8:00pm Mark Crooks & Nigel Price present Jazz Samba + 7:00 pm Purbrick & Arnold Support 8:00pm Mark Crooks & Nigel Price present Jazz Samba + 7:00 pm Purbrick & Arnold Support Early doors & Bar 6:45 for Support after 7:00pm. Main act 8:00pm-10:30 Mark Crooks (ts), (g), (p), (b), (d) Jazz Samba! A range of latin jazz, including music from Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd’s ground-breaking 1962 recording, the first ever fully fledged bossa nova album recorded by American jazz musicians. The original Jazz Samba! Mark Crooks is a lyrical and passionate saxophonist in the Stan Getz mould. He is a long-standing member of the John Wilson Orchestra with which he has played regularly at BBC Proms. Guitarist Nigel Price is one of the unsung heroes of the British Jazz Scene with over 500 appearances at Ronnie Scott’s, 3 years with the James Taylor Quartet and winner of the British Jazz Awards and Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Percussionist Demi Garcia Sabat brings a wealth of experience in Flamenco, jazz, Arabic, Latin, Iberian Folk and pop music. Marianne Windham, the founder of Guildford Jazz and a well-respected and in demand double bass player. The quintet line-up also features John Cervantes on piano, whose strong roots in the swinging jazz tradition are overlaid with classical and world music influences in, as he puts it, his “quest to express those undefinable flashes of life, creation, emotion & passion that make music so powerful”