At Pizza Express Jazz Club. Dean Street, Soho, London
No stranger to Dean Street audiences, Chris Ingham returns for this concluding concert in our “The Weekend Starts Here” series of Thursday lunchtime series , with his mighty REBOP sextet.
They first delighted a large 2020 London Jazz Festival audience, and then three later Spring 2022, 2023 and 2024 concerts to sold-out Dean Street audience, to capture the music, the spirit and soul - from one seminal decade - of the all-time jazz great, Miles Davis
During the early 1950s Miles Davis managed to record albums that rank among his best,
In 1954, Davis embarked on a two-decade period during which he was considered the most innovative musician in jazz. He formed classic small groups in the 1950s that featured saxophone legends John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, pianists Red Garland and Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummers “Philly” Joe Jones and Jimmy Cobb.
Miles capped this period of his career with Kind of Blue (1959), perhaps the most celebrated album in the history of jazz. A mellow, relaxed collection, the album includes the finest recorded examples of modal jazz, a style in which improvisations are based upon sparse chords and nonstandard scales rather than on complex, frequently changing chords.
Chris Ingham’s REBOP, visits Miles Davis’s fertile decade when the legendary trumpeter/bandleader set the standard for exciting small group modern jazz, resonant orchestral jazz and haunting modal jazz. Featuring timeless music from classic albums Workin’, ‘Round About Midnight, Miles Ahead, Milestones, Kind of Blue et al.
REBOP, perform the music of Miles Davis, with their own character and improvisations, featuring proven jazz masters.
Paul Higgs – trumpet,
Harry Greene – tenor saxophone,
Tom Smith – alto saxophone,
Chris Ingham – piano,
Joe Pettitt – double bass and
George Double – drums.
To refresh memories of this remarkable music here’s the evocative
“Blue in Green”
and Freddie Freeloader
A perfect way to enjoy a relaxed start to your weekend, featuring Chris Ingham’s legendary descriptions and the music of an all time great, Miles Davis, played and interpreted by today’s jazz masters.
"A group of outstanding musicians" LONDON JAZZ NEWS
Doors @ Noon
Music @ 1pm
Tickets £30
The Weekend Starts Here” series
Thursday 1pm Lunchtime Concerts at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, Soho.
75 minutes of wonderful music, from UK Jazz greats, for happy jazz lovers,whether in between your work,
or making a special London return daytime trip, across February to June 2025.
A short walk from Oxford Street bus routes and the Tottenham Court Road stations on Elizabeth and Northern lines
Featuring :-
Callum Au, Alan Barnes, Joanna Eden, Nikki Iles, Chris Ingham,
Derek Nash, David Newton, Simon Spillett, Tom Smith, Simon Thorpe, Norma Winstone and many more.
