From St Ives jazz club newsletter:

We’re Back! This Tuesday
The 1959 The Golden Year of Jazz

Doors Open @ 6.30pm – No pre-booking seats
Music Starts @ 7.30pm
FREE ENTRY/PWYC

Neil Maya – Sax
Gav Martin – Piano
Kevin Sanders – Double Bass

Gary Evans – Drums

1959 is often considered an extremely influential year in the development of modern jazz with a number of new sub genres within jazz coming to the fore in this year. 1959 spawned some of jazz’s finest albums of all times including of course Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue and Dave Brubeck’s Time Out.

The concept of creating a performance focusing on the music of this seminal year has been developing for Neil over the last couple of years. This is due in part due to his interest in the music of Dave Brubeck due to the band’s very successful Brubeck Project. Neil also has come to realise he has a real affinity with the ‘50s approach to jazz, of which 1959 seems, to Neil, to reach a high point. As a jazz educator Neil is also interested in the different approaches to improvisation that the new compositions in 1959 introduced.

“The Neil Maya Quartet has become regular feature at Teignmouth Jazz and Blues Festival. This year we were all very excited about his new project, 1959 The Golden Year of Jazz and we weren’t disappointed!”

“The band played to a packed room, all of whom were engrossed in the music and Neil’s chatty explanations ahead of each number. The musicianship and enthusiasm of Neil’s band is as good as you will hear anywhere. If you get the chance to see this great band in action, be sure not to miss it, you won’t be disappointed.”

Sarah & Neil Whitmore, Teignmouth Jazz & Blues Club, Nov 2018

All the best
Tom and the Jazz Club team

WHAT’S ON 2026

24th February – Matt Johns Quartet
3rd March – Martin Jenkins Trio
10th March – Sylvia McEwan Quartet
17th March – Shades Of Shearing
24th March – The Jazz Cannibals
31st March – Aga Zaryan (Blue Note Artist) Performing with St. Ives Jazz Club House Band
7th April – Boom Slang
14th April – Jamie Crowle Quartet with special guest
21st April – Sarah Harris Quartet
28th April – Truro College Jazz Ensemble with Support from St. Ives School Soul Band
5th May – The Standard Set
12th May – Chick Corea Project
19th May – Emile Hinton Trio
26th May – Charlie Herbert Trio
2nd June – Pointless Beauty
9th June – TBC
16th June – The Funk Messengers
23rd June – TBC
30th June – Eddie Gripper Trio
7th July – BD LENZ
14th July – TBC
21st July – James MacPhail Quartet Feat – Mike Rowlands
28th July – TBC
4th August – The Music of Tower of Power
11th August – Superlocrian
18th August – Joe Henderson’s Page One
25th August – Los Bandidos – Salsa Band
1st September – TBC
8th September – TBC
15th September – Simon Spilett (St. Ives September Festival Performance)
22nd September – Derek Nash Quartet (St. Ives September Festival Performance)
29th September – TBC
6th October – Nicolas Meier Feat. Tom Quirke
13th October – TBC
20th October – RF4 (The Ralph Freeman Quartet)
27th October – TBC