Art Themen featuring Ross Stanley

Sunday 31st August 2025

The Spin welcomes back the much-loved, brilliant saxophonist, Art Themen!

Themen is still absolutely at the top of his game having had a full-on career, much of it spent with Britain’s national treasure pianist, Stan Tracey. With Tracey, Themen toured all over the world and recorded on arguably the U.K.’s most cherished jazz album, ‘Under Milk Wood’.

As a member of Stan Tracey’s band, Themen was a regular at Ronnie Scott’s and in that tenure, performed with such U.S. greats as Nat Adderly, Red Rodney and George Coleman (amongst scores of others). It is a real treat to have Art come and perform for the Spin again.

We are also delighted to be featuring the completely outstanding organ player, Ross Stanley. Ross is rightly one of the most in-demand ‘Hammond’ players in the country and he will be purveying his virtuosic, groove-fuelled fare, further contributing to the incendiary vibe of the Spin band!

And…anybody that came to the Jon Lloyd/John Law gig at OXTWO will surely have been blown away by the musicianship of the drummer, Alex Goodyear; well, we’re thrilled to have Alex returning to perform again at The Spin for this special gig.