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These two award winning jazz singers met over 25 years ago and alongside their highly successful solo careers, forged a musical partnership that lasts to this day having performed from New York to Vietnam as well as in concert halls all over the UK along the way.
Tonight, they celebrate a hundred years of popular song - from the songs of hope written during The First World War through to the American Songbook and Beatles, Bowie and Joni Mitchell. With just Ian's piano as accompaniment, this will be a musical evening to be remembered for a long time.
?a well-honed mixture of the artfully rehearsed and the brilliantly spontaneous? The Times
?She ranks among the four or five finest female jazz vocalists on the planet? London Jazz News
?Shaw?s shape-shifting voice mixes urgency, vulnerability and always humanity? The Scotsman
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Claire Martin OBE
A premiere British jazz vocalist who was voted Best Jazz Singer in 1995, Best Jazz Vocalist in 1997, and Most Promising Artist at the 1998 British Jazz Awards. She has won the BBC Jazz Awards five times.
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Ian Shaw
Ian Shaw's career in performance began unusually for a jazz musician on the Alternative Cabaret Circuit, alongside such performers as Julian Clary, Rory Bremner and Jo Brand. Shaw was spotted by Dave Illic, jazz critic for City Limits and was described as 'the voice of the decade'. He has since gone on to win Best Jazz Vocalist at the BBC Jazz Awards in 2004 and 2007, and has amassed a number of highly acclaimed albums. A popular performer both in the UK and internationally, Ian Shaw is an incredibly colourful character and has been cited, along with Mark Murphy and Kurt Elling, as one of the world's finest male jazz vocalists. 'A high-class performance of timelessly high-class songs' (The Guardian) 'Praised far and wide as the single greatest male jazz vocalist Britain has to offer' (Jazz Times). Photo: Tim Francis
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Chapel Arts Centre
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Chapel Arts Centre
- Website:
- chapelarts.org
- Disabled Booking:
- 01225 461700
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on Fri 14 February 2025