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Southport Melodic Jazz Club

Committed to bringing the best in live jazz to Southport

Jazz on a Winter's Weekend 2012 - Fringe Music

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Welcoming back HARRY HUSSEY

We welcome back this great jazz accordionist to entertain and amaze you with his extraordinary musical memory, endless store of tunes and unflagging enthusiasm for the music he loves.  Harry will play, sometimes unaccompanied and sometimes with friends, in between times and, for the real night-owls, after the late concerts. This will be Harry’s third visit to Jazz on a Winter’s Weekend and its getting hard to imagine the festival without the continuity and joy his playing adds to the whole proceedings.

Introducing "AJ" BROWN

Chatsworth Lounge Saturday 5.30 – 6.30 pm

If you managed to fit in a visit to hear Ian Darrington’s talk this lunchtime you’ll already be familiar with some of the tunes from AJ’s first CD ‘On Song’. You may have already heard him at The Wigan International Jazz Festival last July, or even at our club gig in September; or may be here last February when he played and sang a couple of songs with The Leeds College of Music Big Band. He’s a fine vocalist with an engaging manner, a skilled saxophonist and a song writer and arranger of considerable merit. Ian Darrington described him as "The most promising young vocalist I have heard in over 35 years of working in the music industry" (photo William Ellis)

DAVID NEWTON (piano) MICK HUTTON (double bass)

Chatsworth Lounge Sunday 5.30 – 6.30 pm

Ask visitors to the Titley Jazz Festival 2011 and they’ll tell you that a touch of jazz magic happened on Sunday 31st July. David and Mick’s one hour set was clearly impromptu and unplanned. The pairing of these two masters of the art produced an hour of superlative jazz.  It wasn’t recorded. By good fortune both were here today in different bands. It was too late to change the main programme but this spot was free; So here they are again. (photos Paul Bentley)