Author: howard

Regularly featured on JazzFM, and having packed out Ronnie Scott’s this year, this trio is popular and has a strong London following. A personal tribute to the late Bill Evans, this trio evolved from an exercise in transcription (Dorian transcribed the whole of the Album How My Heart Sings, including bass and drum parts). Having memorised many of Bill’s tunes, the trio is more than just a slavish recreation. The rigorous foundation has long ago been leapt from into improvised recreations of a masterful pianist’s work.

Songs trio have made two very popular recordings with the original line up of Dorian Ford (piano), Max de Wardener (bass), Iian Pattinson (drums) Playing ‘songs’ rather than ‘standards’ but as a jazz piano trio. The trio try to find the inner life inside the melody and structure of a classic song.

Forthright, sensuous and defiantly independent singer who for over four decades has been one of the great British female vocalists.

There are few musical genres Carol has not inhabited and made her own, and her current quartet shuffles the musical deck in an artful, entertaining and thoroughly engaging way.