Jazz Preview: In the market for a taste of New Orleans

Doncaster Markets Jazz Day brings its annual touch of New Orleans to the town’s market area tomorrow with a four-hour jamboree for jazz lovers who might want to do a bit of shopping as well.
By Reginald Brace
Published 27th May 2011, 11:54 BST

Funding cuts cast an ominous shadow over the event but happily it has survived and there is optimism for the future of a popular occasion, organised by Jazz into Doncaster and the Doncaster Markets and Events team. “It’s a great day out and it would have been a shame to pull the plug on it,” says spokesman Charlie Worsdale.

John Pashley’s Phoenix New Orleans Parade Band and the Jackie Everton dancers will set the mood at 11am with a parade from Priory Walk along High Street and Baxtergate into the market area where the fun will continue until late afternoon. Other contributors to the festivities will be Jazz Yorkshire award winning Nikki Allan and her sextet, boogie and blues duo Bob Hall and Dave Peabody, Winston’s Pennine Jazz and guitarist Glen McGlone.

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Meanwhile, Terry Allonby’s trio are recording an album at the nearby Horse and Groom, and the excellent Doncaster Youth Jazz Association band will perform at the Mansion House. All this plus a jazz brolly competition at a convivial event which has had a place in Yorkshire’s jazz calendar for 11 years.

Home of the Brave, the quartet led by multi-instrumentalist Richard Ormrod which draws its inspiration from Western film themes, play at the Victoria Hall in Settle tonight. Tomorrow at the Square Chapel Centre for the Arts in Halifax, the music of Thelonious Monk will be celebrated by Monk Inc.