Countdown to our next Cadogan Hall concert - Mad, Trad & Dangerous To Blow - ANOTHER 100 Years Of Jazz, Saturday 7:30pm, 24th September 2016:

Countdown #20: 

"When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello Dolly!' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.'" 

Louis Armstrong 

Countdown #19: 

Another 100 Years Of Jazz - The Sex Pistols On Trumpet & The Infernal Racket Of 1917.  

The Boss Blogs

Countdown #18: 

"Lester Young had hired a drummer who wasn't playing what he wanted to hear. During a break, the drummer tried making conversation: 
'Say Prez, when was the last time we worked together?' 
'Tonight,' sighed Lester." 

Lester Young

Countdown #17: 

"There are two kinds of jazz: Traditional, where they all play together and try to outdo each other, and Modern, where each player goes on as if unaware of the existence of the others. You must decide which you support and decry the other on every occasion." 

Bluff Your Way In Music

Countdown #16: 

"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with." 

Duke Ellington

Countdown #15: 

"Jazz perfectly captures the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don’t agree with what they’re playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all." 

Wynton Marsalis

Countdown #14: 

"Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijuana, and will expire on cocaine." 

Artie Shaw

Countdown #13: 

"Finally Beiderbecke took out a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying ‘yes'." 

Eddie Condon

Countdown #12: 

"Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don’t care what you play anyway." 

Charlie Mingus

Countdown #11: 

"I never practice my guitar — from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat." 

Wes Montgomery

Countdown #10: 

"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." 

Charlie Mingus

Countdown #9: 

"Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." 

Frank Zappa

Countdown #8: 

In Another 100 Years Of Jazz we pay tribute to the “Mickey Mouse” bands of the swing era – the bands that definitely didn’t swing! Lawrence Welk was the king of the “Mickey Mouse” bandleaders. Here’s Will Ferrell in a great spoof of the Welk. 

Countdown #7: 

In Another 100 Years Of Jazz Georgina Jackson not only sings this but plays the virtuosic trumpet solo too! Boy we work her hard! 

Countdown #6: 

Duke Ellington’s The Mooche. Don't miss our ANOTHER 100 Years Of Jazz concert to see if the band strip down to similar 1928 jungle style feathered bikinis. 

Countdown #5: 

See 5 sexy boys and a thoughtful and intelligent women play ANOTHER 100 years of jazz. 

Countdown #4: 

Nick Dawson gets his Mojo working for one day only in 2016; September 24th at Cadogan Hall. 

Countdown #3: 

"Jazz will endure, just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains." 

John Philip Sousa

Countdown #2: 

"If you're in jazz and more than 10 people like you, you're labelled commercial" 

Herbie Mann

Countdown #1: 

The show ends with a version of St Louis Blues encompassing jazz styles from 90 years of the music's history, kicking off in 1914 and ending up in 2004 with this great Peter Cincotti version.

Mad, Trad & Dangerous To Blow - ANOTHER 100 Years Of Jazz, 24th September at London's Cadogan Hall: Tickets Here!

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