Saxophonist and composer Sam Crockatt is a founding member of the edgy London-based Loop Collective and with his quartet has been making ripples at the jazz scene for the last couple of years.

Club diva Polly Gibbons covers the jazz waterfront with a delicious contralto voice that is equally at home with ballads and blues belters, torch songs and tin pan alley tunes.

Swing, jazz and boogie-woogie pianist

Manchester-based trumpet player and DJ Matthew Halsall’s atmospheric albums ‘Sending My Love’ and ‘Colour Yes’ have received rave reviews and heavy airplay from the likes of taste-setters Gilles Peterson, Stuart Maconie, Tom Robinson and Mike Chadwick.

Groove orientated World Jazz, inspired by music from all over the place: Africa, Middle East, European folk, Afro-American, Latin America . . . .allied to the experimental approach of some American jazz of the 60’s – Pharoah Saunders, Yusef Latif, Don Cherry amongst many others.

Britain’s most prolific chart-topping horn player needs no introduction – after more than 50 years in the business he’s a national jazz treasure. But Ball is more than a household name, he’s a jazzman to his core.

A Selection of East Anglian real ales selected by Laxfield Low House

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