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july 2019 JULY 2019 benny golson FRI 12 - SAT 13 JULY • SOHO DOUBLE SHOWS pizzaexpress jazz club soho pizzaexpress live holborn the pheasantry chelsea pizzaexpress live maidstone take pizzaexpress live birmingham m e pizzaexpresslive.com home 1 WELCOME TO PIZZAEXPRESS LIVE JULY 2019 calendar 4 THE HOME OF pizzaexpress jazz club soho 8 LIVE MUSIC pizzaexpress live holborn 20 AND GREAT FOOD Enjoy great Pizza and listen to incredible artists at the pheasantry chelsea 30 some of the UK’s finest venues - including the award winning PizzaExpress Jazz Club in Soho, The Pheasantry in Chelsea, our PizzaExpress Live pizzaexpress live Maidstone 38 venues in Maidstone, Birmingham, and our brand new venue in Holborn. pizzaexpress live birmingham 40 the live playlist 42 coming soon 44 pizzaexpresslive.com pizzajazzclub pizzaexpresslive 2 3 JULY 2019 SOHO PizzaExpress Jazz Club HOLBORN CHELSEA The Pheasantry FRI 5 - MON 15 JULY MON 1 Ray GelAto The Vince dunn orchestra TUE 2 Fleur StevenSon Lenny Beige Kit & McConnel WED 3 Alex Hitchcock Quintet Nicky Haslam JAZZ FESTIVAL 2019 soho jazz THU 4 Mudibu & the Jezebel Sextet FaitheTTEs Judy nIeMack festival TUE 9 - WED 10 JULY FRI 5 Lew TabAckin TRio SoothSayers Judy nIeMack The Giles ThornTon Jazz orchestra SAT 6 (lunch) Hugo wolF lew TABackin Trio (eve) Blue Harlem (lunch) lucinda SUN 7 Fem BellinG (eve) The HaYwood SisterS MelisSa cAvanagh belle FRI 12 - SUN 14 JULY MON 8 MelisSa aldana QuarTet dvtn Vivian reed TUE 9 MelisSa aldana QuarTet LucinDa belle & FrienDS InsTant Sunshine WED 10 Joel ross LucinDa belle & FrienDS The chairmen THU 11 Joel ross The music of kool & The Gang Luna CoHen & rob luft duo everly brothers reunion concert FRI 12 - SAT 13 JULY FRI 12 Benny Golson QuaRtet (2 x showS) The coalminers Everly brotherS reunion Concert SAT The Denmark sTReet Big band (lunch) Jamison rosS Everly brotherS reunion Concert 13 Benny Golson QuaRtet (2 x showS) Alex GRenier TRio (lunch) SUN 14 Larry GoldinGs / Peter BernStein David mCAlmont Everly brotherS reunion Concert / bill StewarT benny Larry GoldinGs / Peter BernStein golson MON 15 / bill StewarT James & BlACk 4 5 JULY 2019 SOHO PizzaExpress Jazz Club HOLBORN CHELSEA The Pheasantry WED 17 - THU 18 JULY TUE 16 Charles turner QuARtet Michelle JoHN Daryl Sherman WED 17 MitCH Dalton & Friends The BoondoCk HiPpy Daryl Sherman THU 18 MitCH Dalton & Friends Diane Shaw We reMember Joe CocKer mitch dalton & friends FRI 19 Atlantic Soul orchestra Steve nichol Kt Sullivan FRI 19 - SAT 20 JULY Kt Sullivan SAT 20 City funk orchesTRa Don-e Mark JennetT QuARtet (lunch) Tim Sullivan SUN 21 True Strays (eve) The Dylema CollectiVe Ben Payne MON 22 Karen lANe Jesse kinch kt sullivan Divas ThrouGH The decades TUE 23 ChriS ingham SpiriT FinGers SAT 27 JULY WED 24 The filthy six nashVille meeTS LONDON MelinDa hUGHeS THU 25 Gizelle smiTH nashVille meeTS LONDON Earl oKin TRio natasha FRI 26 AleC DankworTh Tommy Blaize TRio Paul rYan & Jamie Safir wat t s MON 29 - TUE 30 JULY SAT 27 Wendy kiRkland (lunch) NatasHa wAtTS Jo elMs RoberTo Pla laTin enSeMble (eve) ChanTelle Duncan (luncH) SUN 28 Sambroso all StarS (eve) Liv WaRfielD Marlene sinGS tHe TAnGo MON 29 Houston PerSon orGan trio Live PlAylisT unsigneD SessionS houston TUE 30 Houston PerSon orGan trio GirlS With Guitars Thelma Ruby person WED Junior GiscomBe Debbie SandS 6 31 Brilliant BRazil 7 pizzaexpress jazz club soho Now in its 42nd year, the Dean PIZZAEXPRESS JAZZ CLUB Street venue is rightly considered one of Britain’s finest jazz clubs with an international reputation that has seen mesmerising performances from SOHO Grammy winning soul-jazz giant Gregory Porter, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, vocal icon Amy Winehouse, violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy, bass star Richard Bona and revered jazz singer Kurt Elling alongside its many acclaimed mini- festivals, special events and knock- out one-off performances. Today, PizzaExpress Jazz Club is part of the very heart, and soul, of Soho. DOOR TIMES: PIZZAEXPRESS JAZZ CLUB SOHO MON - THU 6.30pm FRI - SAT 7pm 10 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D 3RW SUN 6pm pizzaexpresslive.com8 LUNCH SHOWS midday BOOKINGS: 020 7439 4962 9 FRI - SAT double shows 5.30pm/9.30pm pizzaexpress jazz club soho 2019 july TH TH MON 1ST JULY FRI 5 – SAT 6 JULY RAY GELATO 25 YEARS TOGETHER LEW TABACKIN TRIO Celebrating their 25th anniversary with a series of special shows in the Jazz great Lew Tabackin returns to PizzaExpress UK and all over Europe as well as a newly recorded live album, Britain’s Jazz Club for two special nights. Flautist and tenor own “Godfather of Swing”, top saxophonist and singer Ray Gelato will saxophonist Tabackin is an artist of astonishing vision. His be bringing his band, The Giants to selected venues during 2019. £15 electrifying flute playing is at once virtuosic, primordial, cross-cultural, and passionate. His distinctive tenor sax style includes the use of wide intervals, abrupt changes TUE 2ND JULY of mood and tempo, and purposeful fervour, all in the service of showing the full range of possibilities of his FLEUR STEVENSON FOLLOW ME instrument - melodically, rhythmically, and dynamically. ALBUM LAUNCH WITH SPECIAL GUEST BRANDON ALLEN £25 Described by her mentor Claire Martin OBE as “A wonderful singer with a great musical ear and natural jazz feel.’’, Fleur SAT 6TH JULY (LUNCH) Stevenson presents Follow Me, the follow up to her warmly received EP. Throughout this thoughtful collection, Fleur’s sparkling delivery, THE GILES THORNTON honey coated vocal tone and deep affinity with the jazz idiom offer a refreshing take on both familiar and lesser known jazz standards. JAZZ ORCHESTRA Highlights include a samba arrangement of King Crimson’s ‘I Talk to Giles set up his Jazz Orchestra in January 2018, in order to the Wind’ and a tender jazz ballad treatment of the Presley classic record his debut big band album, “Be In Today”, and had a ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’. £15 successful launch at the Vortex Jazz Club, last summer. The orchestra is comprised of some of the UK’s finest jazz musicians, and takes influences from Maria Schneider and Gill Evans. The WED 3RD JULY debut album, “Be In Today”, is made up of original compositions ALEX HITCHCOCK QUINTET and arrangements, written by Giles Thornton. £15 ALBUM LAUNCH TH Saxophonist Alex Hitchcock (‘a fantastic talent’ – Helen Mayhew, SUN 7 JULY (LUNCH) JazzFM) leads a powerhouse quintet that combines a compelling, adventurous ear for melody with virtuosic improvising. Their summer BLUE HARLEM 2019 tour launches their first album All Good Things, released on Blue Harlem have been widely regarded as one of the the Spanish label Fresh Sound New Talent, renowned for introducing debuts by artists including top swing/jump-blues bands on the London scene for Robert Glasper, Brad Mehldau and Avishai Cohen. £15 over 15 years. Their last performance sold out at the club. They enjoy an international reputation - 2007 found them launching the 4th International Film Festival TH THU 4 JULY of Dubai and in 2008, they were personally invited by IN ASSOCIATION WITH SHADES OF SOUL LTD Baz Luhrmann to perform for the launch of his 1940’s blockbuster movie ‘Australia’. £16 MUDIBU & THE JEZEBEL SEXTET PRESENT ‘THE MUSIC OF OTIS REDDING’ SUN 7TH JULY (EVENING) Experience the incredible sound of Otis Redding’s music as two of the UK’s most exciting soul acts join FEM BELLING forces to create the world’s funkiest Otis Redding South African born vocalist and violinist, Fem Belling, is a show! This authentic celebration of Otis’ music rising star on the international jazz scene and has become one pairs charismatic Burundian singer songwriter of Australia’s most formidable and in demand performers. Mudibu with Hammond and horns from The Her African Jazz roots augment her unique musicality, Jezebel Sextet. £20 choices and interpretations. “A breath-taking storyteller through music with some edgy scat vocals.” £18 10 11 pizzaexpress jazz club soho july 2019 MON 8TH – TUE 9TH JULY SAT 13TH (LUNCH) MELISSA ALDANA QUARTET THE DENMARK STREET As a child, Chilean-born saxophonist Melssa Aldana BIG BAND FEATURING JO HARROP studied with her renowned saxophonist father Marcos THE GENE KRUPA STORY Aldana (son of saxophonist Enrique Aldana, whose Selmer Mark VI tenor Melissa performs with to this The Denmark Street Big Band present their new show ‘The day). She began on alto but after hearing the landmark Gene Krupa Story’, featuring Jo Harrop with the Anita O’day Sonny Rollins + 4 she switched to tenor and never looked Vocals. Be sure to hear the glorious energetic and showmanship back. Other important influences she cites range from of the American Jazz Drumming and bandleader legend Don Byas, Gene Ammons and Lucky Thompson to favourites such as ‘Leave Us Leap’, ‘Drum Boogie’, ‘Starburst’ and ‘Drummin Man’. £15 Chris Potter and Mark Turner. £25 SUN 14TH JULY (LUNCH) WED 10TH – THU 11TH JULY ALEX GRENIER TRIO JOEL ROSS GOOD VIBES The guitarist Alex Grenier is a rising star in the French Chicago native Joel Ross has performed with historic and music scene. At the helm of his trio, he is gaining ground seasoned artists - Herbie Hancock, Louis Hayes, Christian with his international tours (Europe, USA, Japan, McBride, and Stefon Harris - as well as with cutting-edge Canada), winning grand prizes at renowned jazz contemporaries like Ambrose Akinmusire, Gerald Clayton, showcases along the way (Festival Jazz à Sète, Nice Jazz Jon Batiste and many more. Twice selected as a Thelonious Festival, Jazz en Baie). £12 Monk Institute National All-Star and a 2013 YoungArts Jazz Finalist. £25 SUN 14TH – MON 15TH JULY FRI 12TH – SAT 13TH JULY (DOUBLE SHOWS) LARRY GOLDINGS / PETER BERNSTEIN / BENNY GOLSON QUARTET Benny Golson is more than just a fantastic tenor saxophone player; he’s a legendary composer who BILL STEWART linked harmony to the energy of bebop.