Past Events

The Spin Jazz Club, Oxford

The Henry Spencer Band
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The Henry Spencer Band

The Spin is delighted to welcome back one of the most fiery, original and groovesome trumpeters that the UK has ever produced: Henry Spencer. He brings a stunning band, featuring his long-standing collaborator, the brilliant guitarist Ant Law!

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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 Ben Crosland Quintet
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The Ben Crosland Quintet

It is becoming a bit of a habit to be describing our bands as ‘Supergroups’…and this is no exception! Led by bassist and composer, Ben Crosland, this band features a personnel of the finest players in the UK.

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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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Zoöphyte
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Zoöphyte

Led by ace vocalist, Peter Jones, Zoöphyte is a band that authentically melds the boundaries between jazz and ‘pop’ - much in the way that Steely Dan (and the great Donald Fagen) has done for so many years!

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Luca Caruso & Will Cleasby’s ‘Double Drums’
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Luca Caruso & Will Cleasby’s ‘Double Drums’

Ladies and gentlemen, a first for The Spin: we present a band, led not just by one drum maestro - but by two! This band was recently seen by Team Spin in London and was immediately booked for this date, given the quality, vigour - and incredible dynamic range - of the playing.

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Henry Spencer Band
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Henry Spencer Band

For this special one-off performance, multi-award winning trumpeter, composer and bandleader Henry Spencer performs music from his brilliant new album, The Defector.

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Charged Particles featuring Randy Brecker
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Charged Particles featuring Randy Brecker

The Californian band Charged Particles with Tod Dickow is a formidable outfit in its own right. They have now visited The Spin twice, performing the music of Michael Brecker and have blown away the audiences with the power, virtuosity and sheer magnificence of their performances. What better testimony could be possible than having Michael's brother, 7-times GRAMMY winner, Randy Brecker, now touring with the band?

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The Tom Green Septet
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The Tom Green Septet

After many a year, The Spin has finally secured a second date for this septet of outstanding musicians. As supreme UK jazz royalty, Dame Cleo Laine wrote, Tom has written “Some of the most exciting original new music I have heard for a long time” . The Spin says a BIG ‘Amen' to that!

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Luke Vice-Coles & The Spin Band
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Luke Vice-Coles & The Spin Band

With the view to continuing to promote players of ‘the new jazz generation’, we asked Harry Greene (yes, he, the tremendous sax player that blew everybody away at his gig at TOAD!)…who he would recommend to come and perform on trumpet. Harry’s response was instant: “Luke Vice-Coles is your man!” And so, we are delighted to be presenting this brilliant trumpeter at The White House for this date.

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The Hugh Pascall Band
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The Hugh Pascall Band

We are really delighted to be presenting this band of veritable super-stars for the first time at The Spin. We feel particularly lucky to have been able to book Hugh for this date, as he is about to embark on a project with the New York guitar guru, Peter Bernstein!

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Alex Ridout & The Spin Band
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Alex Ridout & The Spin Band

Alexandra Ridout: BBC Young Musician of the Year, 2016

The above award, by far the most prestigious in the UK, was so justifiably won by Alex for her stunning, free-flowing improvising and the totally uncluttered, melodic direction of her playing.

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Byron Wallen’s Hurricane Bells
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Byron Wallen’s Hurricane Bells

The Spin is delighted to welcome back one of the UK’s great trumpeters, Byron Wallen, with a brand new project featuring the cream of the UK's young-generation players.

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Damon Brown w/ The Spin Band
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Damon Brown w/ The Spin Band

Having self-exiled himself to South Korea some years ago, it is now a rare treat to find ace trumpeter Damon Brown back on our island; the Spin is delighted to have secured this date with one of the club’s all-time favourite musicians. Damon is one of those trumpeters whose totally fluid improvising is always imbued with references to the blues.

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Martin Shaw w/ The Spin Band
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Martin Shaw w/ The Spin Band

The Spin welcomes one of the leading trumpeters in the UK to perform at TOAD this coming Thursday. Martin Shaw has wooed and wowed Spin audiences in past years and we expect no less of a response at this gig!

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