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Trevor Watts and Veryan Weston have been champions of improv-jazz for many years. Both are in scintillating form performing their ‘Dialogues’ in 2012 in the All Saints Art Centre, Lewes. Later that year they are captured on film in the Hastings Jazz Club as a quartet, augmented by John Edwards…

Bill Evans was one of the most prolific and creative pianists in modern jazz history. An international roster of musicians play tribute to Evans’ genius in this concert filmed at The Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton. Gordon Beck, Stan Sulzman and Tony Oxley from the UK, Dieter Ilg from Germany, and Canadian…

Writer, broadcaster and musician Mike Pointon presents a retrospective of jazz in the movies and on television over fifty years, with many rare extracts of legendary jazzmen in performance from New Orleans to the swing era. Among the great musicians featured are Eubie Blake, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Bix Beiderbecke,…

Centred on the life of 90 year old veteran bass player, Chester Zardis, this documentary throws a light on the early years of New Orleans jazz. Zardis is shown playing in a variety of settings including duets with another New orleans veteran, guitarist Danny Barker. Insightful commentary is added by…

Elvin Jones has been called “the world’s greatest rhythmic drummer” (Life magazine) and “Mother Earth coming alive with syncopation” (Louis Bellson). Filmed in 1991 at the Stuttgart Theaterhaus this concert serves to confirm the above praise. Jones’ thunderous drumming powers the Jazz Machine, with veteran Sonny Fortune on tenor saxophone…

The Jazz Centre UK grand expansion event October 20th 2018, 10am – 5pm (Free Admission) Join in the celebration at The Jazz Centre UK’s biggest event of the year! We have grown from strength to strength since we opened in 2016. Working with Southend Council, we are pleased to announce we…

Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey play themselves in this 1947 bio-pic. It tells the story of their boyhood in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania through their rise to musical prominence, their acrimonious break-up, formation of successful individual bands, and final personal reunion. The storyline is perfunctory, but the film accurately portrays their music and…

A superb roster of top jazz stars feature in this compilation of live performances in a variety of venues. Stan Getz plays a sumptuous balled ‘Time for Love’. Bobby Hutcherson and Gary Burton display contrasting styles on vibraphone. Veteran trumpeter Red Rodney shows his enduring be-bop chops in two numbers,…

Spike’s Place Presents: The Greg Abate Quartet 2pm – 4pm, Saturday 28th July. Admission: £10 Students: £5 From his bio: Greg Abate jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer continues as an International Jazz/Recording Artist with 225 days a year touring the globe. In the mid 70’s after finishing a four year program…

Spikes Place Presents: The Sarah Dowling Quartet, 2pm – 4pm, Saturday 30th June. Admission: £10 Students: £5 From her Bio: It is said that the number one tip to losing weight is to go through a break up. Well I lost a little weight but I made a record. In 2015…

  Spike’s Place at the Jazz Centre UK Presents: Dave O’Higgins Quartet, including Rob Baron (piano) Geoff Gascoigne (double bass) Seb de Krom (drums).

Spike’s Place at the Jazz Centre UK Presents: Daryl Sherman and Dave Green Download Event Schedule for April: Jazz Centre Movies April 2018

A selection of junior jazz graduates from Spike Robinson’s Jazz Academy – and their tutors – will present a ‘workshop afternoon’ on Friday April 6th from 2-4pm. Admission is £6.00. All the money raised will go towards the Spike Robinson Scholarship Fund.

Spike’s Place at the Jazz Centre UK Presents: Jo Fookes with the Ted Beamont Trio

Crowstone Christian Centre Presents: The Orpheus Singers Time: 7.30pm

For the first time film of one of Britain’s finest vocalists live in concert at the Brecon Jazz Festival in August 2006. Liane’s singing and piano playing have made her well-known internationally. This film of the concert captures her at the peak of her powers, supported by her virtuoso bass…

Saturday 24th 2pm – 4pm Spike’s Place at the Jazz Centre UK Presents Live Jazz with: The Alan Barnes Quartet Alan Barnes is a multi-instrumentalist, multi-award winner, prolific international performer, composer, arranger and bandleader. “His stylistic range is quite phenomenal… He has a wonderful capacity for suggesting a given style…

Saturday January 27th 2pm – 4pm Spike’s Place at the Jazz Centre UK Presents Live Jazz with: Vasilis Xenopoulos & the Nigel Price Trio Brilliant tenor saxophonist Vasilis Xenopoulos and 2016 British Jazz Award Winner for Best Guitarist, Nigel Price and his trio, kick off the new club at the…

Roll up roll up for the Grand Opening Day of our ‘Living Heritage of Jazz Museum’ – the first-ever of its kind in the UK. Come and meet us all on SATURDAY OCTOBER 7th when the ribbon will be cut at 11am in the jazz basement of THE BEECROFT ART…

Following the successful fundraiser presented by our great friend SIR MICHAEL PARKINSON in December which raised over £5000.00, The Jazz Centre UK is proud to present ‘An intimate audience with DARYL SHERMAN’ on Saturday January 14th 2017. Daryl is the premier jazz singer-pianist in the USA and spent twelve years…

In conversation with his son Mike and showing highlights from the Parkinson archive, An Evening with Sir Michael Parkinson is a unique opportunity to get an intimate, entertaining and informative look at the career of a man who, in over 50 years in the business, has interviewed over 2000 of…