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May and June
Le QuecumBar Gig List May June 2012
GYPSY SWING STILL SWINGING LIVE AT
LONDON'S PREMIER GYPSY SWING VENUE
HOME OF LE QUECUMBAR ALLSTARS & LE Q RECORDS
Clive Davis of The Sunday Times
voted it one of the Top 10 jazz albums of 2010
Video highlights of the festival www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OYY-GZVhqk
Download at Linnrecords.com buy on www.quecumbar.co.uk
Le Q Records latest masterpiece and commemorative Triple CD -
AVAILABLE for download at linnrecords.com
Le QuecumBar International Gypsy Swing Guitar Festival 2010 LEQ0108
celebrating to 100th Birthday of Django Reinhardt
200 minutes of sublime live highlights - bonus tracks interviews with Stochelo Rosenberg, Tcha Limberger and Biel Ballester.
A triple cd commemorative pack of recordings set over the nine night sold out festival (a first for London), that includes star soloists appearing on stage together for the first time; all passionate representatives of the essence of Gypsy swing. This pack captures the energy and passion of 34 exceptional musicians; global Gypsy players from 6 countries who united and gathered in London for one reason only, to play homage to the Gypsy guitar genius Django Reinhardt and to honour his 100th birthday.
Press review by Dave Gelly The Observer, Sunday 11 July 2010
"?This triple-CD set contains some truly astounding music. The sheer virtuosity often beggars belief, but it's the inventiveness and creative abandon in the playing of such masters of the genre as Lollo Meier and S?bastien Giniaux, and especially the multi-talented Tcha Limberger, that make these performances truly remarkable. I can't say "unbelievable", because I was there when some were recorded - at London's Le QuecumBar, back in January, at the festival to celebrate Django Reinhardt's centenary - and this was exactly how it came across at the time."
SONGLINES - SIMON BROUGHTON "This was music straight from the soul, played in the perfect setting ? one of London's hidden gems"
JAZZ PREVIEW.COM "This music has deep roots, but in its soulfulness, in the versatility of its imagination and in its sheer exuberance, the ability of Gypsy swing/jazz to charm and seduce audiences remains as powerful as ever. Prepare to be enchanted! "
LONDONNET.CO.UK "the biggest collection of Gypsy Swing talent in the UK ever."
MAY GIG LIST
Tue 8 May
FREE
TUESDAYS SIZZLING GYPSY SWING JAM
Jam session led by top Le QuecumBar bass players many QuecumBar Allstars. You saw Johnny Depp in Chocolate play Minor Swing, Django style. See and hear it live in our intimate 1930s Parisian cabaret brasserie. Chill out with a bottle of quaffable wine and simple food always a great night full of musical surprises, transporting you to the swinging streets of Montmartre with all the colour and joy of the Belle Epoch. If you play swing then bring your instrument!
WEDNESDAY 9 MAY ?12
MID WEEK PRESTIGE PERFORMANCE CONCERT
Returns by popular request!
Sweet and Lowdown Gypsy Swing
The International Legendary
American 7-String Guitarist
HOWARD ALDEN TRIO
Tonight Howard plays Gypsy swing/jazz selections from "Sweet & Lowdown" plus other great tunes. He is supported by UK top Gypsy guitarist Ducato Piowtrowski & the famous bass player Simon Woolf. "He may be the best of his generation," writes Owen Cordle in JazzTimes. Howard was the guitarist and guitar coach to Sean Penn (Academy Award nominee for his role as a legendary 30s jazz guitarist) who starred in Woody Allen's movie "Sweet and Lowdown", The London Observer has this to say about Alden's solo CD, My Shining Hour ; "If there is such a thing as a complete jazz guitarist, then Alden is it. Only a real virtuoso can sustain a whole CD of solo guitar with the aplomb he displays here."
www.woolfnotes.co.uk/ www.howardalden.com/ha4/
To hear Howard Alden playing in the movie Sweet and Lowdown www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhQGTOnzMWs&feature=fvwrel
Doors open at 6.00 food served until 10.00 Tickets at www.wegottickets.com www.quecumbar.co.uk
Diners get preferential tables allocated on arrival. ?15 door
Thu 10 May
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Weekly residency
SWINGING CATS
Led by Richard White, well-known multi-instrumentalist and whispering vocalist on clarinet, bass sax (or anything else that comes to hand!) accompanied either by sensational pianist Colin Good or world-class jazz guitarist Martin Wheatley. The Swinging Cats invite you to take a sentimental journey of vintage versatility - rare 1920s tunes, torch-songs, novelties and red-hot instrumental jazz - all generously seasoned with their own distinctive brand of irreverent quirkiness.
Fri 11 May
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
The talented Steve Aston and Stuart Blagden formidable Django style Gypsy guitar duo
Sat 12 May
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Le QuecumBar seasoned jazz favourites Charles Alexander and Andy Robinson jazz guitar duo that do it all cool jazz for a hot Saturday night
SUNDAY 13 MAY ?10
6 piece energetic young Gypsy Jazz band from Nottingham...
Listen, enjoy, imagine and dance!
MANI?RE DES BOH?MIENS
Mani?re des Boh?miens play improvised Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli influenced Gypsy jazz with the jaunty abandon of a misspent youth and a broken heart. The band is made up of brothers Rob and Roger Rosa on violin and guitar, brothers Matt and Jonny Kerry on Guitar and Accordion, guitarist Elliott Lewis and bassist Mark Lewandowski. They are residents at various top Notts venues including the Nottingham Contemporary and are currently touring the UK gaining fans as they go with their live show which will get you swinging from the rafters and bouncing off the walls! Listen, enjoy, imagine and dance!
manieredesbohemiens.com
All tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar or www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10 ?12 door tables allocated on arrival
MONDAY 14 MAY ?8
Gypsy swing and more right off the street of Paris 1930.
BLUESETTE
It's Waltz o'clock in SW11!
A squeeze of jazz accordion, a dash of fiery guitar, resting atop a bed of crispy percussion and pickled bass: come and feast on the music of Gus Viseur, the Ferr? brothers and Tony Murena.
A swinging new quartet founded by QuecumBar regulars David Archer (guitar) and Mirek Salmon (accordion). Joined by Will Harris (double bass) and Trevor Davies (percussion), they will be showcasing their unique arrangements of Parisian Bal-musette, Bebop and Tango.
Come and enjoy a virtuosic display of musicianship in this magical and intimate setting as this is surely not an evening to be missed! Don't miss this unique opportunity to savour some rarely heard gems from the Manouche canon.
David Archtop; guitar, Mirek ?Double 0' Salmon; accordion, Trevor ?the Dog Poisoner' Davies; percussion, ?Dashing Doctor' Will Harris; double bass. http://www.youtube.com/user/bluesetteswing
All tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar or www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6, food until 10 ?10 on the door
Tue 15 May
FREE
TUESDAYS SIZZLING GYPSY SWING JAM
Jam session led by top Le QuecumBar bass players many QuecumBar Allstars. You saw Johnny Depp in Chocolate play Minor Swing, Django style. See and hear it live in our intimate 1930s Parisian cabaret brasserie. Chill out with a bottle of quaffable wine and simple food always a great night full of musical surprises, transporting you to the swinging streets of Montmartre with all the colour and joy of the Belle Epoch. If you play swing then bring your instrument!
Wed 16 May
FREE
Piano lounge with Mike Head singing swinging and rockin
Thu 17 May
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Weekly residency
SWINGING CATS
Led by Richard White, well-known multi-instrumentalist and whispering vocalist on clarinet, bass sax (or anything else that comes to hand!) accompanied either by sensational pianist Colin Good or world-class jazz guitarist Martin Wheatley. The Swinging Cats invite you to take a sentimental journey of vintage versatility - rare 1920s tunes, torch-songs, novelties and red-hot instrumental jazz - all generously seasoned with their own distinctive brand of irreverent quirkiness.
Fri 18 May
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
"Radio Daze".. formed in 2004 as a duo from a chance meeting at the QuecumBar... David Ahmed & Faebhean Kwest. Both Guitarists and the core of the Radio Daze sound. Other musicians have been delighted to join with them bass players, violinists, accordionists, clarinettists etc.. they have played in Britain and France and their 7 different CDs for sale reflect their cosmopolitan music, which encompasses both 1930's, 40's and even 50s/60's sounds. http://www.radiodaze.biz/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVv6fVjK0eM
Sat 19 May FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Magical STEPHANE GRAFFITI
with the full on singing swinigng violin vixen Noreen Cullen and rocking vocals/guitar from Adrian Burns a night of Swing, Gypsy, Jazz, Celtic and Classical musical magical mayhem
SUNDAY/MONDAY 20/21 MAY
FROM ITALY - GYPSY JAZZ GUITAR MASTER
Direct from Italy - Gypsy jazz guitar master
JACOPO MARTINI QUARTET FEAT. ANDY AITCHISON ON VIOLIN
When in 2005 his first album I Nuvoli was published, Jacopo Martini had been immediately compared to Gyspy Jazz giants such as Angelo Debarre or Andreas Oberg. His skill and creativity joined to his Mediterranean native musical colours made him one of the most interesting players on the scene. Andy Aitchison joined Jacopo Martini Quartet in 2008 for a tour through Toscana together with Dutch Gypsy master Lollo Meier. Interplay was explosive on Django's classic tunes! And it will be again at Le QuecumBar.
Jacopo Martini solo guitar
Andy Aitchison violin
Tommaso Papini rhythm guitar
Paul Moylan double bass
www.jacopomartini.com or the myspace www.myspace.com/jacopomartini
open at 6 when food will be available until 10 all tables allocated on arrival, diners get preferential seating. Tickets from www.quecumbar.co.uk www.wegottickets.com ?15 door
Tue 22 May FREE
TUESDAYS SIZZLING GYPSY SWING JAM
Jam session led by top Le QuecumBar bass players many QuecumBar Allstars. You saw Johnny Depp in Chocolate play Minor Swing, Django style. See and hear it live in our intimate 1930s Parisian cabaret brasserie. Chill out with a bottle of quaffable wine and simple food always a great night full of musical surprises, transporting you to the swinging streets of Montmartre with all the colour and joy of the Belle Epoch. If you play swing then bring your instrument!
Wed 23 May FREE
Piano lounge with Mike Head singing swinging and rockin
Thu 24 May FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Weekly residency
SWINGING CATS
Led by Richard White, well-known multi-instrumentalist and whispering vocalist on clarinet, bass sax (or anything else that comes to hand!) accompanied either by sensational pianist Colin Good or world-class jazz guitarist Martin Wheatley. The Swinging Cats invite you to take a sentimental journey of vintage versatility - rare 1920s tunes, torch-songs, novelties and red-hot instrumental jazz - all generously seasoned with their own distinctive brand of irreverent quirkiness.
Fri 25 May FREE before 8pm ?5 after
"Fine Purveyors of Filthy Swing"
TOP SHELF JAZZ Trio
Jazz as it used to be: played fast and louche! Delicious echoes of Al Bowlly, the Ink Spots, Fats Waller and Harlem Swing with a dangerous hint of Gypsy Jazz, old world suave, rakish banter and correspondent shoes.. Arthur Foxaque, "The Caustic Crooner" and notorious dandy, creates an atmosphere harking back to prohibition parties and silver screen romances.
Sat 26 May FREE before 8pm ?5 after
AVA GOLDING our golden girl SINGS FOR YOUR pleasure with piano accompaniment. Ava's classic vocal style serves you an EVENING OF NOSTALGIC SWING/JAZZ & features special GOSPEL of the BLUES Classic's !
SUNDAY 27 MAY ?10
The fabulous hot swinging
BAKER BOYS
With special guests!
Bristol Favourites the Baker Boys honour the swinging jazz legacy of the late great Django Reinhardt. Featuring some special guests!
The Baker Boys are headed up with Harry Sankey and Dave Archer(Moscow Drug Club), two top exponents of Gypsy jazz guitar a jewel in the British scene and two of the best swing-style jazz guitarists. Their matched talents and repertoire give this ensemble an empathy that makes their interplay slide effortlessly by as they play with familiar Hot Club themes and others. Each one capable of formidably dazzling solo runs, fingers leaping around the frets in a blur, all done for the sheer pleasure of making the music, and their knowledge of harmony gives the rhythm playing a richness that demands attention.
With?Harry Sankey ~ guitar Dave Archer ~ guitar
Trevor Davies ~ Drums - Special guests tbc
tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10 All seating allocated on arrival ?13 on the door
MONDAY 28 MAY ?10
DINNER CONCERT - CABARET STYLE DIRECT FROM THE 1930's
"Les Enfants D?spicable!"
TOP SHELF JAZZ
Direct from Lucifer's drinks cabinet: a band whose original tunes are so distinctive and licentious that they spawned their own delectable style: ?Filthy Swing'. Impeccable vulgarity & sartorial elegance. Their inimitable style and hot music will drive you to wild abandon. If they don't steal your hearts, they will steal your drinks? Available for funerals, bar brawls and children's parties. Silly hats, ?liberal' attitudes and songs of the high life in low places - the authors and the last word in ?Filthy Swing'.
Welcome to the gilded gutter of Top Shelf Jazz!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A28FRdgP7_g
Open at 6 when food will be available until 10 all tables allocated on arrival, diners get preferential seating. Tickets from www.quecumbar.co.uk
www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar ?13 door.
Tue 29 May FREE
TUESDAYS SIZZLING GYPSY SWING JAM
Jam session led by top Le QuecumBar bass players many QuecumBar Allstars. You saw Johnny Depp in Chocolate play Minor Swing, Django style. See and hear it live in our intimate 1930s Parisian cabaret brasserie. Chill out with a bottle of quaffable wine and simple food always a great night full of musical surprises, transporting you to the swinging streets of Montmartre with all the colour and joy of the Belle Epoch. If you play swing then bring your instrument!
Wed 30 May FREE
Piano lounge with Mike Head singing swinging and rockin
Thu 31 May FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Weekly residency
SWINGING CATS
Led by Richard White, well-known multi-instrumentalist and whispering vocalist on clarinet, bass sax (or anything else that comes to hand!) accompanied either by sensational pianist Colin Good or world-class jazz guitarist Martin Wheatley. The Swinging Cats invite you to take a sentimental journey of vintage versatility - rare 1920s tunes, torch-songs, novelties and red-hot instrumental jazz - all generously seasoned with their own distinctive brand of irreverent quirkiness.
JUNE GIG LIST
Fri 1 June
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Radio Daze Gypsy Swing guitar duo Faebhean Kwest and David Ahmed favourite melodies form the 20's 30's and 40's always swinging winning toe tapping tunes
Sat 2 June
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
MONTHLY MUSIC RESIDENCY
PETE "TIGER" SHEPPARD ensemble
Don't miss the mighty sound of Pete "Tiger" Sheppard & Co, stonking Gypsy swing guitar. We delight in Pete's fast and furious Gypsy Swing guitar - just as the name suggests!
SUNDAY 3 JUNE ?10
Direct from France
MONSIEUR JACQUET
Parisian Chanson Swing
Formed 10 years ago, learning the music inherited from Django in Paris' jazz clubs. A new sound and a new generation of Gypsy jazz players, through recording sessions with legends such as Tchavolo Schmitt or Florin Niculescu.
When Lou Tavano on vocals joined the band 4 years ago, they smashed through boundaries of styles, giving birth to a refreshing hybrid; Chanson Swing. Whether in a Caf? Concert or on the big stages of festivals like Glastonbury or Montreux they always share a unique moment with the audience, intimate and festive. Chanson in French, Jazz in English, instrumental tunes... it doesn't really matter, it's all about the universal language of music and you won't need any subtitles to find your way through this musical experience!
With Lou Tavano: vocal - C?dric Douhaire: guitar
Benjamin Blackstone: guitar - Damien Varaillon: Double bass
www.monsieurjacquet.com
All tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10 All seating allocated on arrival ?13 on the door
MONDAY 4 JUNE ?15
Clarinetist extraordinaire
Evan Christopher DJANGO A LA CREOLE Quartet
New Orleans resident Evan Christopher has been called "not only the greatest jazz clarinetist alive, but one of the greatest of all time" by no less of an authority than Ahmet Ertegun, the founding chairman of Atlantic Records and, historically, a major figure in the recording industry. Django ? la Cr?ole; his first album, the idea was simple enough, Spice up the Hot Club texture pioneered by Django Reinhardt by emphasizing hallmarks of New Orleans Jazz including blues, rhythms of the monde Cr?ole, and collective improvisation. The quartet then released "Finesse" in 2010 voted top Jazz album of 2010 by Clive Davis.
"The epithet "flawless technique" does not even begin to describe Evan Christopher's manner of playing" All About Jazz USA
Evan Christopher's style is steeped in the tradition exemplified by early jazz masters such as Sidney Bechet, Jimmie Noon and Barney Bigard. Together with Le QuecumBar regular guitarists David Blenkhorn & Dave Kelbie, and Paris based bassist Sebastien Girardot, the quartet celebrates the music of the legendary Django Reinhardt and enlivens swing-era classics with fresh interpretations and virtuosic improvisations.This concert will be a fine blend of Hot Club and Creole just what it says on the box! not to be missed. A great oportunoty to see Evan up close and live in an intimate setting such as Le QuecumBar.
We advise booking as early as possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD5JqhUFY1w&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL4676DF6D604141D5
For tour dates www.lejazzetal.com
Doors open at 6pm food available until 8. All tables allocated on arrival diners get preferential tables all seating allocated on arrival.
Tickets in advance at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar or our online shop www.quecumbar.co.uk ?15 on the door which opens at 6 food served until 10 diners get preferential seating allocated on atrival.
Tue 5 June
TUESDAYS FREE SIZZLING GYPSY SWING JAM
Jam session led by top Le QuecumBar bass players many QuecumBar Allstars. You saw Johnny Depp in Chocolate play Minor Swing, Django style. See and hear it live in our intimate 1930s Parisian cabaret brasserie. Chill out with a bottle of quaffable wine and simple food always a great night full of musical surprises, transporting you to the swinging streets of Montmartre with all the colour and joy of the Belle Epoch. If you play swing then bring your instrument!
Wed 6 June
FREE Piano lounge with Mike Head singing swinging and rockin
Thu 7 June
FREE before 8pm ?5 after - Weekly residency
SWINGING CATS
Led by Richard White, well-known multi-instrumentalist and whispering vocalist on clarinet, bass sax (or anything else that comes to hand!) accompanied either by sensational pianist Colin Good or world-class jazz guitarist Martin Wheatley. The Swinging Cats invite you to take a sentimental journey of vintage versatility - rare 1920s tunes, torch-songs, novelties and red-hot instrumental jazz - all generously seasoned with their own distinctive brand of irreverent quirkiness.
Fri 8 June
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Laurence Corn Dogs duo, guitar, vocals and mucho musical swing mayhem - This is entertainment at its best acoustic fun bound to get your feet tapping and hands clapping
Sat 9 June
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Magical STEPHANE GRAFFITI
with the full on singing swinigng violin vixen Noreen Cullen and rocking vocals/guitar from Adrian Burns a night of Swing, Gypsy, Jazz, Celtic and Classical musical magical mayhem
SUNDAY ?15/MONDAY ?12 10/11 JUNE
1930's Berlin cabaret, hot club de France, New Orleans funeral parade & gypsy campfire songs....
MOSCOW DRUG CLUB
Unique smoky haunting vocals to Tango, Gypsy, Swing and more
Moscow Drug Club? Is a curious musical place where certain elements of 1930's Berlin Cabaret, Hot Club de France, New Orleans Funeral Parade & Gypsy Campfire meet, have a few to drink and then stagger arm in arm into the darkness of some eastern European cobbled street on a mission to find the bar where Django Reinhardt & Tom Waits are having an after hours jam with the local Tziganes. Combining their original material with songs by the likes of Jaques Brel, Leornard Cohen, Tom Waits, Mario Lanza, Edith Piaf & Duke Ellington Moscow Drug Club provide an intoxicating & intimate musical experience. You are cordially invited to share a wry smile with us as you enter the darkly comic world of Moscow Drug Club?..this way please & mind the stairs!!!
www.moscowdrugclub.com
Katya Gorrie - Chanteuse & purveyor of sinister lyrical adventures
Denny Ilett ~ Rhythmic & solo guitar administrations
Dave Archer ~ Complimentary & exemplary guitar outbursts
Mirek Salmon - Accordionistic chordal & melodic offerings
Andy Crowdy ~ Providing eccentric bass-end rhapsodies
All tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10. All seating allocated on arrival ?15 on the door tables may have to share.
Tue 12 June
TUESDAYS FREE SIZZLING GYPSY SWING JAM
Jam session led by top Le QuecumBar bass players many QuecumBar Allstars. You saw Johnny Depp in Chocolate play Minor Swing, Django style. See and hear it live in our intimate 1930s Parisian cabaret brasserie. Chill out with a bottle of quaffable wine and simple food always a great night full of musical surprises, transporting you to the swinging streets of Montmartre with all the colour and joy of the Belle Epoch. If you play swing then bring your instrument!
Wed 13 June
FREE Piano lounge with Mike Head singing swinging and rockin
RARE MIDWEEK PRESTIGE PERFORMANCE SPECIAL
THURSDAY 14 JUNE ?15
Laments, csardas' and szapora's from the Transylvanian region of Kalotaszeg with the beautiful voice and violin playing of Tcha Limberger
From Transylvania the legendary
KALOTASZEG TRIO - FEATURING the BELGIAN GYPSY TCHA LIMBERGER
Their music will pull at your heart and reach deep into your soul.
Arguably the world's most inspiring violinist and gifted musician returns to the UK with his Transylvanian trio
Tcha Limberger has become recognised as one of the most prominent and important figures in folk music of the Carpathian Basin. On this tour he highlights the style considered to be the most beautiful of all Hungarian music with the highest regarded rhythm section of modern times, Berki Viktor on bass and Toni Rudi on Brac, for over 30 years the accompanists of the regions most famous Primas Neti Sandor
'Tcha Limberger seems to be entirely made out of music'
DAVE GELLY - THE OBSERVER
All tickets at www.wegottickets.com or www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10 - ?15 on the door Tables allocated on arrival
Fri 15 June
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Radio Daze Gypsy Swing guitar duo Faebhean Kwest and David Ahmed favourite melodies form the 20's 30's and 40's always swinging winning toe tapping tunes
Sat 16 June
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Regular Jazz guitarist Charles Alexander is joined by John Blackwell they will play Jazz guitar favourites and familiar tunes in their own jazz style
SUNDAY 17 JUNE ?12
Golden Age of La Chanson Francais
LE CABARET PARISIENE
Christine Bovill sings and performs Trenet, Sablon, Piaf, Becaud, Greco, Montand??
Fresh from the Edinburgh International Festival, the award winning Christine Bovill will beckon you into her jazz-infused Parisian scented twilight world. With a beautiful mix of the sounds of Montmartre, she will lovingly bathe you in tones of dark velvet and the classic songs from the Golden Age of La Chanson Francais. Her voice has been described as "as a sonic combination of cigarettes and dark chocolate"
"Stops you in your tracks and sends shivers down your spine. One of those moments when you hear something that will stay with you for the rest of your life." Sunday Times
"She is a goddess" Fraser Speirs "A star is born" Glasgow Herald
Tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar or www.QuecumBar.co.uk door ?15 - tables allocated on arrival food served 6-10 More info www.PerformingPiaf.co.uk
MONDAY 18 JUNE ?10
"Sweet sounds of swing"
THE BOOMTOWN SWINGALINGS
The Boomtown Swingalings are a group of young aficionados from London's thriving swing scene. Brought together by a common love of the music of Louis Armstrong, Sydney Bechet and Chet Baker, they play an eclectic mix of jazz from the golden age of swing, guaranteed to get the joint jumping.
Featuring: Jamie Doe on vocals, Zac Gvirtzman on Piano, Pete Horsfall on trumpet, Dave Shulman on Clarinet and tenor Saxophone, Wesley Gibbons on Drums
myspace.com/boomtownswingalings
Tickets at www.wegottickets.com and www.quecumbar.co.uk ?13 on the door, open at 6 food until 10 your table will be allocated on arrival, diners get preferential seating.
Tue 19 June
TUESDAYS FREE SIZZLING GYPSY SWING JAM
Jam session led by top Le QuecumBar bass players many QuecumBar Allstars. You saw Johnny Depp in Chocolate play Minor Swing, Django style. See and hear it live in our intimate 1930s Parisian cabaret brasserie. Chill out with a bottle of quaffable wine and simple food always a great night full of musical surprises, transporting you to the swinging streets of Montmartre with all the colour and joy of the Belle Epoch. If you play swing then bring your instrument!
Wed 20 June
FREE Piano lounge with Mike Head singing swinging and rockin
Thu 21 June
FREE before 8pm ?5 after - Weekly residency
SWINGING CATS
Led by Richard White, well-known multi-instrumentalist and whispering vocalist on clarinet, bass sax (or anything else that comes to hand!) accompanied either by sensational pianist Colin Good or world-class jazz guitarist Martin Wheatley. The Swinging Cats invite you to take a sentimental journey of vintage versatility - rare 1920s tunes, torch-songs, novelties and red-hot instrumental jazz - all generously seasoned with their own distinctive brand of irreverent quirkiness.
Fri 22 June
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
AVA GOLDING our golden girl and classic entertainer SINGS FOR YOUR pleasure with piano accompaniment. Ava's classic vocal style serves you an EVENING OF NOSTALGIC SWING/JAZZ & features special GOSPEL of the BLUES Classic's !
Sat 23 June
FREE before 8pm ?5 after
Magical STEPHANE GRAFFITI
with the full on singing swinging violin vixen Noreen Cullen and rocking vocals/guitar from Adrian Burns a night of Swing, Gypsy, Jazz, Celtic and Classical musical magical mayhem
SUNDAY 24 JUNE ?12
"They won the crowd completely with their charm and virtuosity." Better and bolder!
Get ready, hang onto your seats, the sizzling revamped Paprika are burning the town.
PAPRIKA
"?a new super-group flying the folk flag for an indigenous and largely anonymous code of music from their homelands in the Balkans and Eastern Europe." Must see amazing Balkan toe tapping hand clapping mayhem from 6 virtuosi.
Bogdan Vacarescu - violin, Milos Milivojevic - accordion
Zivorad Nikolic - accordion, Vladimir Strkalj - guitar
James Opstad - bass and Rastko Rasic - percussion
Hailing from Romania, Serbia and UK, the London based Paprika unites traditional Eastern European, Balkan, Gypsy and classical music. They have graced the stages of the Royal Festival Hall, Albert Hall, Glastonbury Festival, Secret Gardens, Edinburgh fringe, Exit and many others. Regulars of WOMAD with concerts in UK, Spain, Abu Dhabi, WOMADelaide and more www.paprikamusic.com
Open at 6 when food will be available until 10 all tables allocated on arrival, diners get preferential seating. Tickets from www.quecumbar.co.uk www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar ?15 on the door
MONDAY 25 JUNE ?8
1940s vout-o-reenee swing - Singing swinging drumming crooner Will Keel-Stocker heads up the boys with Rohit Nijhawan ~ guitar and Ian Tipping ~ guitar
THE BEVIN BOYS
In this time of austerity, why not ration yourself a little luxury and head down to Le QuecumBar for some home-front style swing music? The boys take the pre-war British dance band sound, mix it with some American jive, put ?em in a big shaker and serve up a cocktail of cool vout-o-reenee vintage swing and vocals! Popular with WWII events, dances and vintage parties, see the Bevin Boys live in the city and enjoy a fresh take on tunes made popular by Louis Prima, Nat King Cole Louis Jordan and many more. At ?8, we're offering something nostalgic for a very old fashioned price!
www.bevinboys.com All tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar or www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10 ?10 on the door
Tue 26 June
TUESDAYS FREE SIZZLING GYPSY SWING JAM
Jam session led by top Le QuecumBar bass players many QuecumBar Allstars. You saw Johnny Depp in Chocolate play Minor Swing, Django style. See and hear it live in our intimate 1930s Parisian cabaret brasserie. Chill out with a bottle of quaffable wine and simple food always a great night full of musical surprises, transporting you to the swinging streets of Montmartre with all the colour and joy of the Belle Epoch. If you play swing then bring your instrument!
We are closed Wed 27 June - Wed 4 July inclusive
for the Django Reinhardt festival in France a well earned rest for all Le QuecumBar staff!