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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

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May 2013
Date Information About Entry Price Time Venue
Sunday
12th

Another chance to hear this delightful young singer, accompanied this week by the highly gifted and exceptionally expressive young jazz pianist, Tim Lapthorn. His bluesy, flowing, lyrical sound sets him apart from many of his contemporaries. His music is accessible and open and his style very much his own.

Featuring:
Kate Fuller (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
Wednesday
15th

Polly has a beautifully smooth, rich and deep tone with stunning natural musicianship and impeccable intonation and timing. Polly's soulful voice and jazz instincts led to a nomination from the BBC Jazz Awards in 2006 for her album "What's the Real Reason." She now appears regularly at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club and is one of the UK ’s top jazz & Soul singers.

Featuring:
Polly Gibbons (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
Free and half price champagne 7.30 - 10 pm The Crazy Bear, Fitzrovia
Sunday
19th

.…one of Britain’s most exciting vocal talents and described as the new Sinatra, Atila combines an extraordinary voice with great charm and musicianship. The late jazz legend Sir John Dankworth predicted him a very bright future!

Featuring:
Atila (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
Wednesday
22nd

A vivacious young Australian singer and songwriter, Kate Fuller has been causing a stir since arriving in the UK with her expressive voice and sweetness of tone coupled with huge musicianship.
A recent vocal graduate of the Los Angeles Music Academy, Kate has worked and performed with some of LA’s most prominent musicians. She has also performed at a number of iconic Hollywood venues including The Hotel Café, Kulak’s Woodshed, Café Metropol, L'Ermitage Beverly Hills Hotel and Room 5.

Featuring:
Kate Fuller (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
Free and half price champagne 7.30 - 10 pm The Crazy Bear, Fitzrovia
Sunday
26th

Brigitte, already making a name for herself on the international jazz scene, is an individualistic and imaginative jazz vocalist who produces a mesmerising and ethereal sound, and whose long phrases and floating syllables are poignantly and effortlessly delivered.

Featuring:
Brigitte Beraha (Vocals)
Ross Stanley (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
Friday
31st

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Featuring: Brigitte Beraha (Vocals)
8 - 10.30 pm The Tree At Cadmore End
June 2013
Date Information About Entry Price Time Venue
Sunday
2nd

One of Britain ’s most exciting vocal talents and described as the new Sinatra, Atila combines an extraordinary voice with great charm and musicianship. His voice has a huge range and his sense of pitch is impeccable, but it is his musical phrasing which seems unusually effortless and compelling. Without guile or affectation, his timing and his phrasing are both gripping and profoundly musical. Catch him before everyone else does!

Featuring:
Atila (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
Wednesday
5th

Dave Lewis is a much revered tenor saxophonist with the ability to play with great intensity in a host of styles, whether it's as part of the 'Blockheads' or his own band '1-up'. Weaving his way around a melody, Lewis has a flawless command of his instrument, fantastic ears a delectable, smooth tone and a natural innate sense of swing that is deeply authentic in the idiom.

Featuring:
Dave Lewis (Saxophone)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
Free and half price champagne 7.30 - 10 pm The Crazy Bear, Fitzrovia
Sunday
9th

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Featuring:
Alice Zawadzki (Vocalist)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
Wednesday
12th

Vanessa Haynes In 2008 Vanessa became backing vocalist to Van Morrison performing around the world. She’s worked and recorded with Billy Ocean , Chaka Khan, LuLu, Anastacia, Leon Ware and Mario Biondi. She became one of the lead singers of the Internationally acclaimed UK Jazz/Funk band INCOGNITO in 2008, touring all over the world with Jocelyn B rown and others .
Vanessa can be heard singing lead on Life Ain’t Nothing But a Good Thing on Incognito’s new Album Transatlantic RPM also featuring Mario Biondi, Chaka Khan and Leon Ware.

Featuring:
Vanessa Haynes (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
Free and half price champagne 7.30 - 10 pm The Crazy Bear, Fitzrovia
Sunday
16th

Sara Mitra has performed across the UK and Europe as a soloist and bandleader, including dates at Glastonbury Festival, Brecon Jazz Festival, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, gigs in Paris, Sicily, Estonia, Spain, and an international live broadcast for FIP Radio Paris.

“When I heard the album, I immediately became a fan of her voice… Absolutely brilliant.” Jamie Cullum.

Featuring:
Sara Mitra (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
Sunday
23rd

Not only does Jacqui Hicks possess an exquisitely beautiful voice, but she is also a consummate musician. She is totally in control and understands every nuance of the process of making jazz music: she is an unparalleled exponent of the rare art of singing jazz ballads with poise, elegance and beauty as well as having a great feel for Soul and Funk.

Featuring:
Jacqui Hicks (Vocals)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
Friday
28th

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Featuring: Atila (Vocalist)
8 - 10.30 pm The Tree At Cadmore End
Sunday
30th

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Featuring:
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
July 2013
Date Information About Entry Price Time Venue
Sunday
7th

Polly has a beautifully smooth, rich and deep tone with stunning natural musicianship and impeccable intonation and timing. Polly's soulful voice and jazz instincts led to a nomination from the BBC Jazz Awards in 2006 for her album "What's the Real Reason." She now appears almost weekly at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club and is one of the UK ’s top jazz & Soul singers.

Featuring:
Polly Gibbons (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
Sunday
14th

Atila has performed at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival with the BBC Concert Orchestra and John Wilson Big Band, broadcast live on BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night.
Other notable jazz venues where Atila has appeared include Ronnie Scott’s. Pizza Express, Pizza on the Park and The Stables, Wavendon. He has performed at the Bures Jazz Festival and the British Jazz Foundation Festival.
The late jazz legend Sir John Dankworth predicted “a very bright future with the possibility of Atila’s name eventually ending up in lights”. Atila has gone on to establish himself as one of Britain’s most exciting vocal talents.

Featuring:
Atila (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
Sunday
21st

Kathleen has a deliciously pure voice, and an exultant and effortless delivery. She is intensely musical and listens and interacts with total emotional involvement, coupled with graceful professionalism. She improvises in a natural and unaffected style never bewildering or saturating her audience.

Featuring:
Kathleen Willison (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
Friday
26th

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Featuring: Kate Fuller (Vocalist)
8 - 10.30 pm The Tree At Cadmore End
Sunday
28th

Another chance to hear the incredible Atila, one of Britain ’s most exciting vocal talents and described as the new Sinatra. Atila combines an extraordinary voice with great charm and musicianship.

Featuring:
Atila (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie
August 2013
Date Information About Entry Price Time Venue
Sunday
4th

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Featuring:
Atila (Vocalist)
Tim Lapthorn (Piano)
Tim Dawes (Double Bass)
FREE 5 - 7.30 pm QUOD Brasserie