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Society folk stage arts funding coup
IT'S not often you get swooning schoolgirls at jazz concerts.
While those fond of distinctions might be forgiven for wondering why this was part of the London Jazz Festival, Monday’s gig at the South Bank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall by acapella singers Naturally Seven was an occasion to savour – particularly for female sixth formers.
When the compere asked, at the start, “Is there anyone here from Camden School for Girls?” the response was a deafening explosion of screaming.
Acapella, like beat-boxing, means creating instrumental sounds using the human voice. That means the guitar, drums, sax, everything, is created purely by people manipulating their vocal chords – and this is simply amazing to watch.
The seven men who make up this band are all former gospel singers from New York, and while their repeated references to God’s love had some in the audience tut-tutting, virtually everyone was dancing in the aisles by the end.
JOSH LOEB
IT'S not too late to catch some great music at local venues before the curtain comes down on the London Jazz Festival this weekend.
Tomorrow (Friday) the Jazz Café in Parkway is hosting a “future jazz” triple bill comprising post-avant garde quintet Polar Bear and two three piece bands, Zed-U and Troyka.
Also tomorrow, at The Green Man in Euston Road, saxophonist Stan Sulzman is focusing on the early works of the original saxophone colossus, Sonny Rollins.
Saturday evening at Jazz Café, charismatic Dutch singer Wouter Hamel will be singing his own compositions, maybe with a hint of Frank Sinatra.
At the Forge, Delancey Street, on Saturday, expect some top-notch neo-bop playing by Empirical, a young band led by saxophonist Nathaniel Forbes.
On Sunday lunchtime, don’t forget to take your ear-plugs along to Spice of Life in Cambridge Circus to hear the Steve Taylor Big Band play a thunderous, hard-swinging tribute to the great drummer and bandleader Buddy Rich.
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