Putting Female Jazz Composers Centre Stage at the Brighton Fringe
An evening of songs and stories celebrating female jazz composers of the twentieth Century is coming to the Brighton Fringe.
Women in Jazz features songs from some of the most accomplished and prolific musicians who created hits for the likes of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole. The music is illustrated with archive audio and visuals and interwoven with stories about life as a woman musician in a male-dominated art-form.
This show has been devised by Shoreham based vocalist Rebecca Askew and features several guest soloists including Charlotte Glasson on sax and flute. Having studied jazz in the 1990s, Rebecca went on to work in a variety of genres including with an award winning a capella ensemble and in small and large scale theatre productions (Shakespeare’s Globe/National Theatre).
Vocalist Rebecca Askew says “I grew up in a jazz-loving household so I’m returning to my musical roots. Drawing on my many years of experience as a performer, I’ve made a show that is different to a regular jazz gig, as we’ll be sharing tales of the struggles and triumphs of the women who created the very music we’ll be playing.”
Women in Jazz will be at The Brunswick in Hove (2nd June) and prior to that in the Big Top at the Steyning Festival (31st May). It will tell the story of the woman who was instrumental in shaping the sound of the swing band era; introduce the woman from South London who was in Harlem that day in 1958 when Art Kane took his iconic photograph of jazz musicians; and solve the mystery of the two Irenes.
Women in Jazz By Rebecca Askew
The Brunswick, Holland Road, Hove
Thursday 2nd June 2022, 7.30pm, £12/8
To book tickets visit www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/women-in-jazz-160970/
www.rebeccaaskew.co.uk
An evening of songs and stories celebrating female jazz composers of the twentieth Century is coming to the Brighton Fringe.
Women in Jazz features songs from some of the most accomplished and prolific musicians who created hits for the likes of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole. The music is illustrated with archive audio and visuals and interwoven with stories about life as a woman musician in a male-dominated art-form.
This show has been devised by Shoreham based vocalist Rebecca Askew and features several guest soloists including Charlotte Glasson on sax and flute. Having studied jazz in the 1990s, Rebecca went on to work in a variety of genres including with an award winning a capella ensemble and in small and large scale theatre productions (Shakespeare’s Globe/National Theatre).
Vocalist Rebecca Askew says “I grew up in a jazz-loving household so I’m returning to my musical roots. Drawing on my many years of experience as a performer, I’ve made a show that is different to a regular jazz gig, as we’ll be sharing tales of the struggles and triumphs of the women who created the very music we’ll be playing.”
Women in Jazz will be at The Brunswick in Hove (2nd June) and prior to that in the Big Top at the Steyning Festival (31st May). It will tell the story of the woman who was instrumental in shaping the sound of the swing band era; introduce the woman from South London who was in Harlem that day in 1958 when Art Kane took his iconic photograph of jazz musicians; and solve the mystery of the two Irenes.
Women in Jazz By Rebecca Askew
The Brunswick, Holland Road, Hove
Thursday 2nd June 2022, 7.30pm, £12/8
To book tickets visit www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/women-in-jazz-160970/