London Jazz Diary

Just a quick blog entry about one of our gigs towards the end of last week, again with Christmas shopping as a central theme. Having played in the West End the week before, it seemed only fair that we provided the East End of London with our top London Jazz Trio, the City Jazz Trio. We have built up a great relationship with Canary Wharf, having played at the shopping centre and other venues on many occasions, including arranging for 9 different solo sax players to be spread around the shopping centre for Valentine’s Day Jazz earlier this year!

This time around we were positioned in one of the main busy thoroughfares in Cabot Place East, and we pulled quite a crowd as well as entertaining the punters passing by – this was clearly helped by the prospect of free chocolate fondue nearby as well! Chocolate and jazz, who could want more this Christmas! The idea behind the event was to celebrate the introduction of the winter season for the shoppers. The client opted for the City Jazz Trio featuring sax, guitar and double bass, (listen to this jazz here), one of our most popular London Jazz Bands, as you can see from  previous blog posts. We played a mixture of traditional and contemporary jazz standards, including tunes from Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter. We had many compliments from passers by, including one family with young children who decided to dance away for a good 20 minutes!

Don’t forget if you are interested in booking a London Jazz Band for your launch event, private party or corporate function, you can find out more on our website here: http://www.cityjazz.co.uk/

Amongst our recent gigs, it was our pleasure to play at a classic car auction at Battersea Evolution, a large warehouse style venue in Battersea Park, London. Following a couple of conversations on the phone, we decided that a sassy female jazz singer would be the best option for this event, which was to encourage rich people to spend a LOT of money on some truly beautiful cars.  The top London jazz singer chosen for this high end sales event was the incredible Elizabeth, hired in the City Jazz Trio (sax, piano and vocals). Having had many positive comments and card requests from the punters, the client decided to surprise us with complimentary champagne in our dressing room after the performance: a lovely touch, though please note we do not encourage drink driving!

To hear Elizabeth in action visit our website here:
http://www.cityjazz.co.uk/default.asp?contentID=512