Jazz breaking news: Natalie Williams, Juliet Kelly and Liane Carroll For Blue Train
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
On Stamford Street in Southwark the Blue Train Jazz Club sets off next month with a busy programme featuring many leading UK jazz singers.
Opening with MOBO-nominated singer Natalie Williams (Soul Family, pictured), Blue Train is the newest London jazz club on the block following a soft launch in August.
With bookings handled by Midlands trumpeter Ray Butcher originally from Portsmouth, whose own album War On The Saints features Venezuelan pianist Edgar Macías and Ninja Tune label saxophonist Chris Bowden, Blue Train is very centrally located on the site of a former Indian restaurant and near the King's Reach Tower building, formerly home to the NME and close to the BFI Imax. Along with a sister restaurant on the site, which also books jazz duos, the new jazz lounge is the main club venue.
Blue Train dates so far include in addition to Natalie Williams on Friday 2 December: Jacqui Dankworth (3 Dec); Esther Miller (lunchtime, 4 Dec); Sarah Gillespie and Gilad Atzmon (8 Dec); Tina May (9 Dec); Juliet Kelly (10 Dec); Kevin Hall/Lyla D’Souza (lunchtime, 11 Dec); Jane Parker (14 Dec); Simon Spillett Quartet (15 Dec); Liane Carroll (16 Dec); Gilad Atzmon (17 Dec); Georgia Mancio (22 Dec); Beverley Craven (23 Dec), Vanessa Haynes (29 Dec); and Kevin Fitzsimmons (30 Dec) – Stephen Graham
For more go to www.bluetrainjazzclub.com