Earl Okin

The Jazz Centre UK Presents Earl Okin.

Earl Okin is one of the world's finest songwriters, in a variety of genres from pop, and rock to jazz, from Bossa Nova to ballads; hugely melodic and always based on musically satisfying chord sequences. His more recent songs are often in the genre of such classic songwriters such as Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and George Gershwin.

He sings, plays the guitar, scatters delayed-action throwaway lines about the stage, provides his own trumpet accompaniment by mouth alone and breaks off to give a witty, illustrated account of stride piano... and who else could get an entire audience to join in with their own mouth-made jazz-trumpet riffs?