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Come along once a month – usually the first Monday of each month – to see Live Jazz in a comfortable friendly atmosphere. Held at Kenilworth Rugby Club, there is a bar and plenty of seating. Find us, or get in touch using our Contact Us page – maybe you know someone we should be featuring; let us know!
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Upcoming Events:
£15 + 1.50 booking fee (Students £7.50 + 0.80)
– April 13th, 2026Ticket link: https://wegottickets.com/event/696738
Featuring Kim Cypher (sax), Mike Green (bass) and Mike Cypher (drums)
Mix the sophistication of jazz, the grit of Blues, and the grooves of funk and soul, and you have the recipe for contempo-jazz guitarist B.D. Lenz. The New Jersey native has played guitar since his early teens, is a graduate of Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, and has studied with such masters as Mike Stern, Vic Juris, and Charlie Banacos along the way.
Lenz has released 13 highly-acclaimed recordings as a leader featuring greats such as Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Will Lee, Joel Rosenblatt, & Mark Egan. He says of his music, “ I work really hard on my writing. It’s important that the virtuosic musicianship of my band members have a context in which to show it off.” His latest studio recording, Manifesto, was a crowd funded effort that broke into both the Jazz and Jam radio charts.
His music has also been featured in hundreds of TV shows globally including Breaking Bad (AMC), Catfish (MTV), Pawn Stars (History), Chicago Fire (NBC), Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo), and Young Sheldon (CBS) to name just a few.
Lenz and crew have played thousands of gigs internationally. Select venues include Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC), Iridium (NYC), Birmingham Jazz Festival (UK), Rochester Jazz Festival (NY), Swansea Jazz (Wales), Hull Jazz Festival (UK), Musikfest (Pa), Pizza Express (London UK), Scott’s Jazz (Belfast NI), Café Miles (Amersfoort NL), Deer Head Inn (Pa), The Verdict (UK), 27b Flat (Brugge BE), Jazzkeller (Frankfurt DE), PBS TV, and BBC Cambridge.
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Previous Events
If you weren’t here for these past Jazz Club evenings then why not? This is what you’ve missed!
Round Midnight – celebrating the music of Dexter Gordon & Herbie HancockMarch 2nd, 2026
Ticket link: https://wegottickets.com/event/692284
Featuring Dom Franks (saxophones) and Alex Steele (piano) with Paul Jeffries (bass) and Euan Palmer (drums)
Award-winning saxophonist Dom Franks and dynamic Kenilworth favourite, pianist Alex Steele, combine to present a joyous celebration of the collaboration between saxophone great Dexter Gordon and pianist Herbie Hancock.
The band will explore music from Herbie Hancock’s debut album, ‘Takin’ Off’, which featured Dexter Gordon on tenor sax, as well as tracks from the film ‘Round Midnight’ which featured an Oscar-winning score by Herbie Hancock, and starred Dexter Gordon as a jazz musician living in Paris. The band’s set touches on evergreen jazz standards such as Round Midnight, Body and Soul, and Driftin’, as well as hard-bop classics made famous by Dexter Gordon, and classic 60s tracks by Herbie Hancock. The band celebrates the highlights of these two great jazz musician’s legacies.
Saxophonist Dom Franks has played with some of the biggest names in jazz, soul and latin music. Swinging, melodic and funky, he is perhaps best known for his original group Dom Franks’ StrayHorn, whose album ‘Duality Pt. 2’ (2025) received glowing reviews across the jazz press, and was playlisted on Jazz FM, One Jazz and BBC Radio 3. His musical partner Alex Steele is known for his flying socks, lightning bebop runs and soulful approach to standards. They are accompanied by a top flight rhythm section, well known to Kenilworth, of Paul Jeffries (double bass) and the hard-swinging Euan Palmer (drums).
Swing From ParisFebruary 2nd, 2026
Ticket Link : https://wegottickets.com/event/688967
Swing from Paris are a quartet of violin (Fenner Curtis), guitars (Andy Bowen and Sam Hughes) and double bass (Tomasz Williams), inspired by the great swing bands of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s such as Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and the Hot Club of France.
Their Parisian-flavoured jazz and gypsy swing has been delighting audiences for over 15 years: from major jazz festivals including Brecon, Cheltenham and the Django Reinhardt Festival at Samois sur Seine, to being seen on the BBC’s Hairy Bikers and performing at the opening of the award-winning Gloucester Services.
Their latest recording together is I Love Paris (2024), available digitally and on CD. Expect stylish jazz and vintage swing.
Watch:
La Mer https://youtu.be/qkWJ7F5OMmc
Under Paris Skies https://youtu.be/sYsmeUcq1RM
More on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@SwingfromParis
Listen:
Spotify I Love Paris (2024)
Bandcamp swingfromparis.bandcamp.com
Album trailer https://youtu.be/6yReTaXRjGE
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