December Jazz Club with Chris Gumbley Quintet playing Cannonball Adderley 

Stratford Jazz Club is well and truly back on Rother Street. Stratford Jazz are back and will be bringing you high quality, modern jazz every second Wednesday of the month.

This December sees the Chris Gumbley Quintet playing Cannonball Adderley.

After graduating from Huddersfield School of Music, where he studied clarinet, piano and composition, Chris Gumbley (alto) taught at Stoke-on-Trent College before being offered posts teaching saxophone at Birmingham Conservatoire and composition at Birmingham University. An eclectic musical outlook and adaptability in his playing has led to high profile work in the past with The Temptations & Four Tops (U.K. Tours ’03 & ’05), Saxtet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, English Chamber Orchestra, Pasadena Roof Orchestra and the Berkley Salon Ensemble, as well as theatre work and inumerable jazz gigs.

Chris has a particular interest in jazz education, with colleges and schools in UK and abroad often calling on his services in this field. He recently ran a jazz workshop for a music school in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
In 1987 he founded Gumbles Jazz Club in Stafford, his home town, which ran for over 20 years, and even hosted his own BBC radio show, Jazzbeat, for a short while.

Joining Chris will be…

Neil Yates – trumpet

Doors 7pm. First set 8pm