Jazz breaking news: Boisdale Guitar Series now underway continues with Howard Alden tonight
Thursday, May 10, 2012
As it approaches its first anniversary the Boisdale Canary Wharf restaurant and music venue is hosting a dedicated series of jazz guitar concerts which began with the TG Collective yesterday.
Running until 26 May the series features the Fapy Lafertin/Lollo Meier Quartet, the Howard Alden Quintet (tonight), the Nigel Price Trio, Lee Jones, and the Jim Mullen Trio among the highlights, building on the Cabot Place venue’s burgeoning reputation as a busy metropolitan jazz venue, the only significant club-type venue providing jazz in the heart of the capital’s financial district.
BCW’s music room is housed within a very large upscale Scottish restaurant on one of its floors, featuring a long bar stocked with a huge number of expensive bottles of rare whisky on the right hand side, and plenty of space for diners. Boisdale, founded by entrepreneur Ranald Macdonald, also operates smaller long-standing jazz-friendly restaurants in Belgravia and Bishopsgate. – Stephen Graham
For tickets go to www.boisdale.co.uk/canary-wharf
Howard Alden (pictured, above)