Louth Jazz Club and LTH Live! present: Tad Newton's Jazz Friends

“A JOURNEY THRU’ JAZZ”

A special concert dedicated to the great jazz composers and players featuring jazz icons such as Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Johnny Hodges, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Lester Young.

TAD NEWTON’S JAZZFRIENDS are one of the most respected and entertaining outfits on the British jazz scene, with their adventurous and eclectic repertoire gaining plaudits wherever they perform. They regularly headline events and festivals including the Upton Jazz Festival, Birmingham Jazz Festival, Bromyard Music Festival, Fest-Jazz in Brittany France, Keswick Jazz Festival, Debenham Festival and Teignmouth Jazz Festival. Recent concerts have included Wantage Jazz Club, The Stables at Wavendon, Ongar Jazz Club, Droitwich Jazz Club, Beoley Jazz Club and five highly successful appearances at The Spice Of Life.

2023 marked the band’s 40th anniversary!

TAD NEWTON’S JAZZFRIENDS are:

Gary Wood [trumpet/flugelhorn/vocals];

Tad Newton [trombone/vocals];

Richard Exall [clarinet/tenor sax/alto sax];

Simon Smith [ bass];

Alan Haughton [piano];

and Ronnie Fenn [drums]

“Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends were a huge success. The audiences loved their gloriously eclectic repertoire, their tight arrangements and, most importantly their infectious sense of enjoyment in what they were doing on and off stage. Without doubt they will be asked back”-Trevor Stent [Vice President Fest-Jazz, France. July 2018]…voted 2nd most popular band at the Festival! Invited back for 2019! AND 2020!

“I really enjoyed working with the band, which is uniformly excellent” Simon Spillett

“Your Band was red hot!” Richard Bennett[UK trumpet star] Fest-Jazz, France 2019.

“These guys really swing.. a great band” Greg Abate [ USA jazz star ]

“Wow!! What a band” Roy Williams [ international jazz star ]

“Thanks for the gig on Friday .. I really enjoyed playing with the band----inspirational!” Susan Greenway [sax star from Texas Jazz Conservatoire ]

“A pleasure to see and hear your band on Sunday….a first class show” Alan G. Wilson [jazz promoter, Lansdowne Jazz Club, Luton ]

“Well played music, covering accepted traditional titles into some more swing stuff, all were very fine musicians”[ Just Jazz Magazine, reviewing Upton Jazz Festival.]

“The best performance in my eyes was Tad Newton’s Jazzfriends at “The Lord Clifden”- [Birmingham Jazz Festival Review]

“Thanks for a memorable lunchtime jazz session- your band is sounding extremely good!” - John Shaw [ Gayton Jazz Appreciation Society]

“Thoroughly enjoyed your set, especially the superb variety in the programme-a warm hour!” Terry Roper [musician]. Upton Festival.

“Congratulations on a tremendous gig…it was a pleasure to be there!”- Richard Eaton [Sunday Times journalist] Spice of Life, London

Host or Publisher Louth Town Hall