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 the 10th February 2017 we've the Canberra duo with us....Tony Thomas on trumpet, Ron Cook on the club's grand piano and our third guest is Sydney drummer Chris Gentle.....

Fresh from the 71st Australian Jazz Convention we've a favourite duo of ours from the old Canberra Black Mountain Jazz Band at Club Ashfield this coming Friday 10th February 2017...Tony Thomas on trumpet lead,and Ron Cook on piano with Chris Gentle on drums joining the Bridge City Jazz Band regulars....Mike Hallam on trombone/harmonica/vocals, Colin Beal on reeds, Colin Davies on double bass and Dennis Quinlan on banjo...

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

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.....

John Bates who played with us in the Bridge City Jazz Band  and Paul Furniss' San Francisco Jazz Band for many years and many other groups around Australia in his over 60 years of playing is moving from Sydney with his partner Brenda Potter to Melbourne in March....

So we've a special  ""Farewell to John and Brenda" at Club Ashfield on Friday 24th February, 7.30pm.... the band will be led by Tony Thomas tpt, Ron Cook piano, Paul Furniss, reeds and Jim Morrell on drums...

John will socialise and perhaps do a song or two for us. 

His medical issues prevent him playing trombone.....

MARK THIS IN YOUR DIARIES!!

Club Ashfield is at 1-11 Charlotte Street, Ashfield beside the Ashfield Railway station on the northern side and the gig is up on the first floor in the bistro/Charlotte Room function area from 7.30pm to 10.30pm with the restaurant serving nice food until 9pm.....I always eat there on Jazz nights....