A year on from their outstanding sold-out concert, opening the 2018 Festival at The Other Palace, we enthusiastically welcome the return of the amazing Swing Orchestra Down For The Count to open our 2019 Festival programme.
Under the direction of Mike Paul-Smith, this in-demand 10-piece unit and three personality - plus individual singers and in close harmony, re -create in their own style the big band music of the Swing era. The music and character of Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Count Basie will ensure a most enjoyable evening with our audience going home with big smiles.
“Well, if that was Jazz, we like it. I think of it as exciting, live big band swing. It was terrific. We had a lovely evening, as did all the other guests.” — Happy 2018 audience
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Performance 8pm
Tickets £30, £25 & £20
JBGB Events 2019 EFG London Jazz Festival presentation at TOP Studio from November 15-24, is our third and biggest yet series. We’ve tried to cater for all possible tastes.
There are three band events with the returns of last years sold out performers Down For The Count’sBig Band Bash: the remarkable Gareth Lockrane Big Band, andDixieMix with more New Orleans Early Years music
Evocative concerts feature the music of two saxophone giants, Stan Getz & Cannonball Adderley, with two more presenting today’s stars Derek Nash and Alexander Bone plus the samba infused music from Brazil with Luiz Morais
Award winning vocalists Georgia Mancio and Gabrielle Ducomble present the music of wonderful women and Parisian Jazz & Tango.
With the Alan Barnes Octet of UK Jazz Greats, performing his Sherlock Holmes Suite - sub titled “The Sound Of The Baskervilles”, audiences at TOP Studio are in for a 10 day treat across eleven concerts.
