Chris Batchelor is an innovative and creative trumpet player and composer based in London. As well as leading several projects, including the avant-trad band Pigfoot, he is also featured as a sensitive and versatile soloist in many highly regarded groups on the European jazz scene, and is a prominent soloist and composer in the re-formed Loose Tubes.

A performer of character, conviction, and relaxed virtuosity The Guardian. The lethal cool of a Mafioso stiletto Mancio left the crowd begging for more Evening Standard. Consistently beguiling across a huge range of material Jazzwise. Come Rain Or Come Shine. Come rain or come shine.

Sign up to our email list! Other venues in Herts. Welcome to Herts Jazzs website. Weve been presenting jazz since 1969 and continue to maintain only the highest standard of performers each week, both national and international. For the clubs background or go straight to our current list of gigs for this season. Check out our archive pages. A brilliant venue with capacity for 140.

After Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke there was Marcus Miller. Andy Hughes spoke to the go-to electric bassist of the 1980s. Time was the harmonies and ternary form of classical music were subsumed into jazz and popular style to create new sounds. And to a lesser extent bassist Matthew Read. Ndash; the adoption of classical procedures is sometimes more explicit.

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Esperanza Spalding - In The Hot Seat. Has won both industry and critical acclaim for her wildly divergent work, notching up four Grammy Awards,. Celebrating a decade together this year, Mancunian big band Beats and Pieces. Continue to refine the parameters of expanded. Continuing his recent series of collaborations with Branford Marsalis, superlative US singer Kurt Elling.

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