Saturday, January 3, 2015

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...and this coming Friday 9th January 2015 which is the first date we play this year...we've Bill Dudley on trumpet, Bradley Newman on piano and Jim Morrell on drums

Well, a Happy New Year to all you Jazz Fans from The Bridge City Jazz Band.......
We are back at Club Ashfield this coming Friday 9th January for our first gig in 2015......
Bill Dudley finished the year off for us and is starting 2015 for us on cornet with Bradley Newman on the Club's grand piano and Jim Morrell on the drum seat.....
The core members of the Band....John Bates on trombone/vocals, Colin Beal on reeds, Colin Davies on double bass and myself Dennis Quinlan on banjo are back from the 69th Australian Jazz convention in Swan Hill where we played regularly for the week with other interstate jazz musicians.....
John Bates came second in the Convention original tunes contest...he's won it six times previously.....
2015 at Club Ashfield will be off to a swinging start......
We look forward to seeing many of you again.....



Club Ashfield is at 5 Charlotte Street, Ashfield beside the Ashfield Railway station on the northern side and the gig is up on the first floor in the bistro/function area from 7.30pm to 10.30pm with the restaurant serving nice food until 9pm.....I always eat there on Jazz nights....
Best of all the admission is FREE....



    Future special guests with the Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield and other BCJB future gigs...




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