The Habit and the Bassa Villa. Unfortunately these were two smaller venues which limited our ticket sales. Just one of the problems in running a festival !!. Keith Nichols and Enrico Tomaso proved an entertaining duo at Cinnamon. It was good to see Dave Shepherd back in Bridgnorth. There will always be a place in Bridgnorth for locals Carole Westwood and Archie Cotterell and their performance at the Basa Villa was played to a very full house. Bruce Adams played with his inimitable style at the Habbit, well supported by Paul Sawtell. In the second set they were joined by Roy Williams. trombone and Erica Lyon, double bass which resulted in a very good gig. The two theatre performances were well attended producing some very good jazz. Although it was very hard work over a long period to set up, both Tim Lord and I felt it was all worthwhile and we are already laying plans for next year. We would like to thank the many volunteers and helpers who assisted in our success, also our sponsers Brennan & Wiseman Ltd
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Ludlow Road Bridgnorth Craig Milverton piano. Erika Lyons bass. John Gibbon drums Digby, of course, is well known by us all and Craig is no stranger to me as it has often been my pleasure to hear him at The Masonic. Erika and John were new to me and my friends and we enjoyed their playing very much. Digby, as ever, has his own special way of presenting himself and the band and I must compliment him for working so hard to make the audience feel at home... A good and varied programme was presented for the first set including a vocal (Tis Autumn) , together with This Can't Be Love, Some of These Days, Yesterdays and a very nice Trio number Time after Time. The second set opened with Struttin with some Barbecue, followed by an up tempo version of Running Wild and some great playing by Digby. He gave us another vocal and quite a laugh (Roll over Beethoven ), you had to listen carefully to the lyrics. Then back to the Trio.with Craig and Erika in full flow and such great solo work well supported by John throughout. A final number to complete the evening, I Got It Bad and that Ain't Good, which ended a delightful evening of Jazz. I was very disappointed with the support Tim and Malcolm got for this event as they are working so hard to bring jazz to Bridgnorth and make the Down the place to be for music. I do hope their next gig will have better support Geoff Inwood Friday February 24th  |
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Another good evening's jazz at the Plough. Trevor Emeny
was the star with the Archie Cotterell trio. Trevor is always
a treat to listen to and is never over the top with interpretation,
.his style is very much Stan Getz and you cannot say better than
that. A good programme was played but a little more planning
would not go admiss as, so often is the case with a small group. An extra treat for me was that Carole Westwood arrived and was invited for a couple of numbers (nice one Trevor) The Trio, as ever, produced fine support for Trevor and of course each in turn produced some very nice solos. |
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First I must congratulate the organiser Tim Lord, along
with his dedicated helpers, for producing a first-class festival. My first gig was on the Friday night at the Down Hotel, which proved to be an ideal venue. The star was Liane Carroll, a very fine vocalist, who accompanied herself on piano along with a trio, bass guitar, drums and Ian Shaw on guest guitar. Liane, as expected, gave a fine performance throughout and was much appreciated by a very good audience. On the Saturday I hit the Jazz Trail, starting with vocalist Dee Daley and Roy Sainsbury on guitar - a great duo, who gave a fine performance.On the move again to the Black Boy where Craig Milverton and Julian Stringle were playing. Two nights before I had seen Julian at the Masonic and Craig about a month before that. I am sorry to say they were confined to a small bar but being the fine musicians they are, we were able to enjoy their programme. They were to move to Bass Villa for their next gig so it was time for me to catch a lift and move on to the Kings pub. Here was Brenda Scott with Paul Sawtell on piano. The place was packed but I just managed to find a space. It is quite some time since I heard Brenda but she did not disappoint and with Paul in fine form, it was very worthwhile. At this point it was time for me to leave and I am quite sure the rest of the programme was a great success. Congratulations to Tim for featuring musicians from the Midlands, long this continue. There are lots more available. Thank you Tim for bringing jazz to life in Bridgnorth and may I ask the many who attended these gigs to please continue to support jazz throughout the year. Click on pictures to enlarge |
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at The Masonic The band, as always, was well presented and Bryan had prepared a good and varied programme, which delighted the audience throughout the evening. Ellington, Basie, Herman etc. It was a nice surprise to see Sue Greenway, currently with The Syd Lawrence Band, leading the sax section and also another visitor Kevin Harcourt in the trumpet line up. Members of the band throughout the evening played some fine solos, but I just have to mention Kay McIntosh who just blew us all away.(wonderful) It was also good to note that Bryan's solo work was appreciated, as so often I feel that this can be missed when so much is going on within the band. Arthur Brown was invited outfront with a few friends and, as ever, gave us a couple of trad numbers which made this break a great pleasure. The evening ended with a much deserverd encore. Bryan has now had the big band for some thirty seven years he tells us. The musicians come from far and wide to play for him, this says it all for the man, and fine musician that he is. Thank you Mike for putting this gig on and I know Bryan will be returning to the Masonic again. |
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Jazz at The Masonic . What a disappointment this is, but I am sorry to say it is due to lack of support and nothing else. I do hope that he still may put a gig on just now and again as we have no other venue in the area of this quality. |
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tenor /clarinet with Paul Sawtell. Tom Hill. Neil Bullock He had made an ideal programme for the evening and kept well in touch with the audience, presenting a good mix of jazz that included some very nice Goodman pieces. With the great trio that we have become so used to here, this really was jazz at its best once again. |
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Paul Sawtell piano. Tom Hill bass. Neil Bullock drums. It was good to have Alan back in Wolverhampton once more, we have long awaited this occasion in no small part due to the very fine rhythm section which supported him. On this occasion we were told of his recent purchase of a tenor sax and, from it's appearance a well crafted and mature product, which in his hands soon proved its worth and ownership.A good programme of music was played throughout the evening much enjoyed and appreciated by all. We still need more bums on seats if Mike is to continue presenting jazz of this quality so do please tell your friends and get them to join you Good to see and hear Alan Barnes again, do not miss him if he is in your area. Geoff Inwood Alans web site is www.alan-barnes.co.uk |
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A Review of a great evening's Jazz The opening number, Cantaloupe Island, was an excellent choice, and we soon realised what a fine musician Jimmy is. Playing tenor sax, clarinet and flute, he had laid out a programme which, I felt, was ideal and all the guys supporting him had their music. This gave a nice balance to the evening, some slow some fast and all of high quality, Bolivia, Jitterbug Waltz, and Early Autumn. The second set started with Sister Sadie, The Four Brothers, (very nice) Sometime ago etc, and, for me, the best of all just at the end Chic Corea's La Fiesta. Tom Hill led in on bass and from thereon the guys really got it all together producing jazz of the highest quality. The result was much applause and appreciation, but this was not the end and they finished with Blues for Jimmy at 11.15pm. One other thing was Jimmy's wonderful ability to play some very long notes, which I understand involves breathing in through the nose, and out to the instrument at the same time, remarkable! Tom Hill throughout the evening was at his very best, What a fine bass player he is! Paul, as ever, inventive and melodic throughout with such great support to soloists, a cord here, a note there which just gave a nice edge. Roy supporting and laying down the all-important rhythm. Then in the second set some very nice solo work. I have not seen a lot of Malcolm Garrett, but what a fine drummer he is and Jimmy gave him a couple of very nice spots, which showed him at his finest. This was an evening by professionals and I enjoyed every moment. Do come again Jimmy and thank you Mike for another great evening of Jazz in Wolverhampton Click on pictures to enlarge
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I was reminded, rather late in the day by my good friend Brian Manders, that Archie and Mel were to be at the Trumpet this evening.With transport laid on and to the door. No problem! The two words on the above programme Mel & Archie cannot
relate to the quality of the players or the music, Dont forget. Mels Jazz Beat
Wednesday nights 7pm to 9pm Radio Stoke. Shropshire.and Hereford.
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Ron Drake with the Paul Sawtell Trio An evening of jazz to savour. Thank you Cathy for promoting jazz of this quality. I know
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