Jazz Club

Droitwich Jazz Club

Cutnall Green Memorial Hall, Addis Lane, Cutnall Green nr Droitwich, Worcs, WR9 0NE

Organised by Richard and Pattie Leach the Jazz Club is held in the comfortable surroundings of Cutnall Green Memorial Hall, where there is ample car parking within the grounds.  The hall entrance is in Addis Lane and has easy access from the A442 opposite The Chequers pub/restaurant.

Spats Langham’s Hot Fingers with Emily entertaining the audience at Droitwich Jazz Club.


The club is held on the 2nd FRIDAY of each month.

NB. There are no bar facilities in the hall so please bring your own refreshments.

Doors open from 7pm with music between 8 and 10.30pm.

Admission is £12 payable in CASH upon entrance.


2025

The Hot Teapots

14Mar2025
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Davide Vincenzi [reeds], Martino de Franceschi [d/bass & banjo], Glauco Benedetti [trombone & tuba], Federico Zaltron [violin], Ryan Baer [banjo, guitar and vocals], Michele Bertoldi [guitar & vocals]

The Hot Teapots is an ensemble dedicated to early 20th Century dance music. They formed in Northern Italy as a street performing band. Although their main focus has been the North American tradition of early jazz, blues, ragtime and popular tunes, they do not disdain excursions into other musical genres, such as Italian polkas, waltzes and other folk music.

Richard Leach’s Street Band

11Apr2025
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Richard Leach [trombone], Tony Pipkin [trumpet], Zoltan Sagi [clarinet & alto sax], Mark Challinor [banjo & ukulele], Dave Deakin [sousaphone] and Nick Ward [drums and percussion]

Richard Leach’s Street Band started life in 2012 as a strolling jazz ensemble at various town festivals in Droitwich, Worcestershire. The infectious two-beat nature of the band’s rhythm is helped along by the inclusion of a sousaphone in the line-up. The band’s style can best be described as Hot Jazz and Blues, as was heard in the Roaring 20s, with incursions into later tunes of the 30s, 40s and beyond.

Warren James’ The Story of Skiffle

30May2025
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[Please note that this is the 5th Friday of the month]

Warren James [guitar & banjo], Jim Swinnerton [d/bass], Jools Aldridge [drums] and ?

Following the success at Droitwich Jazz Club in 2023 of Warren James telling The Lonnie Donegan Story, we are delighted to welcome him back with his band for a more broad and varied selection of songs that had England swinging throughout the Skiffle boom of the 1950s.

Rich Hughes’ Fugue & Groove with special guest Amy Roberts

13Jun2025
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Rich Hughes [piano], Simon Smith [d/bass], Steve Street [drums] and Amy Roberts [clarinet, alto sax & flute]

Take a selection of hits from the piano classical repertoire and mix them up with inventive improvisation and creative arrangements, whilst adding in a generous helping of swinging jazz and driving funky/latin styles, and the end result is Fugue & Groove, subtitled ‘Classical meets Jazz’.

Calypso Moon

11Jul2025
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Ellie Dattani (vocals & banjo), Caroline Weiner (alto sax), Juliane Deil (piano), Jadie Carey (d/bass) and Steph Sanders (drums)

Popular all-women jazz band Calypso Moon are enchanting audiences everywhere with their uplifting music and astounding talent. Swinging their way through The Great American Songbook with class and style, these accomplished musicians celebrate the jazz and swing music of the 1920s, 30s and 40s with their own magic touch.

Dave Browning’s Jazz Cats

8Aug2025
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Dave Browning [piano], Allen Beechey [cornet], Richard Exall [clarinet & tenor sax], Bryan Butler [trombone], Keith Donald [d/bass] and Graham Smith [drums]

The Jazz Cats play swinging Dixieland jazz with emphasis on the music of Wild Bill Davison, an American cornet player best remembered for his association with bandleader Eddie Condon, with whom he worked and recorded. A mixture of upbeat Dixieland and Chicago style jazz with healthy additions of the Blues will ensure your feet are tapping all evening.

The Jake Leg Jug Band

12Sep2025
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Duncan Wilcox [d/bass & vocals], Warren James [guitar, banjo & vocals], Liam Ward [harmonica, washboard & jug], Alex Clarke [clarinet & alto sax] and Richard Leach [trombone & vocals]

The Jake Leg Jug Band bring you the authentic sounds of 1920s and 30s America – jazz, blues, ragtime and gospel with songs of murder, betrayal, gambling, liquor and redemption.

Swing From Paris

10Oct2025
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Andy Bowen [guitar], Fenner Curtis [violin], Tomasz Williams [d/bass] and Sam Hughes [guitar]

The band’s Parisien-flavoured jazz and gypsy swing is inspired by the great swing bands of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, from Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian and Artie Shaw to Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli and the master of tango Astor Piazzollo.

Tad Newton’s Jazz Friends

14Nov2025
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Tad Newton [trombone], Gary Wood [trumpet], ? [reeds], Alan Haughton [piano], Tomas Pederson [d/bass] and Ronnie Fenn [drums]

From Basin Street to Harlem, the Jazz Friends specialise in lively, swinging jazz as the framework for the sounds of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Count Basie with diversions into traditional jazz aswell as Rhythm and Blues.

Kevin Grenfell & Richard Leach Slide By Slide

12Dec2025
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Kevin Grenfell [trombone, trumpet & vocals], Richard Leach [trombone & vocals], Rich Hughes [piano], Simon Smith [d/bass] and Steve Street [drums]

The aim of Slide By Slide is to provide high class entertainment by playing an extremely varied repertoire of music, from traditional jazz and New Orleans street-beat to the Great American songbook and beyond with a smattering of popular numbers from the 1950s and 60s.