The Blue Cafe Jazz Ensemble
Overview
- 4 piece jazz ensemble
- Scottish/Rabbie Burns Songs arranged in a jazz form
- Tin Pan Alley Standards
Price Range
Prices range from £400 to £2500
About
Without doubt, one of the most fresh and original voices operating on the contemporary jazz scene today. The Magdalena Reising and the Blue Cafe Jazz Ensemble is a unique and enchanting blend of Scottish folk, Polish melodies and tin pan alley standards and haunting originals.
Featuring the captivating vocals and stunning jazz harp of Magdalena, each performance takes the audience on a dramatic and spiritual journey from the Highlands of Scotland to the shores of the Baltic. Accompanying her are three of the best improvising musicians in the UK, Terry Seabrook on piano, Steve Thompson on double bass and Alex Eberhard on drums, each capable of holding an audience spellbound. At the centre of the band are the bewitching vocals of Magdalena Reising that evoke Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald but in the end are as individual , fresh and original as the band accompanying her. Magdalena Reising and the Blue Cafe Jazz Ensemble take jazz and jazz performance to a new spectacular level. Not to be missed.
They are available for bookings on an all year round show and also Jazz Burns Nights.
Some of Examples of recent venues ; Pizza Express Dean St, The Hawth Theatre Crawley,Posk London, Iambic Theatre Brighton, Trinty Theatre Tunbridge Wells
'Glorious,subtle,magic,power ' New York Review
'First Class ' The Musician
'Superb playful vocal textures' Jazz Monthly
Where are they based?
We are happy to travel throughout the uk and abroad for touring
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Sample Set List
Some Examples Of Repertoire; Originals / Jazz Arrangements of Scottish Traditionals ie My Love is Like a Red Red Rose/Green Grow the Rashes O'/ Charlie is my Darlin/
Haunting interprertations of Classics ie La Vie En Rose/ Falling In Love Again/ The Nearness of You/ Dance Me to the End of Love / I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
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