What’s New | Ian Shaw ∙ Iain Ballamy ∙ Jamie Safir | Newbury Spring Festival

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What\u2019s New | Ian Shaw \u2219 Iain Ballamy \u2219 Jamie Safir | Newbury Spring Festival
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We are delighted to welcome back to the Festival renowned jazz vocalist Ian Shaw, jazz pianist resident at The Ritz Jamie Safir and to welcome tenor sax star Iain Ballamy for an evening based around their latest album.
What’s New, the album (Silent Wish records), was a timely coming together of three players whose collective interest in ‘the moment’ – i.e. musical improvisation, in cahoots with a true love of classic song forms – makes the live experience of the album an ever-growing, yet representative, gig.
The material is about human connections – friendships, relationships, positive and otherwise – and plunders 80 years of the popular song form. These are fresh arrangements of songs of love and hope – from the title song of their recording to Bernstein’s Some Other Time as well as the Bacharach/David classics Alfie and You’ll Never Get To Heaven alongside works by Legrand, Jobim and Ellington.
Performers
Ian Shaw vocals
Iain Ballamy tenor sax
Jamie Safir piano
Sponsored by The Headley Trust
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Corn Exchange Newbury, 4 Market Place, Newbury, RG14 5, United Kingdom

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