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Basin Street Brawlers at The Concorde
Courtesy of Vanessa Skeet | Posted on October 30, 2017
Where
The Concorde
Stoneham Lane
Eastleigh
Map
+44 23 8061 3989
When
Wed, November 1, 2017
20:15
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Musicians
Peter Horsfall
trumpetMalcolm Earle Smith
tromboneEwan Bleach
multi-instrumentalistColin Good
pianoMartin Wheatley
guitarDave O'Brien
pianoMez Clough
drumsAbout
The Basin Street Brawlers are London's own master exponents of hot jazz, swingin' their way through the most beautiful melodies and raucous rags of the 1920s and 1930s.
In the past year alone the Brawlers have performed as headliners at the London Swing Festival, as featured artists at the Royal Albert Hall “Late Night Jazz” series, in addition to countless appearances at internationally acclaimed speakeasy The Nightjar, secret drinking societies such as The Candlelight Club and jazz&blues clubs including The Blues Kitchen.
Their repertoire features the finest work of the master songwriters of the era, including Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael and George Gershwin, delivered in a unique and powerful style reminiscent of the Louis Armstrong All Stars and the great Harlem stride piano-man Thomas “Fats” Waller....