Bob Dorough & Simon Wallace - Steinway 2 Piano Festival at PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho

Part of the Steinway Two Piano Festival 2017. Bob Dorough is a bona fide jazz legend. He performed and recorded with Blossom Dearie in Paris in the 1950s, his songs have been recorded by Jamie Cullum, Miles Davis, Diana Krall ('Devil May Care'), Mel Torme ('Comin Home Baby'), De La Soul ('3 is the Magic Number'!), and countless others. As a performer he influenced Mose Allison, Mark Murphy and many more singers. As musical director of the US TV series 'Schoolhouse Rock', Dorough (now in his 93rd year!) entertained and instructed millions of unsuspecting children throughout the 1970s and 80s. ...

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Part of the Steinway Two Piano Festival 2017. Bob Dorough is a bona fide jazz legend. He performed and recorded with Blossom Dearie in Paris in the 1950s, his songs have been recorded by Jamie Cullum, Miles Davis, Diana Krall ('Devil May Care'), Mel Torme ('Comin Home Baby'), De La Soul ('3 is the Magic Number'!), and countless others. As a performer he influenced Mose Allison, Mark Murphy and many more singers. As musical director of the US TV series 'Schoolhouse Rock', Dorough (now in his 93rd year!) entertained and instructed millions of unsuspecting children throughout the 1970s and 80s.
Simon Wallace's thirty year career as pianist, composer and musical director has taken him to 28 countries. He toured with the Lindsay Kemp Dance Company, co-wrote music for Oscar-winning film A Shocking Accident with Simon Brint, has had two symphonies commissioned by the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, has been MD for Ian Shaw, Clare Teal, Claire Martin, Barb Jungr and Sarah Moule and for twenty years wrote songs on a weekly basis with legendary American lyricist Fran Landesman. Their guests are top UK jazz vocalists Trudy Kerr and Sarah Moule.

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