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“Need to hear some jazz brimming with both “cool” and “exhilaration”? Then look no further…” Jazzreview
November 6, 2008, 8:19 am
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606 CLUB - THURSDAY  13TH: PETE CHRISTLIEB and  ANDY MACKINTOSH

PETE CHRISTLIEB/ANDY MACKINTOSH SEXTET.
Emanating from a musical background Pete Christlieb took up the sax at the age of 12 and by the age of 20 had already worked with the likes of Chet Baker and Woody Herman. In 1967 he joined Louis Belson’s band with whom he would work well in to the 80’s, at the same time forging a highly successful career as a studio player of considerable note.
As well as the likes of Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Quincy Jones and Sarah Vaughan Pete could also be heard performing regularly with the Doc Severinson Band on the Tonight Show (an institution in the States for many years) and was the sax player on innumerable record, film and TV sessions, including the  “Star Trek” series and the sax solo on Steely Dan’s “Deacon Blue”.
An incomparable musician Pete’s Jazz skills are undoubted and in more recent years his fluent, powerful yet intricate, musical style has been heard regularly with his own quartet and 10 piece bands. Although described as “probably one the world’s most famous anonymous tenor saxophonists” Pete’s move away from the Studios and in to the Jazz scene has done much to counter that image and it is with enormous pleasure that we welcome this highly gifted saxophonist to the Club.
Andy Mackintosh is one of the UK’s leading studio saxophonists. He first made his name in the early 70’s when at the age of 18 he toured and recorded with the Maynard Ferguson Band. After almost 5 years with the band he moved to LA where he worked in the studio scene, as well as picking up work with some of the finest Big Bands around at the time, including the Louie Bellson Band (with Pete). After some years in the States Andy returned to the UK where he quickly established himself as first call lead alto for numerous sessions and gigs.
Tonight the guys will be playing Pete’s arrangements of Jazz Standards plus some originals with some of the finest musicians on the UK scene. A rare treat this and absolutely not to be missed.

“Christlieb….is all over the tenor, as usual, in an electrifying live performance… a peerless balladeer… marvellous” AllAboutJazzJazzreview

“Need to hear some jazz brimming with both “cool” and “exhilaration”? Then look no further…”  

“it was the well-seasoned, highly professional lead saxophonist Andy Mackintosh…..who turned this terrific concert into a real work of art.” Independent

 

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Mark Gilbanks Swing Orchestra
October 3, 2008, 1:26 pm
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Mark formed his Orchestra in 1986 and since then has featured some of the world’s most famous musicians, including the American trumpet superstar Maynard Ferguson, Bobby Shew, former member of the Buddy Rich, Woody Herman and Louis Belson Orchestras, Phil Wilson – now lecturer at Berkeley College USA, Teddy Edwards, formerly a member of the Charlie Parker Sextet, and Herb Geller, the West Coast alto sax legend.

The Orchestra has played at Hayfield and Wigan Jazz Festivals and in many well-known venues including ‘Band on the Wall’ in Manchester, and at sell-out concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Quaffers Theatre Club and at the Carlton Ballroom, playing music of the Big Band era for dancing.
The Mark Gillbanks Band
is a function band which was formed in 1988 and can be a four to ten piece band depending upon requirements. The band play many styles of music from modern Pop Music, Rock and Roll, Motown and 60’s Music to Standards and Dance Music.

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