A JAZZ club that has been bringing international musicians to Kidderminster for 10 years is facing the axe unless attendance at its concerts improves fast.

Aggborough Jazz promoter, Alan Biggs, said the number of people at meetings had dropped off this year and the club would have to close down unless the situation changed.

Acts coming to the club in the coming weeks include New Orleans jazz outfit Barry Martyn and The Young Bloods, John Everett's Red Dragon Jazzmen and Richard Leach's 7 Stars of Jazz.

Martin Bennett's Old Green River Band and New Millennium Jazz Band are also lined up for next month, while the Old Fashioned Love Band are performing on April 4.

Barry Martyn and his British band, The Young Bloods, take to the stage on Monday and are regulars at Kidderminster Harriers' Aggborough Stadium-based club.

They were featured in the Shuttle/Times & News last February.

Mr Martyn is a multi-talented bandleader, author and raconteur and has released five solo albums since he began working as a musician at 14 and bandleader at 15.

He was also the first white musician to join a black musicians' union in the USA and dedicated a decade of his career to travelling the world's stages with All-American New Orleans band The Legends of Jazz.

The latest chapter of his colourful career - which included recording interviews with more than 50 jazz musicians, preserved in Tulane University's Archive of Jazz and Rutgers University of New Jersey - has also seen him take to the stage in front of US president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy.

Ironically, last year, the club was celebrating an improvement in turn-out, which was averaging 50 when Mr Biggs was interviewed before the Red Dragon Jazzmen performed in May.

Red Dragon Jazzmen, led by Stourport septuagenarian John Everett - who celebrated his 60th year in music last June - are another popular act at Aggborough, where they have having played three times before.

More information and tickets for any of the bands in the spring season's programme can be obtained by calling 07790 012767.

Doors open at 7pm and food is available from 7.30pm.