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100 Years of Jazz in 99 Minutes, the sell out hit concert seen around the world, from London's Cadogan Hall to Barbados, with the best jazz musicians playing all your favourite tunes, from Benny Goodman to Duke Ellington and more.

"Genuinely needs to be seen to be believed.  Don't miss out!" - Jazz UK

100 YEARS OF JAZZ IN 99 MINUTES:

The Perfect Choice For Music Festivals & Theatre Shows

The only history of jazz from its Ragtime birth to the present day - in 99 hilarious, musically brilliant, historically fascinating minutes.

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"The musical equivalent of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, in which none of the major musical soliloquies gets left out."   Alyn Shipton (The Times )

 

The six multi-instrumental jazz virtuosi create a highly entertaining journey through the decades taking in everything from New Orleans to Be Bop, Swing to Latin, Hot to  Cool, from Chicago and New York to around the world.  An A to Z of jazz’s biggest names from Louis Armstrong to Joe Zawinul interspersed with fascinating stories from history.

100 Years of Jazz in 99 Minutes, the sell out hit concert seen around the world, from London's Cadogan Hall to Barbados, with the best jazz musicians playing all your favourite tunes, from Benny Goodman to Duke Ellington and more.
100 Years of Jazz in 99 Minutes, the sell out hit concert seen around the world, from London's Cadogan Hall to Barbados, with the best jazz musicians playing all your favourite tunes, from Benny Goodman to Duke Ellington and more.

Featuring the music of:​
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Scott Joplin · Buddy Bolden · W C Handy · The Original Dixieland Jazz Band ·Louis Armstrong · Sidney Bechet · Clarence Williams· Bessie Smith ·Bix Beiderbecke · Frankie Trambauer ·Jelly Roll Morton · Earl Hines ·Fats Waller ·Gene Krupa · Benny Goodman · Coleman Hawkins · Duke Ellington · Jimmy Blanton · Johnny Hodges · Ben Webster · Count Basie·Lester Young· Dizzy Gillespie· Charlie Parker · Charlie Mingus · Bud Powell · Max Roach · Chet Baker · Gerry Mulligan · Sonny Rollins · Art Tatum · Thelonius Monk · Erroll Garner ·  Oscar Peterson ·Miles Davis · John Coltrane  · Bill Evans · Paul Desmond ·Dave Brubeck · Joe Morello · Nat and Cannonball Adderley ·Herbie Hancock · Joe Zawinul ·Wayne Shorter · Jaco Patorius · Quincy Jones · Abdullah Ibrahim.

Performed by:​

  • ​Pete Long: saxophones, flute, trumpet

  • Enrico Tomasso: trumpet, trombone, vocals

  • Nick Dawson: piano, clarinet, vocals

  • Dave Chamberlain: bass, guitars, banjo, piano, drums

  • Richard Pite: drums, sousaphone, double bass

  • Georgina Jackson: vocals, trumpet

100 Years of Jazz in 99 Minutes, the sell out hit concert seen around the world, from London's Cadogan Hall to Barbados, with the best jazz musicians playing all your favourite tunes, from Benny Goodman to Duke Ellington and more.
100 Years of Jazz in 99 Minutes, the sell out hit concert seen around the world, from London's Cadogan Hall to Barbados, with the best jazz musicians playing all your favourite tunes, from Benny Goodman to Duke Ellington and more.

REVIEWS

 

"It is, quite simply, one of the most daring and brilliantly executed

evenings of jazz entertainment doing the rounds today."

(Just Jazz Magazine)

 

"Listening to this remarkably versatile small band of musicians tackle the contemporary jazz of Abdullah Ibrahim with the same fervour and intensity as they produced for Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue" or Sidney Bechet's 1920s romping New Orleans jazz was a tremendous experience. Every era is evoked with complete conviction, during the musical equivalent of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, in which none of the major musical soliloquies gets left out." 

Alyn Shipton (BBC Radio 3, The Times )
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​​“In Pete Long, reeds player, raconteur, bandleader and all-round wit, we have a genuine home-grown treasure. If his projects – Echoes of Ellington chief among them – have attracted few column inches in the past, it is partly because Long, who knows this music inside out, appears to wear his expertise so lightly. In another life, he might easily have been a vaudeville entertainer.”

Clive Davis (The Times)​
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"Amazingly, Pite’s small-but-perfectly formed quintet does exactly what it says on the flyer.  Their pell-mell virtuosity enables them to cross the decades and vault the stylistic hurdles with ease.  Genuinely needs to be seen to be believed.  Don’t miss out!"

Peter Vacher (Jazz UK)​
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Richard Pite's brilliant "100 Years of Jazz in 99 Minutes" eschewed cheap send-ups but was in fact full of real information delivered with humour; this set should be on every festival programme.

Brian Balin (Jazz UK)​

 

"Richard Pite’s One Hundred Years of Jazz  thrilled the audience with technical virtuosity, entertained them with sharp and informative links between tunes and at the end of the set won a standing ovation. Simply brilliant!"

Fred Lindup, Swanage Jazz Festival

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