Wendy Kirkland Duo Jazz Residency – First Friday of the month…

From April, you can see the fantastic Wendy Kirkland Duo on the first Friday of the month.

how it works

Every Friday night, we get all ‘grown-up’ with live jazz and authentic Spanish tapas menu…

March 2012

Friday night Tapas & Jazz events in March, from 5pm…

February 2012

Our Friday Night gigs for February…

January 2012

Our gigs for January 2012 – Tapas & Jazz at Stray’s

BoHoP

BoHoP are a top line trio of piano, bass and drums, playing both standards and originals…

Sarah Bennett Jazz – Fri Aug 26th

Great gig last night. On three seperate occasions, customers sought me out to say how good Sarah & Jamie were and that they’d really enjoyed the music. “It’s not ‘in your face’ jazz so we could really enjoy the music yet still hear ourselves talk!” was one comment. And for me personally the highlight was their version of Charles Mingus’ “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” which I didn’t even realise had a vocal version. Sarah went on to explain that Joni Mitchell had come up with some lyrics to the song back in the late seventies and I have to say, Sarah delivered! Her voice was almost like an alto sax in tone at times. She…

Pat Sprakes Guitar

When Pat Sprakes plays, people listen and smiles errupt…

Matt Chandler Trio – guitar genius…

The gig on Thursday was immense. The Matt Chandler Trio played songs from their new album but also some standards – although they were anything but standard!My favourite was their version of ‘all blues’ which is probably best known from the album ‘kind of Blue’ by Miles Davis. And I’ve posted a short and albeit poor quality snippet of video of Matt exploring the opening track ‘jitterbug’ from the new album.http://youtu.be/8cjwW7a-2EIPlus this one shows the level of genius Matt Chandler has!http://youtu.be/3fzTMVs1psYAlso, some pics courtesy of Oscar & Beata Papierz http://www.creative-photography.ifp3.com/ 

Wendy Kirkland Duo

Wendy is a UK-based jazz pianist, Hammond organ player and singer…