Café Society Swing at PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho

Jazz at Cafe Society featuring Vimala Rowe and Ciyo Brown (vocals) and a stellar band including Nathaniel Facey (alto), Frank Griffith (tenor), Sue Richardson (trumpet), Shane Forbes (drums) and Miles Danso (bass).

The legendary 1930s New York nightclub revisited! Cafe Society opened in 1938, America’s first racially integrated jazz club and a hothouse for jazz talent, amongst them Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie and many others. Expect an intoxicating blend of Swing, Blues and more brought to life with authenticity and imagination by pianist Alex Webb’s eight-piece band and superb vocalists. This is the club version of a show which won rave reviews in New York over Christmas 2014: ...

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Jazz at Cafe Society featuring Vimala Rowe and Ciyo Brown (vocals) and a stellar band including Nathaniel Facey (alto), Frank Griffith (tenor), Sue Richardson (trumpet), Shane Forbes (drums) and Miles Danso (bass).

The legendary 1930s New York nightclub revisited! Cafe Society opened in 1938, America’s first racially integrated jazz club and a hothouse for jazz talent, amongst them Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie and many others. Expect an intoxicating blend of Swing, Blues and more brought to life with authenticity and imagination by pianist Alex Webb’s eight-piece band and superb vocalists. This is the club version of a show which won rave reviews in New York over Christmas 2014:

"A balm for the soul, though the story it tells is bittersweet" New York Times ‘Critics’ Pick’

"Excellent arrangements of period standards … Cafe Society is a rousing success" Jazz Times

"A simply wonderful show … Terrific arrangements performed by an eight piece band, [with] vocalists channeling, not imitating, eventual luminaries like Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Josh White, and Billie Holiday" Woman Around Town.com

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