Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-be-bop-club Gideon Tazelaar - tenor sax, Arnie Somogyi - bass, Andy Hague - trumpet, Jim Blomfield - piano, Ryan Thrupp - drums. For tonight's presentation we welcome back after a long absence one of the Be-Bop Club's co-founders, the great bassist Arnie Somogyi. Arnie started the club alongside Italian pianist Andrea Papini around 1988 as far as anyone can remember, originally in the now closed Crown and Anchor at the bottom of Jacobs Wells Rd. Arnie visits as part of a short tour featuring special guest New York based saxophonist Gideon Tazelaar. One of the rising stars of European jazz, tenor saxophonist Gideon Tazelaar grew up in the Netherlands, where he developed his musical skills by playing with saxophonist Benjamin Herman and drummer John Engels from a young age. A prodigious talent, he was admitted to the Bachelor’s degree programme at Amsterdam Conservatoire at the age of just 14. In 2017 he moved to New York City, where he studied at the Juilliard School of Music and played with Wynton Marsalis in a number of line-ups. Now a full-time resident of New York, where he is mentored by saxophone legend George Coleman, Tazelaar is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most exciting young tenor players on that scene, working as a sideman with artists as diverse as Dr Lonnie Smith, Eric Alexander and Dick Oatts as well as leading his own bands. His debut album ‘Volume One’ which he co-released with trumpeter Ian Cleaver, features Danish bassist Felix Moseholm and Jorge Rossy on drums, both of whom are currently touring as two thirds of the Brad Mehldau Trio. Bassist Arnie Somogyi is well-known to jazz audiences through his work with some of the stars of the British and international scene. A band leader in his own right he has performed frequently at world-famous jazz club, Ronnie Scott’s and at festivals throughout the world with major artists including the Mingus Big Band, Bobby Hutcherson, Art Farmer, James Moody, Seamus Blake and Annie Ross, as well as international stars Tom Jones, Charlie Watts and Amy Winehouse and British jazz legends such as Stan Tracey and Kenny Wheeler. His music has featured on radio, television and in films and he has been nominated for both BBC Radio 3 and Parliamentary Jazz Awards and released 4 critically acclaimed albums as a leader. To complete the specially assembled band for tonight's gig, Gideon and Arnie are joined by Bristol's Andy Hague - trumpet, Jim Blomfield- piano and Ryan Thrupp - drums.

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