Bringing the best of jazz to
Cheltenham for 40 years
WELCOME
FORTHCOMING GIGS
Membership is £15.00 £25.00
couples & £7.50 con’s.
You will receive regular e-mails to
keep you in touch with the latest
gigs plus an occasional newsletter.
THE TIM WHITEHEAD QUARTET
WHEN: 8.00 pm, Monday 8 April
WHERE: The Irving Studio, Everyman Theatre
Cheltenham
Tickets: £20.00
Tim Whitehead – Saxophone,
David Gordon - Piano, Dave Whitford - Bass,
Tom Hooper - Drums
Tim is one of the finest tenor players in Britain today. He has a
passion for his music. Expect straight ahead jazz with sophisticated
interplay with David Gordon on piano, bass Dave Whitford, and Tom
Hooper on drums.
Read more about The Tim Whitehead Quartet here
Click here for the Tim Whitehead Website
Tickets available from the Everyman Theatre Box Office
01242 572573 or www.everymantheatre.org.uk
THE JONATHAN GEE QUARTET
WHEN: 8.00 pm, Monday 13 May 2024
WHERE: The Victory Club Ballroom
Burlington House, Lypiatt Road Cheltenham.
Tickets: CJ Members £17.00, non members £20.00
Jonathan Gee – Piano,
Gaetano Partipilo – Saxophone,
Mikele Montolli - Bass,
Tristan Mailot – Drums
Tonight we have an international feel to our music with The
Jonathan Gee Quartet, featuring the outstanding saxophonist
Gaetano Partipilo and Mikele Montolli from Italy and Tristan
Mailot originally from France.
Read more about The Jonathan Gee Quartet here
Click here for the Jonathan Gee Website
Tickets available on the door or online at
Ticketsource.co.uk
THE ROGER BEAUJOLAIS QUARTET
WHEN: 8.00 pm, Monday 3rd June
WHERE: The Irving Studio, Everyman Theatre
Cheltenham
Tickets: £20.00
Roger Beaujolais - Vibes, Robin Aspland - Piano
Simon Thorpe - Bass, Milo Fell - Drums
Roger Beaujolais is the foremost vibes player in the UK. He is
doing a tribute to Milt Jackson (MJQ) and promoting his latest
album ‘Bags of Vibes’. Along with a bit of a history of vibes in
jazz, featuring compositions by other well-known vibes players.
Read more about The Roger Beaujolais Quartet here
Click here for the Roger Beaujolais Website
Tickets available from the Everyman Theatre Box Office
01242 572573 or www.everymantheatre.org.uk
Dear Friends,
There is no doubt about it for a club like ours, to keep going for
forty years is a great achievement. We have survived a few ups and
downs, but we keep motoring on!
We have been fortunate to have so many great musicians visiting
our town, and long may it continue. But, as we all know, jazz is
evolving, and young musicians are coming up with fresh ideas, all
the time.
We hope to be welcoming some of them over the coming years,
and adding new and interesting dimensions to our programme.
From the point of view of organising the gigs, thanks to all our
committee members, past and present, for all their hard work in
keeping the show on the road.
However, some of us are getting a bit long in the tooth, which
means more new members would be welcome.
If anyone is interested, please let me know!
Finally, thanks to the Victory Club and the Everyman Theatre, for
providing such great venues, which are much appreciated by
members and musicians alike.
Don’t forget ‘It’s the groove that makes the difference’.
Best wishes to all!
Gil Emery
40th ANNIVERSARY YEAR
After our first three fabulous gigs in 2024, Cheltenham Jazz Club
are pleased to be welcoming the second quarter with three new
gigs where you can again experience and listen to live jazz.
The Club looks forward to welcoming you and the bands to this
season.
Thank you to everyone who supported us and the musicians at
our previous gigs this year and the preceding 39 years.
2024 is a special year for us
as we will be celebrating
40 years of presenting
live jazz in Cheltenham
ADVANCE NEWS
TO CELEBRATE OUR 40th ANNIVERSARY
WE WILL HAVE AN ALL-STAR SEXTET
At the Victory Club on Friday 11th October at 8pm
featuring
Alan Barnes and Art Themen Saxophones
Sarah Oschlag Vocals, David Newton Piano,
Dave Green Bass and Steve Brown Drums.
Reflexions On Our
40th Anniversary Year
A message from our Chairman
The Tim Whitehead Quartet
Tim Whitehead is renowned throughout the UK, Europe and USA as a remarkable
performer/composer. In the 70’s he toured with Ian Carr’s “Nucleus”, winning the Young Jazz
Musician of the Year Award. In the 80’s he was a member of the groundbreaking band Loose
Tubes, in the 90’s he won the Andrew Milne Award for Jazz and in the 00’s was the first ever
musician to be made Artist in Residence at Tate Britain. His muscular, fluent and highly melodic
playing commands considerable respect throughout the scene.
Tim has 30 years experience in performance, recording, composing and teaching in jazz, and
has entries in several publications including The Who’s Who Of Music, The Rough Guide To
Jazz and the Penguin Guide to Jazz.
For more information regarding Tim's bio and website click here
“The finest tenor player in Britain today’’ Jazz Review
“one of the most creative, exciting and passionate saxophonists in Europe” A Rough Guide
Harpsichordist, jazz pianist and composer David Gordon trained as a mathematician at Bristol
University before turning to music full-time. David first began playing for dance, working for a
time with many of the stars at the Royal Ballet. A self-taught jazz player, he was subsequently
snapped up by a variety of jazz groups, including those of saxophonist Theo Travis and
violinist Chris Garrick. He founded the David Gordon Trio in 1995 with Danish double bassist
Ole Rasmussen and Anglo-Italian and Berklee-trained Paul Cavaciuti. Many of David’s
compositions for the trio have been recorded by other bands and saxophonist Andy Sheppard,
guitarist John Etheridge and singer Jacqui Dankworth have guested with the trio.
Straddling different musical worlds has been one of the themes of David’s career.
More about David Gordon at https://www.davidmusicgordon.com/
“Gordon…a richly gifted player with a sparkling style and boundless imagination” Independent
Dave Whitford is one of the leading bassists of his generation and has worked with many of
the top names in the music world including: Bill Frisell, Maceo Parker, Steve Lacy, John Taylor,
Evan Parker, Kirk Lightsey, Ed Thigpen, Billy Hart and Kenny Wheeler to name a few. As a
youngster in Cornwall he very soon became involved in the award winning Cornwall Youth Jazz
Orchestra and found himself working in numerous professional situations including music
theatre, swing, funk and reggae bands. In 1993 Dave moved to London to study music at
Middlesex University where he began playing the double bass, he received a scholarship to
study at the Guildhall School of Music gaining a Jazz postgraduate diploma; he also received an
award from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
More about Dave Whitford at https://www.whirlwindrecordings.com/dave-whitford/
Tom Hooper began playing professionally at age 14, performing in clubs, with local bands and
summer season pit work. Tom gained a BMus honours degree in Jazz performance from the
Royal Academy of Music. Having left the Academy Tom embarked on a professional career that
has taken him all over the world performing and recording with artists as diverse as Grace
Jones, Simple Minds, John Dankworth OBE, Jan Smit (Dutch singing star with whom Tom has
played on five number one hits), Christian Garrick, Kinobe, Stroke, Omar, The Kairos Ensemble,
Ben Earle (The Shires), Ryan Marshall, Aynsley Lister and many more.
Jonathan Gee Quartet
Jonathan Gee is one the most prolific and imaginative composer-pianists operating today,
with a succession of ever-enticing bands and projects with world class line-ups from Europe
and the USA. Aside from his own bands with which he has recorded 8 albums, he has also
worked closely with Bobby Wellins, Claire Martin and Tim Whitehead, Pharoah Sanders, Mark
Murphy and Art Farmer. With Tony Kofi he co-founded the Monk Liberation Front, whose
legendary performances of the complete Thelonious Monk catalogue have led to award-
winning recordings.
Jonathan's new singing album – The Lions Revisited – is now out, along with a live recording
of the Gee, Gallo, Minetto trio. His Beatles Reimagined album with Gaetano Partipilo was
released in December 2020.
Read the reviews at
https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2022/12/15/jonathan-gee-the-lions-revisited/
https://jazzviews.net/jonathan-gee-the-lions-revisited/
https://londonjazznews.com/2022/10/03/jonathan-gee-new-album-the-lions-revisited/
Read more about Jonathan Gee at https://www.jonathangeetrio.co.uk/
Watch Blackbird performed by Jonathan Gee and Gaetano Partipilo at Verdict Jazz Club,
Brighton
Watch Jonathan Gee/Gaetano Partipilo play All The Things You Are
Watch recent 606 Jazz Club recordings at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iZj3sLiUW0 and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEVEDslcIR8
Gaetano Partipilo, born in Cassano delle Murge (Bari) on October 2nd 1974, took up with his
career at the early age of eight years old, playing in the band of his hometown. At the age of
fifteen he enrolled at the Conservatory of Music “N.Piccinni” in Bari where he studied classical
music and attended some lessons with Roberto Ottavino.
Since then he has established himself as one of the most original and sophisticated saxophone
jazz players on the Italian scene. His personal sound and his advanced improvisational
concepts have led him to become a prominent figure among jazz enthusiasts and critics. He
has made 8 albums as leader and over 100 as a sideman.
Read More about Gaetano Partipilo at https://www.gaetanopartipilo.com/
Mikele Montolli (Verona, Italy ) studied violin from the age of seven switching later to electric
bass. By the age of seventeen he had taken up classical double bass in Verona’s Conservatory.
Following this he moved to Graz in Austria where he graduated in 2009 in Jazz Double Bass
with the great Wayne Darling.
Joining the London Jazz scene since 2010, Mikele has toured various Jazz and World music
festivals all over Europe, New York, Detroit, Tokyo, Indonesia, Hong Kong and the Balkan
Peninsula performing and recording with such great artists as ''Sun Ra Arkestra'' , Knoel Scott
quartet and Marshall Allen, Kamaal Williams, Judi Jackson, Heidi Vogel, L.A. saxophone legend
Don Menza, Charlie Stacey, Jay Phelps,
Sorin Zlat, Nigel Price 4tet, Hip Harp project and more thus building an extensive music
vocabulary based on Afro American tradition fused with years of classical training and
experimental form-free music.
Michele appears on various soundtracks for the London National Television School and as live
guest for the BBC television.
Read more about Mikele Montolli at https://www.mikelemontolli.com/
Tristan Mailliot, drums originally from France, has been active on the UK jazz scene since the
mid 90’s as both sideman and leader.
He has played with numerous leading international stars such as Jim Hall, Stacey Kent, Clare
Martin, Jim Mullen, Fred Hersch, Martin Taylor, Stan Tracey, Steve Grossman, Norma Winstone
and Bobby Wellins.
He toured the USA with GRP award winning band Acoustic Alchemy and has recorded with Jim
Hart quartet, Tina May, John Critchinson trio, several Kate Williams projects, Pete Hurt, Adam
Glasser and Anita Wardell amongst others.
Read More about Tristan Mailliot at http://www.tristanmailliot.com/
Roger Beaujolais Quartet
Roger Beaujolais is one of the UK’s leading vibraphone players and is at home in a variety of
musical contexts.
He co-founded The Chevalier Brothers in the 1980's with Ray Gelato and was an Acid Jazz
artist in the 1990's with his bands The Beaujolais Band & Vibraphonic.
He has also played on many sessions for other artists inc. Robert Plant, Roni Size, Duffy,
Rumer, Alexander O'Neal, Ed Motta, Paul Weller, Tony Allen, Omara Portuondo, Morrissey,
Fairground Attraction & many more.
Roger now has a release date for his new album. ‘Bags Of Vibes’ ( a tribute to Milt Jackson) it
will be released on May 13th but he has copies & will be selling them on gigs. Copies won’t be
on sale via his web site or on Amazon till the release date when it will also be available
digitally via BandCamp.
The album features his regular quartet of Robin Aspland, Simon Thorpe & Winston Clifford and
has the great Scottish guitarist Jim Mullen featured on three tracks.
Read more about Roger Beaujolias at https://www.rogerbeaujolais.com/
Watch Roger Beauolias and Robin Aspland here Little B's Poem - Jazz FM Live Session
Robin Aspland is a gifted and very imaginative improviser, with deep roots in the music,
Robin is one of the UK’s busiest jazz pianists. As an accompanist, his taste is impeccable and,
as a soloist, he finds unexpected delights in whatever material he addresses.
He has worked with a vast array of leading jazz musicians: George Coleman, Bobby Watson,
Eddie Henderson, Ronnie Scott, Steve Grossman, Kenny Wheeler, Dave O’Higgins, Art Themen,
and many others. His ability to find new and exciting approaches to harmonic material has
made him a favourite with some of Britain’s best known singers: Cleo Laine, Georgie Fame,
and Van Morrison, to mention a few.
Simon Thorpe is one of the UK's best-known jazz bassists, nominated in 2016 and again in
2017 for a British Jazz Award.
He studied violin, guitar and drums before settling on the bass in 1991. He attended
Guildhall School of Music & Drama where in 1993 he gained the postgraduate certificate in
Jazz & Studio Music, and an LGSM.
Simon has worked with many of the great UK and US names in jazz, recording and touring with
Bobby Wellins, Stacey Kent (with whom he recorded five albums), Bhe-ki Mseleku, Alan Barnes,
Elaine Delmar, Scott Hamilton, Benn Clatworthy and Ray Gelato
Read more about Simon Thorpe at https://www.simonthorpemusic.com/bio
Milo Fell has been a professional drummer for over 20 years, he has a wide range of playing
experience, including West End shows, jazz clubs all over Europe, concert halls and festivals,
as well as studio work. He has played with many artists, including The Cinematic Orchestra,
Mark Murphy, Tango Siempre and Tim Whitehead.
Read more about Milo Fell at https://www.milofell.com/