Jazz Preview: Great day planned for 'invasion of the streets'

Jazz makes its annual invasion of the streets of Chapel Allerton, Leeds, on Sunday afternoon – Regent Street to be precise – when five bands will perform on an outdoor stage to mark the final day of the Chapel Allerton Festival.
By The Newsroom
Published 3rd Sep 2010, 13:38 BST
Updated 3rd Sep 2010, 13:39 BST

Steve Crocker, who organises the jazz at the nearby Seven Arts Centre, has arranged the programme which he sees as a showcase for the best of the region's talent.

"The weather forecast is good and if it stays like that we're all set for a great day," he says.

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The afternoon begins with the North Leeds Jazz Orchestra, directed by

local saxophonist Martin Townshend and based at the Carr Manor music centre, followed by the Magic Hat Ensemble whose debut album for the Yorkshire based Jellymould Jazz label received an enthusiastic reception from critics and public alike.

Chapel Allerton's Jenny Smith will be on home ground as she leads

her own quintet, and Leeds saxophonist Richard Ormrod has a fresh, reggae influenced take on John Coltrane with the intriguing A Dread Supreme.

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The finale could not be in funkier hands than those of Rod Mason's Elements.

After high jinks at Chapel Allerton there will be more cause for celebration at Armley Conservative Club on Tuesday when Leeds Jazz Club will hold its 10th anniversary party.

Gentleman Jim McIntosh and the Jazzaholics will lead the fun as the reincarnated club – which had a previous life in the 1970s – moves into its second decade as a trad-to-Dixieland stronghold.

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