SUNSHINE will be swinging into Chingford when top UK band The Jive Aces perform a special concert in aid of the National Jazz Archive.

The six-piece will be playing music from recently released eight studio album Spread a Little Happiness and fresh arrangements of swing/jive/R&B classics – songs made famous by such greats as Louis Prima, Cab Calloway, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin, Big Joe Turner and Sammy Davis Jr.

The Jive Aces are renowned for their high energy Jump Jive music, the exciting sound where Swing meets Rock ’n’ Roll, and you can expect a spectacular stage show.

Also appearing are special guests Swing Museum, an instrumental Jazz Manouche quartet inspired by the Hot Club of France, who will be playing a delightfully authentic version of this sophisticated and refined music from the 1930s and 1940s.

This concert is one of a series during the year to raise funds to support the work of the National Jazz Archive, a registered charity based in Loughton Library in Essex. It was founded by Digby Fairweather, and holds the UK’s finest collection of written, printed and visual material on jazz, blues and related music, from 1919 to the present day.

Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, Chingford, London, E4 7EN, Friday, September 18, 7.30pm. Details: 020 8502 4701, events@nationaljazzarchive.org.uk, nationaljazzarchive.org.uk/events