The Nightingale Room Jazz Sessions 29-30 Surrey Street, Brighton, BN1 3PA A monthly session of great jazz at this great new venue featuring top line guests backed by great rhythm sections. Our Christmas special is on Dec 22nd and then we continue with the last Tuesday in Jan, Feb, March and April. All sessions […]
Hosted by Terry Seabrook on keys with various featured guests and sidemen. 8-10:30pm Free admission (collection taken towards running expenses). Great beers and top nosh. The Snowdrop Inn, 119 South St, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2BU Tel:01273 471018 Monday 2nd November Lawrence Jones (US sax and flute man) with Malcolm Mortimore (ds) and Terry […]
Jazz is very polyrhythmic and often has 2 and 3 beats running simultaneously against each other creating an interesting polyrhythm. Drummers do this all the time! Here is a quick way to play or clap 2 against 3 using the mnemonic ‘Nice cup of tea’. We’ll start with the groups of 3 beats: […]
Hosted by Terry Seabrook on keys with various featured guests and sidemen. Free admission (collection taken towards running expenses). Great beers and top nosh. The Snowdrop Inn, 119 South St, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2BU Tel:01273 471018 Monday 5th October Geoff Simkins with Terry Seabrook, piano; Nigel Thomas, bass; Milo Fell, drums. […]
Tuesday 13th October Anita Wardell 8:30pm (door 8pm) Tickets: £8 go to thenightingaleroom.co.uk/whats-on Vocalist Anita Wardell with Terry Seabrook, piano; Nigel Thomas, bass; Milo Fell (drums) Anita's singing is exciting and breathtaking. She is noted for her mesmerizing and captivating vocal improvisations and vocalese lyrics to instrumental solos. Anita is a musician who uses […]
Pianist Terry Seabrook continues with his series of Jazz Tips with No. 22 Turnarounds and Substitutions (part 1) A turnaround is a sequence of chords which starts form the tonic (I) and moves through a short “progression” (mostly through the circle of 5ths) back to the tonic. This is typically as follows: […]
Hosted by Terry Seabrook on keys with various featured guests and sidemen. Free admission (collection taken towards running expenses). Great beers and top nosh. The Snowdrop Inn, 119 South St, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2BU Tel:01273 471018 Monday 3rd August Mark Bassey With Terry Seabrook, organ and Alex Eberhard, drums. Trombonist Mark, of course, […]
The Snowdrop Jazz Night, Lewes Hosted by Terry Seabrook on keys with various featured guests and sidemen. Free admission (collection taken towards running expenses). Great beers and top nosh. The Snowdrop Inn, 119 South St, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2BU Tel:01273 471018 Monday 6th July Quinto Latin jazz featuring Raul D’Oliviera with Dave […]
Pianist Terry Seabrook’s Jazz Tip of the Month No. 21: Phrasing in Improvisation A simple tip this week is this: Play less not more. It’s a common shortcoming of improvisers at all levels but particularly beginners that there are not enough spaces in the music. Simply put this means that while […]
Hosted by Terry Seabrook on keys with various featured guests and sidemen. Free admission (collection taken towards running expenses). Great beers and top nosh. The Snowdrop Inn, 119 South St, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2BU Tel:01273 471018 Monday 1st June Simon Savage with Terry Seabrook on piano & Dan Sheppard on bass. Simon […]