The 3rd of the current Jazz Divas Series takes place this month featuring the multi award winning Norma Winstone with Gwilym Simcock.

Jazz Divas Series

Norma Winstone with Gwilym Simcock - April 28th

St. James Studio, 12 Palace Street, London SW1E 5JA (round the corner from Victoria Station and Buckingham Palace).

8pm - Tickets £19 & £25

To book either call 0844 264 2140 or go online to www.stjamestheatre.co.uk

http://www.jbgbevents.com/jazz-divas-norma-winstone.html

http://www.normawinstone.com/biography

Arriving on the scene a while back as an avant-garde musician, continues to delight audiences as an evergreen, in demand singer, with a litany of must have recordings. Not only a singer of consummate style and quality, being awarded BBC Jazz Awards best vocalist and Parliamentary Jazz Awards Best Vocalist 2015, she also composes witty, delightful lyrics, among which “Ladies in Mercedes” has become a universally enjoyed jazz standard. Awarded the MBE for her services to jazz.

For her debut at St. James’, Norma is accompanied at the piano by the sensitive style of Gwilym Simcock

“One of the glories of contemporary jazz” - Jazz Journal

Awards and Fellowships
2010
Lifetime Achievement Jazz Medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
Honorary Fellow at Trinity Laban Conservatoire – incidentally the first Jazz Fellow.

2013
Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music

2015
Parliamentary Jazz Award for Best Vocalist
Gold Badge of Merit from British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors

Thursday JAZZ DIVAS 2016 @ St James Theatre  

The third Jazz Divas series from JBGB Events in the company of four a-list female jazz stylists is well underway at St. James Theatre, London, and is the greatest all-star line-up yet.

The 2014 series with Gabrielle Ducomble, Georgia Mancio, Jacqui Dankworth and Tina May was a sparkling first divas presentation. 

The 2015 series, with Elaine Delmar, Jacki Hicks, Polly Gibbons and Sarah Gillespie received enthusiastic support. 

This 2016 series brings together the delights of Joanna Eden in February, (fresh from her sold out performance of the music of Ella Fitzgerald at St. James in the London Jazz Festival), Clare Teal in March, (leaving her big band behind, making her debut in the intimate club like atmosphere of the St. James Studio) Norma Winstone in April (undoubtedly one of the UK's most innovative performers) and the irrepressible Claire Martin in May (who with another sold out performance opened the London Jazz Festival at St. James last November) 

These wonderful performers are unquestionably the four leading female jazz singers in the UK. To have them all performing in this single series at St. James Studio makes this one of the hottest must have tickets on the 2016 London jazz scene.

Arrive early and dine upstairs in the St. James Theatre restaurant. Relax before and after the show, joining

the audience in the bustling ground floor cafe and bar, with the basement Studio bar open throughout the evening.

We look forward to your company at St. James for the 2016 Thursday Jazz Divas series. 

For more info please visit http://jbgbevents.com/

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