Paul Higgs 'A Brief History of Jazz'
Ace trumpeter Paul Higgs plays with a sublime tone and breathtaking technique. He has per-formed with Johnny Dankworth, Lulu, Tony Hatch, John Williams, Peggy Lee and Nancy Wilson. He has also performed in major concert venues around the world.
Paul Higgs takes you on a delightful musical tour of the history of jazz, playing hits by the leg-endary greats - Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, and Miles Davis, amongst others. Taking you through the styles of New Orleans, swing and bebop, through cool jazz, modal and Latin right up to contemporary jazz, Paul and his band give a lively and versatile performance, creating a truly memorable show.
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Paul Higgs
Paul Higgs is renowned as one of the UK’s leading trumpet players and composers.
He has had an extensive musical career in many fields including performing, composing and ar-ranging music for film, TV and theatre. In the early part of his career he was a leading performer and composer in NYJO, then became a Musical Director for the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company, where he stayed for many years. He has performed with luminaries includ-ing Sir Peter Maxwell Davis, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Johnny Dankworth, Rosemary Clooney, Lulu, Tony Hatch, John Williams, Nancy Wilson and Shorty Rodgers.
He has performed in major concert venues around the world, such as the Royal Festival Hall, the Schubert Theatre (USA), Berlin Concert Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, The Stables and Ronnie Scott’s, and is frequently to be seen performing in jazz clubs around the country.
Chris Ingham
Chris Ingham composes TV music and plays jazz piano. As a composer, recent soundtracks in-clude The Rise of the Superheroes (2018), and Days Of Rage: The Rolling Stones' Road To Alta-mont (2019). He has also written and recorded 27 soundtracks for Chrome Dreams' rock documen-tary DVD series 2006-2015. He formed his jazz quartet in 2013 and has led over 150 performances of his Hoagy Carmichael, Dudley Moore and Stan Getz repertoire projects all over the UK. He is also musical director/pianist/MC of film song repertory quintet Jazz At The Movies and Rebop. He has been a record producer for Ruthie Henshall and Joanna Eden and is the author of Rough Guide to The Beatles and Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra. He curates jazz clubs in Diss (The Corn Hall) and Bury St Edmunds (Hunter Club).
Jerome Davies
Jerome Davies studied trumpet and double bass at Trinity College of Music in London, where he was the recipient of several prizes. He has performed with diverse artists including Kenny Wheeler, Jim Mullen, Alison Moyet, Kenneth Alwyn, Simon Warner and Salena Jones. He has toured extensively in France, Austria, Monaco, The United Arab Emirates, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic. and at the Blue Note club in New York. Jerome is also busy as an arranger and composer of both jazz and classical music. Classical compositions include a string quartet, a song cycle for soprano and piano of Shakespeare settings and incidental music for a production of "Bow Down".
George Double
George is a respected and published drum educator, notably for Trinity College, London. He tours regularly with vocal legend Jack Jones and has played with Marc Almond, Ruthie Henshall and Kym Mazelle as well on West End shows Wicked, Guys and Dolls, Avenue Q, Sinatra and Any-thing Goes. He drums with Jazz At The Movies, the Ray Gelato Quartet and curates Hadleigh Jazz Club in Suffolk where he has accompanied Karen Sharp, Enrico Tomasso, Derek Nash and many other top jazz musicians.
"Paul is the most versatile musician I've ever met. Playing, MDing, composing, arranging - you name it, Paul has it superbly covered. He seems to "get" music the way other people breathe.”
Matthew Scott, Head of Music, National Theatre
