JCUK: James Allsopp Quartet play Stan Getz
Sat, 07 Jun
|The Jazz Centre UK
Immersed in his music from a young age, James Allsopp pays tribute to the tenor sax jazz great Stan Getz.
Time & Location
07 Jun 2025, 14:00 – 16:00
The Jazz Centre UK, The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend-on-Sea SS2 6EX, UK
About the Event
The James Allsopp Quartet; James Allsopp: tenor sax, Colin Oxley: guitar, Mirko Scarcia: bass, Dave Storey: drums.
James Allsopp is an accomplished British saxophonist, who played at the JCUK in a two-tenor front line with Derek Nash a year or so back. Today he brings his own quartet to explore the music of the great Stan Getz…
Getz, of course was one of the most influential tenor saxophonists of the post war period. Known for his warm, lyrical style, derived from that of his idol Lester Young, he played bop and cool jazz, though he achieved his greatest fame in the 1960s by popularizing the bossa nova sounds of Brazil.
James Allsopp says: ‘This is a new project inspired by the music I grew up listening to; a salute to one of my all time saxophone heroes - Stan Getz.
‘There is so much fantastic repertoire associated with Stan Getz from…
Tickets
General Admission
From £8.00 to £15.00- £15.00+£0.38 ticket service fee
- £8.00+£0.20 ticket service fee
Total
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