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6th AugustEaling Jazz Festival - Sunday the 6th August Incorporating the International Food Fair. 2.OOpm LCMM Jazztet with The Jiving Lindy Hoppers Simeon Aldred (trumpet) Mike Burstow (trumpet) Damian Martin
(trombone) Eddie Harvey, eminent educator and mentor of young British jazz talent, presents an exciting group of up-and-coming modern jazz musicians from the Ealing-based London College of Music and Media. The high-energy Lindy Hoppers perform colourful dance routines from the earlier years of the Jazz Age with an opportunity for audience participation. 3.15pm Jambalaya Parade Band Barrie Raven (Grand Marshal) Dave Clenell (trumpet) John Wiseman (trombone) Dick Cook (tenor sax/leader) John Beecham (sousaphone) Emile Martyn (snare drum) Norman Emberson (bass drum) This New Orleans-style marching band will parade throughout the Festival site until 345pm - and again from 500pm until 530pm. 3.45pm Bob Kerr ~ his Whoopee Band Bob ‘Der Führer’ Kerr (cornet/trombone/saxes/ banjo/guitar/whoopee-phone/euphonium!hot teapot/vocals) John ‘The Professor’ Percival (clarinet/alto sax/musical saw/the (very) odd vocal/ukelele/magician/motor horns/whistles) Spike ‘Fingers’ Botterill (piano/electric keyboards! 5th in line for the banjo hot seat) Dave ‘The Gentle Giant’ Turner (sousaphone/double bass/bass guitar/bass trombone/tuba/euphonium/bass trumpet) Thomas ‘Spats’ Langham (banjo/ ukelele banjo/guitar/vocals) Ted ‘Stix’ Wood (drums/percussion/tubular bells/cymbals) Lovable lunatics, madcap musicians, creatively crazy, jazzy jokers, artistically anarchic, fantastically funny. What more can one say of these guys except they are also superb musicians - in fact, they present jazz banditry of the highest order. Wear your tightest corsets or be prepared to burst1 5.00pm Ray Foxley (piano) - in the Bar Tent 5.3Opm Jon ‘T-Bone’ Taylor’s Bop Brothers Earl Green (vocals) Dick Heckstall-Smith (saxophones) Jon ‘T-Bone’ Taylor (guitar) Dave ‘Munch’ Moore (keyboards) Rob Statham (electric bass) Louis Borenius (drums) Blues guitar wizard Jon ‘T-Bone’ Taylor leads the Bop Brothers in a programme of blues mixed with jazz and soul influences. The band features multi-award-winning saxist Dick Heckstall-Smith and will play material from its new CD, Bop Brothers... and Sisters. 645pm Urban British Jazz Dance Company A perennial Festival favourite, Alan Elsdon’s Bill le Sage has downsized from last year’s David Graham, Irvine Lewis, Everton Young, Robert Hylton and Seymour Nurse (guest) This stunningly talented company will amaze you with a short freestyle jazz dance exhibition on the temporary stage at the International Food Fair (see page 5). long-established band blends a highly listenable brand of Dixieland to Swing with musicianship of the highest calibre. Hot solos and tight ensemble work overlay a solid but bouncing rhythm. Featured composers wilt range from Armstrong and Wailer through to Ellington and Basie. amazing Genetically Modified Quintet set which generated a noteworthy CD Suite 2000 that is currently available. This year’s normal-sized quintet promises to be equally exciting with what Bill describes as an updated look at some bebop classics. A new-took Bebop Preservation Society? 6.45pm Ray Foxley (piano) in the Bar Tent 7.15pm Roland Lacey’s Steeplechase Janusz Carmello (trumpet/f lugelhorn) Willie Garnett (alto/tenor sax) Roland Lacey (tenor sax) Martin Blackwell (piano) Jim Richardson (bass) Clive Thacker (drums) Hardblowing Ealing tenorman Roland Lacey has assembled an all-star team to play 1950s’ and 60s’ numbers penned by such giants as Charlie Parker, Horace Silver and Jutian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley. Brilliant trumpeter Janusz Carmeto will lock horns with Roland and the ever-entertaining Willie Garnett. And check out this swinging rhythm section. 8.3Opm Ray Foxley (piano) in the Bar Tent 9.00pm Alan Elsdon’s All-Star Jazz Band Alan Elsdon (trumpet/vocals) Mike Hogh (trombone) Randy Colville (clarinet/tenor sax) Neville Dickie (piano) Martin Wheatley (guitar/banjo) Mick Gilligan (bass) Norman Emberson (drums) A perennial Festival Favourite, Alan Elsdon's long-established band blends a highly listenable brand of Dixieland to Swing with musicianship of the highest calibre. Hot solos and tight ensemble work overlay a solid but bouncing rhythm. Featured composers wilt range from Armstrong and Wailer through to Ellington and Basie. This information is supplied by kind permission of Ealing Council Halls and Events Department.
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