Hot News from Alan Haughton’s July Newsletter
Our Summer Jazz Bash is on Tuesday July 1st at 8.00pm and features jazz legend Roy Williams on trombone, vocalist & gospel diva Denise Gordon, Boysey Bartrum on sax, Tomas Pedersen on bass, Bobby Orr on the drums + yours truly on piano. Again, a bargain at £8 in advance and £10 on the door.
Roy Williams has played with most of the top players in the UK; Jazz Journal International voted him Top Trombonist for four years running in the 1980s, when he beat Bill Watrous into second place. He has also made a habit of winning the British Jazz Awards. He has played with the bands of Terry Lightfoot, Alex Welsh and Humphrey Lyttleton, and has toured and recorded with visiting American musicians Bud Freeman, Wild Bill Davison and Ruby Braff. He is much in demand at jazz festivals all over the world, and is one of the relatively few musicians who has succeeded in making a living by playing jazz.
Born to Nevisian parents, the UK based soulful jazz singer Denise Gordon has performed around the world from Australia to Zimbabwe! Denise tours frequently throughout Europe, can be seen regularly in Germany and Switzerland, has performed at Jazz Ascona festival & in the U.S in the beloved city of New Orleans at the prestigious Preservation Hall; in countries as far away as Australia, Brazil and China & Hong Kong and at home in the UK in venues as varied as Buckingham Palace, Glastonbury, T in the Park, and Edinburgh Festival, adapting her style from the smallest and most intimate venues to the largest theatres.
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