Philip Dodd Quartet Saturday 24th September 2011 

Performance 6.30pm in the Britannia Theatre at Dickens World   Book Tickets

Have a look below at a review by Jazz journalist  Barry McRae

PHILIP DODD QUARTET AT THE 606 CLUB, CHELSEA
The 606 Club is a well publicised London jazz club. It has always
enjoyed healthy patronage and has featured jazz performers from all
parts of the world. This is a creative process that works well. Quality is
the only criteria and, in the course of the last several years, the club has
flourished.
More specifically, it has also opened its doors to fine quality amateur
jazzmen typified by the likes of the Philip Dodd Quartet. At their recent
recital they came over as assertively professional and all four members
of the unit seemed set to make their musical statements as well as to
pay homage to their own stylistic heroes. In their case, for instance, this
would seem to lead them to the likes of the legendary Clifford Brown, as
well as to the dynamic aura of The Jazz Messengers.
This was very much in evidence at the 606 in March 2011 when,
included in an imaginative, musical programme with a hard bop core,
Dodd’s piano traced its own direction along the stylistic route of the late
Richie Powell. This was endorsed by his colleagues as his piano was ably
supported along such routes by Paul Mason’s tenor and soprano, as well
as by that musician’s tastefully crafted flute. Graham Brough’s pizzicato
bass provided its own supple pulse and the quartet was rounded out by
Will Awdry’s urgent drum work.
This well organised, enjoyable session presented a formula that
genuinely worked. The band brought its own enthusiastic supporters as
well as a stand-up comic and showed that it was at ease with its own
message. In fact, I sincerely hope that I get an invitation to the quartet’s
next event.