Tina May (UK) with Phil Ware, Damien Evans and Steve Brown (UK)

About this event

Featuring TINA MAY (UK) (voice), PHIL WARE (piano), DAMIAN EVANS (bass) and STEVE BROWN (UK) (drums).

TINA MAY

Tina May is an award-winning international jazz singer and recording artist. Originally from a little village in Gloucestershire, she studied at Cardiff University and then in Paris, where her career as a singer really began, performing with Roger Guerin, Dany Doriz and founding father of bebop drumming Kenny ‘Klook’ Clarke.

Over the years Tina has recorded with Ray Bryant, Scott Hamilton, Don Sickler and Enrico Pieranunzi to name but a few. She has also sung the title role with the Opéra de Lyon in their version of the Broadway musical Lady in the Dark by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin. Most recently she sang at the beautiful Shanghai Concert Hall, Hong Kong Jazz Festival and Singapore Jazz Festival.

She first worked with Phil Ware in Nottingham during the nineties, a creative encounter that has been repeated several times since.

At home on the main stage, club dates and festivals, Tina takes you on a jazz journey with stories on the way.

'Tina May is that great rarity – a singer who enhances a song.'

—Dave Gelly (The Guardian)

STEVE BROWN

Born in Manchester, Steve developed an early interest in music, and by the time he was 23 had become the first-call jazz drummer in Manchester, working with Scott Hamilton, Art Farmer and UK artists during their engagements in the city.

In 1996 he moved to London and began working as a sideman with many of the capital’s finest musicians, including engagements with jazz greats Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison and Conte Candoli. His playing career went from strength to strength, winning the ‘Drums’ and ‘Rising Star’ categories in the 1999 British Jazz Awards. He went on to win further British Jazz Awards in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Steve has recorded and toured internationally as a member of the Scott Hamilton Quartet since 2000, and he continues to perform and record with a wide variety of artists including Benny Golson, Benny Green, Carl Fontana, Barry Harris, Junior Mance and Charles McPherson.