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Welcome to the Pete Allen Newsletter for March 2025.
Pete Allen will be joined with his regular lineup of Roger Marks (trombone), Chris Hodgkins (trumpet), Jim Newton (drums), Dave Hanratty (bass), James Clemas (piano) plus Trevor Whiting (clarinet and saxes) and Max Brittain (banjo and guitar).
March Dates 2025
Sunday 9th March The Bowlers Arms, (Presidents Suite), Falkland Cricket Club, Wash Common, Newbury, RG14 6TW, Pete’s 8 piece band, 2.30pm to 5pm. Admission £15 at the door Tel: 01635 47658
The Pete Allen Band are recording their next album on the 10th/11th/12th March in Exeter for Upbeat Jazz.
Thursday 20th March The Old Picture House, Harbour Road,Seaton, Devon, EX12 2LZ. Showtime – 3pm to 5.30pm. Pete’s 8 piece band. Admission £15 at the door Tel: 07899 925194
Do you know anyone with computer skills who would lend Jane and myself a hand to set up and populate a bandcamp page for the band? Bandcamp is an online music distribution platform. Chris is unable to help due to a pile of work committments – but his bandcamp page will give you an idea https://chrishodgkins.bandcamp.com/music. If you would like to help please contact myself or Jane at allenpete886@gmail.com or nana.macgregor@btinternet.com
If you know of anyone who would like to be on the emailing list for future events please email me at this address: allenpete886@gmail.com
Jane has set up a YouTube account and you can see recordings of the Pete Allen Band here: https://www.youtube.com/@PeteAllenJazzBand-lb8tl
Please don’t forget you can purchase my CD’s and my autobiography, “On the Beat” at all the gigs or email Jane (from Newbury) for copies: nana.macgregor@btinternet.com
Further details of the Pete Allen Band at: https://peteallenjazz.com/
I look forward to seeing you at one of the gigs.
Best wishes
Pete
Welcome to the Pete Allen Newsletter for March 2025.
Pete Allen will be joined with his regular lineup of Roger Marks (trombone), Chris Hodgkins (trumpet), Jim Newton (drums), Dave Hanratty (bass), James Clemas (piano) plus Trevor Whiting (clarinet and saxes) and Max Brittain (banjo and guitar).
March Dates 2025
Sunday 9th March The Bowlers Arms, (Presidents Suite), Falkland Cricket Club, Wash Common, Newbury, RG14 6TW, Pete’s 8 piece band, 2.30pm to 5pm. Admission £15 at the door Tel: 01635 47658
The Pete Allen Band are recording their next album on the 10th/11th/12th March in Exeter for Upbeat Jazz.
Thursday 20th March The Old Picture House, Harbour Road,Seaton, Devon, EX12 2LZ. Showtime – 3pm to 5.30pm. Pete’s 8 piece band. Admission £15 at the door Tel: 07899 925194
Do you know anyone with computer skills who would lend Jane and myself a hand to set up and populate a bandcamp page for the band? Bandcamp is an online music distribution platform. Chris is unable to help due to a pile of work committments – but his bandcamp page will give you an idea https://chrishodgkins.bandcamp.com/music. If you would like to help please contact myself or Jane at allenpete886@gmail.com or nana.macgregor@btinternet.com
If you know of anyone who would like to be on the emailing list for future events please email me at this address: allenpete886@gmail.com
Jane has set up a YouTube account and you can see recordings of the Pete Allen Band here: https://www.youtube.com/@PeteAllenJazzBand-lb8tl
Please don’t forget you can purchase my CD’s and my autobiography, “On the Beat” at all the gigs or email Jane (from Newbury) for copies: nana.macgregor@btinternet.com
Further details of the Pete Allen Band at: https://peteallenjazz.com/
I look forward to seeing you at one of the gigs.
Best wishes
Pete
Little “snippet” from “Jane at Newbury”!!
Thankyou all so much for supporting “the boys”, please, please continue to do so, they really are a little bit good aren’t they!
And don’t forget you can purchase Pete’s CD’s and his “Autobiography – On the Beat” (really good reading!) at all his gigs or email me for copies:- nana.macgregor@btinternet.com.
So how about a little quiz, just for fun! Answers at the end of this, but don’t cheat!
1 “Bird” and “Yardbird” were nicknames for what legendary American jazz saxophonist who reflected the nickname in the title of a 1946 work, “Ornithology?”
2 “Black Coffee” is the title track of the 1956 debut album by what jazz and pop singer famous for songs like “Fever” and “Hallelujah, I Love Him So?”
3 Hoots the Owl is a jazzy saxophone-playing bird on what alliteratively named kids’ TV show?
4 Gaining a love for music in the Little Burgundy community of Montréal, Oscar Peterson became a jazz legend known primarily for tickling what instrument?
5 Named for a major Midwestern city, what long-running Broadway musical features songs like “All That Jazz,” “Cell Block Tango,” and “Mr. Cellophane?”
And finally:
Pete was at the airport and was stopped by customs.
Customs: What have you got in those two sacks on your shoulders.?
Pete: Oh, just a lot of mobile phones.
Customs: So why so many mobile phones.?
Pete: Well on my travels I had a call from my mate Roger, he told me that he was starting up a Jazz Band, and could I bring him back two Saxophones.
Keep jazzin!!!
Answers to quiz!!!
1 Charlie Parker
2 Peggy Lee
3 Sesame Street
4 Piano
5 Chicago
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