The first in Roger's tongue in cheek youtube series.
2025 Update- June/ July
EUROPE and UK touring and gigs!!
Mon June 23 Birmingham: Jam session house band
Fri Jun 27: Geneva Festival Performance
Sat July 5 ‘BAD DOG’ plays at Tanta Nino’s, Rotterdam, 8 PM
Roger Manins: Tenor Sax Steve Barry, VISCOUNT LEGEND Organ, Gregory Eric Smith-Drums,
July 15: ZigZag Jazz Club, Berlin W/ Richard Magraith
July 16: B Flat Jazz Club, Berlin: House band/ Jam Session
July 16 LATE: Cassettehead Sessions with Hal Strewe BERLIN
2024 Update
Upcoming gigs 2024
Oct 21 European UK Tour #2!! with Mark Lockett Quartet!!
Oct 23: Neuchatel, Switzerland
Oct 24: Frankfurt- JazzKeller
Oct 25: Wakefield Rugby Club!!
Sun 27: Southhampton Modern Jazz Club ( Whisky Blue)
Oct 29: Bermingham- Spotted Dog
Oct 30: Cardiff: Flute and Tankard
November: Im in the Netherlands— Booking is open!!
Late Nov/Early Dec— Berlin— Bookings open!!
Past 2024 Highlights
Jan 2024: European and Japan tour No#1. ( Japan, Switzerland,Netherlands, Germany). This was as the Mark Lockett quartet promoting his new album ‘Swings and roundabouts’ We had a great time- 4 gigs in Japan then off to Europe: Frankfurt, Nuechatel, Berlin, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
2024 Update
I start doing gigs in Europe! Hopefully a new direction in my music practice. I’m excited and looking forward to tour #2 mainly to the UK.
2020 update:
The saddest thing: The great Phil Broadhurst passed away. He was a beautiful man and a wonderful musician. I was lucky to be in his band for many years and play on some of his albums. Rattle records are paying tribute with the release of five albums Have a listen and buy on Rattle records / band camp. https://rattle.co.nz/catalogue/releases/five-albums
New release : GRG67 Happy Place. We are proud of our second album. The recording quality from Jonathan Pearce is superb and its a great album. We have a live recording coming out soon. This sounds fantastic too! Have a listen here :https://rattle.co.nz/catalogue/releases/happy-place
Coming up: That NZ tour—we’re looking into this!
TTTenor
One project I particularly love is TTTenor with Andy Sugg and John Mackey. These 2 tenor players are simply mind boggling and great people. Its great to have a trans-tasman band and I hope that after Covit-19 dies out a little ( fingers crossed) we can get travelling. We are currently working on a web site so we can get cracking when travel restrictions ease.
2019 highlights:
Dixon Nacey release ‘Edge of Chaos’. It was a super pleasure to play on Dixons album and he won 2019 NZ Tui Jazz album of the year award with this. https://rattle.co.nz/artists/dixon-nacey
Also in the line up was 'Alchemy’ — a seriously great album ( not my words!!) of NZ Pop tunes put to jazz by Kevin Field and friends. Check it out here: https://nzalchemy.bandcamp.com/
Phil Broadhurst release of Positif. This was to be my last recording with Phil. Its recorded live at the Kenneth Meyers Centre Auckland. It is part of the five albums release I mentioned above.
2018
March 14 GRG67 CD Launch at www.creativejazzclub.co.nz . ( this is my band)
March 23 . Roger Manins 4TET at the FAT CAT New York with Sean Wayland Organ, Mark Ferber Drums, Ben Eunson Drums
Mar 28-April 1 : Germany ( Recording at Osnabrück for Oli Holland).
April 3-16 FRANCE/ Switzerland Performance Geneva and Neuchatel
April 19-- Fly London to NZ
At present ( NOV/Dec 2017) mixing 3 albums
The Thing . GRG67- The CD should be out March 2018. Yes a CD..We have enough for 2 CDs, but will start with one.
'Shuffle' With Ron Samsom, Michel Benebig and Carl Lockett We are hoping to have this completed soon. The mixing is almost finished. It has taken a while, but its going to be great!
Florian Ross with Ron Samsom, Roger Manins, Oli Holland: Title not known yet. This is nearly finished the mixing stage-- I guess next year some time.
UPCOMING RECORDING
DOG 2 : DOG Meets James Muller. We are recording this in Adelaide January 2018
TOURS
MARCH: I am going to NY, then to Boston to see George Garzone, then off to EUROPE for that EUROPEAN TOUR!! ( Though I have not got any gigs yet, but am working on it!!)
SEPTEMBER: Australian National Jazz Orchestra ( and only one kiwi) Australian Tour!!
The first in Roger's tongue in cheek youtube series.