Roseland Music Society concert - The Great Western Jazz Company

Roseland Music Society concert – Friday 20 May 2011, Gerrans Parish Memorial Hall, Portscatho, 7.30 pm

The Great Western Jazz Company – a fine group of musicians

Lovers of the great standards of American popular music are in for a treat at the May concert of the Roseland Music Society, featuring the Great Western Jazz Company. A professionally presented band, comprising six of the South West’s most experienced jazz musicians, the GWJC boost a repertoire built on the Classic American Songbook as well as popular Dixieland and small band swing numbers, with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, ‘rubbing shoulders’ with Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin. In a review of the band’s first CD, the traditional jazz magazine Just Jazz commended the band for its high standard of playing, and “a nice mix of jazz styles played with skill by a fine group of musicians”.
Leading the band on trumpet and flugelhorn is Bob McTeare, who also provides the vocals. Bob formerly played with the St.Ives based ‘Jazz Foundation’, and has played alongside many of the great names in jazz. On clarinet and saxes is John Lancaster, long-time member of Cornwall’s well known New Jubilee Jazz Band, and leader of his own quartet. Paul Hawkins, on trombone, was with Bristol’s famous Blue Note Jazz Band for many years, and more recently with the Penzance-based group ‘Funny Feathers‘. The rhythm section comprises John Chapman on electric bass and Bobby Stephens on drums, both former ‘Jazz Foundation’ stalwarts, plus Jerry Tilley, on solo and rhythm guitar.

Tickets are £8 for Society members, £11 for non-members, and £4 for students in full-time education. They will be available from the Roseland Stores Veryan, the Post Office Portscatho and Today’s Stores at Portscatho, two weeks prior to the concert, or may be reserved by telephone from Brenda Damp on 01872 580889. Any schoolchild under 16, when accompanied by a ticket-holding adult, will be admitted free of charge.

For further information, contact

Roger Dettmer
01326 270261; roger@dettmer.org.uk