Featuring the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Gil Evans, with the superb Pete Long Orchestra and singers Iain Mackenzie and Georgina Jackson.
Keith Nichols is one of the most respected and accomplished musicians in the world of vintage jazz. Midnight in Mayfair features his 16-piece Mayfair Orchestra and singers Thomas “Spats” Langham and Janice Day in music from the great bandleaders...
Following on from our sell-out show featuring the music of 1956 and our rapidly selling out show of the finest jazz of 1957 we present 1958: A Jazz Jamboree. This was the year of Sinatra’s Come Fly With Me, Ella’s Irving Berlin Songbook and a...
Recreating the music of stars such as Fats Waller, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday are some of the greatest names on today’s classic jazz scene, pianists Martin Litton and Keith Nichols, trumpeter Enrico Tomasso, s...
The most exciting and significant era of popular music was not the ’60s. It wasn’t the ’40s. It wasn’t even the Roaring Twenties. The real revolution took place between 1899 and 1919. In those years the world was shaken by war, ragtime, jazz,...
Paris After Dark: Cabaret songs and Jazz from the 1930s to the 1950s
The Jazz Repertory Company
Saturday 30 March 2019, 7.30pm
The Jazz Repertory Company presents a billet-doux à nos amis with its tribute to Edith Piaf, Josephine Baker and the joyous jazz of Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt’s Quintette du Hot Club de France.
The Syd Lawrence Orchestra marks the centenary of the RAF Benevolent Fund with a concert, presented by the BBC’s Nick Owen and directed by Chris Dean, of music including 'Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer', 'Tail End Charlie', 'Airmail Special', 'Ba...
Miles Davis 1959: Kind of Blue, Porgy and Bess and more…
The Jazz Repertory Company
Saturday 21 September 2019, 7.30pm
The Jazz Repertory Company continues its celebration of music from the 1950s by paying tribute to one of jazz history’s most revered and influential trumpeters – Miles Davis.
Sadly, due to scheduling restrictions this performance has been cancelled. With so many concert performances being rescheduled from spring 2020, The Jazz Repertory Company is supporting Cadogan Hall by re-focusing energy on remaining concerts in the...
