ANDY DAVIES

7:30pm, 25 September 2025, Comrades Club, Epsom

Award-winning Welsh trumpeter, composer, writer, comedian and actor (no less) Andy Davies makes a very welcome return to the club, after last playing for us in Epsom in 2023. Andy has hosted the famous Wednesday-night Upstairs Jam Session at Ronnie Scott's for getting on for a decade and a half, is a resident musician at Alfie's in Soho, has recorded two of his own albums and played Chet Baker in the play "Speedball". As sideman, Andy has performed and recorded with the likes of Ian Shaw, Tony Kofi, Guy Barker's big band, the Ronnie Scott’s All Stars and Nigel Kennedy, and his international appearances include a tour of Japan that culminated in a sold-out show at the Tokyo Opera House. Enjoy bebop and hard bop next to some cooler sounds in a quartet including Epsom's own Nigel Price on guitar. 

Full line-up:

Andy Davies - trumpet

Nigel Price - guitar

Mirko Scarcia - bass

Jamie Murray - drums

BLACKHAWK QUINTET

7:30pm, 23 October 2025, Comrades Club, Epsom

This will be a night of “cool jazz” in tribute to one of the greats of the West Coast scene of the 1950s - Shelly Manne. An extraordinary and unique artist who has left an immense legacy of collaborations and recordings. A master musician who has enriched the lexicon of jazz percussion with virtuosic alacrity. Shelly Manne: band leader, Contemporary Jazz record label house musician, studio orchestra drummer for countless films and television and jazz club owner.

This project celebrates his Quintet and their particular contribution to the Manne canon, inspired by a clutch of golden performances, captured live at the Blackhawk Jazz club in San Francisco between September 22-24,1959.

Tonight’s band have been hand-picked for the way they connect with and are inspired by their corresponding original artists. They do though aim to express their own originality and collective inspiration with the Manne Blackhawk quintet as their DNA framework.

Full line-up:

Jim Davison - Trumpet

Mark Crooks - Tenor Saxophone

Leon Greening - Piano

Jeremy Brown - Double Bass

Matt Skelton - Drums

MATT HOLBORN QUARTET

7:30pm, 27 November 2025, Comrades Club, Epsom

Join Matt Holborn's quartet in their celebration of jazz violin pioneer Stuff Smith with selections from Smith's repertoire and new music inspired by his legacy. While less famous now than Stephane Grapelli, Stuff Smith was one of the foremost violinists of the swing era. Matt Holborn is one of the leading jazz violinists in the UK, being a founding member of the London Django Collective who has played in musical comedian Bill Bailey's touring band and written the book Enclosure Studies for Jazz Violin. Matt will be very welcome back to the club, having played for us back in 2022 when the London Django Collective came to Epsom. 

Full line-up:

Matt Holborn - violin

Fraser Urquhart - piano

Simon Read - bass

Joe Dessauer - drums

It is never intended that Epsom Jazz Club be a private entity or profit-making. In fact, we are a subsidary of Epsom Music (Registered Charity  No. 1197449).

Should ticket revenues exceed event expenses, we seek to either make improvements to our concert evenings or introduce some discounts for the young.