South London’s top jazz club!
See the best national and internationally renowned jazz musicians, live on the first Wednesday of each month, at the EAST DULWICH TAVERN, 1 Lordship Lane, SE22 8EW
Doors open 8pm, music from 8.30pm
Tickets can be purchased on the door or in advance using the links.
Wednesday October 1st
The Harlem Meer Cats
Ned Bennett’s own band, long established, and long overdue at the EDT. Recreating the Cotton Club atmosphere of 1920’s and 30’s Duke Ellington (with some Cab Calloway thrown in for good measure), this 7 (or 8) piece band plays authentic arrangements of Duke’s “Jungle Music” style, dark, mysterious, soulful, seductive and energetic all at once. You’ll hear favourites such as Mood Indigo, The Mooche, Black and Tan Fantasy, Jubilee Stomp, Sophisticated Lady, It Don’t Mean a Thing etc, along side lesser-known but equally fabulous tunes.
The Harlem Meer Cats have played at the Dulwich festival in the past, as well as Keswick, Swanage and Upton jazz festivals, as well as numerous Jazz clubs around the South East and London.
Regulars to the EDT jazz sessions rarely get to hear a line up as big as this, with Ned Bennett (alto sax, clarinet, vocals), Horace Cardew (clarinet, baritone sax), Alan Berlyn (trumpet), Jeff Williams (trombone), Colin Good (piano), Jerome Davies (bass) and Nick Ball (drums), all experts in this particular style.
tickets for The Harlem Meer Cats here
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Find South London’s best Jazz venue, located in the fabulous upstairs bar at the East Dulwich TAVERN, 1 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, SE22 8EW.
(If the music isn’t enough to persuade you to come along, then the EDT always has a great variety of hand pulled real ales.)
Recent guests include Jean Toussaint, Shaney Forbes, Nathaniel Facey, The London Tango Quartet, John Turville, Iain Ballamy, Claude Deppa, Henry Lowther, Brandon Allen, David Preston, Tony Kofi, Laura Jurd, Art Themen, The Goldcoasters, Camina Banda etc etc.
Doors open at 8.00, bands play 8.30-9.30 and 9.50-10.40
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