Gigs

The partnership between Zoe Francis and Jim Mullen has produced some incredible moments at St Andrew’s over the last year, and they return for more beautiful renditions from the Great American Songbook. Zoe Francis started singing jazz while living and working in New York, and soon became a regular fixture on the scene. Guitarist Jim […]

Saxophonist and clarinettist Alan Barnes, and pianist David Newton have played here on several occasions and their truly unique and long-standing musical partnership brings with it a level of telepathy that has to be heard to be believed! Both virtuosos on their respective instruments, they have stood at the top of the UK jazz scene […]

The 1963 album Getz/Gilberto has gone down in the annals of jazz history as a seminal recording, bringing together three giants of the genre: Stan Getz’s lyrical saxophone playing, Antônio Carlos Jobim’s haunting compositions, and João Gilberto’s bossa nova guitar work. Stealing the show was Gilberto’s wife, Astrud, whose soft, lyrical vocals are perfectly captured […]