 | Croydon Jazz & Blues Festival 2009
Visit the Croydon Jazz & Blues Festival from Friday 12th to Sunday 21st June 2009.
Events will be taking place in the following venues:
The Ashcroft Theatre: Fairfield Halls, Croydon.
Street Enterntainment: North End, Croydon.
The Green Dragon: 58 - 60 High Street, Croydon.
The Brief: 48 - 50 George Street, Croydon.
Croydon Clocktower - Braithwaite Hall Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1ET
The Lord Napier: 111 Beulah Road, Thornton Heath.
The Bull Inn: Chelsham Common, Warlingham, CR6
The Tree House: 78 South End, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 1DP
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The Reconciliation DJ's
The Reconciliation DJ's Brian Smith & Eddie McCalla play a selection of classic Jazz tracks. |  |
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Friday 12th June 2009 North End Stage
11.30 - 12.30pm Reconciliation Jazz DJ
12.30 - 01.15pm Richard Madgwick Trio
01.15 - 01.30pm Reconciliation Jazz DJ
01.30 - 02.15pm Richard Madgwick Trio
Richard Madgwick has mainly worked in UK & Western Europe for the past 20 years. Regular bands have included Andy McIntosh's 'Lipslide' & the Lloyd Ryan Qrt. Member of resident band at the Gun in Croydon for 12 years. Has also appeared with many of UK's leading jazz artists. Over the past five years has worked a good deal with jazz vocalists.
02.30 - 03.00pm Reconciliation Jazz DJ |  |
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Friday 12th June 2009 Croydon Clocktower - Braithwaite Hall
06.00 - 07.00pm Arun Ghosh
Meet the Band and FREE Workshop
08.00 - 10.00pm Arun Ghosh Sextet
Described in Jazzwise magazine as 'highly animated' with 'indisputable stage presence', clarinettist Arun Ghosh brings his passionate, Indo-Jazz sound to the Clocktower, showcasing new material alongside tracks from his critically acclaimed 2008 debut album Northern Namaste.
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Saturday 13th June 2009 North End Stage
11.30 - 12.30pm Reconciliation Jazz DJ
12.30 - 01.15pm Big Beer Band
01.15 - 01.30pm Reconciliation Jazz DJ
01.30 - 02.15pm Big Beer Band
Whether playing a Count Basie-style swing number or the latest arrangement from the US, the infectious beat and pervasive good feeling will delight any audience. There is no shortage of jazz talent within its ranks and many of the players have been written up in the press as being the stars of their particular instruments. The crucial difference is that in one form or another they have been playing together for more than 15 years.
02.30 - 03.00pm Reconciliation Jazz DJ
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Saturday 13th June 2009 Croydon North End and Whitgift Centre
10.30 - 12.30pm London Jazz Kings
The London Jazz Kings street band will be walking around Croydon North End and The Whitgift Centre for your entertainment. |  |
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Saturday 13th June 2009 The Brief
08.00 - 10.00pm - Admission £3.00Kocoa Browne & The Fusionnaires
As an originals band we have been playing our distintive mix of jazz, soul funk and blues all over the UK for the past 5 years. We have an eclectic sound that comes from a wide range . .
Influences. As an 8-piece band are influences are world-wide
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Sunday 14th June 2009 North End Stage
11.30 - 12.30pm Reconciliation Jazz DJ
12.30 - 01.15pm Geoff Mason - Roland Lacey Quintet
01.15 - 01.30pm Reconciliation Jazz DJ
01.30 - 02.15pm Geoff Mason - Roland Lacey Quintet
This Band is definitely for those people who enjoy the music of the Blue Note era, that period just after the bebop revolution when Horace Silver, Clifford Brown etc. were writing some of the best jazz themes ever.
02.30 - 03.00pm Reconciliation Jazz DJ
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Sunday 14th June 2009 The Green Dragon
12.30 - 01.15pm and 01.30 - 02.15 Brandon Allen
Hard blowing Aussie saxophonist plays classic hard bop in the Blue Note style with a fine band featuring superb pianist Tim Lapthorn, bassist Arnie Somogyi and drummer Matt Holme.
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Sunday 14th June 2009 The Brief
08.00 - 11.00pm Admission £3.00 Harambe + guests
Exploding onto the UK music scene in 2002, Harambe began life as a loose affiliation of musicians centred around founder member and bassist Karl Clews. Their early self-funded releases displayed a wide range of influences, from the classic 70s soul of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder and the jazz of Miles and Herbie, through the New Orleans funk of the Meters, to Prince, 80s Britfunk and 90s acid-jazz. In 2003 the band released their debut album, 'Roots', through Universal, to critical acclaim.
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Monday 15th June 2009 The Brief
08.00 - 11.00pm Admission FREEThe Big Beer Band
From playing in various jazz festivals and venues, the Big Beer Band has acquired a large library of original contemporary big band music and its high standard has taken the players to cities around the world including Rome, Los Angeles, Paris and Stockholm, combining top class musicianship with an exciting and entertaining performance.
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Tuesday 16th June 2009 The Brief
08.00 - 11.00pm Admission £3.00Jessi Markee + guests
Jessi Markee is an up and coming singer/songwriter with a great band supporting their amazing portfolio of songs. Since being signed to Kameleon Records in December 2005, Jessi Markee has recorded an EP, and with its success, she has been touring her songs throughout venues in and around London.
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Tuesday 16th June 2009 Ashcroft Theatre
01.00 - 02.00pm Phil Singleton & The Dave Markee Jazz Collective
This year the Croydon Jazz Festival has commissioned composer and trumpet player Phil Singleton to write a new piece especially for us. Line up is Chloe Potter (alto), Tim Ower (tenor), Shane Hill (guitar), Dave Markee (bass) and Paul Cavacuitti (drums).
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Wednesday 17th June 2009 The Brief
06.00 - 08.00pm Admission £3.00Asaf Sirkis - Jazz Workshop
08.00 - 11.00pm Admission £3.00Asaf Sirkis - evening concert
Asaf is a drummer and composer. He lives in London and leads his own projects - 'Inner Noise' and Asaf Sirkis Trio.
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Thursday 18th June 2009 Auberge Resturant & Bar
08.00 - 11.00pm Admission FREEDave Markee Jazz Collective
Dave Markee is a world-renowned bass player who has recorded and toured with musicians & artists such as Eric Clapton, Henry Mancini (Pink Panther), Leo Sayer, Joan Armatrading, Rolling Stones, The Who, Frank Zappa, Faith Hill...(to name but a few).
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Thursday 18th June 2009 The Brief
08.00 - 11.00pm Admission £3.00Ron Trueman Border + Ant Law Blues Night
Ron Trueman-Border has gained an enviable reputation as one of the folk and acoustic scene's most popular singer/songwriters.
Perhaps it is because he writes such accessible choruses, so enthusiastically received by his
audiences, that everyone feels an empathy with the lyrics. Many musicians, having heard his songs, are covering them and have progressed to recording them too. It has been said by many, that Ron is a gifted writer, but he is also an extremely talented guitarist ulti-instrumentalist and accomplished singer able to convey a sense of fun one minute and sheer emotion the next.
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Thursday 18th June 2009 The Green Dragon
08.30 - 10.00pm
'Crosstown Lightnin'
"the cowboy, the punk and the queens of funk"
Featuring Buffalo Bill Smith on harp and Charles Shaar Murray on slide guitar with rhythm provided by JoJo and Dee.
(Charles Shaar Smith is an esteemed music writer as well as guitarist, and Bill has a huge blues career behind him, as well as being a widely exhibited painter. The girls are from New York and have worked with the best in the business....)
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Thursday 18th June 2009 The Lord Napier
08.30 - 11.00pm
The New Delta Big Band
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Sunday 21st June 2009 The Green Dragon
12.00 - 03.30pm Josephine Davies
Josephine studied classical and jazz saxophone at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, whilst there winning the 1999 Perrier Young Jazz Award with a quintet led by trumpeter Tom Allan.
She has since performed and recorded with the London Jazz Orchestra, Ronnie Scott's Vanguard Band, Jamie Cullum, Georgie Fame, Sax Appeal, Vortex Foundation Band, Will Young, Laurence Cottle Big Band, Gareth Lockrane's Groove Yard, Matt Wates sextet as well as a two year stint in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Whilst being a regular member of various groups, Josephine also leads her own quintet performing original music. She is influenced and inspired by myriad sources, among them Chris Potter, Brad Mehldau, Walt Weiskopf and John Coltrane.
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Sunday 21st June 2009 The Bull Inn
04.00 - 05.15pm and 05.30 - 07.00 Tres Geezers Blues Band
Guitarist/Vocalist- Ryk Mead:
Bassist / Vocalist - Mick Hawksworth:
Drummer / Vocalist- Chris Sharly:
Now together they are TRES GEEZERS, a TOUR DE FORCE.
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