Laura Jurd Quartet: Elliot Galvin, Laura Jurd, Conor Chaplin, Corrie Dick. Photo Credit: Andy Sheppard

Monday’s triple bill of Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit Theatre, presented and curated by Jez Nelson featured a set from the Laura Jurd Quartet, a solo set from drummer Mark Sanders and James Allsopp’s Golden Age of Steam in its expanded, quintet format. The bands and the particular atmosphere of the gig – it is exactly as described, in the round – have been well caught here by photographer  Andy Sheppard.

Mark Sanders. Photo Credit: Andy Sheppard

Kit Downes and Tim Giles from the Golden Age of Steam. Photo Credit: Andy Sheppard

Golden Age of Steam. Left to right: Kit Downes,Tim Giles, Ruth Goller, Alex Bonney, James Allsopp. Photo credit: Andy Sheppard