The Walled Garden, Loseley Park Estate Sunday 14th August, from 4.30 pm Jazz in the Park is held by and Arriving and Parking in support of Guildford-based Loseley Park is situated on the bowel cancer charity GUTS B3000 New Pond Road and the Fighting Bowel Cancer. main entrance is in Stakescorner GUTS works to improve bowel Road, signposted ‘Loseley House’. cancer survival rates through (If using SATNAV, please enter better screening, detection, “Stakescorner Road GU3 1HS“ treatment and care, as well as otherwise you will be directed to funding research and raising the wrong part of Loseley Estate.) awareness of the disease. Follow the road as far as you can For more information please to reach the car park, from where visit the GUTS website: GUTS flags will guide you to the www.gutsfbc.co.uk entrance of the Walled Garden. You are welcome to bring your We would like to thank Loseley own garden chairs, rugs and Park Estate and the Molyneaux gazebos/umbrellas but if you are family for so generously allowing using a gazebo, please site with us to hold this event in the consideration for others. beautiful Walled Garden at no cost to the charity. The opening set from the George CLICK AND COLLECT Abbot School Big Band will Our thanks also to Marianne POSH PICNIC : begin at around 5.00pm. Wyndham of Guildford Jazz for www.gutsfbc.co.uk/ putting together such an exciting Weather! for details line-up of superb musicians. The concert is outdoors so in the For information on Loseley Park event of extreme weather (ie go to www.loseleypark.co.uk prolonged heavy rain) it is possible THE GEORGE ABBOT SCHOOL that we would have to cancel the BIG BAND concert at short notice. In this unlikely event we would email all The George Abbot Big Band ticket buyers and use social media were formed in September in order to try to ensure that you 2015 and made their debut at don’t make a wasted journey; if the school’s Christmas concert the weather is bad, please check in December. Since then, they our websites, www.gutsfbc.co.uk / have had a busy schedule of www.guildfordjazz.org.uk or rehearsals and gigs and were www.facebook.com/gutsguildford/ fortunate enough to participate in for announcements. a improvisation workshop run by Mark Bassey. Full refunds will be issued in the event of cancellation. The band’s instrumental set this evening will range Rubbish! from jazz ballads such as Please, please take your rubbish Gershwin’s Embraceable You to away with you as we do not have Dizzy Gillespie’s bebop standard the means to dispose of it. A Night In Tunisia. JULIAN STRINGLE (CLARINET/SAX) Julian was a child prodigy reed player. He made his TV debut with Acker Bilk when he was just 14 and at 17 he formed a Modern Jazz quintet and toured Europe. He has played on concert, club, festival and broadcast dates with his own bands and with Peanuts Hucko, Wild Bill Davison, George Chisholm, Kenny Ball, Don Lusher, Kenny Baker, Cleo Laine & the late Sir John Dankworth, who chose Julian to perform all of his later works written for clarinet. DIGBY FAIRWEATHER Benno Haussman Award for Julian also leads his (TRUMPET) Services to Jazz (1993), and “The best own ‘Dream band’ Freedoms of both London (1992) clarinettist to Digby Fairweather has been a as well as being a and his hometown Southend-on- emerge in British full time professional jazz man founder-member of Sea (in their ‘Millennium Roll of jazz for decades” DAVID BEEBEE (PIANO) for forty years, and has played Digby Fairweather’s Honour’ 2000) as well as winning - Sir John with a great many well known Half Dozen from David Beebee is both a pianist and the “Top Small Group ” category in Dankworth. bands led by familiar names such 1995. He has bass player, as well as a composer the British Jazz Awards in 2014 for as Hugh Rainey, Eric Silk, “Eggy” recorded with John Parricelli, of note. the ninth time in ten years! Ley, Keith Nicols, Lennie Hastings Digby Fairweather, Danny Moss, After an early grounding in and Alex Welsh with whom he In 2013 London’s ‘Worshipful Sam Brown, Roy Williams, Jim classical music, a foray into punk recorded his first album in 1974. Company of Musicians’ presented Mullen, Marc Almond, Tommy and rock music, followed by some Later he took over from Kenny him with their ‘Lifetime Whittle, George Melly, Joe Brown, periods of extended travelling in Baker in his “Best of British Jazz” Achievement Award’ for ‘Services Chas & Dave, The Grid and the India and South America, David package, with Don Lusher, and to Jazz’. He has been Patron of Spice Girls! He has appeared at studied at the Royal Academy then co-led the “Great British Jazz the Birmingham International Jazz Wembley Arena with Meatloaf and of Music under John Taylor. On Band” before launching his own Festival since 2008 and in 2009, in Monaco with Tina Turner. graduating he immediately started as Founder of the National Jazz star-studded “Half Dozen” band Julian was voted ‘Best Clarinettist’ his own group playing original Archive, he was presented with in 1994. Today he continues to at the British Jazz Awards 2006/7. music. their ‘Special Award’ in celebration lead his “Half Dozen” and “Premier His major influences have been After a few Arts Council tours of the organization’s twenty-first Quartet”, sells out Ronnie Scott’s Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and a well received CD release with every appearance, and also anniversary. Peanuts Hucko, Buddy De Franco, (Momentito) he turned his plays solo concerts for clubs and He has recorded over eighty Eddie Daniels, Oscar Peterson - and attention to a larger project, his jazz festivals countrywide. albums in his career and after Delius! Julian’s highly melodic music 9 piece Gaya band, and recorded A prolific award-winner, his almost forty years in professional and unique sound reaches the a CD of original pieces. He now honours include ‘BBC Jazz jazz Digby Fairweather remains – younger audience while his soul, plays with many different musical Society’s Musician of the Year’ in the words of ‘The Stage’ – ‘just original writing and phenomenal projects and occasionally tours (1979), BT Jazz Awards (Trumpet about the best ambassador the technique on his instrument excites internationally with the amazing 1992/Services to Jazz 1993), music could have’. the jazz aficionados. Palestinian singer Reem Kelani. MARTIN PYNE (DRUMS) OUR THANKS TO THESE Martin Pyne is a vibraphonist, BUSINESSES FOR THEIR percussionist, and composer, KIND SUPPORT working mainly in the areas of jazz and improvised music, and contemporary dance, though he also has extensive experience in contemporary classical music. He leads his own highly unusual trio Busnoys, in which he plays www.guildford.com vibes and electronics, along with bassist Jim Barr and drummer MARIANNE WINDHAM (BASS) Trevor Davies. Local bass player Marianne has been running Guildford Jazz since www.carltonstmartin.co.uk she took up playing professionally in 2011, leaving behind a career as director of a software consultancy in order to pursue a passion for playing the bass. Guildford Jazz has a well- www.johnroachpt.co.uk earned reputation for bringing some of the top jazz musicians in the country to Guildford, and is becoming one of the most well- regarded clubs on the UK jazz circuit. www.suitthecity.com The club currently runs two gigs a month - a jazz club at the Guildford Rugby Club Pavilion in nearby Broadwater, and the www.everycare.co.uk/ Jazz Cafe at the Electric Theatre centralsurrey in Guildford. Described as the “Ronnie Scott’s of Surrey”, both venues are very popular and attract audiences from a wide area. The club also has strong community links, and runs a www.guildfordfringe.com monthly jam session as well as CLICK AND COLLECT workshops and fundraising events. POSH PICNIC : For more information on the club www.gutsfbc.co.uk/ and events coming up, please visit www.guildfordjazz.org.uk for details MARTIN PYNE (DRUMS) .