{"id":7509,"date":"2025-10-23T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gosportjazz.org.uk\/?page_id=7509"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:43:52","slug":"november-2025-gigs-reviews-and-photos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gosportjazz.org.uk\/?page_id=7509","title":{"rendered":"November 2025 Gigs – Reviews and Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

5th<\/sup> – Hugh Crozier’s New Orleans Band <\/span><\/p>\n

Reviews:
<\/b><\/span>Roger & Lesley: “A great evening’s entertainment, with six very talented musicians playing a wide variety of tunes from the early days of New Orleans Jazz.  We particularly liked Davenport Blues <\/em>and Summer Set<\/em>.  Hope they can come back again soon.”
Mark & Chris B: “Good Music from everyone and bless Hugh, you could hear every word of the vocals.”
Rita & John P: “Great music and good vocals made for a very enjoyable evening.”
Vic P: “A great very vibrant band.  Excellent vocals & solos.  (I particularly liked the seldom heard Davenport Blues.)<\/em>  A great evening\u2019s entertainment.”
Dean & Mary: “Superb night of New Orleans style Jazz.  Paula was particularly great on Clarinet.”
Brenda & Robert D: “Lively swinging, cheerful, happy, excellently played jazz.  A most enjoyable evening.”
Malcolm & Gary: “Great energy & musicianship from a band new to GJC, but which includes 3 bandleaders.  Welcome to John Watson, first time here for many, many years.  A great evening.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hugh Crozier\u2019s New Orleans Band<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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John Watson (Drums), Paula Jackman (Clarinet & Vocal) and Hugh Crozier (Leader, Keyboard & Vocal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Maurice Dennis (Banjo), Paul Taylor (Trombone) and Alan Gresty (Trumpet)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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19th<\/sup> – Warren James’ Lonesome Travellers<\/p>\n

REVIEWS<\/strong>:
<\/span>Maureen & John C: “Time for our annual fix of folk, skiffle, country & blues music, courtesy of Warren James and his three other excellent musicians.  A super evening of nostalgia, well done.”
Hugh E & Ann W: “Fabulous, what a wonderful night.  A real breath of fresh air.  We need them back again, please.”
Jean P & John K: “Very good band and a nice change”
Barry & Trish: “Another great evening from Warren & Co.”
Gill, Gwyn & John: “Brilliant music.  Very refreshing also very informative, we could hear every word.  The evening flew by.”Nick A, Heather A and Carole M: “A great variety of songs, sung in the original great style.  Ever so brilliant.”
Julia & Mark: “Thanks for a great evening.  Fabulous energy on the bass – loved it.  Superb rhythm guitar, banjo & reeds.  Especially liked Mary don’t you Weep, Frankie & Johnny and Peas & Black Molasses.<\/em>“
Val & Laurie: “Good to have some blues music for a change”
Jan A: “What a wonderful evening!  Fabulous music, excellent musicians.  Brilliant.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Warren James’ Lonesome Travellers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Warren James (Leader, Guitar, Banjo and Vocal), Jim Swinnerton (Double Bass) and Danny Blythe (Reeds, Mandolin & Harmonica)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Baby Jools Aldridge (Washboard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Copyright<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a9 of these photographs is owned by Malcolm Swire, Roger Lygoe, Jim Bevington or Jan Almond and they may not be reproduced or copied without their express permission. \u00a0To request permission, please go to the\u00a0\u00a0Contact<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0page. \u00a0To discourage unauthorised use, the quality of the photos has been reduced from the originals, but the originals are still available. \u00a0The photos were not necessarily taken at the gig mentioned ab<\/span>ove.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5th – Hugh Crozier’s New Orleans Band Reviews:Roger & Lesley: “A great evening’s entertainment, with six very talented musicians playing a wide variety of tunes from the early days of New Orleans Jazz.  We particularly liked Davenport Blues and Summer Set.  Hope they can come back again soon.”Mark & Chris B: “Good Music from everyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gosportjazz.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gosportjazz.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gosportjazz.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gosportjazz.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gosportjazz.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7509"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.gosportjazz.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7685,"href":"https:\/\/www.gosportjazz.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7509\/revisions\/7685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gosportjazz.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}