Live Jazz at The Dairy

Date: Wednesday 27 August

Time: Entrance and bar 7.30, Peformance begins at 8.30, Pre-ordered suppers served from 7.30

Price: £15.00 admission, £25.00 two course supper

Venue: The Dairy

Booking: Please phone 01296 653226, Mon-Fri, 10.00-4.00


Wednesday 27 August: A celebration of the life and work of Miles Davis

Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective and melodic style, often employing a mute to make his sound more personal and intimate; but if his approach to his instrument was constant, his approach to jazz was dazzlingly protean. To examine his career is to examine the history of jazz from the mid-'40s to the early '90s, since he was in the thick of almost every important innovation and stylistic development in the music during that period and he often led the way in those changes, both with his own performances and recordings and by choosing sidemen and collaborators who forged new directions. It can even be argued that jazz stopped evolving when Davis wasn't there to push it forward.

Steve Fishwick, with Tim Lapthorn on piano and Matt Skelton on drums. Steve Fishwick voted Rising Star at the Hamlet British Jazz Awards 2002, Steve is one of the UK's most gifted players. As well as featuring on numerous recordings, he has performed with, among others, Scott Hamilton, John Burch, Jim Mulen, Dave Cliff and Spike Robinson. He plays with an irresistible understatement and subtlety thinly disguising an intensity of emotion and raw passion for the music.

Award winning modern jazz trumpeter considered to be one of the most melodic on the UK scene today. Young and stylish, Steve is true to the bebop and Blue Note traditions and has performed and reocrded with an amazing array of great players from the UK, Europe and America, including legendary Hammond organist Mike Carr (Emcee 5, The Night-Timers), Clark Tracey and Scott Hamilton. Most recently he has tutored world wide and recorded with iconic American vocalist Anita O'Day.

Steve Fishwick has played with most leading UK jazz musicians and US musicians such as Herb Geller, Lanny Morgan, Richie Cole, Bob Cranshaw, Earl May, Lew Soloff, Clifford Jarvis and Ronnie Cuber amongst others. Most recently recorded an album in NYC with Cedar Walton and Peter Washington (see Osian Roberts/Steve Fishwick quintet page below).

Now leading this quartet. New CD out on Hard Bop Records, 'Upfront!', in shops now or online at www.hardboprecords.com

"Unquestionably one of the finest trumpeters we've ever had in this country", Tony Hall, Jazzwise magazine