Friday Night Jazz

Current performers

Sam Crockett will be familiar to jazz audiences all over the UK, having performed at top venues including Ronnie Scott's, The Albert Hall, the Jazz Cafe and the Sage Centre. He has also appeared six times at the Paradise Jazz Festival in Cyprus, performed at the Brecon Jazz Festival with Pete King and Julian Arguelles, and taught on the Global Music Foundation Summer School in Tuscany alongside US piano great Edward Simon.

An impressive and highly creative alto saxophonist, Seb Pipe has already made quite a name for himself on the UK jazz scene. His group ’Séb Pipe’s Life Experience’ has performed extensively in the UK and mainland Europe. Seb describes his music as being "forged from idiosyncratic concepts, tight grooves and bold improvisations drawn from a vast array of musical cultures and traditions including the African Diaspora, the Balkans, the Far East, India and Europe".

JAZ2 is one of the UK’s finest performers of sophisticated dinner jazz. With Ralph Sutton on piano and Cathy Williams on vocals JAZ2 offers a delicious cocktail of jazz standards, blues and Latin jazz, flavoured with a dash of funk - bringing to life the musical magic of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and many other jazz greats both past and present.

Rachael Henshaw found her jazz feet in the jazz clubs of New York and, on returning to London, has been making her mark singing to great acclaim at venues such as the Octave, the Cafe Royal and, of course, the Royal Academy of Arts. With the wonderful Paul Weinreb on piano Rachael sings the standards of the Great American Songbook, drawing in her audience with her warm interpretation of lyrics and a touch of New York, New York class - 1950's style.

Born in 1975 in Milano, Italy Tommaso started playing the saxophone and studying music at the age of 18. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1994 where he graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire and later the Guildhall School Of Music and Drama. He has performed with some of the most respected jazz musicians including Billy Cobham, David Liebman, Kenny Wheeler, Stan Sulzmann, Jim Mullen, Jonathan Gee, Paolo Pellegatti, Gianni Giudici. Tommaso is currently busy performing concerts between the United Kingdom and Italy.

Alto saxophonist Stacey Dawson has played regularly at some of London's leading jazz clubs including the 606 club, The 100 club and Ealing and Brecon Jazz festivals. During the last three years he has also been asked to perform at Buckingham Palace for Prince Charles. His set includes a mixture of Jazz and Latin standards as well as some more contemporary tunes.

Calendar

3 September – Stacey Dawson
10 September – Sam Crockett
17 September – Jaz2
24 September – Rachel Henshaw
1 October – Stacey Dawson
8 October – Rachel Henshaw
15 October – Sam Crockett
22 October – Jaz2
29 October – Stacey Dawson
5 November – Tom Hannah
12 November – Sam Crockett
19 November – Jaz2
26 November – Stacey Dawson
3 December – Tom Hannah
10 December – Jaz2

• Royal Academy of Arts