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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

From St Ives Jazz Club mailing list:

Sam Braysher Trio
Tuesday 18th February

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


Sam Braysher – alto saxophone
Andrew Robb – double bass
Steve Brown – drums

Sam Braysher is a London-based alto saxophonist. A regular performer at jazz clubs across Europe, he has received international acclaim for his warm, delicate sound and deep knowledge of the standard repertoire and American Songbook.

He is joined here by an all-star rhythm section: award-winning Scottish double bassist Andrew Robb (Julian Joseph, Alan Benzie Trio), and ultra swinging drummer Steve Brown (Barry Harris, Scott Hamilton Quartet).

Sam’s latest album explores the work of Kurt Weill, a fascinating composer who lies at the intersection of European classical music, jazz, opera and American musical theatre, That’s Him: The Music of Kurt Weill, was released in 2024 and met with glowing reviews from the UK, Europe, Japan and USA, and received radio play on BBC Radio 3 and Jazz FM. Awarding it a top rating of
‘indispensable’, French outlet Paris Move described the album as a

“unique, moving, interconnected, creative, and exceptional entity, all coming together making it far greater than the sum of each individual part. This is the genius of Sam and his friends, knowing how to revisit Weill’s works with all the inspiration of a vast musical culture. Each track, like a treasure hunt, allows us to celebrate the essence of the original works… close to perfection.”

Braysher received widespread acclaim for the two albums released previously under his own name, both of which feature renowned international collaborators. Golden Earrings, with New York pianist Michael Kanan, was described as “delightful and surprising” by Dave Gelly in the Observer, while his recent trio album with Jorge Rossy (Brad Mehldau Trio) and Tom Farmer, was praised in Jazzwise as

“a triumph of intelligence and sentiment”.

Expect to hear fun, swinging arrangements of items from the American Songbook and jazz canon, including compositions by the likes of George Gershwin, Rodgers & Hammerstein and Carlos Antonio Jobim.

Press

“I can’t think of another alto saxophonist with a sound quite like Sam Braysher’s” **** Dave Gelly, The Observer

“Braysher’s cool, modernist twist on old songs is just superb” Simon Adams, Jazz Journal

“Saxophonist Sam Braysher is like a breath of fresh air. He has an alto sound that doesn’t sound like anyone else, and is a throwback to the classic jazz of the 1950s with a contemporary twist”. Jazz Views

“the warm-toned young London saxophonist Sam Braysher is a prize-winning investigator of the early recordings and published music of Jerome Kern, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and many others, and imagines a new jazz closely attuned to an old world.” John Fordham, The Guardian

“Sam Braysher has a special, distinctive sound to his alto playing: warm and subtle, expressive and thoughtful, with an approach to improvisation that combines melodic beauty and rhythmic deftness. In short, he is the real deal.” Clarinet and Saxophone Magazine

Hoping to see you all soon and please support live music.

All the best
Tom and the Jazz Club team

WHAT’S ON 2025

(There will be jazz every Tuesday from local artists)

25th FEBRUARY – RED HANDED
18th MARCH – RUE
15th APRIL – POINTLESS BEAUTY
13th MAY – JIM MULLEN
20th MAY – GARY HUGHES ENSEMBLE
10th JUNE – THE NEIL BURNS TRIO

22nd JULY – KARIM SABER QUINTET
12th AUGUST – PETE CANTER QUARTET
16th SEPTEMBER – THE NIGEL PRICE ENSEMBLE
7th OCTOBER – TOMASSO STARACE ORGAN TRIO