EFG London Jazz Festival 2017 details revealed
The performance line up for the 2017 EFG London Jazz Festival has been announced.
Nicole Henry will launch the 2017 EFG London Jazz Festival on Friday 10th & Saturday 11th November at 8pm. Since her debut in 2004, Nicole Henry has established herself as a most jazz acclaimed vocalist.
She has yet to perform before UK audiences and this programme will mark her debut here. For her performances, the well-established and highly rated musician – by musicians and audience alike, – Chris Ingham at the piano, will lead a trumpet, double bass and drums ensemble of UK based musicians to accompany Nicole.
Saturday 11th November, 3pm, the festival welcomes Alexandra and Tom Ridout with the Gareth Williams trio. Alexandra Ridout on trumpet, currently studying at The Royal Academy of Music, is the winner of the 2016 BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year. Her elder brother Tom Ridout on saxophones and recorder, was a finalist in the same competition.
With the support of the outstanding, established trio of Gareth Williams – piano, Steve Watts – double bass & Martin France – drums, they play an afternoon concert of well-known jazz favourites and original material.
Sunday 12th November, 7pm, sees the Scott Hamilton Quartet perform. Flying in, from his home in Italy, for his debut in the EFG London Jazz Festival comes Scott Hamilton, one of the all-time great American saxophone players with his established trio of UK musicians to play compelling swinging jazz standards and original compositions. Appearing with him on stage will be John Pearce – piano, Dave Green – double bass and Steve Brown – drums.
While on Tuesday 14th November, 8pm, David Newton, the UK’s most highly regarded and record breaking award winning jazz pianist, (13 times winner of Best Pianist in the British Jazz Awards), arrives at The Other Palace Studio for a unique concert of solo piano playing on the Studio’s superb Steinway instrument. Whilst the most in demand accompanist for singers and instrumentalists alike, and the band member most often selected to appear with jazz greats, David is his own soloist and creative master.
This will be a must attend concert, not only for pianists and jazz aficionados, but also for music lovers who just want to hear great music performed by a great musician.
The Blue Note Years with Chris Ingham’s REBOP perform on Wednesday 15th November, 8pm. Sharp, modern, steeped in tradition but also at the cutting edge, the music on the jazz label Blue Note remains beloved by jazz aficionados and casual listeners alike, decades after the label’s inception. Blue Note’s golden era was the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, a period that marked the diversification of the hard bop style into modal, post-bop and soul-jazz as heard in the recordings of Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and others.
Chris Ingham’s mighty repertory sextet REBOP return to the EFG London Jazz Festival giving new voice to these landmark Blue Note recordings, adding their own invention and improvisation. Pianist Chris Ingham is joined by Paul Higgs – trumpet, Colin Watling – tenor saxophone, Kevin Flanagan -alto saxophone, Robert Rickenberg double bass and George Double –drums
On Thursday 16th November, 8pm, Gabrielle Ducomble with Parisian Jazz and Tango take to the stage. Returning to Palace Street after her sell out EFG London Jazz Festival performance in 2015 comes singer Gabrielle Ducomble performing in both French and English. Gabrielle is a fast-rising star on the UK Jazz scene. She brings a special blend of Gallic charm and sophistication to her performances of Parisian-style jazz and tango.
No stranger to London venues she has appeared at The Royal Festival Hall, Ronnie Scott’s, Crazy Coqs, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Hideaway, The Pheasantry, the 100 Club & in cabaret at The Savoy. Dan Teper – accordion & piano, Richard Jones – violin, Nicolas Meier – guitar, Nick Kacal – bass and Saleem Raman – drums.
Friday 17th November, 8pm, sees Barnes plays Basie. Jazz icon, Count Basie, is one of the greatest bandleaders of all times. He was the arbiter of the big-band swing sound and his unique style of fusing blues and jazz established swing as a predominant music style. With evergreen writing including “One O’Clock Jump”, “Lil’ Darlin”, “Jumpin’ At The Woodside” and possibly his most famous “April in Paris”, Basie changed the jazz landscape and shaped mid-20th century popular music, duly earning the title “King of Swing”.
One of the UK’s most popular all-time great jazz masters, award winning Alan Barnes –playing alto and baritone saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet (voted best saxophone 2016 British Jazz Awards) leads a sextet of UK jazz greats playing the music of Count Basie George Hogg – trumpet, Robert Fowler – tenor saxophone & clarinet, Robin Aspland – piano, Adam King – double bass & Matt Home – drums.
Alexander Bone with the David Newton trio take to the stage on Saturday 18th November, 3pm. Alexander Bone is a 20 year old saxophonist, composer and producer who in 2014 was crowned the first BBC Young Jazz Musician of the year. In 2015 he was a soloist on The Last Night of the Proms broadcast live on BBC Two. In 2016 in the British Jazz Awards he was voted the winner of the “Rising Star” award by members of the public.
Pianist David Newton is one of the all time greats in British Jazz and the ultimate accompanist, joined by Tom Farmer – Double bass and Matt Skelton – Drums
Saturday 18th November, 8pm, brings us The Wonderful Music of Louis Armstrong – featuring DixieMix. For the closing night concert at The Other Palace, DixieMix, one of the UK’s best and most consistent traditional jazz bands, and chosen by Rod Stewart as his support band on his national tour, return to The Other Palace, following their sell out London Jazz Festival 2015 show, and with a different selection of material, to play and sing the music of probably the greatest of the jazz greats – Louis Armstrong.
Simon Nelson – trumpet, Pete Oxborough – clarinet, Chris Wigley – trombone, Kevin West – guitar & banjo, John Benson – double bass, Tony Wilkins – drums.
Jazz. Hmmm, nice.