October
7th Sam Green Moonwizard - Moonwizard are a new quartet, expect magic and spells alongside new compositions and other crazy tunes! Sam Green, drums Nick Davienko, guitar Nils Kavanah, Piano and Benedict Stevens, bass
8th RWCMD Showcase - Set 1: Jennie Beard Trio - Jennie Beard Piano/vocals, Faith Bennett Bass, Zac Johnson Drums, performing a collection of iconic jazz songs that have been made famous by classic jazz singer-pianists such as Blossom Dearie, Liane Carroll, Joe Stilgoe. Set 2: Beaches & Borders - Seth Williams Drums, Ella Cleary Electric bass, Yann Bonada - Electric guitar Beaches and Borders is a newly formed jazz fusion trio which aims to bring energy, emotion and complexion to the works of Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Pat Metheny and Grant Green, as well as a chance to perform some original pieces from members of the band!
14th Henrik Jensen trio - Henrik Jensen bass, Esben Tjalve, piano and and Dave Smith drums Together, the trio crafts music that is lyrical yet exploratory balancing subtle nuance with bold expression each piece unfolding like a conversation, full of texture, interplay, and storytelling https://www.henrik-jensen.com
15th Joe Northwood’s Jam session - Joe’s band starts the proceedings then starts the jam
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 - piano trio with a theme of Gershwin - playing original interpretations and arrangements of Gershwin material, with a couple of my own tunes thrown in as well. Patrick Barrett-Donlan on drums, bass Clem Saynor. Does that sound good to you? 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