100 Years of Jazz in 99 Minutes - Tomorrow's Concert

An occasional  peregrination through the programme

Lover Man by Billie Holiday

Tomorrow is the big day for our 100 Years of Jazz concert at Cadogan Hall  (tickets here!).  We begin the show in 1899 and in 1937 we finally bring out the sixth member of the ensemble. She's been waiting in the wings for thirty eight years and has had to hang about until the swing era before she joins the old geezers who've been hogging the stage up till now.  

Lover Man - Billy Holiday

The tom toms beat off in Sing Sing Sing and we've stepped up a gear as there's now two trumpets as Enrico has been joined by the Wigan Wonder, Miss Georgina Jackson. 

Multi-taskng; Georgina Jackson

After her dazzling entry the mood changes as she puts her trumpet down and now takes the mic and cripes, she sings as well as she plays.  Multi-tasking is required of every member of the ensemble and as all us chaps know the women do it best of all.

Georgina has recently released her second album called Watch What Happens, some of it recorded with full orchestra and some with a terrific trio accompanying her.  It's so good that some enterprising chap has licensed it to be released throughout the Far East.  

Through the miracle of modern technology we were able to translate the Taiwanese sleeve notes for her CD through Google Translate and we hope you enjoy the results...

"Watch What Happens" more skilled her second jazz album, perhaps play the trumpet develop long-term, Qiao Jina bass domain anthem thick penetrating her to use their own interpretation of advantages such as drinking nectar the slippery mouth delicate works. 

I Only Have Eyes For You - Ella Fitzgerald

Album "Change Partners, to create such as elegant and graceful dance in the middle of the dance floor; the 1930s romantic love song "I Only Have Eyes For You" has also been Frank Sinatra, Ailafeizi Salo (Ella Fitzgerald) made  famous, downtempo melody to pour not know the song by the body in the garden or in the clouds, his eyes can not see anything, only to see each other's romantic. 

I Only Have Eyes For You - Frank Sinatra

This album is in the well-known British the Lun Duiyi than the studio to record, maybe you first met Qiao Jina, but heard her voice for a long time cannot make you forget, is not greasy sheets one hundred fever album."

It seems, where words fail, music really is an international language.