Vasilis Xenopoulos & Quentin Collins Quintet

Vasilis Xenopoulos (saxophone), Quentin Collins (trumpet & flugelhorn), Rob Barron (piano), Matyas Hofecker (double bass), Matt Home (drums)

We are delighted to present ‘Five-Way Split’ a jointly-led band formed in 2020 featuring some of the finest contemporary bebop musicians in the UK.

Five-Way Split is fronted by internationally renowned trumpet star Quentin Collins, Greek saxophone phenomenon Vasilis Xenopoulos and the golden touch of pianist Rob Barron. Added to this is virtuosic bassist Matyas Hofecker and rock-solid drummer Matt Home.

The band’s vision is to carry on the lineage of groups like Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers as well mirroring the New York contemporary-bop scene. From this inspiration, the band presents a sound that respects the tradition of the hard-bop era whilst also bringing it up to date for today’s audience.

Their debut album “All The Way” was recorded in 2021 contains mostly original compositions by the band as well as a couple of choice arrangements of classic jazz standards. Released in 2023 on Ubuntu Music, the album featured in the top 20 Jazz Albums of 2023 in Jazzwise and the band was also nominated in the best band category of the 2024 Parliamentary Jazz Awards.

The Quintet have just released their latest recording ‘Modus Operandi’ and will delight with an extensive repertoire of carefully crafted and imaginative, melodic compositions, along with hip, swinging material.

Five-Way Split delivers a night of the highest quality and soulful jazz in town and is a concert not to be missed.

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Play the music of Milt Jackon & Wes Montgomery

Nat Steele (vibraphone), Jim Mullen (guitar), Sean Fyfe (piano), Simon Read (double bass), Steve Brown (drums)

Vibraphonist Nat Steele brings his new, exciting jazz quintet to the Club, featuring the great guitarist Jim Mullen and an all-star line-up of some of the most talented musicians on the scene in the UK.

Together they’ll be playing music from the classic Riverside album ‘Bags Meets Wes’, each reflecting a major influence of their playing styles, in addition to arrangements of standards and other tunes by Wes Montgomery and Milt Jackson.

The band also features the award-winning young Canadian pianist Sean Fyfe, who’s recently moved to the UK from a stint living and working in New York, drummer Steve Brown, firm UK jazz favourite and accompanist to many of the visiting American players such as Scott Hamilton and Art Farmer, and young up-and-coming Simon Read on double bass, whose playing has caught the attention of every band-leader in London.

Nat Steele, widely regarded as one of the finest vibes players ever to emerge onto the UK jazz scene, cites Milt Jackson as a major influence, and has also taken musical cues from artists like Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins and many others.

Jim Mullen is a multi award-winning Scottish jazz guitarist who plays guitar with his thumb rather than a plectrum, just like the great Wes Montgomery. Jim has been a mainstay of the UK jazz scene since the 1970s and has worked with all the very best musicians from the UK plus many USA stars such as Gene Harris, Mose Allison, Jimmy Smith, Teddy Edwards and Jimmy Witherspoon.

If you enjoy swinging bop and foot-tapping straight ahead jazz, played by a fabulous band, this is the concert for you!

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Mark Nightingale (trombone), Alan Barnes (saxophones), James Davison (trumpet), Graham Harvey (piano), Jeremy Brown (double bass), Ian Thomas (drums)

We are very excited to present this fabulous band, led by the brilliant trombonist Mark Nightingale, an award winning giant of British Jazz, who has brought together an all star sextet to the Club.

The 20th Century produced a host of great instrumental jazz tunes, written by masters of the idiom, that endure to this day. These are not songs from musicals but handcrafted jazz classics written as vehicles for the greatest improvisers of their day.

The sextet will be playing a full programme of these well-known tunes, inventively reimagined for this group led by two of the country’s foremost jazz musicians, Mark Nightingale and Alan Barnes. Barnes and Nightingale are both well established multi award winning soloists but with the addition of young jazz trumpet phenomenon James Davison this becomes a truly formidable front line.

The equally star-studded rhythm section comprises Graham Harvey on piano, Jeremy Brown on bass and Ian Thomas on drums. Expect a programme of straight-ahead jazz arrangements flawlessly played with inspired soloing, interspersed with anecdotes and peppered with humour.

TICKETS from £25 available now: Key Theatre Booking Page