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To round off the festival we are delighted to present a Blue Ribbon line-up of UK jazz superstars. Multi-award-winning vocalist Claire Martin OBE has been a ‘tour de force’ on the UK jazz scene for over 30 years in her various guises as band leader, festival curator, broadcaster and educator. As a Linn recording artist with 25 albums to her credit, Claire has to worldwide critical acclaim, established herself as a tour de force on the UK jazz scene, gaining many awards, including winning the British Jazz Awards eight times during her career. In 2018, she was the proud recipient of the BASCA Gold Badge Award for her contribution to jazz.
Led by the much in-demand pianist Rob Barron, Claire will be bringing her world class trio to the festival this year to perform stylish re-workings of classics from the Great American Songbook as well as lesser-known gems from Richard Rodney Bennett, Donny Hathaway and Johnny Mandel.
“She ranks among the four or five finest female jazz vocalists on the planet”. Jazz Times USA
“One of the finest jazz singers in the world today”. Jazz Journal
“Our finest jazz singer”. The Times
We're delighted to present the unique duo of two of the UK's finest musicians - Tim Garland and Jason Rebello.
Throughout an international career starting in the late 1980’s, Tim Garland has become known as a unique polymath in the UK’s music scene.
His first break as saxophonist was joining Ronnie Scott's band age 23. Later he was to join Chick Corea as a regular member of several globe-trotting projects over a seventeen year period including The Vigil. Playing tenor and soprano saxes, bass clarinet, and flute, he also won a Grammy for his symphonic orchestrations on Corea’s “The New Crystal Silence” album from 2007.
Garland has fulfilled commissions from several of the worlds top orchestras, including a double concerto from the LSO, a piano concerto for Gwilym Simcock from The Royal Northern Sinfonia, with whom he went on to record three CDs, a cello and sax concerto from the CBSO, and a sax concerto from the BBC Concert Orchestra.
His concert works continue to celebrate the fertile ground between modern composition and jazz. His creative arranging skills have won much praise from such diverse artists as Jean Luc Ponty, John Patitucci, The Royal Holloway and Westminster Choirs, the Catalan National Cobla Group, the LPO, the London Session Orchestra, NYJO as well as Chick Corea.
Jason Rebello's first album was produced by Wayne Shorter. His meteoric career includes a series of acclaimed albums as well as crucial roles in the bands of Sting and Jeff Beck. Technique, diversity and adaptability have enabled Jason to work with artists across the musical spectrum such as Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Pee Wee Ellis, Joss Stone, Madeline Peyroux, Manu Katche and recently Charlene Soraia.
Together their performance will be unmissable.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Horatios, Moo Moos, Brighton Pier, Brighton, BN2 1, United Kingdom,Brighton and Hove
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