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© Stevie MayhookGreg Abate (alto sax, flute); Alan Barnes clarinet, alto sax/baritone sax);  Nic Saunders (grand piano!) Oz Dechaine (double bass); Simon Whittaker (drums) As I was due to spend a couple of days visiting family in the Brighton area and as Greg Abate was doing a gig at a venue close to where my daughter lives it seemed to be a gig well worth going to!&

A full house for Friday's evening session opened with the first of the weekend's Piano Professor sets. Morten Gunnar Larsen's typically elegant set holding the audience spellbound. Victoria Spivey with Red Allen featured Parisian vocalist Nicolle Rochelle and New Yorker Mike Davis, as Henry 'Red' Allen (cornet). Ms Rochelle is a star attraction here in West Allotment and first

Gary Bartz (saxes, voice); Hubert Eaves (piano, keys); Stafford James (bass); Howard King (drums)There are certain recordings that do far more than capture a moment in musical history. They reflect the social and political landscape of their time, the aspirations of a generation and the determination of musicians to make their voices heard. Gary Bartz's I've Known Rivers and Oth...

This Sunday Stockport Jazz welcomes the Counterpoint Quintet to the Moor Club featuring Helen Pillinger (tenor saxophone) and Carole Williams (piano and trombone) with Peter Hartley (bass), Paul Hartley (guitar) and Tim Franks (drums). Sunday November 15th 20268-10pm, doors open at 7.30pm£5 entry on the door, all welcomeThe Moor Club, 35 Heaton Moor Road, Stockport SK4 4PB (

Colin Hancock (cornet); Hunter Burgamy (banjo, vocals); Robin Rapuzzi (drums); Tom Saunders (tuba, bass sax); Kris Tokarski/Joplin Parnell (piano); Dennis Lichtman (tenor sax, clarinet); Charlie Halloran, Jens Lindgren (trombone); James Evans (clarinet, c-melody sax); Jonathan Greene (clarinet)Hot on the heels of the past weekend's Classic Jazz Party comes an album co-led by one...