Band Profile

Band Info

The Sussex Jazz Kings. Dave Stradwick, the well-known player of hot, traditional, jazz trumpet, leads the band. Early in 2000, Dave and Lesley Stradwick moved from their London home to Sussex for a “quieter life!” Dave had been the leader of Vintage Jazz for many years and also played with other busy bands. A decision was made to leave Vintage and so cut down on the workload to give time to renovating the Sussex house. It soon became obvious, that people missed his humour fronting a band, and he decided to form a new band, The ‘Sussex Jazz Kings’. It started with a ‘low key approach’, but natured the ‘fun element’ for which Vintage had been renown. Inevitably this, combined with the fine musical ability of the chosen musicians, resulted in the band becoming more and more popular around the M25 area and beyond. Dave now concentrates on leading his own band again. The band has been resident band in a club at Box Hill near Dorking, Surrey’ they regularly play to a crowded club and take the opportunity to introduce new numbers, judging their reaction before inflicting them on unsuspecting audiences elsewhere. In many peoples opinion, the band is now a fine exponent of happy traditional jazz, in the broad New Orleans style. The ‘jazzers’ come back every week, so the band must be doing something right. The band now plays at all major jazz festivals and tours the country to perform at most great jazz clubs, in the last few years they have had many bookings across Europe and beyond.

Previous Bookings

Date	Further Info
1st August 2021	N/A
2nd February 2020	N/A
7th July 2019	N/A
6th January 2019	N/A
9th December 2018	N/A
19th August 2018	N/A
17th December 2017	N/A
27th August 2017	N/A
7th May 2017	N/A
8th January 2017	N/A
28th August 2016	N/A
5th June 2016	N/A
3rd April 2016	N/A
29th November 2015	N/A
16th February 2014	N/A
22nd December 2013	N/A
4th August 2013	N/A
5th May 2013	N/A
16th December 2012	N/A
6th May 2012	N/A