Alan Broadbent & Georgia Mancio Songbook at PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho

Exquisite partnership between double Grammy award-winning jazz pianist/composer/arranger Alan Broadbent (Charlie Haden Quartet West, Diana Krall, Natalie Cole, Woody Herman) and stellar vocalist/lyricist Georgia Mancio (Bobby McFerrin, Ian Shaw, Sheila Jordan, ReVoice! Festival)
Together they present their original Songbook project. Alan’s evocative melodies, sophisticated harmony and peerless arrangers’ ear find their perfect match in Georgia’s superbly crafted lyrics of both beauty and bite. Through journeys and resting places, childhood and old age; from bebop to brooding ballads and bossa novas: The Alan Broadbent / Georgia Mancio Songbook sets the new standards of the future. ...

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Exquisite partnership between double Grammy award-winning jazz pianist/composer/arranger Alan Broadbent (Charlie Haden Quartet West, Diana Krall, Natalie Cole, Woody Herman) and stellar vocalist/lyricist Georgia Mancio (Bobby McFerrin, Ian Shaw, Sheila Jordan, ReVoice! Festival)
Together they present their original Songbook project. Alan’s evocative melodies, sophisticated harmony and peerless arrangers’ ear find their perfect match in Georgia’s superbly crafted lyrics of both beauty and bite. Through journeys and resting places, childhood and old age; from bebop to brooding ballads and bossa novas: The Alan Broadbent / Georgia Mancio Songbook sets the new standards of the future.

Alan Broadbent (piano), Georgia Mancio (voice), Oli Hayhurst (bass), Dave Ohm (drums)

“Mancio's velvet tone and sensitive lyricism are as beautiful as ever, but with Broadbent, whose scintillating ... piano reveals new details in even the best-loved song, they're unmissable” CultureWhisper.com Best Jazz Gigs 2013

“incredibly well received by the audience…these new songs definitely deserve to be heard”
London Jazz News

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