Fraser Smith Quartet - New Album Launch 'Lifeline'
Friday 17th October 2025
Tickets: £20.00 Seat at a shared Table for 4 /£15.00 Seat – No Table
Doors: 7.30pm
Show: 8:00pm-9:30pm – Single Set 75 min
Please note you can book for dinner either before or after the show.
Fiery and energetic hard-bop, The Fraser Smith Quartet are back with their second album ‘Lifeline’ at The Hampstead Jazz Club.
The last album ‘Tiptop” was streamed 1.3 million times and received a great response from the press including the Guardian, Jazzwise and Hi-fi magazine. Following a successful tour the band now return with an all new repertoire of Ballads, Burners and Swingers. Fraser will be playing his new compositions that draw on the likes of Dexter Gordon, Hank Mobley and other heroes of the tenor saxophone.
FRASER SMITH
Very much a working musician, Fraser plays between 250-300 gigs a year. He has led his own band at Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express Live, The Southbank Centre, The Vortex, Jazz Bar Edinburgh, The Verdict, JazzUp!, Swansea Jazz Land, The Green Note, The Bebop Club, New Generation Jazz, Snape Maltings, and Crazy Coq’s to mention just a very small handful of past gigs. He has played London, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Swansea, Brecon, Bahrain, Guadalajara and Beijing jazz festivals and regularly performs on the continent with a variety of bands and projects. He released his debut album in 2023 on prestigious label UBUNTU Music.
‘On stage, the musicianship is off the scale‘ – The Guardian
‘A talent to watch‘ – Jazzwise
‘Nonchalantly confident and very hard swinging‘ – John Fordham, London Jazz News
‘An all-star outfit’ – Jazz FM ‘So good, just really natural musicians‘ – BBC Radio
LINE-UP:
Tenor Sax– Fraser Smith
Piano – Rob Barron
Drums – Steve Brown
Bass – Simon Read
Please note, The Club is not licensed to allow access to Children under the age of 16 after 9pm, so for evening performances, please do not book tickets for children under the age of 16. Children aged 16 and above are welcome at any time.
For £20.00 Tickets:
Seats are not numbered and you will be seated at available tables. Please note tables seat 4 people, so for bookings of less than 4 people, you will be seated and share a table for 4.
For £15.00 Tickets:
This is a fully seated event. Seats are not numbered and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
Please note the Jazz Club is situated in the basement of the Duke of Hamilton Pub and access is via a number of stairs. The nearest toilets are situated on the 1st floor of the Pub.
Showtimes
Doors: 7:30 pm | Show: 8:00 pm