Name: Celebrating Mingus
Start: 2022-09-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-09-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Conductor

Guy Barker

Saxophone

Lakecia Benjamin

Singer

Allan Harris

Narrator

Others

BBC Concert Orchestra

Southbank Centre

Guy Barker's New Jazz Orchestra

Celebrating Mingus

London

United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Celebrating Mingus: Concert Various

Public

Concert

Approved

South Bank Centre

In Charles Mingus’ centenary year, Guy Barker presents his Mingus Suite: brand-new arrangements of the jazz composer, bassist and band leader’s greatest music.

Backed by the full forces of the BBC Concert Orchestra, Barker’s 16-piece New Jazz Orchestra gives voice to Mingus’ pioneering musical imagination, which reshaped the sound of the 20th century.

The evening begins with a journey through Mingus’ musical influences, featuring jazz, funk, and R&B saxophonist, Lakecia Benjamin.

In 2020 she was awarded the title of Up and Coming Artist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association; The New Yorker comments that her playing is ‘sprinkled with the rich flavours of funk and soul’.

Together with the orchestra, she performs music by the titan of big band music, Duke Ellington, the mighty Jelly Roll Morton and more.

Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Guy Barker has hosted some of London’s most spectacular jazz events and his musical arrangements are enduringly popular with audiences.

English

Forestillingkreditter (Ensemble & produksjonsteam )

Cast

Mannskap

Ensemble