Crowmarsh Jazz

Together helping to KEEP MUSIC aLIVE!

What's it all about?

Crowmarsh pop-up jazz club started in December 2020, when Fleur and her band took to the stage for a Christmas Special Show - a celebration of community coming together and enjoying the arts at a time when we couldn't have needed live music more!

This year we are hosting more jazz concerts with one every quarter. We have a variety of different jazz artists of the highest quality lined up to play, so book your tickets now to enjoy an evening of fine music in a lovely jazz club setting - see below for concert dates and details.

For all concerts, doors open at 6.45pm, and show starts at 7.30pm. £15 ticket price. Tickets are reduced to £5 for anyone living or working in adult social care and anyone in receipts of benefits from DWP - please get in touch for details: email (fleur@fleurstevensonjazz.co.uk) or phone (07795974223). We adhere to all current COVID Government guidelines. A bar/snacks are available provided by local pub, The Queens Head. Concerts are held at Crowmarsh Village Hall, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, OX10 8ED. Plenty of free parking is available. Enquiries: email fleur@fleurstevensonjazz.co.uk phone 07795974223 and further information: www.crowmarshjazz.co.uk

We believe that it is crucial to create new venues and opportunities for musicians to perform and audiences experience live music. This is especially important now, following the unsettling time that have all experienced during the pandemic. We hope that Crowmarsh Jazz will play its small part in helping to keep music live. Crowmarsh Jazz pays all musicians properly and supports the campaign for fair pay for musicians.

We look forward to welcoming you soon, and together helping to KEEP MUSIC aLIVE!

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UPCOMING CONCERTS:

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PAST CONCERTS

Saturday 10 December 2022: Remix Jazz Orchestra

17 PIECE BIG BAND SEASONAL SPECTACULAR

The Remix Jazz Orchestra is a hard swinging and exciting 17-piece big band that was formed in September 2010 and it is one of the South’s premier big bands. The band contains some of the regions finest musicians and is directed by professional jazz trumpeter Stuart Henderson. Tonight the band will feature jazz vocalist Fleur Stevenson.

Since it’s inception the band has gone from strength to strength playing to packed out audiences of loyal fans and big band aficionados at it’s monthly concerts. All the band members are experienced musicians who enjoy working on a diverse range of big band music and the repertoire is more varied and challenging than many other big bands.

The Remix Jazz Orchestra often features nationally acclaimed jazz stars as special guests and in recent years these have included Derek Nash, Pete Long, Mark Nightingale, Tina May, Enrico Tomaso, Gordon Campbell and Simon Spillett.

The ethos is to never stand still and to always strive to keep the musicians (and the audience) on their toes! Concert programs include selections from the golden age of Swing through to more contemporary arrangers and composers. 

A sample of just some composers and arrangers that the band features are: Basie, Ellington, Kenton, Herman, Goodman, Nestico, Hefti, Heath, Dankworth, Francy Boland, Thad Jones, Dave Wolpe, Mark Taylor, Gordon Goodwin along with contemporary arrangements from Jonathan Lewis and Alex Brown. 

Doors: 6.45pm, show 7.30pm. Tickets £15

Please note this concert will be held at Cholsey Great Hall, not our usual venue of Crowmarsh Village Hall. 

Saturday 29 October 2022: Moscow Drug Club - SOLD OUT

TRANSCENDENT TROUBADOURS OF GYPSY LATIN & SWING

This concert is now sold out - for ticket waiting list please contact Fleur: fleur@fleurstevensonjazz.co.uk 07795974223. Sorry for any inconvenience. 

Moscow Drug Club is a curious musical place where certain elements of 1930’s Berlin Cabaret,  Hot Club de France, Nuevo Tango and Gypsy Campfire meet, have a few to drink and stagger arm in arm into the darkness of some eastern European cobbled street on a mission to find the bar where  Django Reinhardt and Tom Waits are having an after hours jam with the local Tziganes.  Combining their original material with songs by the likes of Jaques Brel, Leornard Cohen, Tom Waits and Eartha Kitt.  Moscow Drug Club provide an intoxicating and intimate musical experience.

Moscow Drug Club have played some great venues and festivals of note including WOMAD, National Theatre London, International Gypsy Guitar Festival, Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, Marlborough Jazz Festival, Royal Albert Hall to name a few, and we can't wait to welcome them to Crowmarsh! 

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Doors: 6.45pm, show 7.30pm. Tickets £15

Saturday 24 September 2022: Hugh Turner Quintet, feat. Stuart Henderson and Anatoliy Vyacheslavov SOLD OUT

HARD SWINGING JAZZ, BLUES AND FUNK

This concert is now sold out - for ticket waiting list please contact Fleur: fleur@fleurstevensonjazz.co.uk 07795974223. Sorry for any inconvenience. 

Hugh Turner is a superbly exciting guitarist. His playing style is steeped in the blues and combined with the funkier side of jazz, creates a sonically exciting soundscape that fizzes with power, groove and stunning musicality. Hugh’s music appeals to a wide range of audiences from jazz aficionados to lovers of raw, musical energy and his performances have been a huge success at jazz clubs and music venues throughout the UK for over two decades.

Hugh will present a varied programme of jazz, blues and funk with soulful tenor saxophone playing from Ukrainian superstar Anatoliy Vyacheslavov, spellbinding trumpet from Stuart Henderson, accompanied by a hard swinging and funky rhythm section comprising the excellent Raph Mizraki on acoustic bass and virtuosic drummer Steve Wyndam.

Doors: 6.45pm, show 7.30pm. Tickets £15

Saturday 11 June 2022: Liane Carroll Trio SOLD OUT

Saturday 7 May 2022: Ben Cummings and Amy Roberts Quartet SOLD OUT

Saturday 9 April 2022: Jazz for Ukraine SOLD OUT

Saturday 9 April 2022: Jazz for Ukraine

AN ALL STAR LINE UP OF UK JAZZ MUSICIANS IN AID OF DEC UKRAINE APPEAL

Crowmarsh Jazz and the Corn Exchange Wallingford present an All-Star line up of UK jazz musicians in aid of DEC Emergency Appeal for Ukraine. Musicians include Art Themen, Clark Tracey, Dave Newton, as well as Ukraine jazz harpist Alina Bzhezhinska, vocals from Vimala Rowe and Fleur Stevenson, plus Ben Cummings (trumpet), Maff Potts (piano), Jez Cook(guitar), and Curtis Ruiz/Steve Kershaw (double bass). 

They will be performing at 7:30pm on Saturday 9 April. Tickets, available through the Corn Exchange Box Office, are £15 each although you can supplement that figure if you wish.

The Corn Exchange is putting this event on free of charge; all ticket revenue will go straight to DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee) which is the portal for the Ukraine Humanitarian appeal and represents fifteen leading charities who are all involved in supplying goods and services to those affected. 

Crowmarsh Jazz hopes to be living streaming the concert to reach some jazzfans in Kyiv, so if you cannot attend in person please do watch online and donate if you can.

Please come along, listen to some great music and lend your support. We can't do much but we can show some solidarity and raise some funds for Ukraine.

Tickets: £15
Venue: Wallingford Corn Exchange OX10 0EG | Location

Saturday 2 April: Music in Wallingford Town Square - 11am-3.30pm

Saturday 12 March: Ben Holder Band SOLD OUT

Saturday 11 December 2021: Fleur Stevenson and Art Themen - Christmas Special SOLD OUT

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Saturday 11 September 2021: The Dee Gees SOLD OUT

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Saturday 12 June 2021: Stuart Henderson's Jazz Trumpet Legends SOLD OUT

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Sat 12 December 2020: Fleur Stevenson Quartet Christmas Special SOLD OUT

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