Best Trumpet winner of the 2017 UK Jazz Awards, Freddie has cemented his place as a stalwart of the British Jazz scene as a member of the Ronnie Scott’s Club Quintet and jazz-rock outfit Fletch’s Brew as well as being a band leader in his own right.
Tonight he salutes one of his trumpet heroes, the legendary Freddie Hubbard. Renowned as a significant figure in jazz history, Freddie Hubbard reimagined the sound of the trumpet in jazz. Hubbard's distinctive tone, attitude, technical skills, and unique phrasing have left an indelible mark, shaping the sound of contemporary jazz.
With the sensational duo of TOM CAWLEY on piano and MARK TAYLOR on drums! And Marianne on bass
Unmissable!
“Freddie Hubbard was, in my opinion, the greatest jazz trumpet stylist of my generation’s trumpeters” - Herbie Hancock
++ pre-gig food orders now closed, sorry
EVENT INFO
The performance is upstairs in Guildford Pavilion, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP
Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’ll be seating reserved for you.
Doors open from 7pm, supper served from 7.15pm, and the performance starts at 8pm. There will be an interval and there is a licensed bar. Seating is cabaret style and there is a lift for disabled access.
++ Pre gig menu from Mandira’s Kitchen:
Vegetable Samosas with Tamarind Chutney(crispy handmade pastry filled with spiced potatoes),
Hariyali Chicken or Paneer (cooked with green herbs and spices)
Vegetable Pulao (fragrant basmati rice cooked with whole spices, carrots and peas)y
TICKETS
Full Price £20 /Guildford Jazz members £18
Students £7 / Student Members £5
Meals £13
WHO'S PLAYING?
Freddie Gavita
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Freddie Gavita is establishing an impressive reputation as one of the top trumpeters on the UK jazz scene.
First attracting notice as a soloist with the BBC Big Band with whom he appeared twice at the BBC Proms, Freddie has gone on to work with an enviable array of high profile artists including Jon Hendricks, Gregory Porter, Curtis Stigers, Paloma Faith and the Ronnie Scott’s All Stars, and winning the British Jazz Award for ‘Best Trumpet’ in 2017.
Tom Cawley
Tom Cawley is one of the UK’s leading jazz pianists. He has performed worldwide - in major clubs, venues and festivals – with some of the country’s leading artists, most notably Peter Gabriel, with whom he has also recorded two albums and a live DVD. As an artist in his own right he has performed, recorded and broadcast extensively over the last ten years/
As well as an award-winning pianist, Cawley is also a composer, bandleader and educator. His group, Curios, won Best Band the 2008 BBC Jazz Awards, and their three albums have been hugely critically acclaimed – described as “extraordianary” in MOJO, “spellbinding” in The Independent, “fantastic” in Time Out and “a shining light for British jazz” in Musician magazine. They have performed at the Barbican, the Royal Festival Hall, Ronnie Scott’s and at all of the UK’s major jazz festivals, as well as in Europe (most notably at North Sea Jazz).
As a freelance jazz piano player, Tom regularly leads the house band at Ronnie Scott's club, and he is also a professor of jazz piano at the Royal Academy of Music.
Mark Taylor
In 1995 UK drummer Mark Taylor moved to New York at the invitation of US musician Lew Tabackin and ended up staying for more than 25 years! In a long and impressive career his powerful, swinging, playing has been heard alongside the likes of Joe Henderson, Ronnie Scott, George Coleman, Chet Baker, Roy Hargrove, Woody Shaw, Geoff Keezer, Mulgrew Miller, Monty Alexander, Billy Eckstine & Anita O’Day…and you don’t get to play with a team of iconic musicians like that unless you are very, very, good!
Having recently returned to the UK, it’s with enormous pleasure that we welcome Mark for his first visit to the Pavilion!
Marianne Windham
With Guildford Jazz founder and anchor Marianne WIndham on bass
DIRECTIONS
The performance is upstairs in the Pavilion building at the Guildford County Cricket Club, The Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4RP
For sat navs please check the postcode takes you to Wharf Road. There’s a car park alongside, entry from Wharf Road. If you’re approaching from Guildford town centre, Wharf Road is on the left just before the Sports Ground. If you’re approaching from the A3/Ladymead there’s no right turn into Wharf Road, but continue to the next roundabout to double back.
The car park next to the Pavilion holds about 40 cars (to enable emergency access, cars can only park in the marked bays). Unless it’s very wet, the overflow car park at the far end of the Cricket ground will be open.
To access the overflow car park, turn left as you come out of Wharf Road and carry on along Woodbridge Road towards the railway bridge, and the entrance to the ground is just before the end of the green fence that runs along the perimeter of the ground, next to the Woodbridge Café.
You might prefer to use one of the larger public car parks which are just a few minutes walk away: the open air Mary Road Car Park (GU1 4QU) or multi-storey Bedford Road Car Park (GU1 4SJ)
SEATING
Seating is either in front row settees/armchairs, central round tables, or rear high chairs/tables. Seats will be reserved for you when you book. If you’re a Guildford Jazz member, please let us know if you have a seating preference in on the booking form. Notes on the layout:
Front row: Seats 1 to 5 are sofas or armchairs
Middle tables: Tables 6 to 23 and 32 are small tables , each seating 4 (for bookings of 1 or 2 seats, we’ll seat you at a table with others, please let us know if you have friends coming who you’d like to sit with!).
Rear tables: Tables 24 to 29 are tall tables suitable for 2 people, with high stools.
Groups: Table 31 and 32 are suitable for larger group of 6 or more
High stools : 30 and 34 are single high stools (no table) , suitable for 1 to 3 people