NEL BEGLEY & LUKE FOWLER

TUESDAY DECEMBER 29

8.00 PM EUROPE / 7.00 PM UK / 3.00 PM NEW YORK

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Nel Begley…vocals Luke Fowler…bass

Nel Begley is a rising star jazz vocalist and songwriter currently living in London and working and performing in the UK and Europe. She has performed at a large list of festivals including Manchester Jazz, Latitude, Bestival and Boom Town, and has appeared alongside Callum Au. She headlined at the Mas i Mas Festival Barcelona.

Her ever-growing love of music has led her around the world to pursue a passion to sing, and share her music making with an ever-growing audience.

Luke Fowler studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where he achieved his undergraduate degree.

After spending 2 years living and playing on the scene in Paris he moved to London where he opened the award winning venue “The Junction” and has recently achieved a masters at The Guildhall school of music.

He now hosts and performs with some of the best Jazz musicians in London.

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NEW YEAR’S EVE

“DOIS” MARIA LAURA BIGLIAZZI & FRANCESCO PETRENI

THURSDAY DECEMBER 31

* PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF DIFFERENT TIMINGS TODAY *

7.00 PM PARIS / 6.00 PM LON / 1.00 PM NY / 10.00 AM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Maria Laura Bigliazzi, voice, keyboard & Perc  Francesco Petreni, perc, guitar & voice

Join us, on the early side, to welcome a New Year that brings a more optimistic outlook. We still have some hard months to go but there is the real possibility that by Summer we will be able to attend concerts in venues, travel and move about freely again. The cycle of the sun has changed already, the days will start to get gradually brighter, Spring is approaching and we are heading towards the light.

Francesco Petreni and Maria Laura Bigliazzi are two magnificent musicians that manage to sound like 4 or more, playing beautiful songs and pieces mainly from all over Brazil, with one or two from Cuba and Mexico. For those of you that have not yet been at one of the these magical concerts we would encourage you to attend.

The duo “DOIS” is born from passion for Brazilian music. The beauty of Brazilian music offered with specially written arrangements for voice, guitar, percussion and much more! Colours, sounds and rhythms that convey the expression of feelings that make this great contemporary music genre truly unique.

Drummer, percussionist and composer, Francesco Petreni has played with many musicians, among whom are Marc Johnson, Jonny Griffin, Palle Danielsson, Mal Waldron, Eddie Henderson, Enrico Rava, Tony Scott, Michael Blake, Avishai Cohen.
He is on more than seventy recordings also with Enrico Pieranunzi trio, Mark Turner, David Binney, Larry Grenadier, Eddie Wied, Paolo Fresu, Stefano Bollani, Kim Prevost, Bill Solley,
and brasilian music with Marisa Monte, Ivan Lins, Chico Buarque, Hamilton De Holanda, Vanessa Da Mata, Maria Gadu etc, participating in International Festivals around the world including concerts in Cuba and Brazil.

Singer, Jazz vocalist and composer Maria Laura Bigliazzi, has been active on the jazz scene, since 1994,  as leader of her own formations. She has been singing and playing Brazilian Music for years, also playing percussion. She has had many musical partnerships including with: Tony Scott, Ares Tavolazzi, Gianni Basso, Stefano De Bonis, Raffaello Pareti, Renato Chicco, Mauro Grossi, Stefano "Cocco" Cantini, Francesco Petreni, Roberto Nannetti, Simone Graziano, Marco Tamburini, Ettore Bonafè and more. She also recorded with: Fabrizio Bosso, Stefano Cantini, Alberto Borsari, Bruno Cesselli, Luciano Biondini, Ares Tavolazzi, Marivaldo Paim, Gilson Silveira, Hamilton De Holanda, Mauro Grossi, Daniele Mencarelli, Alessio Menconi.

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NEW YEAR’S DAY CONCERT

PAT O’LEARY QUINTET

FRIDAY JANUARY 1

9.00 PM EUROPE | 8.00 PM UK | 3.00 PM NY | 12.00 PM LA

TICKET PRICE €16.00 / £15.00 / $20.00 

The music charge is a little higher as this concert involves 5 musicians and will be 65 mins long (approx) followed by a short Q&A

Pat O’Leary, bass Art Hiraha, piano Tim Armacost, saxophone, Gabrielle Stravelli, vocals Eric Halvorson, drums

Patrick O'Leary, bassist, studied piano and bass at Potsdam State University's Crane School of Music where he received his B.A. in music. Originally from Buffalo and now living in New York City, he has toured the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, and Japan with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, the Illinois Jacquet Orchestra, the Hal Garper Trio, and Teri Thornton. Also with Hampton, he recorded the Grammy-nominated Sentimental Journey (Atlantic). O'Leary has recorded with J.R. Monterose, Mundell Lowe, Mel Lewis, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jerry Bergozi, and Scott Robinson. Other artists with whom O'Leary has played include Diana Krall, James Moody, Junior Cook, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, Barry Harris, Junior Mance, Joe Williams, and Marlena Shaw. He regularly appears at The Blue Note, The Village Vanguard, Bradley's, Fat Tuesdays, The Iridium, and has recently performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. As a 2001 Jazz Ambassador, he toured West Africa, and in 2002 toured Southeast Asia and South America.

Tim Armacost has established himself as one of the most important improvisers on the New York scene today. He was born in Los Angeles, but came of age as a musician in Tokyo, New Delhi and Amsterdam, where he burnished his reputation as an upcoming talent, with a big tenor sound and an impeccable rhythmic sense. He tours regularly around the world both as a sideman and a leader. He has has worked with a phenomenal number of jazz greats, including Al Foster, Jimmy Cobb, Kenny Barron, Tom Harrell, Billy Hart, Victor Lewis, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Peter Erskine, Ray Drummond, Roy Hargrove, Don Friedman and Randy Brecker.

He has recorded 14 critically acclaimed records as a leader, performed on more than 60 as a sideman, and has composed for Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Armacost is a widely respected educator, teaching at the Jamey Aebersold and Stanford Summer Jazz Workshops, at Queens College in New York City and as a clinician at Universities throughout the U.S., Japan and Europe.

In addition to his own groups, he co-leads the New York Standards Quartet, and the Brooklyn Big Band, for which he composes and arranges.  His most recent recording, Time Being, featuring Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts and Bob Hurst has met with critical acclaim around the world.  

Art Hirahara is a jazz keyboardist and composer based in New York, From the traditional to the avant-garde, Art has found a sound of his own that cuts across genres and boundaries. He has had the privilege to perform with Stacey Kent, Freddy Cole, Akira Tana, Rufus Reid, Don Braden, Roseanna Vitro, Dave Douglas, Vincent Herring, Victor Lewis, Travis Sullivan s Bjorkestra, Jim Black, Jenny Scheinman, Greg Cohen, Fred Ho, Sean Nowell, royal hartigan and Hafez Modirzadeh. He has performed around the world in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, the Middle East and extensively around the United States.

Eric Halvorson Based in Brooklyn, NY, has been active on the New York City music scene for over 20 years. He has performed with such jazz artists as John Fedchock, Dave Liebman, Bob Sheppard, Dave Stryker, Steve Slagle, Vic Juris, Adam Rogers, Joe Locke, Bruce Barth, Marilyn Maye, Fred Hersch, Mark Murphy, James Moody, and Bill Henderson.

Gabrielle Stravelli has toured the United States with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performing his masterwork Abyssinian: A Gospel Celebration. She was chosen by world-renowned jazz pianist Fred Hersch to premiere his song cycle, Rooms of Light, at Montclair University PAC. 

In 2020, she was honored with the Bistro Award for Outstanding Recording (“Pick Up My Pieces”); the 2019 Broadway World Cabaret Award for Best Jazz Vocalist; the 2015 MAC Award for Best Female Vocalist; and the 2015 Bistro Award as a Jazz Vocalist. 

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ROSALIE GENAY

SATURDAY JANUARY 2

9.00 PM PARIS / 8.00 PM UK / 3.00 PM NEW YORK / 12PM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00 .

Rosalie Genay, voice Barry Green, piano

Vocalist and Songwriter Rosalie Genay divides her time between London and the second most ordinary town in The Netherlands from where she is currently collaborating on several international projects.

2020 will see the release of two exciting albums: ‘For The Love of Annie’, a jazz collaboration with Scott Hamilton, Barry Green, Dave Green and Steve Brown and 'In Between The Silence', a debut offering of original material with London based guitarist Francesco Lo Castro.

The long awaited albums follow the acclaimed release of  ‘Realms’, a personal take on the work of Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen and subsequent UK tour with pianist Rebecca Nash.

Barry Green’s star is rising high on the European Jazz scene. He has accompanied, led and recorded with many of the world's leading Jazz artists including: Dave Friesen, Bobby Watson, Perico Sambeat, Charles McPherson, Deborah Brown, Ben Street, Drew Gress, Chris Cheek, Tom Rainey, Gerald Cleaver, Stan Sulzmann and many more.

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STEVE ASH

SATURDAY JANUARY 2

11.00 PM PARIS / 10.00 PM LON / 5.00 PM NY / 2.00PM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Steve Ash, piano

New York City pianist Steve Ash is a favourite of those in the know - the ultimate sideman, and an extremely fine trio pianist as well. In his 40 years on the scene, he has appeared with Frank Wess, Jon Hendricks, Kurt Elling, Sheila Jordan, Jimmy Cobb, Louis Hayes, Eddie Harris, Warren Vache, Harry Allen, Joe Magnarelli, Annie Ross, Mel Lewis and Vernell Fournier, just to name a few.

 He has performed in many New York City jazz clubs, including:

The Blue Note, Village Vanguard, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Birdland, Smoke Jazz and Supper Club, Smalls, Mezzrow, Jazz Gallery, Iridium, Django, 55 Bar, Zinc Bar, and the 75 Club.

Steve was honored to be selected by The Kennedy Center and The U.S. State Department to tour West Africa and France as part of The Jazz Ambassadors in 2004. His touring experience also includes performing at The Bern Jazz Festival with Warren Vache’s All Stars in 2001, The Caesarea Jazz Festival in Israel with The Harry Allen Quartet in 2006, The New Mexico Jazz Festival with Jon Hendricks in 2012, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai in 2018 with The Bruce Harris Quintet.

His recordings include Steve Ash, “Once I Loved”, The Steve Ash Trio, “Everything I Love,” Warren Vache’s “ Swingtime”, the Metropolitan Bopera-House, “Still Comin’ On Up”, Barbara Lea with The Loren Schoenberg Big Band, “Black Butterfly”, The Neal Miner Sextet,  “The Evening Sound”, and Fabien Mary, “Conception”.

Steve’s piano can be heard in the movie “Evening” (2007), accompanying Claire Danes on “Time After Time” as well as on the movie’s soundtrack recording, playing a solo version of “Pretend”.

AMADIS DUNKEL QUARTET

SUNDAY JANUARY 3

9.00 PM PARIS / 8.00 PM UK / 3.00 PM NEW YORK / 12PM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00 .

Jazz trombonist Amadis Nicolas Dunkel thrills New York audiences with his highly energetic and soulful style. He regularly appears at iconic venues such as the Village Vanguard, Birdland, Jazz at Kitano’s, Iridium, Zinc Bar, and Swing 46. He leads his own quartet and co-leads ‘A Mighty Good Thing’ with Grammy-winner Luis Bonilla. He is the featured soloist with the the ‘Stephen Santoro Orchestra’ and has performed with the legendary, Grammy-winning Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (formerly the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra). Numerous tours have led Dunkel to share his music throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

The Amadis Dunkel Quartet features Hyuna Park on piano, the legendary Andy McKee on bass and Austin Walker on drums. It is primarily dedicated to Dunkel's original compositions and arrangements. This performance comes on the heels of a recent session and will feature some brand new pieces that have never been performed live before.

PETE MALINVERNI & JULIET KURTZMAN

SUNDAY JANUARY 3

11.00 PM PARIS / 10.00 PM LON / 5.00 PM NY / 2.00PM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Pete Malinverni, piano Juliet Kurtzman, violin

Master Jazz pianist Pete Malinverni and virtuoso Classical violinist Juliet Kurtzman, perform music from their new CD release, “Candlelight - Love in the Time of Cholera”. This features a program of music as culturally wide-ranging as the diverse American hemisphere from which it is drawn, including tangos by Piazzolla and Gardel, a Joplin rag, the classic American ballad “Body and Soul”, a Brazilian choriño, and five lesser known pieces by the tragic genius, cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. 

 Already heard as a specially featured recording on the internationally heard PRX radio program, “Jazz After Hours”, the album was chosen as a special “Editor’s Pick” in Down Beat magazine and has been called, from among several glowing notices, “a luscious delight”, and, “a striking and emotionally infused album”. In a nod to the Gabriel Garcia-Marquez-inspired title of the recording, one writer recognised the significance of art that celebrates human connection during a time when we feel the need of intimacy more than ever, noting the arrival, in “Candlelight – Love in the Time of Cholera”, of a recording that “demonstrates the universality of music and the joy that it can bring as an elixir of hope to get us through these trying times”.