POCKET SILVER at the Hertford Jazz Festival

Hard-driving hard-bop bangers from the golden age of jazz... Horace Silver, Art Blakey and more...

Yes they're back and the hardest bopping hard bop band on the planet are bopping harder than ever!

Pocket Silver are a seven-piece combo from East London who played a fantastic gig at last year's festival and regularly host an energetic jazz jam at the Eleanor Arms in Hackney. The band features trombone, tenor and alto sax, piano, bass and drums, plus possibly the world's only contra-alto clarinet played in a hard-bop context by a man called Dave from Hackney. Their repertoire includes Art Blakey, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver (hence the name) amongst other Blue Note classics..

Phil Jones: Alto Sax

Will May: Tenor Sax

Paul MacNeil: Tenor Trombone

Dave Marlton: Contra-alto Clarinet

Bernebe Diaz: Drums

James Todd: Piano

Martin Young: Bass