Coming Soon To Roade
Roade
Admission £6 unless otherwise stated
2010 Fixtures
March
March 7th – Mystos Hot Lips – Sweden’s top trad band…don’t miss £7
March 14th – Pete Allen Jazz Band £10
March 21st – The Beer Parlor Jivers – goodtime jazz & Western swing
March 28th – Phil Brown Swingtet – Roade debut for this top class band from London…don’t miss £7
April
April 4th – Richard Exall’s Shooting Stars-new band for the club, featuring members and alumni of the Chris Barber Band – don’t miss £7
April 11th – Tony Pitt All Stars – former Ball, Bilk, Welsh, Lightfoot jazz man fronts his own band at Roade! £7
April 18th – Five Star Swing..entertaining jazz swing!
April 25th – Max Collie’s Rhythm Aces..”world champions of jazz” £8
May
May 2nd – The Nighthawks..jazz and blues at its best!
May 9th – Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends with Trevor Whiting..swinging!
May 16th – The Welland Valley Stompers
May 23rd – Rance’s Rocking Chair Band
May 30th – Hotsy Totsy £7
STOP PRESS-Summer Special-GREG ABATE with Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends..Sunday July 18th-12-2.30pm £10
Wellingborough
JAZZ WITH TAD NEWTON’S JAZZFRIENDS
www.tadnewtonsjazzfriends.com
Thursday April 1st – Castle Theatre, Wellingborough 8pm – BOOK HERE
Friday May 21st – Walnut Tree Inn, Blisworth..”Jazz and Dine” evening
With Mellow Baku. £17.50 01604585549/01604859551
Sunday June 6th – Lansdowne Club Luton 12.15-2.45pm
Matt Palmer’s Millennium Eagle Jazz Band
Matt Palmer’s Millennium Eagle Jazz Band is always one of the most sought after and highly appreciated here at Roade, but today was going to be something different altogether. This was no ordinary Sunday, but one of the most significant anniversaries in the history of jazz. Hoagy Carmichael, the great jazz composer responsible for such classics as “Stardust”, “Georgia” and “Lazy River” would have been 110 years old today, had he lived to see it. The great man’s music remains as popular as ever, and is often featured at Roade during these Sunday lunchtime sessions.
This is a band which sets out to please even on an ordinary occasion, so they were never going to miss out on today. Right at the end of the first half, Mr. Palmer himself treated us to a wonderful rendition of “Georgia”, complete with improvisations and a vocal, which lasted around seven minutes. Not a bad embellishment of a very simple Eb Major melody which has stood the test of time for nearly seventy years. Following that, we were in for another treat, thanks to an unexpected special guest. Dave Morwood, of “Boiled Owl” fame, was guesting on banjo and guitar, and he couldn’t have chosen a better day to come to the party.
Mr. Morwood provided the vocal on Hoagy’s first ever composition, “Riverboat Shuffle”. There can scarcely have been a finer tribute to one of the genre’s greatest contributors. This was a wonderful effort from Matt Palmer’s Millennium Eagle Jazz Band, and no-one who was here today will ever forget it. Of course, there was plenty of fine music throughout the rest of the event, but there could never be any doubt as to what would stick in the memory. On a dull, dreary, wet and miserable day in an English November, we were transported to the sunshine and high spirits of the American South, and on the finest occasion possible. Those of us who were here today certainly owe much gratitude to Matt Palmer’s Millennium Eagle Jazz Band.