An evening of jazz standards and originals featuring some of the UK's top musicians.

Jim Mullen – guitar
Tom Ball – organ
Tristan Mailliot – drums

"As one of the most soulful and subtly virtuosic players this country has ever produced, Jim Mullen has recorded and toured with the very best, also carving his own place in jazz-funk history as a founding member of the Morrissey-Mullen Band." Suart Nicholson, Jazzwise.

Short bio of Jim Mullen:

Aged 8, Jim Mullen started out playing a home made tub bass in a skiffle group in Glasgow. He bought his first arch top guitar aged 14 and learned everything he could from other local musicians and the West Coast records that some of them owned. As a young man he formed a jazz group with the two sax players, Malcolm Duncan and Roger Ball, that went on to join the Average White Band. (He later toured and recorded as a guest with the group.)

Mullen moved to London in the late 1960s. His first pro-job was as a jazz musician for the poet Pete Brown, today remembered as the lyricist on several songs that comprised the legendary Wheels of Fire album by Cream. After recording two albums with Pete Brown’s band, Mullen moved on to Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express. After appearing on the band’s first three albums he joined the band Kokomo and in the mid-1970s he joined forces with tenor saxophonist Dick Morrissey to form the Morrissey-Mullen Band, where they both carved out a niche in UK jazz history.

Following 15 years and 6 albums with that genre-busting group, Jim formed various groups playing with some of London's top musicians including Mornington Lockett, Dave O’Higgins, Gary Husband, Mick Hutton, Gareth Williams, Stan Sulzmann, Gareth Lockrane (who entertained us in July), Mike Gorman, Matt Skelton and Tristan Mailliot. He’s been featured on the Paul McCartney-produced All About the Music and more recently on the Citrus Sun album, People of Tomorrow, produced by Incognito co-founder, Jean-Paul ‘Bluey’ Maunick. In the last few years he recorded two organ trio albums and Volunteers (for a large ensemble arranged by Lockrane) and Bumpin', a tribute to Wes Montgomery's music with singer Claire Martin. Other "names" in Jim's CV include Gene Harris, Mose Allison, Teddy Edwards, Plas Johnson (it’s his sax you hear on the Pink Panther theme), Jimmy Smith and Georgie Fame.

Tristan Mailliot is one of London's top drummers and has played with everyone and anyone on the scene. Tristan leads his own bands including the Loire All Stars, a jazz funk band and a Chick Corea project.

Tom Ball has played Hammond organ before at the club in July with Gareth Lockrane and with Neil Maya’s jazz funk outfit. He also appears regularly with Neil Burns’s organ trio at their residency at The Bread and Roses venue in Plymouth. He has also recorded a trio album with Tristan in 2016.