Drumming tour de force. Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich in one.

Will Cleasby is a jazz drummer and a backbone to the two of the most revered outfits on London’s Jazz Scene today. The Banger Factory and Kansas Smitty’s House Band. Recipient of the highest honours from Trinity Laban Conservatoire, where he received his bettering from the likes of Gene Calderazzo and Dave Wickens. You can often bump into Will at premier London venues, Ronnie Scott’s, Vortex and Jazz Cafe, where he may be performing with Judy Jackson or the Grammy-winning and legendary Kurt Elling.

Will is a true tour de force, he is severely ferocious, undeniably conspicuous and spectacular. The room will come to a standstill during his solo sections, followed by standing, maniacal applore.

A pure delight to watch. Ecstatic.

The Three Willis come whole with Will Barry on ivories and Will Sach on bass fiddle. Tonight’s programme will comprise a selection of their favourite tunes and old standards with an exciting, unpredictable and modern spin.

LINE-UP:

Will Cleasby – drums

Will Barry – piano

Will Sach – bass

Secondary act: DJ Jake Snakestone Zaitz

A pair of decks for a guitar, spinning his eclectic set of groovers.

Jake Zaitz is an internationally renowned guitarist, record producer, writer, avid record collector and Snakestone Records founder. For the past two decades, he toured the globe with The Queen of British Blues Dana Gillespie as well as performed and recorded with some of the most revered names on the blues and rock scene, Mick Jagger, Joe Louis Walker, Don Fagan, Pee Wee Ellis, Shemekia Copeland and many others.

He has been a featured DJ with the Banger Factory at their ongoing residency at Brixton’s POW since 2015.