Hi there! We hope you’re ready for an amazing month at the Bull and Gate because we’ve done our best to make it very hard not to come see these great musicians at Jazz in Kentish Town over the coming weeks. All our regulars will be seeing some very familiar faces! So make sure you’re ready for summer holidays in August and load up on your weekly doses of improvised music.

We’ll also be taking a short break in August and will be back again in September. So please come out despite the sunny weather!

See below for the full details of our listings this month and the links for purchasing tickets. We can’t wait to see you 🙂.

As usual, we’d like to extend a huge thank you for your continued support; we’d be nothing without our audiences, and the musicians really thrive when we manage to fill the room! So tell your friends and family, and share our posts far and wide to help us continue to bring our brand of high-level live creative music to our humble home above the Bull and Gate pub each and every Monday night.

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 P.S. WeGotTicket sales will show as “Sold Out” a couple of hours before doors open at 8pm but please still do come down as there will most likely be tickets available on the door.

Ashley and Kasper x

Will Arnold-Foster

https://wegottickets.com/event/667109

Will Arnold-Foster – guitar
Sam Watts – piano
Will Sach – double bass
Steve Brown – drums

Will Arnold-Forster is a recent graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. A recipient of the Yamaha Jazz Scholarship, he has performed across the country and in all of London’s major jazz venues, including Ronnie Scott’s The Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall & The Barbican Center. Tonight he leads a quartet comprising long term collaborators Sam Watts (piano), Steve Brown (drums) and Will Sach (double bass) to perform a mix of selections from the Great American Songbook, and compositions written by/associated with the great Jim Hall

Dave Mannington

https://wegottickets.com/event/667112

Dave Mannington – bass ,
Brigitte Beraha – Vocals/Co-composer
Tomas Challenger – Tenor Saxophone
Ivo Neame – Piano, Keyboards
Rob Updegraff – Guitar
Tim Giles – Drums

Dave’s Manington’s Riff Raff is a dynamic ensemble of musicians that features vocalist Brigitte Beraha (Kenny Wheeler, London Jazz Orchestra), pianist Ivo Neame (Phronesis, Marius Neset), saxophonist Tomas Challenger (Foufolah/Red Snapper), guitarist Rob Updegraff (Beth Rowley/Zigaboo Modeliste) and drummer Tim Giles (Iain Ballamy/Art Farmer). The music is intimate and creative, with a delicate interplay forged from many years performing together. Brigitte and Dave also recently received the honour of an Ivors nomination for best Jazz small group composition in 2022.
“Riff Raff mix the leader’s clever composing with a formidable lineup, …and the soundscape embraces a 21st century sax-led cool school sound, raw guitar-fusion, diffident Wayne Shorteresque lyricism, and vocals that showcase Beraha’s eloquent lyrics and inventiveness as a wordless improviser.” The Guardian

Will Cleasby

https://wegottickets.com/event/667115

Will Cleasby – drums
Riley Stone-Lonergan – sax
Will Barry – piano
Will Sach – bass
Will Cleasby is a jazz drummer originally from Lincolnshire and now based in south east London having graduated in Jazz Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2018, where he studied under tutors Dave Wickins and Gene Calderazzo.

Since finishing his degree Will has become an in demand and versatile musician in London, playing with both young talent and veterans of the scene. Will is part of a number of projects and bands including Clare Teal, Judi Jackson, Joe Stilgoe and Zara McFarlane. In addition Will has performed with the acclaimed trumpeter and band-leader Wynton Marsalis, Grammy award winner, Kurt Elling and most recently recorded and performed a Christmas album with Jamie Cullum.

Will has performed all over the world appearing at events such as the Rochester Jazz Festival, Festival Django Rheinhardt, Love Supreme Jazz Festival as well as renowned London venues such as Shepherds Bush Empire, The Tabernacle, Roundhouse, The Vortex, Ronnie Scott’s and the Royal Albert Hall.


Brigitte Beraha

https://wegottickets.com/event/667119

Brigitte Beraha – vocals
Alcyona Mick – piano
George Crowley – sax
Tim Giles – drums

Lucid Dreamers is Brigitte’s own quartet, welcoming you into a beautiful and unique sound world. The original music draws from the jazz, folk, contemporary classical, free improv and electronic realms with poignant songs, atmospheric and open improvisations, exciting grooves and impactful stillness. They premiered at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall as a trio with Brigitte Beraha, George Crowley and Tim Giles in November 2019 as part of the London Jazz Festival, with music written by Brigitte. Extended to a quartet with Alcyona Mick on piano, they released ‘Lucid Dreamers’ on Let Me Out Records in July 2020, with the follow up ‘Blink’ in May 2022 which they toured in the UK and Europe. Their third album is due for a release in the Autumn 2025 with a UK / European tour to celebrate.
‘Beautiful’ BBC Radio 3

‘A set packed with off-centre pleasures and subtle delights.’ MOJO, 4 Stars ****

‘Quietly virtuosic UK vocalist Brigitte Beraha is at her delicately airborne, rhythmically audacious best with her closely entwined Lucid Dreamers band.’ The Guardian, John Fordham

‘Easily one of the best vocals-led jazz achievements so far this year and even more interesting because it is so honest and adventurous.’ Marlbank, 4 Stars ****

‘Best of all Beraha is play-ful: full of fun, and in her band mates, her play pals, she has players who are happy to surrender to play-full approaches to serious living’. Jazzwise, 4 Stars Editor’s Choice ****

‘…Hypnotic, enthralling.. The melding of improvisation, of electronica styled with cohesive and gelling jazz sees these Lucid Dreamers do more than blink, they shimmer with style and investigation, and in Blink they capture the attention of the listener expertly.’ Liverpool Sound and Vision

‘Exceptional recording.’ Peter Quinn, Jazzwise * * * *

‘Entrancing and very beautiful’ Alison Bentley, LondonJazzNews

‘Lucid Dreamers is forceful, sustained aural theatre, and it demands nothing but your dreams in action in return. Utterly stunning.’ Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

‘Something of a new departure for her, the small, electronically enhanced unit offering unique challenges which pay-off surprisingly well. Her lissom vocals frequently overlaid by looping, creating a mesmeric effect […] with ethereal, emotionally imbued soundscapes.’ Jazz Journal

‘I’m a big fan of the vocalist Brigitte Beraha. She has a unique, exploratory, explosive, fascinating voice’. Jez Nelson, Somethin’ Else