October
Friday 17th Yuri Goloubev trio - the amazing Simone Locarni Piano & our great Andrew Bain drums with Yuri the magnificent on bass https://yurigoloubev.com hear Simone at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-vwB_yUu_YHU8KS0rgHTvBDUDIMI_KkX
21st Jet Trio - Jet Trio is comprised of 3 exciting young players in the South Wales music scene; drummer Jimmy Yeung, bassist Ethan Evans and pianist Tom Barber. The trio formed around a shared love of the classic 1950’s and 60’s sounds of Cedar Walton, Thelonious Monk and Ahmad Jamal. Jet have begun to carve their own sound, combining earthy grooves with a melodic sensibility and wry arrangements
22nd Toby Comeau trio - Toby’s trio will be celebrating the music of George Gershwin, with a set of creative arrangements and improvisations over Toby’s favourite songs – some rarely played – from the Gershwin songbook. Toby Comeau – piano, Clem Saynor – bass, Patrick Barrett-Donlon – drums https://www.tobycomeau.com
Thursday 23rd Dan Newbury - bringing his quartet to play his own tunes with one or two standards! Matt Brown - Drums, Nick Kacal - Bass, Libor Šmoldas- guitar (all the way from the Czech Republic) and Dan on sax https://goout.net/en/dan-newberry-quartet/pzktlpg
28th Huw Warren Quartet - Huw Warren piano, Tori Freestone flute/saxophone, Yuri Goloubev bass and Andrew Bain on Drums All star band playing Huw's new compositions and some favourite modern standards
29th Em Craig quartet - This quartet, formed by Saxophonist Em Craig, promises to dazzle and delight the audience with a wide selection melodies, rhythms, harmonies and textures. The musicians are based both in South-Wales and Leeds making this gig a promising meeting of two large British jazz cultures here at the Flute and Tankard. The music is largely freely improvised with smatterings of bright melodic compositions paired with outlandish, off-the-wall noise-jazz. The quartet consists of: Em Craig: Saxophones, Harvey Parkin-Christie: Saxophones, TBD (Paula Gardiner/ Ursula Harrison): Double Bass Teruki Chan: Drums
November
4th Five Of A Kind - London based quintet exploring Laurie’s original compositions and arrangements for a quintet outfit, featuring for this concert the wonderful Ursula Harrison on Bass. Influences ranging from contemporary Jazz in NYC to free improvisation and European Jazz, expect odd grooves, strange noises and swing! Laurie Rich - Piano, Ursula Harrison - Bass, Finn Genockey - Drums, Dylan Chandler Pardo - Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet - TBC
5th The Alex Clarke/Eddie Gripper Quartet - fronted by BBC Young Jazz Musician finalist Alex Clarke - praised for her bebop fluency and harmonic instinct - and cardiff-based pianist, Eddie Gripper, whose debut album "drew comparisons with the greats" (Jazzwise) - The Alex Clarke/Eddie Gripper Quartet reunites for another tour, delivering hard-bop and feel-good swing. With Ronan Ristord (drums) and Nick Kacal (Double Bass)