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AUTUMN 2025 LINE UP ANNOUNCED...
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
5:00pm - 7.30pm Saturday 20th December 2025
Epsom Methodist Church, Ashley Road
Freedom Pulse
Freedom Pulse is a London-based brass ensemble formed in the summer of 2022. The group is made up of six professional Ukrainian musicians with academic training and experience playing in different orchestras and bands around the world.
In the beginning we mainly performed at charity events in support of Ukraine, and since then the band has continued to grow. Our music mixes Ukrainian and British influences, and our repertoire includes elements of classical, jazz, pop and folk. They play their own brass arrangements of well-known songs and are also working on original material.
They've performed with Gavin Greenaway, played at festivals in Richmond, took part in the 2025 Kingston Festival, and regularly perform in Soho pubs, including The Spice of Life.
Some of the songs they plan to play include: Funky Town, I Feel Good, Danza (Lucky Chops), Bad Guy (Billie Eilish), Jingle Bell Rock.
Come and enjoy a festive evening with food an soft drinks. A leaving collection supports these wonderful Ukrainian musicians
FREE TICKETS - RESERVE HERE OR TURN UP ON THE NIGHT
7:30 – 10pm Thursday 22 January 2026
Simon Spillett Quartet
As one of the truly establishment voices in British jazz as a leading musician and respected commentator, 2026 will see Simon Spillett celebrating his 30th year in the business – so we’re lucky he’ll visit us for our opening gig of the new year. Inspired by the classic Brit-bop of the 1950s and ‘60s, Spillett is a multi-award-winning tenor saxophonist and band leader, of both his own big band and quartet, but he is also a man of letters, as music journalist, essayist and author (penning a major biography of British sax legend Tubby Hayes), as well as face and voice on TV, radio and various jazz podcasts. Expect a swinging selection of bebop, hard bop and post-bop, and hopefully some shared stories and experience. Simon will be joined by his quartet featuring bassist Alec Dankworth, Johnny and Cleo’s son.
Line-up:
Simon Spillett - tenor sax
Pete Billington - piano
Alec Dankworth - bass
Pete Cater - drums
7:30 – 10pm Thursday 26 February 2026
Mario Bukana
London-based guitarist, singer, composer and band-leader Mario Bakuna is a driving force on the home and international scene taking Brazilian jazz to audiences as far afield as Egypt, Madagascar, Canada and Azerbaijan, while closer to his adopted home Mario has played many of the UK venues that count, including the Royal Albert Hall, Ronnie Scott's and the Jazz Cafe, as well as jazz clubs and festivals around Europe. In his home town of Sao Paulo, Mario Bakuna studied with prominent musicians including Roberto Bomilcar, the pianist who played with Frank Sinatra during his visit to Brazil, and between touring extensively, Mario has recorded two albums: 'Where Rio de Janeiro Meets Bahia' and 'Brazilian Landscapes'. Expect a rich night of Afro-Brazilian jazz, samba, bossa nova and post-bossa nova.
Line-up:
Mario Bakuna - guitar and vocals
Roberto Manzin - tenor saxophone
Fernando Demarco - bass
Caio Mamberti - drums
It's worth noting that Epsom Jazz Club has been launched as a not-for-profit community project, with the sole ambition of bringing Nationally and Internationally renowned Jazz Musicians to venues in the Borough of Epsom and Ewell, Surrey. Other than our nominal promotional and venue/equipment hire expenses, all the ticket revenues go directly to the professional musicians.
More reasons to join us at the club...
No membership necessary, open to all
Attend every time or just the once, you'll receive the same warm welcome
Every seat is at a table, strict 70-person capacity limit, no-one gets a bad view
No booking fee charged, no tiered pricing, the whole audience pays the same
Not a raffle in sight ;)
Everyone welcome - come join us
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.
Epsom Jazz Club supports the effort to raise funds for Jazz Clubs up and down the country - see the Grassroots Jazz website for more information.
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