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Romantic tribute to Billie
TRIBUTE TO BILLY HOLIDAY
Jazz Café
FOR the romantic ones among you, Camden Town’s Jazz Café is hosting a special Valentine’s Day concert on Wednesday with bass player Gary Crosby appearing with vocalist Juliet Roberts in a tribute to Billie Holiday.
Holiday was a tragic figure, who working as a prostitute, was raped, and died young after alcoholism and heroin addiction
But as a jazz vocalist she is one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest, female singer in the jazz canon, certainly Humphrey Lyttelton’s opinion on his recent programme on Radio Four.
Songs such as Strange Fruit, God Bless the Child and I Must Have That Man are wonderful and incredibly powerful and a good singer can exploit the works with satisfaction.
And Gary Crosby is good at this, taking classic jazz and representing it. He has done the same with Charles Mingus – particularly good with Black Saint and the Sinner Lady – and recently spent several nights at the Pizza Express Dean Street performing works by John Coltrane.
Juliet Roberts is a tremendously versatile singer with a powerful, emotional voice, so this event at the Jazz Café should be a most rewarding evening.
A more sedate Valentine’s Day concert is taking place at the Royal Festival Hall where soprano Gillian Keith, counter-tenor Iestyn Davies and tenor Andrew Kennedy, performing works by Handel and Monteverdi, as well as lighter numbers by Noel Coward and Jerome Kern.
– See listings
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