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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Art Themen Featuring Liam Dunachie
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Art Themen Featuring Liam Dunachie

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

Themen is still absolutely at the top of his game (he has just returned from a U.S. tour as the featured saxophonist with Soft Machine!), 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’.

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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 Booth / Ross Stanley Band
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The Paul Booth / Ross Stanley Band

We are thrilled to be kicking off the 2023 Spin season with this truly great, super-star band; they will be performing the music from Michael Brecker’s masterpiece album, ‘Time Is Of The Essence’ - regarded by many to be Brecker’s greatest recording.

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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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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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Theo Travis’ Double Talk
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Theo Travis’ Double Talk

Tenor saxophonist, Theo Travis, has been at the forefront of jazz, fusion and progressive rock for about three decades. Apart from leading his own highly acclaimed bands, he has been recently touring with David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, The Soft Machine Legacy Band with John Etheridge, has recorded and toured with Robert Fripp of King Crimson, and worked with the legendary Gong.

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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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Ross Stanley With The Spin Trio
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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.

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