Past Events
The Spin Jazz Club, Oxford
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.
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.
Martin Shaw with the David Gordon Special
Martin Shaw has wooed and wowed Spin audiences in past years and we expect no less of a response at this gig!
‘Hoop’ An all-star 7-piece band led by Paul Booth
The Spin presents 7 truly great musicians – all of whom could be star attractions in their own rights. This band features Paul’s original writing – and you won’t hear sharper horn arranging than that which Hoop will be offering!
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.
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.
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?
Steve Waterman & The Spin Band (featuring Liam Dunachie)
Steve Waterman: trumpeter extraordinaire; a player with a ferocious technique and a consummate musicianship. Steve has been The Spin’s most popular trumpeter since his first visit to the club, many a year ago at ‘the old place’!
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!
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.
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!
Steve Waterman & The Spin Band
We are delighted to welcome back the club’s most popular (and equally brilliant) trumpeter, Steve Waterman.
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.
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.
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.
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!
The Liam Dunachie Quartet
We are thrilled to present this outstanding keyboard player in his own quartet setting, featuring a stella line up of players.
Steve Waterman w/ The Spin Trio
We are delighted to welcome back the club’s most popular (and equally brilliant) trumpeter, Steve Waterman. It’s hard to know where to start in summarising Steve’s career, given the vast body of first-class work achieved.
Mark Armstrong
“pirouetting through Gillespie’s breaks quicker than a hummingbird’s wings”
The above quote from The Times (Alyn Shipton) sums up the fluidity of Mark's playing and we are delighted to have a return visit from this exceptional trumpeter who cut his teeth with the likes of Stan Tracey and Mike Garrick.