Salena Jones & the Geoff Eales Quintet at PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho

The iconic international singer Salena Jones returns to the Soho Jazz Club with her top band of musicians led by pianist Geoff Eales. Over her career Salena Jones has sung with Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Sarah Vaughan, Maynard Ferguson, Mark Murphy, Kenny Burrell, Dudley Moore, Roy Budd, Toots Thielemans, Tom Jones, Antonio Carlos Jobim, the BBC Big Band and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. To date Salena has recorded 42 solo albums.

Geoff Eales (piano), Jules Jackson (bass), Pete Cater (drums), Martin Shaw (trumpet), Lewis Wright (vibraphone)

“America`s loss is Britain`s gain. Salena Jones, a sultry vocalist from the same town as Ella Fitzgerald, crossed the Atlantic and never looked back. Her recent tribute to the great Brazilian songwriter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, confirmed her place in the front rank of singers. Infinitely versatile she can swing from jazz standards to more intimate material. A flawless selection concluded with a sultry “Everyday I Have the Blues”, played over a pulse suggestive of Miles Davis`s “All Blues”. Jones is pure class. We should tempt her back more often” Clive Davis, The Times...

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The iconic international singer Salena Jones returns to the Soho Jazz Club with her top band of musicians led by pianist Geoff Eales. Over her career Salena Jones has sung with Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Sarah Vaughan, Maynard Ferguson, Mark Murphy, Kenny Burrell, Dudley Moore, Roy Budd, Toots Thielemans, Tom Jones, Antonio Carlos Jobim, the BBC Big Band and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. To date Salena has recorded 42 solo albums.

Geoff Eales (piano), Jules Jackson (bass), Pete Cater (drums), Martin Shaw (trumpet), Lewis Wright (vibraphone)

“America`s loss is Britain`s gain. Salena Jones, a sultry vocalist from the same town as Ella Fitzgerald, crossed the Atlantic and never looked back. Her recent tribute to the great Brazilian songwriter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, confirmed her place in the front rank of singers. Infinitely versatile she can swing from jazz standards to more intimate material. A flawless selection concluded with a sultry “Everyday I Have the Blues”, played over a pulse suggestive of Miles Davis`s “All Blues”. Jones is pure class. We should tempt her back more often” Clive Davis, The Times

"Stunning British-based US singer Jones has a great feel for working intimate jazz venues" Time Out

“New Jersey`s world-travelled charmer is one of the best jazz-meets-cabaret singers in the business” Jack Massarik, Evening Standard

GEOFF EALES
Geoff Eales is widely regarded as one of Europe's most inspirational pianists. Though he has been proactive in a wide variety of musical situations throughout his long and distinguished career, it is within jazz that the full extent of Geoff's personality is revealed. One of the hardest swinging pianists around, often compared to Oscar Peterson and Monty Alexander; Geoff is also one of the world's great accompanists, he is an outstandingly sensitive ballad player, Geoff`s harmonic ideas and touch being reminiscent of Bill Evans. Multi-faceted, in addition to his long association with Salena Jones, Geoff has accompanied Shirley Bassey, Michael Ball, Rosemary Clooney, Tammy Wynette, Jose' Carreras, Elaine Paige, Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, Andy Williams, Petula Clark, Kiri te Kanawa and Lesley Garrett.

"The world of commercial music simply couldn't function without phenomenally accomplished musicians like Geoff Eales ...” - THE OBSERVER

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