Happy New Year and 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...this coming Friday 10th January 2014 Paul Furniss leads the band for us with Monique Lysiak on piano and hopefully Viv Carter on drums.....

Well a Happy New Year to you all and my apologies for not being able to get a post to cover our first Friday back for the year...last Friday 3rd...I was at the 68th Australian Jazz Convention and unfortunately the motel I stayed at had no wi-fi internet connection...
So this coming Friday, 10th January we've Paul Furniss leading the Bridge City Jazz Band on soprano saxophone and a brace of reed instruments....
Paul was at the Jazz Convention and the original tune he wrote for the annual competition came second...on ya Paul!
Our other two special guests for the night are Monique Lysiak on the Club's grand piano and Viv Carter on drums....
Fresh back from the Jazz Convention is the rest of the band...Colin Beal on reeds, Colin Davies on double bass, John Bates on trombone and vocals and myself, Dennis Quinlan, on banjo....

 Paul at the 68th AJC....

Future special guests playing with the Bridge City Jazz Band....

Where is the gig....?
Club Ashfield, first floor bistro/function area, 7.30pm to 10.30pm, 5 Charlotte Street, Ashfield, beside the Ashfield Railway Station on the northern side....