Mike Denham’s Sunset Café Stompers
Friday, 9 June 2023
- Time
- 19:30 - 22:00
- Venue
- Ilminster Arts Centre, Ilminster, TA19 0AN
- Price
- £20
Exciting vintage jazz from 1920s & 30s New Orleans, Chicago & New York!
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The Sunset Café Stompers are a very popular New Orleans style band from the West Country, led by pianist Mike Denham. Their music is rooted in the bars and bordellos, the dance halls and the street parades of New Orleans in the 1910s and 20s, and later in the clubs and speakeasies of Chicago and New York, as musicians migrated to the big cities to find work.
They take their name from a famous jazz-age night-spot on Chicago's notorious South Side. Al Capone owned it, Louis Armstrong starred there. The Stompers play the music of that period - great tunes from Scott Joplin, Irving Berlin, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller - but the band's wide-ranging book also features songs by artists as different as Patsy Cline, Marilyn Monroe, the Inkspots, Fats Domino... even Elvis. Beneath it all lies that elusive, enthralling beat – the pulse of New Orleans.
"One of the best bands of its kind in the land" – Just Jazz magazine
The band:
Mike Denham - piano
Steve Graham - trumpet/cornet
Pete Middleton - trombone/arranger
Trevor Whiting - clarinet & saxes
Keith Hall - banjo & guitar
John Coad - drums
Pete Ward - bass
Hamish Maxwell - vocals
www.sunsetcafestompers.com
Venue
Ilminster Arts Centre
The Meeting House, East Street
Ilminster
TA19 0AN
Dates
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