Stan Getz is probably best known to non-jazz buffs for his stunning album Getz/Gilberto, which we showcased with Mario Bakuna back in April. The album introduced the world to bossa nova and the classic "Girl from Ipanema", but he was much more than that, with a career that spanned decades and genres, taking in both hardcore bebop and cool jazz.
This show explores Stan’s legacy in more depth, in the company of master saxophonist James Allsopp and some of London’s most in-demand musicians. Expect lush ballads, swinging standards, motoring bop compositions and some of those famously lilting bossa novas.
Over his 20-year career, James has played with legendary artists such as The Last Poets, David Axelrod, Dr John, and Mulatu Astake, and for European jazz luminaries such as Django Bates, Nostalgia 77, Kit Downes, and Polar Bear. He has also featured on more commercial albums by Jamie Cullum and Jorja Smith.
His debut album was nominated for a BBC Jazz Award for Best Album 2007, and he is a professor of saxophone and clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
James will be joined by Colin Oxley on guitar, Oli Hayhurst on double bass, and Dave Storey on drums, and they will be playing music from their brand new album Ballads and Bossas.
“Allsopp is an astonishingly fluent tenor sax soloist, the ideas just seem to flow effortlessly”
“Allsopp is perhaps the most gifted British saxophonist of his generation, not to mention the most adaptable”
Doors 7pm / Music 8.30pm / Tickets £16 / £10 for members
All seating/tables are first-come, first-served.