Upcoming Jazz

We’ve now been open for three weeks, and like everyone else we’re more than a bit sick of the rain. However, our cosy snug has provided a haven to shelter in. And we can at least watch the Ribble roll threateningly by from the conservatory window.

Just to keep you going through September, we’ve started to schedule regular Jazz in the snug. Happening at 9pm on the last Sunday each month, anyone who was there for bank holiday jazz will know that the vibe was super cool and the snug was filled. We’ve got a great line-up for the 28th September: Preston’s favourite jazz saxophonist Harold Salisbury, Gary Culshaw on bass and Jonathon Hartley beating the skins will be joined by Manchester guitar talent Mike Walker.

Mike Walker appeared aurally in concert on BBC Radio 3, last Friday (the 5th) at 11.30pm. This is his Ropes project, recorded at the Manchester Jazz Festival. You can listen again this week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d6zx8. Mike’s website is at http://www.mike-walker.co.uk, and here’s what the Guardian had to say about his long-awaited album Mad House and The Whole Thing: ‘this debut is a soaringly confident piece of idiosyncratic contemporary fusion, with brief borrowings from what sound like radio monologues and pub singalongs dropped into the thick-textured, backbeat-smacking grooves’. He’ll be here on the 28th September so you might want to claim your seat sometime around now!