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Approved: Cleveland Watkiss Trio Live at Pizza Express Jazz Club (CMU Friday Tips)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 7 August 2009
VIGSY’S LIVE TIP: Cleveland Watkiss Trio Live at Pizza Express Jazz Club
I first came across the vocal talents of this east London-born artist via his interesting drum and bass project, Project 23. Mr Watkiss’s career goes back a long way before that, though, having helped to set up The Jazz Warriors with Courtney Pine in the 80s. His various projects cover jazz, reggae, some rock music and even drum n bass (most recently he has worked with Makoto), but he has piano and guitar skills to boot. Here he’ll be on the jazz tip, and jazz journo Chris Parker thinks you’ll be taken in by “extraordinarily flexible and wide-ranging voice swooping and scatting through the set”, while the Guardian say, “Watkiss has been acknowledged as one of the worlds most outstanding male jazz singers”. The Cleveland Watkiss Trio has Shaney Forbes on the drums and Mark Hodgson on bass. They all complement one another’s activities, and possibly have a little telepathy going on when in session. Despite the venue’s name, this is a great central location to check them out.
Wednesday 12 Aug, Pizza Express Jazz Club, 10 Dean Street, London, W1D 3RW, Doors 7pm (set 8.30pm), £15 adv, more info from 020 7734 3220, www.pizzaexpresslive.co.uk/default.aspx and www.myspace.com/clevelandwatkiss
