Past Events
The Spin Jazz Club, Oxford
The Paul Jordanous All Stars
The Spin’s opening gig at its new ‘2nd venue’, featuring the wonderful Mark Lockheart, on the 2nd April was - by all accounts - a great success! As a result of this success, the club has booked a run of Tuesday night gigs at the Summertown Wine Bar to compliment their other nights at Tap Social.
The Dave O’Higgins & Rob Luft Quartet
OK, let’s start with this, from a 5-star BBC Music Magazine review:
"Some of the warmest, most heartfelt more-or-less-straight-ahead jazz you’ll hear anywhere”
Yes - in a line, that sums it up! The Spin has been after booking this incredible band ever since hearing their roaring performance at a jazz festival a few years ago.
Time Is Of The Essence
The Spin welcomes back one of its most popular bands, Time Is Of The Essence, featuring the brilliant saxophonist, Ollie Weston and the outstanding drummer, Rick Finlay.
‘Hoop’ An all-star 7-piece band led by Paul Booth
The Spin presents 7 truly great musicians – all of whom could be star attractions in their own rights. This band features Paul’s original writing – and you won’t hear sharper horn arranging than that which Hoop will be offering!
Time Is Of The Essence In….not a CD launch, not a book launch, but a world-first ‘LSL’ launch!
The chosen band for this auspicious night is the fabulous GROOVE band, ‘Time Is Of The Essence’, featuring the brilliant saxophonist, Ollie Weston (currently performing in stadiums all over the Far East!) and the outstanding drummer, Paul Cavaciuti!
Paul Booth & Ross Stanley w/ The Killer Quartet
The Spin is truly delighted to have been able to book, for the same gig, two of the UK’s busiest and most exciting players: Paul Booth and Ross Stanley. These two have a great working relationship going back some years, and we are further delighted to have for the first time at the club another collaborator of this pair, the incredible drummer, Andrew Bain!
Time Is Of The Essence
The Spin welcomes back to the club the band that re-opened activities on the 29th July this year, Time Is Of The Essence.
The band has amassed a huge pad of repertoire over the years, so they are promising to perform an entirely different programme to that heard at their last two Oxford appearances.
The Last Outdoors Summer Gig with Time Is Of The Essence
Featuring the outstanding saxophonist Ollie Weston, the band performs original pieces ("finely honed, instantly appealing and right up there with any contemporary jazz writing…” ~ The Guardian) and fiesty fare by the likes of Steely Dan, John Scofield and Stevie Wonder.
Time Is Of The Essence
The Spin is delighted to be putting on the first full band ‘jazz injector’ gig at The Oxford Artisan Distillery with the groove-meisters, Time Is Of The Essence. Featuring the outstanding saxophonist Ollie Weston.
Time Is Of The Essence
Time is of the Essence bring their splendid fusion of Hammond jazz to the club. A mix of 60s groove, contemporary originals and standards.
Alex Hawkins/ Jez Cook/ Raf Mizraki/ Mark Doffman
Alexander Hawkins is a pianist, organist, and composer, recently labelled as ‘one of the most unique voices in contemporary music’, whose work has reached a ‘dazzling new apex’ (Downbeat, US).
His highly individual soundworld reconciles both his love of free improvisation and fascination with composition and structure. His Ensemble, his main project as bandleader, has been described as ‘one of the most vividly distinctive in contemporary jazz’.
Ross Stanley & Steve Fishwick With The Spin Rhythm Section
Ross Stanley comes to the club this Thursday with one of the finest trumpeters around. Steve Fishwick, deps for our own Pete Oxley, as Ross and Steve joins forces with Mark and Raph.
For those of you who don't know Ross, he has become first call pianist and Hammond player for the finest jazz artists around.
Time Is Of The Essence
We kick off a stunning Autumn season with the groovesome 'organ band', 'Time Is Of The Essence'.
The band features one of the tastiest tenor players on the UK scene, Ollie Weston. Ollie's credits run a whole smorgasbord of styles, including stints with Jamie Cullum, Amy Winehouse, Sax Appeal, Stornaway and current hipsters, The Hackney Colliery Band! A player with a distinctive muscular, yet thoroughly soulful sound.
Pete Whittaker With The Spin Trio
Pete Whittaker is the Hammond player par excellence and a regular in bands led by some of the top players of the moment - Nigel Price, John Etheridge, Theo Travis and flautist Gareth Lockrane.
Time Is Of The Essence Album Launch Party
Time Is Of The Essence bring their super hip Hammond fuelled groove to the Spin stage and launch their brand new CD - a compelling mix of driving originals and soul jazz standards (out on 33 Records).
Ross Stanley With The Spin Trio
In less than a decade since Ross completed his studies at the Guildhall School of Music, he has become one of THE in demand keyboards players in the UK. He has gone on to work with many of the leading players on the UK scene such as Will Vinson, Dennis Rollins, Guy Barker, Joel Frahm, Liane Carroll, Stan Sulzman, Steve Arguelles, John Paracelli, Bobby Wellins, Clark Tracey, as well as being a regular member of the Jim Mullen Organ Trio, the Mark McKnight Organ Quartet and the Jacqui Dankworth band.
For those of you who don't know Ross, he has become first call pianist and Hammond player for the finest jazz artists around.