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Mart Rodger Manchester Jazz
Appearing at The Bailey Room, Poynton Legion Club
Third Thursday of each month
Admission £5 (pay on the door)
Doors open at 7.30pm for 8pm start
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.
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.
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 performed in 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 at www.manchesterjazz.co.uk (opens new window).