ROGER Marks and his Mainstreamers will be at Plymouth

Jazz Club on Sunday November 4. The club's Autumn

season continues at the Mermaid with the return of the

Plymouth based trombonist leading his Mainstreamers.

Roger Marks is well known in this area and indeed

nationally, as leader of the Armada Jazz Band, playing New

Orleans style jazz. In earlier years he led a mainstream

band known as the Roger Marks Quartet. While playing in

an all-star line-up last year at Lichfield, a meeting with

Julian Marc Stringle prompted Roger to rekindle his

interest in mainstream jazz.

Two members of the earlier band were enlisted, the talented

pianist Craig Milverton and drummer Gordon Clarke, and a

chance meeting with bass player Clive Morton at a Weston-

Super-Mare jazz weekend, Roger had found his five piece

line-up. Julian Marc Stringle plays clarinet, alto and tenor

saxes, the

clarinet being his main passion.

He made his TV debut with Roy Castle and Acker Bilk when

he was just 15! Since then he has played with luminaries

such as Peanuts Hucko, Wild Bill Davidson, Don Lusher and

Kenny Baker, and recorded with Digby Fairweather, Danny

Moss and Roy Williams to name but a few. Julian?s highly

melodic and unique sound reaches the younger audience,

while his phenomenal technique excites the jazz

aficionados. Craig Milverton is firmly established as one of

Britain's finest jazz pianists, and appeared at the Club a

month ago backing jazz vocalist Louise Parker. He was

pianist to the late George Melly, and has backed a vast array

of star names including John and Jacqui Dankworth, Stacey

Kent and Scott Hamilton.

He has toured regularly across Europe and the UK with the

bands of Pete Allen, Terry Lightfoot and Digby Fairweather.

He is also very much in demand as a solo pianist, with his

virtuoso ability and knowledge of the whole jazz spectrum.

His trios are requested to back American soloists at festivals

and at venues across the country, including Scott Hamilton,

Ken Peplowski and Warren Vache.

For the last four years he has organised his own Jazz

Festival at Hayne Barton near Exeter. Tickets for the 8pm gig

in The Function Suite at The Mermaid in Eggbuckland,

Plymouth are available at the door, or in advance from

Maestro's, Ebrington Street, Plymouth or ring 01752

847611.