Friday, October 6, 2017

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 13th October 2017 we've the Canberra duo..Tony Thomas on tpt lead, Ron Cook on the Club's grand piano and Chris Gentle on drums...

The Canberra Duo are back....! And they will play with us at The Pines, Dural on the Sunday afternoon 15th ( see below )....Tony Thomas on trumpet lead, Ron Cook on piano with Chris Gentle on drums, they join the Bridge City Jazz Band regulars at Club Ashfield on Friday 13th October 2017...Mike Hallam trombone; 
 Unfortunately during this week our reed player, Colin Beal crashed his bicycle and sustained a broken collarbone and other injuries and will be "out of action" for some weeks....

Paul Furniss has stepped in to play reeds for us...on ya Paul!!
 Colin Davies is on double bass and myself Dennis Quinlan on banjo...
Always a great night of swinging New Orleans music....








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


 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....




As mentioned above we are playing as the same band structure....The Black Mountain and Bridge City Jazz Band at "The Pines", Old Northern Road, Dural...the road to Wiseman's Ferry. Some 200 meters on the left after you pass through Dural....
With Colin Beal on the sick list, as mentioned above, Pam Withnall is on reeds for us....
 There is an admission charge, they provide tables and chairs under the huge old pine trees...there is in the Information Building tea/coffee and cakes for sale.
You need to bring your picnic lunch and drinks....
Music starts 12.30pm to 4pm....
The venue is WEATHER DEPENDENT...they usually cancel around 10am if the venue is under rain....
Ring 9651 4411 on the day to check on the status.






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