Spats Langham's Hot Fingers at The Concorde

Spats Langham’s Hot Fingers explores the golden age of music, visiting the red-hot jazz of 1920’s New York through to the early days of sophisticated 1930’s Swing.

Spats Langham is a leading expert in this style of music. A performance typically includes some well known classics from song-writers such as Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, and vocalists such as the Ink-Spots, Al Bowlly and Bing Crosby mixed with more unusual and rarely heard hot syncopated jazz tunes. Spats Langham has a great ear for unearthing great and unusual tunes, and was described by the late Humphrey Littleton as ‘a Jazz Archeologist!’...

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Spats Langham’s Hot Fingers explores the golden age of music, visiting the red-hot jazz of 1920’s New York through to the early days of sophisticated 1930’s Swing.

Spats Langham is a leading expert in this style of music. A performance typically includes some well known classics from song-writers such as Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, and vocalists such as the Ink-Spots, Al Bowlly and Bing Crosby mixed with more unusual and rarely heard hot syncopated jazz tunes. Spats Langham has a great ear for unearthing great and unusual tunes, and was described by the late Humphrey Littleton as ‘a Jazz Archeologist!’

The songs range from sentimental ballads like ‘Just Like a Melody From Out of the Sky’ and ‘Please’, through to novelty tunes such as ‘Lena, the Queen of Palastina’ and ‘Singing In The Bathtub’.

At different stages of the performance, the musicians also demonstrate their virtuosity with solo performances on guitar, banjo, piano, ukulele.

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