IT will be an emotion packed night when the last jazz session is played at The Talking Heads next week.

As revealed in the Daily Echo, Southampton’s iconic live music spot is leaving its current home in Portswood Road at the end of this month to move to a new location at the Maple Leaf in Polygon.

For the last three years The Talking Heads has been the home of the Southampton Jazz Club and membership secretary Andy Iles says : “We will be sorry to leave because it has been such a good set up for live music.”

The club, which is hoping to move to the new Talking Heads, is staging its last jazz session there on Tuesday with Jim Mullen, voted the UK’s best jazz guitarist and the Ray D’inverno Trio.

The 70 year-old Glaswegian guitar wizard Jim Mullen has a distinctive style, picking the strings with a thumb rather than a plectrum.

He has won many British music awards and recently recorded as part of The All Stars, a collective of session musicians on their Paul McCartney produced album All About The Music.

Pianist Ray d'Inverno, a former chairman of the Southampton Jazz Society, has played in every format from solo to big band.

Over the years his trio has backed most of the British jazz fraternity.

The Southampton Jazz Club is one of the south’s oldest jazz clubs and during its 40 years plus history it has moved around the city, including the Joiners Arms, Southampton University and the Soul Cellar.

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