SPECIAL EXTRA EVENT FOR 2009!
THE SAGE GATESHEAD presents
"YOUNG
LOUIS"– the
first six years of his brilliant recording career
Recreated
by Bent Persson and a hand-picked band of international
stars, in association with Whitley Bay
International Jazz
Festival
Hall Two, Thursday
9th July at 8.00pm
The years 1923-1929 were when young Louis Armstrong’s
extraordinary talent first burst upon the popular music world via
his playing and recording with King Oliver’s Creole Jazz
Band, with Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra and of course the
immortal Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions. All these, and more (for
instance his recordings with Clarence Williams’ Blue Five,
Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards and the Red Onion Jazz
Babies) will be covered in this fully-narrated concert led by Sweden’s
Bent Persson, probably the best living exponent of Armstrong’s
early style.
The all-star band Bent has assembled are all men steeped in the
classic jazz idiom: the personnel includes clarinettist Matthias
Seuffert from Germany and banjoist Jacob Ullberger from Sweden,
plus, from the UK, trombonist Paul Munnery, pianist Martin Litton,
drummer Nick Ward and Phil Rutherford on brass bass. This concert
forms a musical prelude to Bent’s programme of 1930s
Armstrong recreations at the Jazz Festival itself.
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