Improvisers' Ensemble featuring Cleveland Watkiss MBE
- 7pm
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- Category:
- Jazz | Vocal
- Event type:
- Booking required
- Admission:
- £15 (£8 concessions)
- Date, time and location:
- , 7pm in Milton Court Concert Hall
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Join internationally renowned vocalist and composer, Cleveland Watkiss MBE, for an electric performance with Guildhall's Improvisers' Ensemble. A co-founder of the vastly influential Jazz Warriors Big Band, Watkiss is one of the UK's most innovative improvising musicians.
As a Guildhall Fellow, the Ensemble welcomes Watkiss in his second performance, as part of a long-term Guildhall residency.
Born in Hackney, East London, Watkiss was one of the co-founders of the vastly influential Jazz Warriors Big Band. He has spent decades redefining the possibilities of jazz and improvisation, winning the London Jazz Award for Best Vocalist in 2010 and being voted best vocalist for three consecutive years at the Wire/Guardian Jazz Awards.
He has performed with artists including Wynton Marsalis, Bob Dylan, Jackie Mittoo, Keith Richards, Art Blakey, Sly & Robbie, Abdullah Ibrahim, Stevie Wonder, Nigel Kennedy and many more.
The Guardian music journalist, John Fordham, accurately describes him as "arriving on the scene with a bang".
Performers
Cleveland Watkiss
Improvisers' Ensemble
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
