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Deelee Dube and Tony Kofi celebrate Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley!Two of the masters of post-war jazz, Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley and vocalist Nancy Wilson came together in June 1961 and dashed off a series of tracks which became immortal examples of the marriage of jazz singing and instrumental improvisation. Release in Capitol Records in 1962, Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley is now an essential part of any jazz collection and is the inspiration for this show by Deelee Dube and Tony Kofi.
The show will include all the vocal numbers from the album – such as Never Will I Marry, Save Your Love for Me, The Masquerade Is Over and Happy Talk – while the band will also play some of the great instrumentals associated with Cannonball, including Unit 7, Teaneack and Work Song.
Line up:
Deelee Dube – vocals
Tony Kofi – saxophone
Andy Davies – trumpet
Alex Webb – piano
Hamish Moore – d.bass
Alfonso Vitale - drums
Winner of the 2016 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, Deelee Dubé (pronounced Dubé) comes from a stellar African musical lineage. Deelee’s late father was the famed South African jazz pianist Jabu Nkosi; her grandfather another legendary figure from the country’s music scene, saxophonist and bandleader Zacks (Isaac) Nkosi. She attended the BRIT School for arts and music, later studying under vocalist Clare Foster, and forming the first of many musical relationships with jazz pianist Roland Perrin. She established her London reputation with tenor saxophonist Renato D’Aiello at Ronnie Scott's Acoustic Jazz Lounge. A songwriter as well as a singer, Deelee has had her work reach the semi-finals of the UK Song writing (UKSC) Contest. Deelee is also a poet, and her work has been published in Write & Shine (Poetry Now Young Writers Book, 1995) and the Book of Dreams (United Press, 2010). Her debut album, ‘Trying Times’ (Concord) was released in 2021.
Tony Kofi won the Best Instrumentalist Award at the 2008 BBC Jazz Awards, Best Ensemble at the 2005 Parliamentary Jazz Awards, Album of the Year at the 2005 BBC Jazz Awards and was nominated for an award MOBO in 2008. Born in Nottingham to West African parents, Tony spent a four-year period at the legendary Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, on a scholarship music diploma. Since then, he has performed with the World Saxophone Quartet, Clifford Jarvis, Courtney Pine, Donald Byrd, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Eddie Henderson and many others. Between 2003 and 2004, Tony was an integral part of the Anglo-American Big Band of Andrew Hill and the Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestra; he has also recorded with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Ornette Coleman, as well as with his own bands. His most recent album is Another Kind Of Soul (The Last Music Company, 2020).
“[Kofi’s] improvising has an arrestingly raw power” - The Guardian
“Dubé, whose deft...performance pointed to the power inherent in connecting with one’s own unique voice” - Downbeat
www.tonykofimusic.com
www.deeleedube.com
www.andydavies.bandcamp.com
www.alexwebbsongwriter.com
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
238-246 King Street, W6 0RF London, United Kingdom, 238 King Street, London, W6 0RF, United Kingdom
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