Jazzing It Up At Margate's Hottest Music Date Of The Year

Winner of the prestigious BBC Jazz Awards in 2006, Wardell has been acclaimed for the unique artistry she brings to scat and be-pop, and rave reviews from peers and critics have confirmed her reputation as one of the UK's great straightahead vocalists. On her current album, Kinda Blue, she showcases her exceptional ability to take a song and make it her own.

Named Best Jazz Vocalist at the BBC Jazz Awards of 2004 and 2007, Shaw is unquestionably the UK's finest male jazz singer. His material ranges from Joni Mitchell to standards and contemporary classics, all performed in engagingly relaxed style. His new self-penned album Lifejacket is "a suite of stories recalling friendships, childhood dreams and dodgy Soho nights". (Jazzwise March 2008).

Guitarist Phil Robson is internationally regarded as a versatile and creative musician. Co-founder (with saxophonist Julian Siegel) of the ground-breaking group Partisans, he is also a composer of note, leading Six Strings and the Beat - a project for guitar trio and string quartet which premiered at the Vortex Jazz Club in London in 2007.

Other gigs feature one of the giants of British jazz, Don Weller - possibly the greatest tenor saxophonist of our times; the versatile and eclectic Annie Whitehead; singer and songwriter Sarah Gillespie (Time Out intoned: "her mesmerising, acoustically-styled songs shimmer with a resonant beauty"); Amit Chaudhuri and his amazing Indian version of jazz; solo jazz guitarist John Etheridge - at the forefront of the jazz and contemporary guitar world for 30 years; Carol Grimes Band ('jazz songs for night people'); Gilad Atzmon's Orient House Ensemble; Stan Sulzmann and the John Parricelli Quartet; the Grand Union Band, and the Liam Noble Trio.

Additional venues include The Indian Princess (01843 231504); The Harbour Café Bar (01843 290110) and The Wig & Pen (01843 231180).page << 1 2 >>