We hold lists of

• venues,
• musicians,
• sites of general interest,
• local accommodation

and are delighted to expand them, so give Dave a bell, and he will add to the list (or throw out defunct entries! News of these is most welcome.).
 

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Venue sites of interest

We will be delighted to link to other UK club and venue pages. Anyone wishing to have us link to them should contact Dave Lyons.

• Our friends at the Ipswich Jazz Club have released their exciting programme . Contact Dave Rutherford on 01473 231552.
• The Colchester Arts Centre Jazz Club is a great local venue.
• The Beccles Jazz festival is on the 19th to the 27th of September 2009. Their website has details at www.becclesfestival.co.uk, or you can phone 01502 716370 or 712317.
• Check out The Cut, a community arts centre in Ipswich. They have a jazz programme. Their website is www.newcut.org
• East London's favourite and premier jazz club is East Side Jazz Club and Leytonstone is not that far from us.
• Every year Jazz By the Stour provides us with great entertainment; no exception this year!
• Look out for the Roman River Music Weekend in Fingringhoe, Essex in October. Information is at www.romanrivermusic.org.uk .
• The Dickens Restaurant in Halstead has jazz the last Sunday of each month. See all about it at www.dickensrestaurant.com
• Southwold remains jazz active. Just look at www.southwoldjazzfestival.co.uk for news about the festival. Contact them at jazzeast@hotmail.co.uk
• Ronnie Scotts Club is still the home of jazz in the UK.
• Beautiful Thame, in Oxfordshire now has a fine Wednesday gig list. Check out their website. Concert Jazz in Thame
• In Reading, underneath the arches, there is The Jazz Club with food and great music.
• Closer to home, the gigs at The Peterborough Jazz Club are top class.
• Hushgroove at the Cafe Dolally, Lion Gate, Hampton Court in Hampstead Park, Surry have great gigs every Friday (sadly). Call 0208 943 3111 about membership.
• The famous Appleby Jazz Festival.This summer from July 29th - 31st
• You can live it up at The St. Ives Jazz Club has built a great programme.
• London's 606 Club keeps its pages nicely up to date, and has good links to other places.
• The Vortex Jazz Club web site is smoking and cool, as is the music.
• The Pizza Express site is general, but you can click performances for their jazz listings.
• The Snape , Aldeburgh , is beautiful beyond words. Go and see kids climbing on the Moors and Hepworths, and particularly the music.
• The Butley Priory near Woodbridge, at www.butleypriory.co.uk, has monthly great dinner gigs. Just phone 01394 450046
• When in Birmingham, for great food and great jazz try Ty's .
• The Colchester Orchestra and Ensemble are a fine local group - great musicianship. It is interesting to see that many Fleece people have broad musical tastes, and show up at beautiful St. Botolphs.
• The Edinburgh Jazz Projects web site has gone silent, mores the pity.
• The amazing Roger and Larraine Odell present jazz in The Cavendish Suite at the beautiful Bell Hotel, Market Hill, Clare, Suffolk, CO10 8NN. Check out their Sunday gog list at their web site.
• Ascot is the home of JAGS , a jazz and supper club of note with a varied weekly programme.
• Dave's favourite club in his own home town, the Yardbird Suite, fondly remembered from the early 60's, and still growing strong.
• Michael is very proud of the teeshirt he got at this obscure club in an American village .
• The Clevedon Jazz Club is North Somerset's Longest Running Jazz Venue, and a good one too! While there, check out the Tomasin family history.

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Links to Musician's web sites

So many musicians have given us so much pleasure. We get more magic than we deserve. A small repayment is to link to their web sites, so that we can all follow their interests, careers, and gigs.

• Tina May has a particularly attractive website (are you surprised?). The biog and education sections are well worth reading.
• Claire Martin now has a website of her own, and those who love her , and her agent (who must also love her) have provided service.
• Speaking of Sheena Davis , Whats on says "... the range of this singer knows no bounds".
• Clark Tracey has a brilliant site with downloadable music. Follow the links to many other good sites, and more information about drum equipment than you can shake a stick at.
• And just to keep it in the family, Stan Tracey has a site bulging with wonderful material - poetry, music, articles, links. Spend some time on this one.
• Brand new! Ian Watt has built a site for the great Bobby Wellins .
• Peter King calls his current web page temporary. Perhaps because it is with a collection of trombonists !
• Jim Hart plays vibes, drums, leads bands, forms collectives, and has a website at www.jimhart.co.uk/.
• For an evening of joy and stunning musicianship, you cannot do better than Dennis Rollins' Bad Bone and Co.
• Jazz Bazaar are a 5 piece band who play locally, look at www.dancemarketing.com/jazzbazaar.html. They are sponsored by Dance Marketing, whose store of good instruments is at www.dancemarketing.com.
• World music has a great Ipswich champion in Peppery Productions. See their website at www.peppery.co.uk
• A fabulous evening from Ola
• This site has gone defunct. Pity.

  Never mind, Peter also appears on this collection of great musicians . As well as Peter King, there is Dave O'Higgins, Roger Beaujelais, Trudy Kerr, Anthony Kerr, Geoff Gascoyne, Malcolm Creese, Tim Garland, Martin Speake, and no doubt others in the future. They also have clips and sell stuff, and a nascent venue list.

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• Alan Barnes has a lovely accessible website with lots of information. The quote calls him self-effacing. Is this our Alan?
• To have such a star as Lillian Boutté at the Fleece is a real pleasure. You can learn more at her web site.
• John Etheridge has graced our club with wit and fantastic musicianship many times. Is his main claim to fame that he is a U of Essex grad? Or because of a very useful website?
• Martin Drew maintains a great website: not surprising for a great drummer. Maybe someday he can bring his gig mate of 25 years Oscar Peterson to the Fleece... If not, we are always glad to see him.
• We get mail asking if we wish to book Dave Brubeck . We would love to.
• We were delighted to welcome the G.S. Wellard Septet. It was a wonderful gig. They do sterling work with schools as well.
• Sophie Garner is a lovely singer, whose website is at www.sophiegarner.com>.
• Andy Brush is a fine sax player with a great website at www.saxplayer.co.uk.
• As well as his own website, and being a great bassist, Andy Clendert runs the label on which our first recording was made, Trio Records.
• Mornington Locketts site seems to be down, but there is a good bibliography here . Also check out his John Coltrane Virtual Saxophone Lesson Site . Amazing. You can drown in this one, with a zen mantra ringing gently in your ear.
• I enjoyed looking at the website of the exciting saxophonist Gilad Atzmon .
• Anthony Kerr (a truly wonderful vibrophonist) was with us recently. He and Nicky and Steve and Julian gave us a memorable evening. He is building his web site. It will be cool when done.
• We had a storming and original evening from the Damon Brown Quintet . He runs a very nice website , too, but it is down at the moment.
• NOIS is the UK based Brazilian Band led by the wonderful singer Mônica Vasconcelos. They are a member of a web ring that is a bit messy, but the NOIS site is great.
• That magnificent guitarist, Martin Taylor has his own site now.
• A rising star bursts brightly at the Fleece. Look at Zoe Rahman's site .
• Marlene VerPlanck will be with us soon, backed by the Roy Babbington trio. She is the Queen of the American songbook.
• Jim Ferguson is a terrific American bassist/singer/lyric writer/composer.
• A visit from the worlds most sought after sideman with a great band rocked the pub. Thanks to Snake Davis
• John Law has given us some stunning gigs. Learn more. Check out his website.
• We have had the pleasure of Mike Gorman's company many times. He is a truly original and powerful pianist. His website has the best recipe for chicken Biriyani I have seen, but it isn't his, its his Moms.
• Kevin Flanagan sends us his web page. He has great music links, and links to many different beats, including Kerouac material.
• Remember the smashing piano of Geoff Eales with Marlene VerPlanck? Check out his website.
• Our very own Carole Burgess has her own site at www.divasrus.co.uk.
• We have found the Lee Gibson site! She has her own, now , very informative about this great singer.
• From Down Beat Magazine:- "Norma Winstone's instrument: an unfettered intelligence spinning tales with language...or without"
• When Dave O'Higgins comes to the Fleece the place throbs with originality and fire. Try his website.
• You just have to love horns, and in quantity and wonderful quality. Sax Appeal are building their new site.
• One of our favourite visiters is Sarah Jane Morris . Her website is a delight.
• If you love clear, vital intonation driven by a great voice, check out the website of Liz Ashton . She gives us some lovely ballads to click.
• Antonio Forcione used to have a site here. He knows the Fleece well, when he can find it, playing as he does in Acoustic Mania with Neil Stacey.
• Dave Jones is a considerable bass player with his own group Affinity. Nice web site, too.
• Theo Travis , in his various roles as player and composer extraordinaire, displays his wares on his friendly website.
• Paul Clarvis and friends run Village Life, a listening community worth listening to.
• One of the most exciting UK-based trios playing contemporary jazz today is lead by the versatile Jonathan Gee , with Winston Clifford and Steve Rose.
• We are more than lucky that Stacey Kent is one of our regular artists. It is a pleasure to hear her, and to link to her web page. And when she appears with...
• Jim Tomlinson who is an artist with both a webside and a saxophone, the evening is doubly special.
• We had the most amazing gig when Dana Gillespie came to sing the blues. The web has a wealth of information on her. .
• They were dancing on the balcony when Cubana Bop came to call. There was no room anywhere else.
• Nick Weldon was here. Was he a young lion or an old tiger? This great pianist now has his own web pages .
• Vida Nova is a great Brasilian band with Lisa Brown and Amalia Economos, and keyboardist/pianist John Crawford .
• The Perrier award winning clarinettist Dunstan Coulber is on track to be the king of swing.
• The University of Essex's own quartet's website has lots of pictures. The Michael Spearman Quintet "plays contemporary jazz in the style of John Scofield, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and JJ Johnson, among others."
• Nuage are a rather special guitar duo with a very good website.
• Everything about drums is available in a great web ring. Drumatak controlled and hosted by drummer Roger Odell.
• David Gordon and his trio are featured at the very useful ZahZah Records site.
• We had the most wonderful gigs with Chris Garrick. "The field of jazz violin, never overcrowded, is blessed with the emergence of a world-class talent in Britain's Christian Garrick", says Ray Comiskey, The Irish Times, on Chris's very good web site
• A home page for American pianist Joanne Brackeen, who is kind enough to crosslink us.
• Check out this very useful site for American musicians.
• The Pete Long Sextet with the wonderful Mrs. Patricia Ariadne Revell gave us a storming gig. Interesting links on this site.
• Marion Montgomery only sang at the Fleece once. Stunningly good, it was. We miss her greatly.
• Roland Perrin's Blue Planet Orchestra is a Java rich site, but information and music galore along with the jumpy-up-and-down bits.

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Other sites of interest

The community of jazzers is growing. Some of the sites below are commercial, but they all provide something of interest to the jazz world.

• Ipswich Community Radio does a lot of good stuff. They are at www.icrfm.co.uk. In particular, their "Cosmic Jazz" programme at 8pm on Thursdays, with Derek and Neil, is a terrific listen. You can listen online at You can listen online,
• As well as that, Neil has a lovely website and blog, featuring local jazz clubs (with a lovely writeup about us!). Look at the Cosmic Jazz Blog.
• A terrific listing of UK clubs is at The UK Jazz Scene , sponsored by Spectrum Software.
• Simon Appleby has a terrific site NewToJazz.com with sales, links, and lots of information
• A service called "Best on the Web" has a useful jazz section at botw.org/top/Arts/Music/Styles/Jazz/.
• "Bury St Edmonds Today" has a good list of local activities at www2.burystedmundstoday.co.uk/localdirectory/localtheatre.htm
• For information on music venues, musicians, and keeping music live, Pete Shaw has a great site for uk music at www.realukmusic.co.uk.
• Replication and duplication of CD's is now easy to obtain. A good example is DiskWizards, at www.discwizards.com who do CD Duplication, DVD Duplication, Blu-Ray Duplication, Mastering, and are very helpful.
• If you are travelling, and need your jazz, look at www.jazz-clubs-worldwide.com - you need never be without your music. As well, they have a new encyclopedea of jazz at www.jazzpedia.org.
• A very useful site, soon we hope with a gig list, isJazzview
• www.olivercoltranejazz.co.uk is where John Stretch is selling his huge collection of jazz LPs
• Jazz UK (Jazz Services) keeps lists of venues, musicians, gigs, lots of good content, local and world wide. It is run by Brian Green.
• JazzCD is emerging as a great place to by CD's and to find out about live music.
• The East Anglian Daily Times website has a very good "whats on" section . We are in it, of course. The site is quite informative.
• Jazz Action is a Yorkshire based site carrying good links, and information on artists and tours.
• For current reviews of American performances and disks, the 52nd Street site is well worth a look.
• The Musicians Union does sterling work, and has useful information on its site.
• More and more good jazz is available on Radio 3. They have a useful web site, with a gig list. Including us, of course.
• Jazz Views is a magazine, and an excellent website with editorials, and a nascent gig list. at www.jazzviews.co.uk , with a gig list. Including us, of course.
• The Ontario based Jazz Canadiana site has lots of Canadian info.
• I found Contemporary Jazz this site, with lots of jazz listings .
• Jazz Services - what would we do without them? Well, we could look at their website.
• WBGO Radio station in Newark, NJ, broadcasts on the web! HiFi jazz all day long. They have a nice site, too .
• The University of Essex Classical Music Society has a thriving jazz scene
• From Duesseldorf, Germany comes Jazz - to - Jazz. They carry a listing of European clubs (including us, thank you), artists and events.
• A pan-european site Jazz Valley has gig lists, venues, musicians - other services if you register.
• All About Jazz is a most useful American site, with international listings and articles.
• Jazz Central Station - Lots of info on American artists, venues, disks.
• The World Wide Jazz Web is an eclectic site - most useful.
• Links to all things jazz from Jazz Services
• The European Jazz Network site has oodles of information on musicians, gigs, labels, and lots of other good stuff.
• Jazz FM has a site with its own and lots of other info on it.
• The Riverside Club has a good site to help you explore your Jazz Nights .
• Jazz Breaks is a good general international site.
• The Jazz Clearing House was a very good site for world wide information on many subjects. It had a large section on artists with their own web pages. Fascinating. Under construction, now.
• The "Yellow pages" Service from American InterJazz is up, running and very interesting.
• Here is a comprehensive information source for all aspects of European free improvisation.
• The local arts and music scene was served by . Maybe it will come back.
• As a european site, InfoJ@zz.com is building into a great information source, thanks to the efforts of Henry Diong. It is under construction at the mo.
• Peter McGuire in Brussels runs this really good index of clubs around the world . Us too - thanks!
• Should we advertise? Why not. Babel Records has discographies and gig lists of their artists.
• This award winning site is a good starting point into American jazz web information. Thanks, jerryjazzmusician!
• A very interesting person calling him or herself The Pariah has a fastinating website called Bird Lives .
• All you ever wanted to know about reeds from this Argentinian manufacturer .
• WhatsOnIn.co.uk are starting a site for events, services and facilities in the region.
• For walkers and nature lovers in the area, The Colne Valley Association has a lovely site - elegant and informative.

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A local accommodation list

• Leavenheath

• Our excellent venue, Stoke by Nayland Club is a Best Western Hotel.
  From time to time they offer considerable discounts to Fleece Jazz customers.

  Stoke by Nayland Hotel, Golf & Spa
  Keepers Lane
  Leavenheath
  Colchester
  Essex
  CO6 4PZ
  Tel: 01206 262836
  Web: www.stokebynaylandclub.co.uk

• Assington

• The Case Restaurant with Rooms
  Assington, Sudbury,
  Suffolk
  CO10 5LD
  Tel: 01787 210483
  Email: restaurant@thecaserestaurantwithrooms.co.uk
  Web: www.thecaserestaurantwithrooms.co.uk
  A few miles from the club.

• Boxford

• Red House Farm
  Boxford, Suffolk
  01787 210245 3 miles from the club.
• Hurells Farm
  Boxford Lane
  Suffolk CO10 5JY
  01787 210215
  1 mile from the club

• Feering

• Prested Hall
  Feering
  Colchester
  CO5 9EE
  Tel: 01376 573399
  www.prested.com
  

• Hadleigh

• Edge Hall Hotel
  High Street
  01473
• Odd and Ends
  High Street
  01473 822032
• A Garden Retreat
  27 Stockton Close
  IP7 5SH
  01473 822168 or -7776177801
  www.agardenretreat.co.uk
• Tower House Fruit Farm
  Hook Lane
  01473 823260
• White Hart Inn
  01473 822206

• Hintlesham

• Birch Farm
  Silver Hill
  01473 652249
• Cart Lodge
  Priory Street
  01473 652773
• College Farm
  01473 652253

• Kersey

• Red House Farm
  01787 210245

• Lower Layham

• Badgers
  Rands Road
  IP7 5RW
  01473 823396

• Nayland

• Hill House
  Gravel Hill
  01206 262782
• The Steam Mill House
  1, Fen Street
  Nayland
  Suffolk
  CO6 4HT
  01206 262818
  brendaassing@tiscali.co.uk
  www.thesteammillhouse.com

• Polstead

• Polstead Lodge
  Mill Street,
  Polstead, Suffolk
  CO6 5AD
  01206 262196
  About 1 1/2 miles from the Fleece
• Brewers Arms
  Hadleigh Road
  Polstead, Suffolk
  01787 210441
  2 miles from the Fleece.

• Stoke by Nayland

• Angel Hotel
  01206 263245
• Netherhall
  01206 337373
• Rygate House
  01206 263679
• Thorington Hall
  Thorington Street
  01206 337329