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2025
2025 Line-up
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Rainey's Ragtime Band
Rainey’s Ragtime Band bring you music from the 1920s/1930s featuring Ma Rainey’s classic songs and a selection of well-known tunes from the era.
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The music has been arranged by RICHARD EXALL (sax/clarinet/flute) in conjunction with Musical Director, DOM BARNETT (piano).
The established rhythm section of SAM KELLY (drums) and MARIANNE WINDHAM (double-bass) are complimented by the acoustic jazz-influences of TONY QUNTA (acoustic guitar). AMY ROBERTS (sax/clarinet) teams up with Richard to form the horn section and fronting the line-up on lead vocals are GEMMA DORSETT and CHRISSIE MYLES.
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Bandleader and bassist Terry Pack conceived the idea for a quartet based on strong, clear melodic composition and the synergy and interplay between the musicians.Saxophonist, Josephine Davies, who was voted Jazz Instrumentalist of the year in the 2019 Parliamentary Jazz Awards; Pianist, Joss Peach, a BAFTA Award winning television composer; Double Bassist, Terry Pack, session musician and composer with nearly 50 years of professional playing, and Drummer Angus Bishop, session musician and composer. “Full Circle (is) set to take the European scene by storm …a rare treat not to be missed.” – Claire Martin, BBC Radio 3.
Pete Roth Trio
Pete has worked professionally since 1998 in numerous projects such as playing in the remake of the Christmas song 'Do They Know it’s Christmas' for Radio Capitol FM.
Recently he has been Musical Director in a private TV production and plays with different bands all over the country, as well as having travelled the world on his work for P&O cruise ships onboard the Oriana.
He has performed with such prestigious international artists such as Brian Dee, Rosemary Squires (Sammy Davis Jr., Les Paul), Sam Fylnn (Roachford, Eurythmics, Stevie Wonder), among many others.
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Pete Roth's ‘Meridian’ should have a place in any good modern jazz guitar collection, or for that matter any modern guitar collection of any kind.”
Rainlore's World of Music.
Jazz Samba
Marianne Windham makes a welcome return to the Ptersfield Jazz & Blues festival with her band, Jazz Samba.
Featuring leading tenor saxophonist MARK CROOKS and award winning guitarist NIGEL PRICE, ‘Jazz Samba’ spotlights Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd’s ground-breaking 1962 recording, the first ever fully fledged bossa nova album recorded by American jazz musicians.
​Mark Crooks is a lyrical and passionate saxophonist in the Stan Getz mould. He has appeared at jazz clubs and festivals throughout Europe, and at the Lincoln Centre in New York and is a long-standing member of the John Wilson Orchestra with which he has played regularly at BBC Proms. And guitarist Nigel Price is of course one of the unsung heroes of the British Jazz Scene! Over 500 appearances at Ronnie Scott’s, 3 years with the James Taylor Quartet and winner of the British Jazz Awards and Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Percussionist Demi Garcia Sabat brings a wealth of experience in Flamenco, Jazz, Arabic, Latin, Iberian Folk, and pop music, having toured all over Europe, North Africa, and USA, with Marianne Windham, the founder of Guildford Jazz and a well-respected and in demand player, completes the lineup on double bass.
JannA Varga Trio
Sarah Jane Eveleigh
Sarah Jane is a passionate and gifted storyteller, and has been described as, "a great architect of song", who, "brings a level of style, accuracy and class to her performances".
Churcher's Jazz Band
Info to follow, however we know that 20 Churcher's College students will take to the stage for 30 minutes of thrilling big band jazz.