Wellington Jazz Club: Latest Newsletter page 1

FEBRUARY 2010

IN THIS ISSUE:

President's Message

This Month's Gig: Vaughn Roberts - New Orleans style

Club Secretary

Annual General Meeting: 21 March 2010

Minutes of 20th Annual General Meeting 15 March 2009

Club Diary: 21 March Ann Pacey; 18 April Valley Stompers

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE:

FEBRUARY 2010

I really enjoyed the jazz at our January meeting. The playing was of a very high standard. Experts were comparing the saxophone sound to Paul Desmond, and at the end of the gig one of our best known traditional jazz fanatics offered to pay the fee to have the group back again this year. That is praise indeed.

The big news this month as announced at the January gig is that the Wellington Jazz Club is moving in March. The arrangements are as follows:

The February 21 gig will be held at the Loaded Hog Building as usual.
We will move to the Chicago Bar and Restaurant for the March and all subsequent meetings until further notice.

For those who do not know the Chicago, it is situated at the north end of the TSB Bank Arena Building which is next to the Queens wharf traffic lights. It is about a two-minute walk south from the Loaded Hog. If you have a favourite car parking site for the Loaded Hog you can continue to use it. There is a lift halfway along the car park underneath the TSB Bank Arena Building which takes you up to the building’s foyer. From there it is a short flat walk to the Chicago. The Chicago is an unusual shape, a bit like an amphitheatre. There is a mezzanine balcony where the main restaurant is located from where you will be able to hear and have a great view of the band. It will be a good place for noisy socialising chatterers like myself to be. To get to the mezzanine you can use the lift or the stairs. At ground level we expect to be able to seat about 80 people around small tables in front of the band. I am hoping that the built-in facilities at the Chicago will solve the problems we have experienced with sound and lighting at the Loaded Hog. Time will tell.

Welcome to new members Helen Glasgow, Marion Grant, Lena Polyakova and Steven Hill.

Kind regards

Chris Caudwell
President and Gigs Organiser

Next Club Meeting

Vaughn Roberts - New Orleans style
- 5pm Sunday, 21 February 2010
The Loaded Hog Ballroom - Members $12; Public $15; Students $5

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