100 Years Of Jazz In 99 Minutes

The only history of jazz from its Ragtime birth to the present day - in 99 hilarious, musically brilliant, historically fascinating minutes.

The first ever show to encompass the history of jazz from its beginnings in Ragtime through to the present day. The six multi-instrumental jazz virtuosi create a highly entertaining journey through the decades taking in everything from New Orleans to Be Bop, Swing to Latin, Hot to Cool, from Chicago and New York to around the world. An A to Z of jazz’s biggest names from Louis Armstrong to Joe Zawinul interspersed with fascinating stories from history.

Featuring the music of: Scott Joplin · Buddy Bolden · W C Handy · The Original Dixieland Jazz Band ·Louis Armstrong · Sidney Bechet · Clarence Williams· Bessie Smith ·Bix Beiderbecke · Frankie Trambauer ·Jelly Roll Morton · Earl Hines ·Fats Waller ·Gene Krupa · Benny Goodman · Coleman Hawkins · Duke Ellington · Jimmy Blanton · Johnny Hodges · Ben Webster · Count Basie·Lester Young· Dizzy Gillespie· Charlie Parker · Charlie Mingus · Bud Powell · Max Roach · Chet Baker · Gerry Mulligan · Sonny Rollins · Art Tatum · Thelonius Monk · Erroll Garner · Oscar Peterson ·Miles Davis · John Coltrane · Bill Evans · Paul Desmond ·Dave Brubeck · Joe Morello · Nat and Cannonball Adderley ·Herbie Hancock · Joe Zawinul ·Wayne Shorter · Jaco Patorius · Quincy Jones · Abdullah Ibrahim.

100 Years of Jazz in 99 Minutes, the sell out hit concert seen around the world, from London's Cadogan Hall to Barbados, with the best jazz musicians playing all your favourite tunes, from Benny Goodman to Duke Ellington and more. Performed by: Pete Long: saxophones, flute, trumpet, Enrico Tomasso: trumpet, trombone, vocals, Nick Dawson: piano, clarinet, vocals, Dave Chamberlain: bass, guitars, banjo, piano, drums, Richard Pite: drums, sousaphone, double bass, Georgina Jackson: vocals, trumpet.

'The musical equivalent of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, in which none of the major musical soliloquies gets left out' (Alyn Shipton, (Radio 3's Jazz Library, The Times).