This year, Larry Berkovitz and Zak Barrett are joined by the usual suspects including renowned multi-instrumentalist Adam Mader and Andy Frost on drums and beat box.

The Christmas Jazz Nights, which usually sell-out at Chelmsford Civic Theatre are from Thursday, December 19 to Saturday, December 21 in the theatre's Cramphorn Studio.

This year, Larry Berkovitz and Zak Barrett will be joined by the usual suspects including renowned multi-instrumentalist Adam Mader and Andy Frost on drums and beat box (or vocal percussion).

Larry's playing style can best be described as "unorthodox".

Equipped with a very early farfisa organ, he says he survived the underground rock years of the late sixties/early seventies as one half of a group called Two supporting Uriah Heep, Colosseum, Slade and Osibisa, a British Afrobeat band, founded in London in 1969 by four expatriate African and three Caribbean musicians.

Shows at 8pm with a Saturday matinee at 3pm. Tickets are £20 for the evening and £15 for the matinee. There is a group discount of one ticket in 10 free, and special discounts for students and registered unemployed, £7 from 01245 606505 or boxoffice@chelmsford.gov.uk