100 Years of Jazz
This is the first time that a show encompassing the history of jazz from its beginnings in Ragtime through to the present day has ever been presented.
The five multi-instrumental jazz virtuosi create a highly entertaining journey through the decades taking in everything from New Orleans to Be Bop, Swing to Latin, Hot to Cool, from Chicago and New York to around the world. An A to Z of jazz’s biggest names from Louis Armstrong to Joe Zawinul live again in the ensemble’s brilliant recreations.
The music is interspersed with fascinating stories from the music’s history as well as the inimitable humour of the band’s musical director Pete Long
Listening to this remarkably versatile small band of musicians tackle the contemporary jazz of Abdullah Ibrahim with the same fervour and intensity as they produced for Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue" or Sidney Bechet's 1920s romping New Orleans jazz was a tremendous experience. Every era is evoked with complete conviction, during the musical equivalent of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, in which none of the major musical soliloquies gets left out.
Alyn Shipton (Presenter of Radio 3's Jazz Library, Jazz Critic for The Times and author of A New History of Jazz.)
http://www.jazzrepertorycompany.com/
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