A JAZZ CHRISTMAS CAROL, with The Alan Barnes Octet, an all star band line up.

Thursday December 3rd @ St. James Studio, 12 Palace Street, London SW1E 5JA

Tickets £22 & £25

To book www.stjamestheatre.co.uk (round the corner from Victoria Station and Buckingham Palace).

Tel: 0844 264 2140

Show Time 8pm

Like the Dickens classic itself, Alan Barnes’s “Christmas Carol” has something for everyone. A family night out and a treat for the jazz connoisseur; it will delight anyone who loves music or literature – or just Christmas!

This new suite of pieces embraces the characters and scenes of ‘A Christmas Carol”. Readings from the original Dickens tell the story. After each scene the all star line up of eight virtuoso musicians bring the characters and scenes to life, switching audiences from hilarity to pathos with a skill that would have done credit to Dickens himself!

A gruff baritone sax plays Scrooge, his lost love Belle is a lyrical alto, his clerk Bob Cratchit a cheery clarinet and Marley’s Ghost walks in the person of a swinging trombone. Just as Scrooge’s ghosts take him on a tour of his life, so the movements of this suite have a benevolent presiding ghost, celebrating the spirit of jazz greats past and present.

Celebrated multi-reedsman, composer and raconteur Alan Barnes leads and narrates his joyous jazz interpretation of Dickens' moving seasonal masterpiece of Christmas ghosts and human redemption featuring an all-star eight-piece band:
Bruce Adams - trumpet
Mark Nightingale - trombone
Robert Fowler - saxes
Karen Sharp - saxes
Alan Barnes - saxes/narration
David Newton - piano
Simon Thorpe - bass
Clark Tracey - drums

Jazz at the Movies SWINGING CHRISTMAS

Wednesday December 9th @ The Pheasantry, 152-154 King’s Road, Chelsea, London SW3 4UT

To book http://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/popBook.aspx?showId=d71594ed-f4fb-4e6f-891d-84f1489e6d0d&showDateId=8685

Pheasantry 020 7351 5031 • Box Office 0845 6027 017

Show Time 8:30pm / Doors Open 6:30pm

Jazz at the Movies Swinging Christmas is fronted by acclaimed singer Joanna Eden, hailed by Time Out as the “UK’s answer to Diana Kraal & Norah Jones” and is vocal coach to Sam Smith, and supported on clarinet and saxophones by Mark Crooks of John Wilson orchestra fame and the Chris Ingham trio.

Jazz at the Movies’ has sold-out events at Ronnie Scott’s and St. James Studio and headlined many of the UK’s leading jazz venues and festivals and the play all the great themes from decades of great films but bring to this concert their swinging dance along interpretations of the classic Christmas music, including “Winter Wonderland” “Baby it’s Cold Outside” “Santa Claus is coming to Town” and many more.

You’ll be lost in the songs and soundtrack themes featuring traditional Christmas tunes ranging from Winter Wonderland to Santa Baby and classic films including Alfie, The Aristocats, From Russia With Love and Let’s Make Love.

You can see more from them live here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m49umAIb6S8