Friday, January 16, 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 23rd January 2015 down from Canberra we've Tony Thomas on trumpet lead and Ron Cook on piano with Chris Gentle on drums....

Following some great sets at  the 69th Australian Jazz Convention in Swan Hill over Christmas/New Year, the Black Mountain and Bridge City Jazz Band are back together, and it's this Friday night 23rd January 2015.....coming down from Canberra is Tony Thomas playing trumpet lead and Ron Cook will be on the Clubs grand piano...joining them as the other special guest is Sydney drummer Chris Gentle...
The regular Bridge City JB guys make up the band ....John Bates on trombone/vocals, Colin Beal on reeds, Colin Davies on double bass and myself, Dennis Quinlan on banjo.....


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



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....






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