WORLD JAZZ LIVE SESSIONS-2025 (A PortCaia Festivals Production) Dear World Jazz lovers It gives me great pleasure to announce the return of the World Jazz Live Sessions to our beautiful town, now taking up residency at THE NEPTUNE BASEMENT JAZZ CLUB, on the Harbour in Folkestone. The Grand Burstin Hotel, The Harbour, Folkestone, CT20 1TX, United Kingdom The main entrance to the Neptune Basement Jazz Club is via the Grand Burstin Hotel underground car park, this entrance is also wheelchair accessible).(You can also get to the Neptune Basement Jazz Club through the main hotel reception entrance, then follow the stairs leading to the Basement Jazz Club,this entrance is not wheelchair accessible) Please note that cars must be registered at the Hotel reception to avoid parking fines. In keeping with tradition, the jazz events will be held at the last Thursday of every month starting from April 24th 2025. The aim is to continue to welcome outstanding musicians from different cultural backgrounds of jazz and share the natural diversity of the genre. We have an outstanding calendar of world jazz events coming up from April to October 2025 (lineup poster attached). Do join us at THE NEPTUNE BASEMENT JAZZ CLUB on Thursday, June 26th for an evening with the best of British Jazz. Featuring; HEXAGONAL John Donaldson piano Rob Leak alto sax Greg Heath tenor sax/flute Simon Thorpe bass Joe Edwards drums Quentin Collins trumpet The band is impressively hipwith a variety of rich melodies, vibrant harmonies and infectious grooves The optimism of the music shines through like a shaft of sunlight on a winters day. London Jazz News This high energy sextet, with African and Jazz influences, was formed in late 2016, to perform the music of two titans of Jazz Bheki Mseleku and McCoy Tyner. It was an ambition born of love and experience; Simon and John toured with Bheki while Jason worked with McCoy. These associations bring an authority and authenticity to the groups music as well as having a strong influence on their original material. Since the bands inception it has released its critically acclaimed debut album McCoy and Mseleku and has played to enthusiastic audiences at club and festival appearances including Love Supreme, Scarborough, and Herts festivals as well as concert recordings for BBC Radio 3s Jazz Now and in session for Radio 3s J-Z. Hexagonalhttp://hexagonal.org.uk WORLD JAZZ LIVE SESSIONS-2025@ The Neptune Basement Jazz Club The Grand Burstin Hotel, The Harbour, Folkestone, CT20 1TX, United Kingdom STARTS 19:30 (DOORS OPEN 18:30) Tickets-15.00 Online ticket link: http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/world-jazz-live-sessions or cash on the door.