Jazz crosses generation gap three times over

Bobby Wellins, 76, broke through in the 1960s playing in Stan Tracey’s classic Under Milk Wood album; former Leeds College of Music student, 52-year-old Alan Barnes is the sparky here, there and everywhere man of British jazz; and Nadim Teimoori, 21, from Doncaster, plays with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra while he studies at the Royal Academy of Music.

“We think it is an exciting mix, covering more than 40 years ,” says Jazz into Doncaster’s Charlie Worsdale. “On a strictly local note, we are all delighted at Nadim’s progress.

“I first heard him play when he was 14 and pricked up my ears straight away. We think he’s a rising star and are expecting great things of him.

“He certainly seems to be pressing all the right buttons at the moment.”

Nicola Farnon’s quartet – the leader on bass, Piero Tucci on piano, Chris Walker on guitar and Phil Johnson on drums – will accompany the three saxophonists.

Jazz in the Spa, the Saturday night rendezvous for the best in traditional and mainstream sounds in the village hall at Boston Spa, has a particularly alluring line-up tomorrow when saxophonist Karen Sharp, trumpeter Enrico Tomasso and trombonist Roy Williams will air their fluent expertise.

Meanwhile in another village hall, at Hovingham, tomorrow night, Yorkshire’s quirkiest venue, The Shed, will hold its 20th birthday party celebrations to the strains of the Snake Davis Band and poems from Yorkshire Post columnist and the Bard of Barnsley Ian McMillan.