An artist with little need for introductions, Elliot Galvin is a long-time trailblazer in the UK jazz firmament with four solo albums that have seen him top album of the year lists at the likes of Downbeat and Jazzwise, as well as being a member of the Mercury nominated band, Dinosaur.

Performing covers from the greats and original compositions created in the spirit of Milton Nascimento, Tom Jobim, Joao Bosco and Hermeto Pascoal, this unique band display a range of Brazilian musical styles with artful group jazz improvisation and mesmerising interplay between it’s band members.

Following a storming session at The Spin, two years ago, leading UK pianist Jonathan Gee (a 25-year veteran of The Spin ) returns with the incredible Italian altoist Gaetano Partipilo, this time with an all Italian rhythm section of Pierluigi Balducci on bass and Fabio Accardi drums.

One of the Spin’s most popular – and certainly most virtuosic – guests returns to The Spin with his outstanding band: Nicolas Meier! His ‘World Group’ has a unique sound, incorporating a meld of Middle Eastern, Turkish, jazz and fusion influences.

Following Jazz Samba’s recent appearance at Ronnie Scott’s, the club, in their review of the gig stated: “their love of jazz and samba oozed from every note played, and the final encore & applause reflected the joy given out by them to a very grateful audience”

The Spin opens it’s 2025 programme with a band led by two of the most exciting guitarists to emerge from the UK in recent years. Out of a mutual respect for each other’s playing, Chris Montague and Ant Law have formed a quartet with brand new material written together. The band will feature the incredible Conor Chaplin on bass and Jamie Murray on drums.

Two years ago, our Christmas gig was a one-off by an un-named band, put together to play the music of Joni Mitchell. To the band’s surprise, this got rapid traction and by 2024, they were playing 50 gigs in the year all over the UK and Ireland, selling out at London’s Jazz Café and playing prestigious festivals in jazz, folk and world-music genres. By their second gig they had adopted the name, Hejira.

The Pete Roth Quartet features leader Pete on guitar, Mike Pratt on bass, Simon Bates on saxophone and the incomparable Bill Bruford as a special guest on drums.

Back by popular demand, the first ever Spin guest (and all-time favourite!) John Etheridge returns to perform what’s become an annual treat of intimate interplay with the Spin’s very own Pete Oxley!

The Spin welcomes back Oxford’s deep-groove-meisters, Time Is Of The Essence for their annual outing to the club!

Soft Machine, from their earliest performances as a psychedelic band – who were contemporaries of, and shared stages with the Jimi Hendrix Experience –  all the way to being one of Europe's best known ‘fusion’ groups, has influenced several generations of bands, and continues to be name-checked by today's hippest experimentalists.

This gig features The Spin’s own Pete Oxley, alongside his long-term guitar brother, Nicolas Meier, in a band purveying the broadest range of guitar stylings in a set of “utterly captivating original music” (The Guardian).