Reviews & blogs

A brand new jazz club, Blue Train, opens at Waterloo station on Friday 2nd December.
The venue will feature top UK and international jazz, blues and soul artists every night of the week. There will also be food and drink served in the upstairs restaurant and in the jazz lounge.

Natalie Williams
An impressive lineup has already been announced – singer and MOBO nominee Natalie Williams opens the club. On Saturday 3rd December, acclaimed vocalist Jacqui Dankworth appears and South African-born vocalist Esther Miller teams up with the fine pianist Steve Melling on Sunday 4th December.

Well....... Some of it was great - I really like the chord progressions in Charlie's tunes - but that's the music. As a performance, the pianist Alan Broadbent was awesome, soloing in 2 handed style as if composing a Bach 2-part invention on the fly. Classical meets Jazz improv with verve! Saxophonist Ernie Watts and drummer Rodney Green played admirably, both inspired soloist and very entertaining to watch.

Well, my first time to see the Herb - has to be done - gotta see the legend. I had heard that most of his gigs in the last few years have been straight ahead jazz - don't know whether that's true or not but this one had the old fusion tunes! So Chameleon, Watermelon Man - could not believe my ears when those tunes started up. That made the night.

It was great to see Bob - ole Planty - doing his thang, struttin' his stuff, as only he do...
I quite like the bluegarssy thing he does these days, and smart to play a style befitting of a veritable gent of the stage. He even did a few Zep songs in the style, like Gallows Pole...