Doors open – 6:30pm
Show begins – 7:45pm
Show ends – 10:00pm
Doors close – midnight
Tickets from £15 | Complimentary for Patrons
Order from the Jazz Menu directly to your table in the Sunbeam Theatre. We recommend coming in early to enjoy a bite and a drink before the music starts.
With a focus on swing and the straight ahead, Fraser Smith channels the sound and language of the big Tenor men – his music harkens back to the Golden ages of jazz, from 40’s Kansas City through to 60’s New York.
About Fraser Smith
Very much a working musician, Fraser plays between 250-300 gigs a year. He has led his own band at Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express Live, The Southbank Centre, The Vortex, Jazz Bar Edinburgh, The Verdict, JazzUp!, Swansea Jazz Land, The Green Note, The Bebop Club, New Generation Jazz, Snape Maltings, and Crazy Coq’s to mention just a very small handful of past gigs. He has played London, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Swansea, Brecon, Bahrain, Guadalajara and Beijing jazz festivals and regularly performs on the continent with a variety of bands and projects.
Born in Birmingham, raised between the Midlands and Wales, Fraser first picked up the sax at the age of 15. He first came to the music of Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong and Ike Quebec through the Woolworth’s bargain bucket. After studying hundreds of these solos, he considers himself a ‘practical scholar’, bringing these sounds of a bygone era to a modern stage. Fraser released his debut album TipTop! on prestigious UK label UBUNTU last year and has been touring with his quartet regularly throughout 2023/24.
“Original tunes which take the virtues of 50s and 60s hard bop and soul jazz and infuse them with a youthful enthusiasm born of the 21st century.” Ian Mann – Jazz Man
Line up
Fraser Smith – Tenor
Leon Greening – Piano
Simon Read – Bass
Steve Brown – Drums
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