Nic Meier filmed for a performance for The Spin jazz Club. Pictures: Ryan Quarterman. HOME to some of the most respected names in jazz, Oxford’s Spin Jazz Club is hailed as among the best in the land. So highly regarded is the intimate gathering above the Wheatsheaf pub, that it was named by the All-Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards as The Best Jazz Venue in The UK. But after 22 years and more than 800 concerts, it looked like The Spin had finally run out of groove and reached the end of the track. First came the enforced coronavirus lockdown, but worse was to come. News that the owners of The Wheatsheaf, off High Street, planned to turn the intimate upstairs venue into flats left the club facing homelessness. And even though the application was turned down, it looks unlikely that live music will return to the pub anytime soon. Spurred into action, founder Pete Oxley – a professional bow-maker and acclaimed guitarist who set up the club in 1999 with drummer Mark Doffman