JAZZ at the ELEPHANT
The Elephant Inn • 283 Ballards Lane • London • N12 8NR
020 8343 6110 • info@justeastofjazz.com
Sunday 20 April 2025
Doors open 6.30pm (if possible please arrive in good time to be in your seat by 7pm, and to avoid the rush on food & drink orders).
Performance times: 7–9.15pm
£17/£6
Students/unwaged: turn up on the night and pay what you can
20 April:
Time Is Of The Essence
“An enjoyable and entertaining performance … excellent playing throughout…the beautiful performances of the Bernstein and Simon ballads were definite set highlights” The Jazz Mann
Time is of the Essence bring their splendid fusion of Hammond jazz to the Elephant. A mix of 60s groove, contemporary originals and standards – including works by Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny and John Scofield.
The band features one of the tastiest tenor players on the UK scene, Ollie Weston. Ollie's credits run a whole smorgasbord of styles, including stints with Jamie Cullum, Amy Winehouse, Sax Appeal, Stornaway and current hipsters, The Hackney Colliery Band! A player with a distinctive muscular, yet thoroughly soulful sound.
Steering the band harmonically and taking care of all bass duties is the ambidextrous keyboard maestro, Martin Pickett. Martin has accompanied countless stars of the national jazz glitterati and is also known for his fabulous compositions.
Guitarist Pete Oxley is already well known to JATE regulars. A consistently engaging soloist and accompanist, Pete has recently been leading 7-piece Hejira on substantial UK tour performing the music of Joni Mitchell to great acclaim, and also featuring Ollie and Rick in the band.
Ollie Weston: sax • Pete Oxley: guitar • Martin Pickett: organ • Rick Finlay: drums • Jeremy Shoham: sax
Sunday 4 May 2025
Doors open 6.30pm (if possible please arrive in good time to be in your seat by 7pm, and to avoid the rush on food & drink orders).
Performance times: 7–9.15pm
£17/£6
Students/unwaged: turn up on the night and pay what you can
4 May:
Louise Messenger
“Louise Messenger is a superb performer: she's funny, energetic, sassy, talented, engaging and has a stunning voice.” The Upside News
Louise loves all things swing. Her greatest influences are Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, Keely Smith and the Boswell Sisters. As well as classic standards, she is always seeking tunes that are a little left of centre, and loves to bring back to life songs from Tin Pan Alley and the Great American Songbook that have been forgotten in the jazz canon.
Louise‘s career has been wide and varied - beginning her career in the early 2000s, her love of jazz led her to study at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide.
Louise has been lucky in her career to have a wide variety of performance experiences - from major television appearances to performing all over Australia, Asia and touring to New Orleans.
Since moving to London she has performed both in London and Europe with such wonderful ensembles as The Gordon Webster Band, The London Dance Orchestra, The Palace Avenue Dance Band, The Swing Ninjas, with her vocal trio The Shout Sisters and of course, as the Louise Messenger Swingtet at venues such as The Oriole Bar, Nightjar, Crazy Coqs, Oxo Tower, Cafe Boheme, The Boisedale, Tiger Rag and The Blues Kitchen.
Louise has also written, directed and produced several stage shows and has enjoyed sold out seasons in the Adelaide Fringe, and Adelaide International Cabaret Festival.
with Gunther Kurmayr: piano • Eleazar Ruiz: bass • Rick Finlay: drums • Jeremy Shoham: sax
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The Elephant Inn, 283 Ballards Lane, North Finchley, London N12 8NR • UK