ANTHONY KERR

TUESDAY DECEMBER 22 

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

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00 

A long-serving soloist with the BBC Big Band, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames as well as his own ensembles, his unique and passionate style has drawn influence from Milt Jackson, Bill Evans, Gary Burton, Bobby Hutcherson and others. 

Anthony is also an established and respected jazz educator, having coached ensembles at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as well as being professor of Jazz Vibraphone at London’s Royal College of Music - a position which he has held for more than 20 years.

His long list of associates reads like a who's who jazz and includes such artists as Charlie Watts, Cleo Laine, Chico Freeman, Pete Long, George Shearing, Guy Barker, Benny Golson and Peter King.

In this solo vibes concert he takes classic jazz compositions and arranges them in his own unique style turning the three octaves of the vibraphone into something of an orchestra.

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SCOTT EDMUNDS

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 23

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

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00 

Scott Edmunds, solo piano

Originally from Northeast Pennsylvania, Scott Edmunds is an active pianist, composer, and educator.  Scott has had opportunities to perform with many influential musicians in the jazz genre, such as Tim Warfield Jr., Wycliffe Gordon, Marshall Gilkes, Carla Cook, and Dick Oatts, as well as with acclaimed musicians on the European scene such as Perico Sambeat.  Scott has similarly had opportunities to perform at festivals and venues such as The Kimmel Center, Chris's Jazz Café, and South Jazz Club in Philadelphia; Fat Cat, Rockwood Music Hall, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola and The Appel Room at Lincoln Center in New York City; and Jamboree Jazz Club in Barcelona, Spain.

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GABRIELLE STRAVELLI - MIKE KANAN - PAT O’LEARY

THURSDAY DECEMBER 24

9.00 PM PARIS / 8.00 PM LON / 3.00 PM NY / 12.00PM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Gabrielli Stravelli, vocals Mike Kanan, piano Pat O’Leary, bass

Gabrielle 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. 

Since 2015 she has toured internationally with the “American Music Abroad” (AMA) program, performing and teaching throughout Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In 2019, Gabrielle and her quintet headlined the Providencia Jazz Festival in Santiago, Chile, the Las Condes Jazz Festival and the 10th Annual Semana Internacional de Jazz en la Patagonia. She appeared at the 2019 Kota Kinabalu Music and Dance Festival in Malaysia, the 2016 Eleuthera All That Jazz Festival in the Bahamas, the 2013 Maree Sonore Festival in Venice and the 2013 Kastav Cultural in Croatia.

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HYUNA PARK

SATURDAY DECEMBER 26

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

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00 

Hyuna Park - solo piano

An award-winning jazz pianist, Hyuna Park’s musical universe is both deeply connected to New York and its vibrant jazz tradition while at the same time embracing her Korean and classical roots. She was the 2018 winner of the International Women in Jazz (IWJ) festival as well as the Jimmy Heath Award. She has graced the stage with Grammy award-winners such as Linda Oh, Luis Bonilla, Michael Mossman and Vincent Herring and performed at notable venues like the Kennedy Center and the French Embassy in Washington D.C., the Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium, and at the UN as well as a number of Embassies and Cultural Centers throughout NYC.
Hyuna formed a trio in 2018 with country/folk bassist Myles Sloniker and funk drummer Peter Traunmueller as a non-traditional band that infuses various styles and musical elements into their core jazz repertoire. Hyuna and her band are regulars at many of the more prestigious jazz venues in New York City such as Zinc bar, Iridium, Club Bonafide, The Metropolitan Room, and The Django.

“Hyuna Park is a beautiful new voice on the piano. She plays with a feeling and maturity that is rare.”
— Vincent Herring

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BRUCE BARTH

SATURDAY DECEMBER 26

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

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Bruce Barth - solo piano

Bruce Barth, solo pianoJazz pianist and composer Bruce Barth has been sharing his music with listeners the world over for more than two decades. Deeply rooted in the jazz tradition, his music reflects both the depth and breadth of his life and musical experiences. In addition to traveling widely performing his own music, he has also performed with revered jazz masters, as well as collaborated with leading musicians of his own generation. And most notably, his performances feature material from his large book of very powerful and imaginative original compositions, written in a voice that is both deeply personal and expressive.

Bruce has performed on over one hundred recordings and movie soundtracks, including ten as a leader. He is equally at home playing solo piano (American Landscape on Satchmo Jazz Records), leading an all-star septet (East and West on MaxJazz), and composing for a variety of ensembles. His trio has recorded live at the legendary Village Vanguard in New York City.

Within a year of moving to Brooklyn in 1988, Barth toured Japan with Nat Adderley. He
started working with Vincent Herring and Stanley Turrentine, and joined Terence Blanchard's quintet in 1990. During the next four years, he toured extensively with Blanchard, recorded six CD's and several movie soundtracks, and played onscreen in Spike Lee's film, Malcolm X.

While in Blanchard's band, he recorded his first two CD's as a leader, In Focus and Morning Call on the Enja label, both which were chosen for the New York Times' top ten lists in their respective years. These recordings displayed not only Barth's piano work, but the scope of his original com positions and memorable arrangements of jazz standards.

He has continued to release a stream of critically acclaimed recordings in solo, trio, quintet and septet groupings, the latter featured on his 2001 release East and West; with an all-star group playing Barth's compositions based on memories of his childhood experiences in the Western United States -- deserts, ranches, and ghost towns. His Live at the Village Vanguard CD was second on the national radio charts, and won international critical acclaim.

He has performed with James Moody, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Tony Bennett, Freddie Hubbard, Tom Harrell, Victor Lewis, John Patitucci, Lewis Nash, Vincent Herring, George Robert, Steve Wilson, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, David Sanchez, Terell Stafford, Tim Armacost, Luciana Souza, Karrin Allyson, Dave Stryker, and the Mingus Big Band.

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS

"One of the best pianists in town, period." - Village Voice

"At the piano, no one sounds quite like Barth. His solos are characterized by robust swing, by his ability to tell a story, and by his rich, beguiling sound.
- Newark Star-Ledger

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MICHAEL WEISS

SUNDAY DECEMBER 27

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

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00 

Michael Weiss, piano

Pianist, composer, arranger and educator Michael Weiss has forged a formidable career working in the bands of jazz legends Johnny Griffin, Art Farmer, Slide Hampton, Frank Wess, Heath Brothers, George Coleman, Jazztet, Charles McPherson, Jon Hendricks, Lou Donaldson, and the Junior Cook/Bill Hardman Quintet. He has also performed with Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Clark Terry, Clifford Jordan, Phil Woods, Pepper Adams, Ron Carter, David Newman, Gerry Mulligan, Nancy Wilson, Randy Brecker, and other high profile jazz recording artists. Weiss’s big band work includes the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the Mingus Epitaph Orchestra and Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.

As a band leader Weiss has headlined at festivals and clubs internationally as well as every major New York venue, including the Village Vanguard, Blue Note, Jazz Standard, Birdland, Bradley’s, Iridium, Sweet Basil and Smoke. At the Vanguard, the New York Times wrote that Weiss "demonstrated a strong sense of leadership and organization" exhibiting "sensitivity and logic, along with crisp control."

Television appearances include CBS-TV’s Nightwatch and PBS’ Live From Lincoln Center: The City of Jazz. NPR radio appearances include PianoJazz with Marion McPartland, Making the Music with Wynton Marsalis, Jazzset, and the Jazz Piano Christmas Special.

Weiss was a 1989 prizewinner in the Thelonious Monk Institute's International Piano Competition and won the 2000 BMI/Thelonious Monk Institute's Composition Competition grandprize presented to him by Wayne Shorter.

Weiss' four recordings as a leader are on the CrissCross, SteepleChase, DIW and Sintra labels. About his latest recording, “Soul Journey” critics write:

"Warmth, integrity and above all, originality. Weiss’ originals sound as if they were standards of the genre." – JazzTimes
“the songs simply smoke” – Detroit Free Press
“About as close to perfection as a recording can get. If there is truly justice in our world, this should be a Grammy nominee.” – Jazz Improv

“This music lives and breathes freshness and exhilarating originality. The individual selections are strong and attractive enough, to still be played as jazz vehicles in 10, 20, or even 50 year’s time.” – Jazz Journal

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NICK GREEN & MARIUS VAN DEN BRINK

SUNDAY DECEMBER 27

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

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Nick Green - alto saxophone Marius Van Den Brink - piano

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York Nick Green began studying the great art form of jazz music in High School at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts at the age of 16. He would go on to study privately with many of the jazz greats such as Charles McPherson and Barry Harris. Nick has performed in some of New York City's finest venues such as Smalls jazz club, Dizzy's Jazz at Lincoln Center, Blue Note NYC and Internationally at Club Jamboree Barcelona. He has shared the stage with such greats as: Charles McPherson, Jon Faddis, Kenny Washington, Gary Smulyan, Joe Lovano, Jerry Dodgion, Gary Bartz, Bruce Barth, Jeb Patton.

Marius is a winner of the Pathways to Jazz Awards 2019. After moving from Amsterdam to Brooklyn, New York, Marius has performed and recorded with well-known artists such as Joel Frahm, Fransesco Mela, Ingrid Jensen, Ara Dinkjian, Haley Reinhart, the Birdland Bigband and the Tonkunstler Orchestra.

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SARA DOWLING

MONDAY DECEMBER 28

9.00 PM PARIS / 8.00 PM LONDON / 3.00 PM NEW YORK / 12.00PM LA

Sara Dowling - Vocals , Dario Di Lecce - Bass

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Sara Dowling is a jazz singer who is deeply inspired by the repertoire of the classic American songbook, her most important influences are Sarah Vaughan and Betty Carter. And yet, as the clubs who have been booking her regularly in and over the past couple of years – Ronnie Scott’s, the 606 and the Cinnamon Club – have spotted, there really is something different, special and fresh about her. And that she makes audiences want to come back to hear her again. It is not her heritage, although that is unusual: she was born in Muscat / Oman with Jordanian and Irish parents. Nor is it her first career: as a professional cellist. So what is it? First, the fabulous fearlessness with which she approaches the act of singing. And the burning conviction, the irresistible communicative power and jaw-dropping musicality she brings to it. And maybe the fact that she leaves no stone unturned in her preparation. As she says : “I like to learn huge lists of songs that belong to one composer, to get the feel of the composer and his style. There is beauty to be found in all songs if they are written by one of the greats. That’s the beauty of the American Songbook.” She trusts her voice and its range of timbre. She trusts her ability both to convey the emotion of very slow ballads - or to bring joy as she rip-roars and scats through faster songs. And above all she makes a wonderful connection both to the music and to the audience. Sara leads her own group and often guests with the Ronnie Scott’s All Star Band.

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NEL BEGLEY

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.