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  • Bass12 – New Orleans come to town (Black Mountain Jazz)

    LIVE JAZZ NEW ORLEANS STYLE... PURE ENERGY and FUN. A visit by the Bass12 brass band will take BMJ back to basic good-time jazz in highlighting the early days of the music, when the streets and clubs of New Orleans marched and danced and jumped to raw, brassy sounds. Bass12 hails from Cardiff and performs a mixture of New Orleans street grooves and upbeat covers, featuring lots of improvisation. The band is made up of graduates of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Cardiff University who now perform and teach across the UK. As well as performing, the [...]

  • Community Taster Evening

    BMJ club programme... Drop in anytime from 5.30pm until 10pm Bar opens at 5.30pm VENUE Melville Theatre: Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, NP7 5UD TICKETS: Free Entry History of Jazz Relax in one of the side rooms with a drink and watch some (or all) of the three videos that we made in 2020 – Jass to Jazz. 5.30pm: Video 1 7pm: Video 2 8.30pm: Video 3 Videos Screening During the first year of lockdown, being unable to have a ‘live programme’ – we produced a number of great videos and streamed them. For this Community Evening we are screening six of them – three [...]

  • Shirt Tail Stompers (Black Mountain Jazz)

    Black Mountain Jazz = "At very short notice, we are delighted to welcome back the Shirt Tail Stompers, who played to a capacity crowd at Black Mountain Jazz in 2019. One of the world’s leading swing bands and London’s top vintage band, the Shirt Tail Stompers are firmly established at home and internationally playing Harlem swing and the hot jazz of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Featuring music from composers such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Benny Goodman, their highlights include appearances at the Royal Albert Hall late night Jazz, Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival and National Theatre River stage. [...]

  • TANGO JAZZ QUARTET; Black Mountain Jazz

    TANGO JAZZ QUARTET BMJ CLUB PROGRAMME Sunday 28th August 2022: 8pm Bar opens at 7.30pm   Melville Theatre: Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, NP7 5UD www.tangojazzquartet.com Jazz Quartet have played at our club and festival several times over the past years. In 2020, the pandemic scuppered any thoughts of a live festival and a virtual event evolved. One of the videos included, which was produced in Argentina for us by Tango Jazz Quartet, explores the blending of the two genres of music. We are delighted to be part of their 2022 European tour and very much look forward to their visit to Abergavenny. WORKSHOP In [...]

  • BLACK MOUNTAIN JAZZ – details TBC

    Join us for another fantastic evening hosted by BMJ!   Details on their website, more information to follow  

  • Mayor’s Charity Concert – In support of Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine

    The Hadron Colliders The Melville Centre is delighted to host a return visit of the Hadron Colliders for this year's Mayor's Charity Concert in our 70 seat Melville Theatre. The Mayor, Tony Konieczny, is a founder member of the band (guitar), with Dave Price on keys, Julian Miles percussion, Simon Burch (bass), & Emily Games (vocals). Proceeds of the concert will provide humanitarian aid for Kharkiv where the families and friends of many of the Ukrainian refugees who have come to the Abergavenny area still live. Download the Hadron Colliders poster for Mayors Charity event Oct 20th. Melville Centre Abergavenny October [...]

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  • Black Mountain Jazz – wall2wall Jazz Festival 2022

    Black Mountain Jazz  wall2wall Jazz Festival 2022 brings world class jazz musicians to the very heart of Abergavenny There is something for everyone, from Gospel singing Workshops, youth BIG BAND workshops, Jazz Storytime for little ones with Louby Lou, a Photographic exhibition of previous BMJ performances by local photographer Kasia Ociepa. All of this is to compliment performances by both International and National Jazz performers. A Jazz harpist on a global tour      juliecampiche.com Amy Winehouse’s saxophonist       aaronliddard.com A smooth Gregory Porter style baritone vocalist.    marvinmuoneke.com A Big Band featuring Usk vocalist Debs Hancock.  monmouthbigband.co.uk.    www.debshancockjazz.com A [...]