Friday 3rd July
The Brigitte Beraha Quartet
Playing Original Melodic Contemporary Jazz with World and Latin Flavours, the Brigitte Beraha Group is an imaginative vocal-led Modern Jazz Ensemble who sidesteps obvious Standards to tackle lyrical material.  The music, mainly written by Brigitte Beraha but also by other band members, is very much influenced by Brigitte's multi-lingual background and by the likes of John Surman, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler and Azymuth, Chick Corea, Milton Nascimento and Hermeto Pascoal. The Ensemble, fronted by a vocalist singing songs with lyrics, also becomes an instrumental group when the voice is used as an instrument, allowing to blend in with the trumpet and fluegelhorn so as to create a unique soundscape.

Advance tickets for all our gigs at www.wegottickets.com/find/venue/crypt 

Friday 10th July
GRZEGORZ KARNAS QUARTET
This is the London debut of this Anglo-Polish group.
Polish vocal star Grzegorz Karnas is set to make his indelible mark on the London Jazz Scene with an exciting Anglo-Polish project.  Like an quirkier, more subversive Kurt Elling, Karnas combines a truly beautiful and intriguing palette of vocal sounds.  From scat to syllabics to stutters, his great musicality and mesmerising stage-craft bang a nail in the coffin of the jazz-lite male crooner so in vogue today.

He  has collaborated with the emerging artists of his country's jazz scene as well as its legends.  He initially studied classical guitar and then graduated at the prestigious Jazz Institute of the Academy of Music in Katowice.   In 1998, he was awarded first prize at the International Jazz Vocalists' Meeting in Zamość and released his debut album Reinkarnasja in 2000.  Karnas self-produced the follow-up album in 2004, a solo project entitled Sny-Dreams of a Ninth Floor and in 2006 released Ballads for the End of the World featuring cellist Adam Oles.  He has toured major venues and festivals in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany and Romania including: Warsaw Summer Jazz Days; International Jazz Pianists' Festival; Bratislava Jazz Days; Prague Jazz Open; Jazz Goes To Town; International Jazz Festival and Sibu Jazz Festival.  In 2006 he was awarded first prize at the Brussels International Young Jazz Singers' Competition followed by a win at the 2007 Crest Jazz Vocal Competition in  France. He is now the artistic director of Voicingers - the International Jazz Competition For Singing Musicians in Poland.

This specially formed Anglo-Polish group combines rising star of the Polish scene pianist Michal Tokal with stalwarts of the UK scene: bassist Julie Walkington and drummer Dave Ohm.  Expect energy-filled, groove-laden, acoustic music-making with a hefty dose of improvisation on jazz standards and beyond.

"We felt chills go down our spines, and the performer - a young Pole - literally seethed with emotion. Karnas combined elements of scat, randomly inserted syllables, deliberate stutters and other sound effects to create a highly original musical mélange, full of sensitivity and truly flowing from the heart....it's been quite some time since such imagination has been seen in the jazz vocals genre."  Le Soir

"Karnas' singing -! regardless of whether it's lyrics, syllabics or scat - is never for show; it's always music. Vocalists are probably a bit more susceptible to the lure of "shining" at all costs than are other instrumentalists. Karnas doesn't care about shining. He wants to make music. This is audible in every composition, in every measure he sings"  Jazz Forum

"With his Polish phonetics-infused, syllabic singing Karnas captivated the Ústí audience, who provided the singer and his colleagues with a truly stimulating atmosphere in return for music in which every note breathed with the joy of jazz"
IX. Mezinarodni Jazz and Blues Festival

See www.karnasmusic.com  www.myspace.com/karnasmusic   

Advance tickets for all our gigs at www.wegottickets.com/find/venue/crypt

Friday 17th July
Fernsby/Lochrane/Gambarini and Cater
More info to follow

Friday 24th July
Kevin Davy Group
London-based, Jazz Improviser, band-leader, composer and trumpeter  Davy tends towards the modal approach to jazz and improvised music, citing influences such as: Hannibal Lokumbe, Lester Bowie, Don Cherry, Tomasz Stanko, Nils Molvaer Pederson, John Hassel, and others. He is best known for international touring and recording with Lamb, Adam F, Two Banks of Four,Lemn Sissay (Secret Society), as well as his own groups, KDQ and D'semble. According to styles and genres in Jazz and music generally, Davy has worked across the board, throughout Europe, with artists such as; Pibo Marquez(Venezuela), Sangoma Everett(USA/France), Shiek Tidiane Sek(Mali/France), Kresimir Debski(Poland), Roman Rahout(Poland) Paul Shigihara(Japan/Germany), and Doudou Gouirand(France) to name but a few. Davy's trumpet has featured on albums by Japanese producer Sugizo (Truth?, and Grand Cross), US vocalist Melissa Kaplan, The Crass Collective, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Ashley and Jackson, Chapter and the Verse, Adamski, Unabombers, The Aliens, and recently in Germany on the live touring show: Afrika Afrika.

Davy has performed on the European music festival curcuit, including: the Montreaux, and North Sea Jazz Festivals, as well as New York's revered Summerstage.

Over recent years Davy's group has played most of the main London jazz stages, such as: the Ealing Jazz Festivals, Soho's Pizza Expresss Jazz Club, The Vortex, and the Spice of Life. Also the group has been regularly billed at the Manchester Jazz Festival.

Currently, Davy's trumpet playing is featured on Swiss-based project: Boww, led by drummer and producer, Gregor Hilbe.

Kevin Davy's group works with his own compositions. 
See www.kevindavy.co.uk   Advance tickets for all our gigs at www.wegottickets.com/find/venue/crypt 

Friday 31st July
The Brass Volcanoes

 We have managed to secure this very popular New Orleans Funk Jazz Band for JAZZLIVE.

The Brass Volcanoes are a funky, energetic street band from London formed and run by Graham Hughes. Brass and saxophones backed by drums and a sousaphone play a repertoire (including many original compositions) conjuring up the sounds from New Orleans, Latin America, Caribbean, Eastern European, funk, blues, jazz and more.

Since forming in 2007 the band has built up quite a following. They play regularly in St Martin in the Fields on Trafalgar Square, and in The Dragon Hall in Holborn. This year they are lined up to appear at festivals in Bude, Swanage, Pershore, Durham, Knebworth, Haywards Heath and Stoke Newington. Individually the musicians have played internationally with a multitude of bands. The Brass Volcanoes brings them together in a fabulous mixing pot of fun, spontaneity and funkyness!

Look them up at www.brassvolcanoes.com

Advance tickets for all our gigs at www.wegottickets.com/find/venue/crypt

JAZZLIVE and Second Life

JAZZLIVE @ The Crypt have received a lottery grant to broadcast some of our gigs into Second Life (a virtual world with millions of users worldwide). See www.secondlife.com. It is hoped that the August gigs will be broadcast. Wait for further info.

Friday 7th August
Renato D'Aiellio Quintet
Renato D’Aiello (Tenor sax) has become known as one of the strongest and most original saxophone sounds around. His treatments of jazz standards, both live and on cd, have won great admiration from audiences and the press. Renato studied with masters such as Sal Nistico, Steve Grossman and Joe Henderson.
He has played with great jazzmen like :
Art Farmer,Sal Nistico, Steve Grossman, Eddie Duran, Kirk Lightsey, Keith Copeland, Duffy Jackson, Tony Scott, Jim Mullen, Bruce Forman, Gene Calderazzo, Phil Lee, G.Husband.

He has played in most of the major venues and festivals in the UK, and since May 2002 he has played several times in Paris, receiving warm acclaim from Jazz Hot magazine and TSF radio.
www.myspace.com/renatodaiello
" Relaxed, unhurried but imbued with intense warmth tinged with poignancy, D'Aiello's tenor sound thus prioritises the expression of sentiment rather than the demonstration of instrumental facility...” “...He showcases one of the most attractive and affecting tenor sounds in contemporary jazz. Recommended."
Chris Parker, Jazz CD review, Vortex, March 2007

Christian Brewer (alto sax) He is for sure one of the most amazing alto player from UK. He possess a beautiful sound and great feeling. Christian is also a great composer and is playing a lot in UK and Europe with some of of the most amazing sideman in UK.


Andrea Pozza (piano)  Andrea Pozza, is one of the most acclaimed jazz pianist in Italy. During his career, has played with great artists, such as : Harry “Sweet “ Edison, Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, G. Coleman,Sal Nistico. Andrea is a member of Italian trumpet player Enrico Rava’s quintet ( ECM artist).

The bass is provided by Nicola Muresu, who is one of the most powerful and sensitive bassist in Jazz business today. He is a real poet on his instrument. His intense solos and amazingly solid walking bass make of him an irreplaceable man for this project. Has been working with Renato for 13 years and their love and mutual respect is evident when you see/listen to their duet on stage. His bass is currently supporting people such as: Johnny Griffin, Benny Golson, J. Bergonzi, Steve Grossman, Dave Liebman.
http://renatodaiello.com/nicola.html


Alessandro Minetto (drums) Alessandro Minetto Is one of the most in demand jazz drummer in Italy. His sense of timing is accurate and deep. His solos are also memorable. He is member of Steve Grossman's band.

 www.renatodaiello.com


Friday 14th August
Polar Bear
More info to follow

Friday 21st August
TIM RICHARDS TRIO
With Tim Richards – piano; Dominic Howles – double bass; Jeff Lardner – drums

Tim is one of the UK’s foremost jazz pianists and has been active on the international jazz scene since the early 1980s, touring in almost every European country with his long-running band SPIRIT LEVEL. Long-term members of the club will also recall several memorable quartet gigs at The Crypt with Viennese saxman SIGI FINKEL in the 1990s. More recently his nine-piece band GREAT SPIRIT toured the UK several times, released two CDs and played at several major jazz festivals, including Brecon, Cork, and London, with a line-up featuring many of Britain’s most dynamic players such as Jason Yarde, Pete King, Ed Jones, Tony Kofi, Gilad Atzmon, Denys Baptiste, Dick Pearce, Roger Beaujolais, Seb Rochford, and many others.

Tim’s TRIO returns to The Crypt on 21 August, after a gap of several years during which Tim has been studying for a Master’s Degree in composition. The trio has toured widely, entertaining audiences from Inverness to Istanbul with a combination of straight-ahead grooves, blues, swinging standards and original material, and have released several CDs on the 33 Jazz label.

Tim is also well known as an author and educator, and his highly acclaimed books ‘Improvising Blues Piano’ and ‘Exploring Jazz Piano’ are published by Schott Music. He is currently collaborating with pianist John Crawford on a sequel, ‘Exploring Latin Piano’, to be published in 2010.

For more info, see <http://www.timrichards.ndo.co.uk>
To listen to tracks, go to <http://www.myspace.com/timrichards>

“Tim Richards... moves with impressive confidence from boiling Latin rhythms to bebop, ballads and even a tinge of gospel, while still retaining his own recognisable style.”  Dave Gelly - The Observer

“Strong melodic lines, muscular rhythms, ear-catching harmonies... a keen musical intellect and a swashbuckling sense of adventure...”  The Inverness Courier

“The Tim Richards Trio left us in no doubt that the blues is not only the soul but the testosterone in the central thrust of jazz ancient to modern.” Jazz Review Magazine

“Richards' confident, relaxed playing distils the best of the piano masters of the past... fresh and exciting... genuine jazz magic... a model of suppleness and lyricism...”   City Life Manchester

“Swings enough to make you want to kick the cat from the outset... A wide selection of material... beautifully played and recorded...”  John Critchinson (pianist, ex-Ronnie Scott Quintet) - Musician Magazine

“Luminously funky... laced with the blues.”   The ROUGH GUIDE to JAZZ

“A unique mixture formed from his admiration of both the expansive, robust playing of McCoy Tyner and the luminous delicacy of Abdullah Ibrahim.”  The Times

Friday 18th September
The Filthy Six

The Filthy Six are the most exciting, authentic soul jazz outfit in the country today and have established themselves as one of the finest live acts around. Their hip-shakingly powerful mixture of jazz, funk and boogaloo is in the finest traditions of 60's Blue Note artists such as Lou Donaldson, Cannonball Adderley, Grant Green and Jimmy McGriff. Equally at home playing the sweat-drenched dancehalls of club land or the more traditional jazz room setting, their music appeals to both dance floor groovers and chin-scratching jazz heads alike.

The sextet is comprised of some of London’s hottest young musicians who lend their
talents to a variety of top artists from home and abroad including Tom Jones, Amy Winehouse, Jill
Scott, Mark Ronson, Basement Jaxx, David Axelrod, 4Hero, JTQ, Bobby Wellins, Hard-Fi, Richard Ashcroft,
Ed Harcourt, Natalie Williams, Stacey Kent, The Heritage Orchestra, and Nostalgia77. 2008 was a great
year for the band which saw them host a six month residency at the world famous Ronnie Scott's Jazz
Club, London; headline the Jazz Lounge at Glastonbury Festival; and open the London Jazz Festival with
barn-storming effect at Cargo, one of London’s more discerning music venues. They have also been
invited to burn up venues and dancefloors all across the UK and Europe including shows in Stockholm,
Paris, Geneva, the Isle of Wight International Jazz Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
(receiving several 5 * reviews in the process).

"THEIR HEADY MIX OF SOUL JAZZ FLAVOURS AND BAD ASS BOOGALOO...WRAPPED UP WITH A VIBRANT ENERGY AND SENSE OF HUMOUR...KEEPS THE CROWD HOOKED FROM THE MOMENT THEY WALK ON STAGE...A SURE FIRE BET EVERY TIME" - Dom Servini (Wah Wah 45s / Shook) - London

Jazz Festival 2008 “A MUTHA OF A SOUL FOOD PLATE… KILLER HORNS AND COOKED JUST RIGHT ORGAN… LOVE ‘EM AND
YOU’LL NEVER LEAVE ‘EM!” - Hammond Beat

Friday 25th September
Tomaso Storace Quartet
More info to follow

Friday 2nd October
The Charlotte Glasson Band

Another old favourite  returns to Jazzlive @ The Crypt  The band has just returned from some great gigs in Ireland, and recent gigs include The Brighton Festival Fringe, Ealing Jazz Festival, Cardiff,Marlborough jazz festival and North Devon festival this summer, and Respect Festival in Plymouth
Oh! The joys of a tuba solo, a rare treat which you can expect at the Crypt, Camberwell, on October 2nd 2009 that only an eclectic artist such as the multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Glasson Band could offer. Glasson is part of the Lost and Found Orchestra, and a recent Ladyhawke collaborator,  manages to travel through many variations of jazz (New Orleans Jazz, Dixieland, Gypsy, you name it) and a plethora of instruments in quirky fashion. 
This gig sees the launch of their new CD, and it promises to be a fun, entertaining evening of jazz.
With Charlotte Glasson- saxes, flute, violin, pennywhistles, saw and melodica, (Oasis, Claire Martin, Antonio Forcionne); Mark Bassey - Trombone (Julian Arguelles, Alan Barnes,); Jason Henson - Guitar (Acoustic Dregs, Rockin' in Rhythm); Dave Holdsworth - tuba and pocket trumpet (brotherhood of Breath, Mike Osborne, Mike Westbrook); Sam Glasson - drums and percussion (Sue Richardson, Tudo Bem)

Friday 16th October
The Zheya Strigalez/Nick Ramm Quartet
More info to follow

Friday 23rd October
The Bob Martin Quintet
More info to follow