With Fulvio Sigurtá trumpet Steve Rose bass and Winston Clifford drums

Playing melodic compositions by Dorian Ford and by Steve Rose as well as favourite tunes by Keith Jarrett Wayne Shorter Ralph Towner and Jobim This quartet played its first gig at the St James Studio Theatre to a packed audience in November 2012 See podcasts for excerpts of this gig alongside an interview with Dorian

Longjon La Flecha plays experimental psychedelic latin influenced music combined with on stage magic realism storytelling

Cutting edge retro and eclectic funk and jazz from four unique musicians Each come with a fine track record They play their favourite tunes and grooves from the songbooks of Bluenote West Coast Jazz Rock British fusion and even some nu grass

Taking a line for a walk the zen approach to neo classicism Lennie Tristano meets Morton Feldman It is possible to treat a jazz standard by Charlie Parker as a piece of chamber music by Mozart It is about clean lines and transparency of form and requires refined technique the aim being freedom of expression

Regularly featured on JazzFM and having packed out Ronnie Scott s this year this trio is popular and has a strong London following A personal tribute to the late Bill Evans this trio evolved from an exercise in transcription Dorian transcribed the whole of the Album How My Heart Sings including bass and drum parts Having memorised many of Bill s tunes the trio is more than just a slavish recreation The rigorous foundation has long ago been leapt from into improvised recreations of a masterful pianist s work

Songs trio have made two very popular recordings with the original line up of Dorian Ford piano Max de Wardener bass Iian Pattinson drums Playing songs rather than standards but as a jazz piano trio The trio try to find the inner life inside the melody and structure of a classic song

Forthright sensuous and defiantly independent singer who for over four decades has been one of the great British female vocalists

There are few musical genres Carol has not inhabited and made her own and her current quartet shuffles the musical deck in an artful entertaining and thoroughly engaging way