Kate Dimbleby Album launch

Lovely evening at the Dean Street Jazz@Pizza Express to launch Kate Dimbleby's CD, Love Comes Again...

Fellow guests were the singer-songwriters, Rebecca Hollweg, and Jay Fisher... who both duetted with Kate...
Great to hear them and their music...
We were all backed by Naadia Sheriff (piano), Sophie Alloway (drums) & Andy Hamill (bass):- the bassist would usually be Jonty Fisher, but owing to bad planning, he was booked on the wrong plane home from Italy by someone else... splendidly Andy, who is also Rebecca's husband stepped into the breach & was excellent.

We sang our track from the album with Kate - Cab Calloway's Everybody eats... as well as Hit the Road, Jack - lovely to sing with Kate, and of course we were splendidly accompanied by Naadia, Sophie & Andy.
We also gave our a cappella 'cats duet' of Man Tran/Ink Spots tracks... Well, well, well  &  That Cat is High, as well as The Lambeth Walk - which the people gamely tried to join in with... of course we still berated them!
Backwards was better...

We're on a new CD...

Excellent new CD from wonderful jazz singer Kate Dimbleby, Love Comes Again: featuring many talents... Jonty Fisher on bass, Sophie Alloway on percussion & Naadia Sheriff on piano to name but three...
...and on the last track us as well!
(Everybody Eats... Cab Calloway)

Some classic jazz numbers and Kate's own hilarious/poignant songs!

Simply go here:- & you can have it yourself.... either download, or physical (plus free download!)

Hooray!

PS: Don't forget to get your Songs of Love and War, if you have yet so to do!

Crazy #3, then Banstead

Third night at Crazy Coqs was best of all....
Great climax to our short stint & the beginning of a long relationship...

Having had director Hugh Wooldridge in earlier in the week (who introduced us), it was excellent to also have actor-superstar David Bedella in the audience... Hooray!

Very enthusiastic and loud audience - three birthday parties in - & splendidly raucous singing in The Lambeth Walk when we asked for such...
Incredibly good experience working at Crazy Coqs - looking forward to more...
It was gratifying too to hear that members of the audience had pitched up because they had seen/heard us on BBC TV and Radio over the last few weeks... marvellous!

Good to bump into bassist Jonty Fisher, preparing to back all in the open mike late night after our third show (we last saw him when playing together with Kate Dimbleby)...

Off to Banstead Festival tonight for a splendid evening in the Green Belt.

Jazz recording

To Mottingham, and the excellent Porcupine Studios, where Nick Taylor recorded our backing vocals to Kate Dimbleby's version of Cab Calloway's Everybody Eats...
We sang this in the Summer at Dean Street Pizza Express in the Kate Dimbleby and friends evening... and it was a delight to repeat this for many more to hear!

More news when the CD is released...

late Summer night in Soho

A Delightful birthday celebration evening at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho last night.... the jazz singer Kate Dimbleby and also the drummer Sophie, both had round-numbered anniversaries (no, I will not tell you which they are!)...
Lots of musicians about, Geoff Eales & Naadia Sheriff (pianists), Jonty Fisher (Bass), the afore-mentioned Sophie, Bristolian singer, Alex Wiseman and a surprise guest, John Quejillo on guitar!

We sang (accompanying Kate, of course) He's a Tramp (with Geoff, Jonty and Sophie) & Everybody eats When They Come to My House - a Cab Calloway tune (with Naadia, Jonty and Sophie); as well as The Hi-Lo's (Gene Puerling's) glorious arrangement of Brahms Lullaby, and to keep the audience frisky Strangers in the Night.

Lovely evening - great to work with Kate and her friends, too; splendid singing - the taster of her Dory Previn and her Peggy Lee shows were terrific.... Geoff Eales did a monster of a piano solo - his own composition, Song for my Mother - beautiful...

A Guitarist at the bar asked to join in at the end of the evening and did marvellous flamenco guitar as well as adding excellent solos to the last two blues numbers of the evening! John Quejillo - thank you!

Gorgeous to be a small part of a wonderful evening...

Vienna - biannual fix

Two splendid (mainly sunny) days in Vienna over the weekend - two more nights in the charming Theater am Spittelberg in the midst of the MQ (Museum Quarter)... Imperial splendour:- oh yes!
Hundertwasser, Prater, Venus of Willendorf, Mozart & Haydn... all explored!

Glorious times in Vienna as always... & great to share our Happy Hour...and a half with them!
We're back in the theatre in December (perhaps it will be colder!) on December 17th & 18th...

On Sunday night (1st Sept.) we are at the Dean Street Pizza Express (Soho, London) as guests of the excellent Jazz singer, Kate Dimbleby... accompanying her in Peggy Lee's great He's a Tramp and doing a few other bits....
Should be fun! (Doors open at 6.30)