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EFG London Jazz Festival: Jazz Voice

Guy Barker and the EFG London Jazz Festival Ensemble with their annual celebration of song featuring an array of star vocalists.

EFG London Jazz Festival's opening night gala, live from the Royal Festival Hall. The Jazz Voice is an annual celebration of singers and song-writing and the featured artists tonight include Kurt Elling, Carroll Thompson, Amythyst Kiah, Dana Masters, Ian Shaw, Shingai, Mica Millar and Marisha Wallace. Guy Barker directs the specially-created EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra and the event is hosted on stage by Jumok茅 Fashola.

During the interval, a Count Basie mixtape celebrating the many artists born 100 years ago this year who helped create the Basie sound, including trumpeters Joe Newman and Joe Wilder, saxophonists Frank Wess, Illinois Jacquet and Eddie 鈥淟ockjaw鈥 Davies, and composer-arrangers Ernie Wilkins and Neal Hefti.

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Guy Barker

    Introduction

    Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra.
  • Bob Dorough

    Small Day Tomorrow

    Performer: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Singer: Ian Shaw. Conductor: Guy Barker. Composer: Fran Landesman.
  • Van Morrison

    Satisfield

    Singer: Dana Masters. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.
  • Carroll Thompson

    September

    Singer: Carroll Thompson. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.
  • Amythyst Kiah

    Black Myself

    Singer: Amythyst Kiah. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.
  • Mica Millar

    Will I see you again

    Singer: Mica Millar. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.
  • Shingai

    Too Bold

    Performer: Shingai. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.
  • Maurice Yvain

    My Man

    Performer: Marisha Wallace. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker. Composer: Channing Pollock.
  • Kurt Elling

    The Joker is Wild

    Performer: Kurt Elling. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker. Composer: Phil Galsdston.
  • The Count Basie Orchestra

    Double-O (feat. Eddie 鈥淟ockjaw鈥 Davis)

    • The Atomic Mr Basie.
    • EMI.
    • 5.
  • The Count Basie Orchestra

    Stay On It (feat. Illinois Jacquet)

    • America鈥檚 #1 Band! The Columbia Years.
    • Colombia.
    • 21.
  • The Count Basie Orchestra

    Softly With Feeling (feat. Joe Wilder)

    • Count Basie: Ken Burns鈥檚 Jazz.
    • Verve.
    • 14.
  • Count Basie

    Cute (feat. Frank Wess)

    • Jazz Masters.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • The Count Basie Orchestra

    Sweetie Cakes

    • Work From Home With Count Basie.
    • UMG.
    • 13.
  • The Count Basie Orchestra

    Bread (feat. Eddie 鈥淟ockjaw鈥 Davis)

    • The Complete Clef & Verve Fifties Studio Recordings.
    • Mosaic.
    • 13.
  • Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman

    Telegraph

    • Count Basie Presents Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman.
    • Coolnote.
    • 6.
  • EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra

    Women in Jazz Medley

  • Dana Masters

    Need You

    Performer: Dana Masters. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker. Composer: Cian Boylan.
  • Mica Millar

    Heaven Knows

    Performer: Mica Millar. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.
  • Amythyst Kiah

    Sleeping Queen

    Performer: Amythyst Kiah. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.
  • Alberto Dom铆nguez

    Perfidia

    Performer: Carroll Thompson. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.
  • Ian Shaw

    To be Held

    Performer: Ian Shaw. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker. Composer: Jamie Saffir.
  • Shingai

    Coming Home

    Performer: Shingai. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.
  • Kurt Elling

    Endless Lawns

    Performer: Kurt Elling. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker. Composer: Carla Bley. Composer: Sara Teasdale.
  • Tom Even

    And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going

    Performer: Marisha Wallace. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker. Composer: Henry Krieger. Music Arranger: Mark Cumberland.
  • Aretha Franklin

    Think

    Singer: Ian Shaw. Singer: Dana Masters. Singer: Carroll Thompson. Singer: Amythyst Kiah. Singer: Mica Millar. Singer: Shingai. Singer: Kurt Elling. Singer: Marisha Wallace. Orchestra: EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.
  • Dave O鈥橦iggins

    Ballad for Barry

    Performer: Rob Luft. Performer: Dave O鈥橦iggins. Performer: Misha Mullov-Abbado. Performer: Ross Stanley. Performer: Billy Pod.

Broadcast

  • Fri 11 Nov 2022 19:30