Classical and Jazz: Latest Listings>August 19
Published: 19 August, 2010
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20
Outdoor opera screening: Billy Budd, Somerset House, Strand, WC2. 0844 847 22317, 7.15pm, from £7.50
Swinging emotional tenor saxist: Scott Hamilton. Pizza Express, 19 Dean St., Soho. 08456 027 017. 7.30pm, £22 (till next Tuesday)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21
Bruno d’Ambra Trio, Palm Court, The Langham, 1 Portland Place, W1, 020 7965 0195, 7pm, free
Outdoor opera screening: The Rake’s Progress, Somerset House, Strand, WC2. 0844 847 22317, 7.15pm, from £7.50
Last of Kenwood Proms: Britain’s Got Talent teen-mezzo Faryl Smith and Welsh tenor Wynne Evans, Kenwood Picnic Concert, Hampstead Lane, NW3, 0844 412 2706, 7.30pm, from £25/cons £23.50
SUNDAY, AUGUST 22
Bandstand concerts
Golders Hill Park: Classical: ‘Celli Babies, 3pm
Kensington Gardens: Amersham Band, 2pm and 3.45pm
Parliament Hill: Rock: The Ugly Guys, 3pm
Regent’s Park: Jazz singer: Christine Tobin, 2.30pm
ST James’s Park: Becontree Concert Band, 3pm and 5pm
Other concerts/gigs
Jazz & jam: saxist Shabaka Hutchings and pianist Tom Millar join bassist Cai Marle-Garcia’s band, Map Café, 46 Grafton Road, NW5, 020 7916 0544, 1.30pm, £4/musicians £2
Tango tribute: Jon Acton violin and Rob Burgess guitar, Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, 07747 872 540, 2.30pm, £10/cons £8
Outdoor opera screening: Hansel & Gretel, Somerset House, Strand, WC20844 847 22317, 7.15pm, from £7.50
Christian Brewer Quartet plus Leon Greening et al, Solo Bar, 20 Inverness Street, Camden Town, 020 7482 4611, 7.30pm, free
MONDAY, AUGUST 23
Cream tea concert: Romantic cello recital by Rowena Calvert and pianist Warren Mailley-Smith, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 020 7766 1100, 3.30pm, concert & tea £10/concert only £7
Most versatile pianist: Monty Alexander. Ronnie Scott’s, 47 Frith Street, Soho, 020 7439 0747, 7.15pm, from £20 (till Thursday)
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24
Christian Brewer Quartet, Lower Ground Bar, 269a West End Lane, NW6. 020 7431 2211, 9.30pm, free
Rhapsody in Blue by Candlelight: pianist Warren Mailley-Smith, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 020 7766 1100, 7.30pm, from £18
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25
Veteran jazz multi-reedsman: Alan Barnes, Map Café, 46 Grafton Road, NW5, 020 7916 0544, 7pm, £10
New Orleans jazz: T J Johnson’s Bourbon Kick, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 020 7766 1100, 8pm, from £5.50
Angus Moncrieff Quartet, Solo Bar, 20 Inverness Street, Camden Town, 020 7482 4611, 8pm, free
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26
Piano recital: Kiyoko Fukuo, St Pancras Parish Church, Euston Road, NW1. 020 7388 1461, 1.15pm, free
Consumate be-bop pianist: Barry Harris. Pizza Express, 19 Dean Street, Soho, 08456 027 017. 7.30pm, £22(till next Monday)