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We are “moving on” from performing at Didsbury Cricket Club and have played our
last gig there. We are still keen to play monthly residencies to audiences in
attractive, warm and wheel-chair friendly venues such as Poynton British Legion
(3rd Thursday 8.00pm), High Lane Conservative Club (1st Monday 8.00pm) and
Cheadle Hulme Conservative Club, Mellor Road (2nd Tuesday 8.00pm). Admission
for these residencies is £5. There will be more when we find the right places so
please keep in touch. If you have any ideas let Mart know.
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Martin Rodger, Mart to the jazz fraternity has a passion for Traditional/Dixieland
jazz and has been pushing it for over 50 years. Little did he know when he
appeared on a talent discovery show called “Carol Levis Discoveries” all those years
ago he would still be performing in the twenty first century. Mart jokes saying he’s
still waiting to be discovered. “This band is my best yet, and if you have something
which is really enjoyable, to a good standard, is happy and swings, you should share
it with as many people as possible” says Mart Rodger. These boys cut their teeth on
the British “Trad” boom and they still play today with same vitality as musicians one
third of their ages. Individual techniques have improved from years of practice,
and with the addition of the will to entertain, this makes Mart Rodger Manchester
Jazz a very popular band with fans and promoters. You can hear them on CD,
Audio Cassette and you can see and hear them on DVD (see Titles available for
Purchase). Sample the music by “clicking” on Jukebox. You can go to YOUTUBE
and enter the name of the band and see a number being performed from our DVD
recorded in 1989.
The band are famous for performances containing plenty of variety and their
repertoire is drawn from the music of New Orleans, early classic jazz of King Oliver
and Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong along with
popular standard numbers, even the occasional Ink Spots tune plus some
exceptional band originals.
The late International vocalist Marion Montgomery, who sang with the band at ten
separate concerts claimed that Mart Rodger Manchester Jazz were her favourite
Dixieland Band…who can argue with that?
The band have three monthly residencies in the Greater Manchester area playing at
High Lane Conservative Club on the first Monday at 8.00pm then Poynton Legion
Club on the third Thursday 8.00pm. Also a new venture playing at Cheadle Hulme
Conservative Club on the second Tuesday each month at 8.00pm starting on 14th
April 2009. Mart is always on the look-out for new venues to play on a monthly
basis within the Greater Manchester area.
Traditional Jazz Fans have enjoyed their music live on the British jazz festival
circuit, in Norway, The Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Germany, The United States of
America and Canada.
They will be performing in Norway January 2009 for the Stavanger TradJazz
Festival. Then cruising from The Dominican Republic 19th April 2009 entertaining
on”Thomson Destiny” for a transatlantic 19 day cruise finally arriving in Majorca.
Jazz cruise fun loving fans will remember the four previous cruises on this same
ship when she was called “Sundbird” Key UK Jazz Festival appearances will be at
Upton-on-Severn and Kirkcudbright in 2009
The band giglist is usually updated early each month and access to this can be made
by “clicking” our Upcoming Events Page.
P.O.Box 4, Disley, Stockport, Cheshire. SK12 2NH
Telephone : 01663 763532
Email : jazzmart@manchesterjazz.co.uk
Internet : www.manchesterjazz.co.uk
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