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The March edition of CASTAWAY NEWS - Clevedon Jazz Club's Newsletter - is now available at www.castaway.clevedonjazzclub.co.uk



Clevedon Jazz Club's next offering on Thursday 9 March 2006 is:

Des Bacon's RED HOT SYNCOPATORS

The Red Hot Syncopators who appear at Clevedon Jazz Club's regular Walton Park Hotel venue on Thursday 9 March capture the sounds and spectacle of the Roaring Twenties with their recreation of rhythms and style that made New Orleans music popular with fans in New York, Chicago and the rest of western society in the days of 'bad booze, flappers, jangled morals and wild weekends'. Prepare to be transported back in time to those heady days of the Charleston, Black Bottom and the Lindy Hop when Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson's bands laid down what we now call Classic Jazz. When the Big Band styles we know today had just been invented to revolutionise the sound of popular music!

Des Bacon is a local musician who has been a major part of the British traditional jazz scene since the 1950's when he played with Mike Daniels Delta Jazzmen. Locally he is well known leading the 10 piece Molten Swing and the Bourbon Street Paraders and the Red Hot Syncopators combine the best elements of both these established bands with flexibility and the delivery of tight, forceful, passionate and exciting arrangements. Their musical repertoire has wide appeal ranging from the serious students of jazz to the casual foot taper with tunes still popular today such as 'Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me' to classic gems as whistful as Ellington's 'Blues With A Feeling'.

The line up on Thursday 9th is expected to be Steve Graham on trumpet, Arthur Vincent and Des himself on reeds, Richard Willey on sousaphone and Malcolm Hurrell on banjo. Guesting with the band will be Penn Pengelly using his Eb metal clarinet to fine effect on the spirituals.

The doors open at 8pm, the music starts at 8.30pm and its £6 'on the door'. Further details of this and all other Clevedon Jazz Club events and Club membership - members get a substantial discount on admission charges! - are available from Trev or Bill on 0700 5806 252 or from the Club's web site at www.clevedonjazzclub.co.uk

Trevor Tomasin  -  2 March 2006

e-mail trevor at clevedonjazzclub.co.uk  -  'phone (44) 0700 5806 252  -  fax (44) 0700 5806 253  -  www.clevedonjazzclub.co.uk

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