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Southwold Jazz Club ~ Getz: A Musical Portrait

Sold out twice at Ronnie Scott’s, Chris Ingham’s 'Getz: A Musical Portrait' has delighted audiences up and down the country. With both the virtuoso saxophone of Mark Crooks in the Getz role and Chris Ingham’s insightful and entertaining commentary, this is a show not to be missed. Here is the quartet in action just last month in Nottingham - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzV9udNRzPA
and here is the London Jazz News review of their album Stan.
https://londonjazznews.com/2019/01/28/cd-review-chris-ingham-quartet-featuring-mark-crooks-stan/

Featuring:
Chris Ingham (piano/commentary) with woodwind star or the John Wilson orchestra Mark Crooks (saxophone),and Dave Olney (bass), George Double (drums)

Chris Ingham composes TV music and plays jazz piano.

As a composer, in 2017 he provided the soundtrack for the six-part documentary series Wartime Crime for Discovery/UKTV and the Tom Odell-directed How the Beatles Changed The World for Netflix, also appearing in the latter film as a talking head. Recent soundtracks include The Rise of the Superheroes (2018), Charles Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind (2019) and Days Of Rage: The Rolling Stones' Road To Altamont (2019). He has also written and recorded 27 soundtracks for Chrome Dreams' rock documentary DVD series 2006-2015, many currently viewable on Amazon Prime.

He formed his jazz quartet in 2013 and has led over 150 performances of his Hoagy Carmichael, Dudley Moore and Stan Getz repertoire projects all over the UK. He is also musical director/pianist/MC of film song repertory quintet Jazz At The Movies and Rebop, a modern jazz repertory sextet.
He has been a record producer for Ruthie Henshall and Joanna Eden and is the author of Rough Guide to The Beatles and Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra.

He curates jazz clubs in Diss (The Corn Hall) and Bury St Edmunds (Hunter Club).

Do join us on Friday 23rd September for what will be another fun and swinging night at Southwold Jazz Club.

Southwold Jazz Club ~ Getz: A Musical Portrait