IT is a guaranteed to be an evening full of sax appeal.

Southampton Jazz Club will on December 13 be playing host to the British Jazz award winning Sax Appeal which has been going strong for 35 years.

It features five of the United Kingdom’s leading saxophonists and a world class rhythm section.

Playing unique and original music composed by the master of the saxophone Derek Nash, it promises to be an intoxicating cocktail of jazz, blues, Latin, funk and fusion with myriad of saxophone styles.

A driving force on the jazz scene, Nash is the UK’s leading saxophonist and he has appeared with a cast of performers which reads like an A –Z of the jazz and pop world.

They include John Dankworth, Humphrey Lyttelton, Paul McCartney, George Melly, Georgie Fame, Clare Teal, Eric Clapton, Charlie Watts and Jamie Cullum.

Nash has won a string of British Jazz awards and has been nominated in the alto saxophone category of what is the jazz world’s equivalent of the Oscars.

A member of the Jools Holland Rhythm Orchestra, he is a familiar face to millions of TV viewers who tune into The Hootenanny Show which has now become a must to see in the new year.

For more than 30 years Derek has led Sax Appeal and his Clowns Pocket Recording Studio has been used by many British musicians to record and mix master albums.

Joining Derek at the Southampton Jazz Club gig at The Talking Heads on December 13 will be Scott Garland (alto sax) Gary Plumley (tenor sax) Simon Allen (tenor sax) Bob McKay (baritone sax) Pete Adams (piano) Phil Scragg (bass) and Mike Bradley (drums)