North Wales Jazz wrap up their current season of concerts at the Royal British Legion in Llay, near Wrexham, on Tuesday. December 1 with their annual Christmas jam session.

The evening promises not only great music from guest musicians and sitters-in, typically including sax, guitar and vocals, accompanied by the North Wales Jazz Quartet, but crackers, free mince pies and a grand Christmas raffle.

Leading the quartet will be two young local jazz stars, Liam Byrne and Jamie Brownfield.

A graduate of London’s Guildhall School of Music, Liam Byrne is hailed as a torchbearer of the jazz tenor saxophone tradition who, when he isn’t leading his own bands, can be heard with the likes of the Andy Prior Big Band.

Rising Star winner

Trumpeter Jamie Brownfield, with a prodigiously broad playing style running the gamut of jazz trumpet from New Orleans to Be Bop, was winner of the Rising Star category at the 2012 British Jazz Awards.

The music starts at 8.30pm and admission is £6.50, concessions £5.50, with a special rate of £3 for sitters-in and schoolchildren. Young musicians are always particularly encouraged and there is free admittance for any sitters-in under the age of 25 and their parents.

Further information is available on 01745 812260 and at www.northwalesjazz.org.uk.