Event - Sunday jazz - Jazz at the Mansfield, starts Sunday July 31st

 

CLARINETIST Wally Fawkes  and pianist Ron Rubin will be unveiling a new jazz club on Sunday at the Mansfield Bowling Club.

With a £4 door entry, a cheap club-price bar and the relaxing surroundings of a classic bowling club, Jazz at the Mansfield looks set to become a date for music lovers – and will help raise cash for the Dartmouth Park club, which has seen falling memberships and increased running costs. 
 

Wally, who was inspired by the New Orleans great Sidney Bechet, has been playing the clarinet since the early 1940s and has appeared with George Webb’s Dixielanders and Humph­rey Lyttleton’s band. Ron’s roll of honour includes appearing regularly with George Melly in John Chilton’s Feetwarmers. 
 

Organised by jazz promoter Jim Godbolt, who wrote the in-house newspaper Jazz At Ronnie Scotts for three decades, the new session offers the chance to hear some of the finest British musicians at full pelt, with guest musicians each week. There are plans to build new homes on the Croftdown Road site– which has caused controversy with members and neighbours – but unless Mansfield can boost its income, the future for the club is uncertain.

 

• Jazz at the Mansfield starts on Sunday, 7.30-11pm, at The Mansfield Bowling Club, Croftdown Road, NW5. b£4.