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Come along once a month – usually the first Monday of each month – to see Live Jazz in a comfortable friendly atmosphere. Held at Kenilworth Rugby Club, there is a bar and plenty of seating. Find us, or get in touch using our Contact Us page – maybe you know someone we should be featuring; let us know!
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Upcoming Events:
£15.00 + 1.50 booking fee (Students £7.50 + 0.80)
– March 2nd, 2026Ticket link: https://wegottickets.com/event/692284
Featuring Dom Franks (saxophones) and Alex Steele (piano) with Paul Jeffries (bass) and Euan Palmer (drums)
Award-winning saxophonist Dom Franks and dynamic Kenilworth favourite, pianist Alex Steele, combine to present a joyous celebration of the collaboration between saxophone great Dexter Gordon and pianist Herbie Hancock.
The band will explore music from Herbie Hancock’s debut album, ‘Takin’ Off’, which featured Dexter Gordon on tenor sax, as well as tracks from the film ‘Round Midnight’ which featured an Oscar-winning score by Herbie Hancock, and starred Dexter Gordon as a jazz musician living in Paris. The band’s set touches on evergreen jazz standards such as Round Midnight, Body and Soul, and Driftin’, as well as hard-bop classics made famous by Dexter Gordon, and classic 60s tracks by Herbie Hancock. The band celebrates the highlights of these two great jazz musician’s legacies.
Saxophonist Dom Franks has played with some of the biggest names in jazz, soul and latin music. Swinging, melodic and funky, he is perhaps best known for his original group Dom Franks’ StrayHorn, whose album ‘Duality Pt. 2’ (2025) received glowing reviews across the jazz press, and was playlisted on Jazz FM, One Jazz and BBC Radio 3. His musical partner Alex Steele is known for his flying socks, lightning bebop runs and soulful approach to standards. They are accompanied by a top flight rhythm section, well known to Kenilworth, of Paul Jeffries (double bass) and the hard-swinging Euan Palmer (drums).
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Previous Events
If you weren’t here for these past Jazz Club evenings then why not? This is what you’ve missed!
Swing From ParisFebruary 2nd, 2026
Ticket Link : https://wegottickets.com/event/688967
Swing from Paris are a quartet of violin (Fenner Curtis), guitars (Andy Bowen and Sam Hughes) and double bass (Tomasz Williams), inspired by the great swing bands of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s such as Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and the Hot Club of France.
Their Parisian-flavoured jazz and gypsy swing has been delighting audiences for over 15 years: from major jazz festivals including Brecon, Cheltenham and the Django Reinhardt Festival at Samois sur Seine, to being seen on the BBC’s Hairy Bikers and performing at the opening of the award-winning Gloucester Services.
Their latest recording together is I Love Paris (2024), available digitally and on CD. Expect stylish jazz and vintage swing.
Watch:
La Mer https://youtu.be/qkWJ7F5OMmc
Under Paris Skies https://youtu.be/sYsmeUcq1RM
More on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@SwingfromParis
Listen:
Spotify I Love Paris (2024)
Bandcamp swingfromparis.bandcamp.com
Album trailer https://youtu.be/6yReTaXRjGE
Socials:
Facebook facebook.com/swingfromparis
Instagram instagram.com/swingfromparisofficial/
TikTok tiktok.com/@swing.from.paris
Web swingfromparis.co.uk/
CANCELLED Butcher’s BrewDecember 1st, 2025
CANCELLED
Unfortunately this event has had to be cancelled but hopefully can be rescheduled to a date in the New Year
Ticket link : https://wegottickets.com/event/682465
Ray Butcher is a jazz trumpeter who has performed with his own acts at jazz clubs such as the 606 Club, Ronnie Scott’s, Matt and Phreds and many others.
Having performed worldwide, and making his first musical TV appearance on BBC TV aged 15, he has also performed the trumpet solo on the song ‘God’s Great Dance Floor’, for the Grammy nominated singer Martin Smith and also the version by Chris Tomlin, for the album ‘Burning Lights’ which topped the US album charts for one week in Jan 2013. The album was nominated for a Grammy award.
He has worked with New Orleans great Dr John, Mica Paris, Robbie Williams and many commercial artists.
He is joined by Tim Amann on piano, saxophone (TBC), Mike Green on bass and Miles Levin on drums.
