It’s EFG London Jazz festival month and we’re very excited to be a part of it once again hosting the brilliant Billy Marrows Band. We have a stellar month of gigs lined up for you with extremely exciting projects both new and long standing. A special mention to Louise Paley who mentioned us in her article for The Times as one of the best jazz nights in London!

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.

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.

03/11/25 – Rietkerk/Law/Mullov-Abbado/Meijer

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On this night, Dutch and British jazz musicians will join forces to present original tunes written by every member of the band. 

Each musician leads their own projects and regularly contributes to various ensembles across the European jazz scene. All material will be fresh and performed with this ensemble for the first time.

10/11/25 – Giulia Marro Quartet

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Giulia Marro is a clarinetist and vocalist based in London who has been making her mark on the UK jazz scene following the release of her debut album ‘A Portrait of Giulia’. 

“Giulia’s composing and playing combines creativity and craft in an immensely memorable fashion and truly marks her out as a Voice with a capital ‘V’…” – North London Jazz Collective 

Led by Giulia Marro (clarinet & vocals), this quartet features Nick Manz on piano, Ben Love on bass, and Will Cleasby on drums. Together, they explore compositions from iconic musicians such as Carla Bley, Betty Carter, Jimmy Giuffre and more.

Expect energetic swinging sounds from this new quartet made up of some of London’s favourite players. 

17/11/25 – Billy Marrows Band as part of EFG London Jazz Festival

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The Billy Marrows Band’s vibrantly melodic, groovy and expressive music explores the
relationship between improvised and composed music, generating a fertile playground for these
highly creative musicians. Their music incorporates grooves from across the globe and takes
inspiration from many genres, including contemporary jazz, funk, progressive jazz and classical.
The band played their debut gig in 2019 at the first night of Angus Bayley’s Process concert series
at SET in Dalston Junction, during which Billy was interviewed about the thought processes
behind the music, and have since played at venues such as the Vortex and the Green Note in the
2019 London Jazz Festival. Their debut album ‘Dancing on Bentwood Chairs’ is set for release in
February 2026.
Billy also leads critically acclaimed chamber-jazz project Grande Família, of which Chris Williams is
also a member. They have released two albums and an EP, which all received 4 stars in Jazzwise, include one Editor’s Choice. Their debut ‘Penelope’ was shortlisted for Album of the Year in the 2025 Parliamentary Jazz Awards.

“Marrows plays with such lyrical melodicism…you can’t help but be seduced into his
charmed world”
★★★★ Jazzwise (Mount Tibidabo EP review)
“Marrows’ melodic intuition always shone through”
Jazzwise (Billy Marrows’ Grande Família live review)
“Melodic and distinctive”
★★★★ All About Jazz (Penelope album review)

24/11/25 – The Sam Norris New Quartet- Live Recording 

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‘Norris is a particularly refreshing voice on the alto saxophone, and one who largely avoids pervasive influences to follow a more individual path’ – UK Jazz News

Fresh out of an intense period of playing exclusively his peers’ compositions throughout 2025, alto saxophonist and composer Sam Norris (Ronan Guilfoyle) brings together an exciting new quartet of some of London’s most idiosyncratic improvisers- Tom Challenger (Kit Downes), Oli Hayhurst (Pharoah Sanders) and Darren Beckett (Lee Konitz). They play a highly nuanced music which sits at the nexus of modern jazz, contemporary classical, folk and the avant-garde, with key influences including John Coltrane, Paul Bley, Dmitri Shostakovich and Gyorgy Ligeti.

Sam studied at the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship under Julian Siegel, Stan Sulzmann and Kit Downes, graduating in 2021 with first-class honours. He won the Craig Ball prize for jazz saxophone the same year and was a finalist in the coveted Musician’s Company Young Jazz Musician of the Year competition in 2022. His debut album ‘Small Things Evolved Slowly’ was released to critical acclaim in 2024, with an accompanying UK tour. He works regularly as a sideman with many of Europe’s finest improvisers, composers and cutting-edge ensembles, such as Ronan Guilfoyle, Ashkan Layegh, the London Sinfonietta, MACKWOOD, Stan Brunt and Saurabh Shivakumar.

Tom Challenger is a saxophonist, composer, educator, band leader and sideman. Challenger leads Brass Mask, which performs music inspired by traditional street-music and collective improvisation. He also plays with Kit Downes in a church organ and saxophone duo; is a member of Dice Factory, a jazz quartet exploring alternative methods of composition, releasing their debut album in 2012 to critical acclaim; and Ma, an electro-improv outfit who have released three albums to-date. Kit and Tom have performed together at the Royal Festival Hall, Café OTO, The London Contemporary Music Festival, Cologne Philharmonie and Swaledale Music Festival, and have been broadcast live on the BBC.

Oli Hayhurst graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2000. Whilst still a student under the late Jeff Clyne he was touring with Gilad Atzmon and Cara Dillon. In 2006 he was featured on Zoe Rahman’s Mercury nominated album, ‘Melting Pot’. He continued to play with Zoe until 2011 playing at festivals throughout Europe and recording a further three albums. This was the first of frequent pairings with Gene Calderazzo which have been continued in the bands of Julian Siegel and Pharoah Sanders. He was a regular in Sanders’ quartet for European dates from 2012 onwards, playing with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Dan Tepfer, Joe Farnsworth, Gene Calderazzo and William Henderson.

Darren Beckett (drums) won a prestigious Bass Ireland Award as a teenager, leaving the Emerald Isle to study jazz in New York, where he resided for 21 years. Across his career, he has played drums everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Royal Albert Hall. He’s performed on over 50 albums with notable names like Lee Konitz, James Williams, Brandon Flowers, Madeleine Peyroux, and Kenny Wheeler, George Colligan, and Daniel Lanois. Since moving to the UK in 2016 he’s been a regular on the London jazz scene playing Ronnie Scott’s and the 606 club, playing with Jason Rebello, Gilad Atzmon, Jim Mullen and Alan Barnes. 

The performance will be recorded live (audio and video) by Dom Howard and Harvey Cullis.