BOURNEMOUTH cafe bar Jalarra continues its live music with a mouth-watering calendar of leading acts performing throughout the month. Wednesday night sees one of Britain’s brightest and busiest sax players Derek Nash playing at the venue on Poole Hill.

Derek has been a member of the Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra since 2004 and fronts the funk/fusion band Protect the Beat who will be joining him on Jalarra’s stage. The line-up includes musical heavyweights such as Darby Todd, Tim Cansfield, Winston Blissett and Arden Hart.

Nash is also leader of the highly successful modern jazz ensemble Sax Appeal, which was been hitting the right notes for over thirty years. He is renowned for his energetic and charismatic performances on all four saxophones - from sonorous baritone to soaring soprano and is an award-winning performer to boot.

He has recorded three solo CDs - Setting New Standards (1998), Snapshot (2009) and Joyriding (2012) with the multi-award winning pianist Dave Newton.

With the Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, Derek performs approaching 100 gigs per year, including for 65,000 people at the Cardiff Millennium Stadium and for over 100,000 at the Glastonbury Festival, where he was a featured soloist, and he also appears on the last seven CDs. He has performed live and on TV with such greats as Eric Clapton, Amy Winehouse, Emeli Sande, Jessie J, Sir Paul McCartney, Solomon Burke, Annie Lennox, Eddie Floyd, Sam Moore, Madeleine Peyroux, Roger Daltrey, David Sanborn, Eddi Reader and Tom Jones.

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