After enjoying a thoroughly successful 2019, Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club is bouncing into the new decade with its best-ever line up of lunchtime gigs on offer.
Saturday 1st February sets the tone with the first appearance at the club of international jazz diva Denise Gordon, with an all-star band of Club favourites – Enrico Tomasso, John Hallam, and Tom Kincaid’s Three Bears. Denise combines traditional Caribbean rhythms with the classic New Orleans style of Mahalia Jackson and Louis Armstrong. There’ll be a heady blend of jazz standards, gospel and blues.
Following straight on and back by popular demand, Saturday 8th February sees the welcome return of New Orleans based Frog and Henry Jazz Band. Frog and Henry was formed as a collective of musicians from several street groups and they play and record old dance and jazz music from the early 1900s. The Club’s audience heard them last year and know their musicianship is outstanding. It’s a gig simply not to be missed.
And taking the Club into March, Red Stripe Band is back on Saturday 7th. Get on your dancing shoes because it’ll be a non-stop, jump jive, rock and roll show, full of true foot tapping boogie woogie, with Red Stripe himself on piano and vocals. He’ll be supported by some of the top session players on the UK circuit, including an accomplished horn section to give that authentic big band sound.
All Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club gigs start at 12.30 sharp with doors open from 12noon, and the venue is St Augustine’s Parish Centre, Larchfield Street, Darlington. It’s just £10 entrance on the door; there’s no charge for young people 15 and under; and there’s plenty of free onsite parking. If you don’t want to drive, the Parish Centre is just a short walk from the bus stops on Tubwell Row and Darlington railway station.
For more information and the full year’s exciting gig list go to www.darlingtonjazz.co.uk
