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Georgia Mancio's ReVoice! Festival returns to the Pizza Express, London: October 2011
Nine days, 37 artists, one celebration of International Jazz Voices curated by award-winning vocalist, lyricist and producer, Georgia Mancio. A performer of pure class and integrity; a true improviser with a big imagination, Mancio has proved herself one of the UK's most important new artists having worked alongside jazz luminaries such as Bobby McFerrin, Sheila Jordan ...
Take Five with Simon Little
by AAJ Staff
Meet Simon Little: I'm a session bassist living in London. I was born in London and started learning the double bass at school in Dorset with Barry Glynn. I went on to study at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London (1999-2003) receiving tuition from Kevin Rundell, Jeff Clyne and ...
Georgia Mancio Curates Innovative Jazz At The Pizza Express
GEORGIA MANCIO PRESENTS Wednesday September 22—Sunday September 26, 2010 Pizza Express Jazz Club, London 10 Dean Street, London W1D 3RW The Pizza Express “Mancio's performance—often within arrangements that would expose any weakness—puts her at the top of the ever-growing tree of jazz vocalists" —All About Jazz. Award-winning jazz ...
Georgia Mancio: Silhouette
by Bruce Lindsay
Georgia Mancio celebrates 10 years as a professional jazz singer with Silhouette, her third album. The mix of standards and original compositions, delivered in Mancio's light but distinctive voice, and accompanied by some of the finest musicians on the British jazz scene, is a genuine cause for such celebration. Silhouette is innovative, lyrically inventive, risky at ...
Barb Jungr: Smart, Sassy, Sexy
by John Eyles
Singer Barb Jungr is on a roll at present. In March 2009 she and accompanist Simon Wallace played for the first time at Café Carlyle, in New York City, presenting a show entitled “The Men I Love" which featured songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Todd Rundgren and Neil Diamond. The ...
Partisans: Blowing a Storm in Cyberspace
by Bruce Lindsay
Partisans has been gigging in cyberspace--playing a virtual nightclub in Second Life. Over 13 years and four acclaimed albums, Partisans has developed a strong reputation as one of the most exciting and innovative bands on the British jazz scene. One of the band's strengths is its willingness to keep up to date with technology and experiment ...
British Vocalist Ian Shaw Interviewed at AAJ
Ian Shaw is a jazz singer. This simple description is accurate--it's how Shaw refers to himself--but it falls well short of doing the man justice. Ian Shaw is one of the most distinctive, original and creative jazz singers on the scene: he is a talented pianist and songwriter with a knack for working with top-quality musicians, ...
Ian Shaw: From Free Jazz to Noel Coward
by Bruce Lindsay
Ian Shaw is a jazz singer. This simple description is accurate--it's how Shaw refers to himself--but it falls well short of doing the man justice. Ian Shaw is one of the most distinctive, original and creative jazz singers on the scene: he is a talented pianist and songwriter with a knack for working with top-quality musicians, ...
Ian Shaw and Claire Martin at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2009
by Bruce Lindsay
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Ian Shaw and Claire MartinNorfolk and Norwich FestivalNorwich PlayhouseNorwich UKMay 14, 2009 The 2009 Norfolk and Norwich Festival's program of jazz concerts has brought some of the best contemporary jazz musicians to Norwich. On May 14 ...
Ian Shaw Releases Self-Penned Album "Lifejacket"
Ian Shaw fulfils a life ambition to release an album of originals. “Lifejacket" includes a collection of highly personal stories and observations and is so-called because of all the pressures to stay afloat in life. On it Shaw questions the unsteady passage from young man to middle-aged child. Produced by Calum Malcolm and worked on together ...
