Past Events

The Spin Jazz Club, Oxford

Gilad Atzmon’s Organ Trio
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Gilad Atzmon’s Organ Trio

It’s a genuine thrill to welcome back to The Spin the international jazz artist Gilad Atzmon in a rare return to the UK. This band features the UK’s No.1 Hammond Organ player, Ross Stanley and the incredibly talented Joel Barford on drums.

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Theo Travis' Double Talk
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Theo Travis' Double Talk

One of the hardest working, most successful (and brilliant) saxophonists in the country revisits The Spin: the amazing Theo Travis with his band, ‘Double Talk’.

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Ryan Quigley & The Spin Band
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Ryan Quigley & The Spin Band

The Spin brings to the club for the first time as our front-line guest, one of the most brilliant trumpeter’s in the UK, Ryan Quigley! This will be a quartet that also features the outstanding musicianship of Pete Whittaker (Hammond) and Rod Youngs (drums), along with the Spin’s resident guitarist and MC, Pete Oxley.

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The Paul Jordanous All Stars
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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.

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The Dave O’Higgins & Rob Luft Quartet
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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.

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Time Is Of The Essence
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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.

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Paul Booth & Ross Stanley w/ The Killer Quartet
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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!

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Time Is Of The Essence
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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.

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Time Is Of The Essence
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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.

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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’.

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Ross Stanley & Steve Fishwick With The Spin Rhythm Section
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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.

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Time Is Of The Essence
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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.

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Troyka
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Troyka

Troyka are Kit Downes (Hammond organ and keyboards), Josh Blackmore (drums) and Chris Montague (guitar). This brilliant trio come to the club at the end of a two month tour across the UK and Europe with their new album Ornithophobia just out.

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