What's On

WIGAN INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL - 25TH ANNIVERSARY - JULY 10TH-17TH 2010

New location: from March 2010: WHELLEY EX-SERVICEMEN'S CLUB, VAUXHALL RD, WIGAN, WN1 3LU

Pictures of February concert now online... We're moving back to Wigan from March.... directions and pictures from the new venue online...

What's On

WJC concerts are normally held on the last Sunday of each month (Sept-June) from 12.30pm to 3.30pm, doors open 12 noon, but watch for details of special events. For further information, telephone 01925 727408 or 01942 243974, or email wigan.jazz@virgin.net

Forthcoming concerts

NB From March 2010 Wigan Jazz Club will move to Whelley Ex-Servicemen's Club, Wigan

PROGRAMME 2009-2010

N.B. FROM MARCH 2010 WIGAN JAZZ CLUB WILL BE BASED AT WHELLEY EX-SERVICEMEN'S CLUB, 180 VAUXHALL ROAD, WIGAN, WN1 3LU

28/03/2010 DONCASTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA

25/04/2010 SWINGSHIFT with SIMON SPILLETT play the big band music of TUBBY HAYES

30/05/2010 STEVE PARRY & THE BIG BAND FROM HELL

27/06/2010 WIGAN JAZZ CLUB BIG BAND: Blues, Ballads & Bossa Nova

Directions/map for Whelley Ex-Servicemen's Club

from M6 Junction 25 (northbound) from M6 Junction 26 From M6 Junction 27

from M61 Junction 6 from M61 Junction 5 from Wigan North-Western Rail Station (on foot)

Sunday March 28th 2010, 12.30pm

Whelley Ex-Servicemen's Club, Wigan, WN1 3LU

Our first regular concert at Whelley

DONCASTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA

directed by John Ellis MBE

The DJO is the alumni ensemble. Most of the members are players who have graduated from the ranks of DYJA, but who have chosen to remain in the Yorkshire region. Some are part-time professionals, some are teachers, some are students at universities in the area and others are in totally unrelated forms of employment. What they do share is a common interest in big band jazz and a desire to perform music at the highest possible level.

read more about DJO here

Admission £10 (£9.50 concessions, £9.00 WJC members)

Sunday April 25th 2010, 12.30pm

Whelley Ex-Servicemen's Club, Wigan, WN1 3LU

SWINGSHIFT BIG BAND

with special guest

SIMON SPILLETT

play the big band music of

TUBBY HAYES

Swingshift Simon Spillett

Admission £9 (£8.50 concessions, £8.00 WJC members)

Sunday May 30th 2010, 12.30pm

Whelley Ex-Servicemen's Club, Wigan, WN1 3LU

STEVE PARRY and the

BIG BAND FROM HELL

Steve Parry & The Big Band From Hell

Steve formed the Big Band From Hell whilst still a student at Leeds College of Music in the early/mid 90s as a vehicle for him to play drums in a big band. The band lasted until the end of 1996 whereupon Steve’s first Blues Brothers tour started. Then in 2003 Steve got a phone call from his friend and ex-lead trumpet with the band, Bryan Davis, who suggested reforming the band for a gig at The Wardrobe in Leeds. And so it was that Steve Parry and the Big Band From Hell arrived back on the scene with Steve writing more charts than ever before. The band’s sound is that not of a swing era big band but more aggressive and with a very colourful harmonic content, much like a cross between the bands of Buddy Rich and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis. In fact, the repertoire of the band consists of some arrangements as played by the Buddy Rich band but mainly compositions and/or arrangements by Steve himself written in that style.

Admission £9 (£8.50 concessions, £8.00 WJC members)

Sunday June 27th 2010, 12.30pm

Whelley Ex-Servicemen's Club, Wigan, WN1 3LU

Presenting our own senior band...

WIGAN JAZZ CLUB

BIG BAND play

BALLADS, BLUES & BOSSA NOVA

directed by Ian Darrington, MBE

Admission £10 (£9.50 concessions, £9.00 WJC members)

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