Doors open – 7:00pm
Show begins – 8:30pm
Show ends – 10:30pm
Tickets from £10 | Complimentary for Patrons
Order from the Jazz Menu directly to your table in the Sunbeam Theatre. We recommend coming in early to enjoy a bite and a drink before the music starts.
Line up:
Jean Toussaint – tenor sax
Joti – trumpet
Emil Hinton – piano
Lorenzo Morabito – double bass
Ben Brown – drums
Originally from St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, saxophonist Jean Toussaint left Berklee College of Music, Boston, in 1982 to join Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. It was the beginning of an inspired four-and-a-half years spent with musicians including Terence Blanchard, Mulgrew Miller, and others. While in New York, Jean also worked with Gil Evans, McCoy Tyner, and Wynton Marsalis.
In 1987, he left Blakey to come to England for a few months. He stayed. Jean has since toured with many visiting American bands, including Max Roach, Cedar Walton, and David Murray, as well as with his own bands. The Jean Toussaint Trio, Quartet, and Quintet play swinging, surging, straight-ahead contemporary jazz with a strong emphasis on melody. Nazaire, his electrocute band, plays a blend of jazz-funk and club music.
Since moving to London, he has led his own bands and various projects, released ten compact discs as a leader, and guested on many more. Collaborations with musicians based in the UK have included Bheki Mseleku, Julian Joseph, Jason Rebello, Cleveland Watkiss, and others.
Toussaint is also often invited to join tours with US musicians visiting Europe and most recently was on tour with pianist Cedar Walton and Donald Brown, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, and an extensive tour of Europe, the Middle East, and New York with the great Jeff Watts.
