Stella Goodey

A tribute to the Ella Fitzerald and Joe Pass album Take Love Easy played by Phil Brooke the guitarist of guitarists, whose career spans 5 decades playing with the top jazz bands and musicians world wide.

Stella has been singing jazz since 1994 and has performed with all the top mainstream and traditional jazz bands. Her great uncles formed The legendary EastSide Stompers from Bow and later Ilford Essex. They were the oldest trad band in London. Stella was championed by Jack Parnell, John Petters and helped along the way by the trad jazz revivalist and modern uk musicians who had been at the forefront of British jazz. Ted Beament, Paul Higgs, Kenn Simms , Cy Laurie, Lord Arsenal, Phil Brooke, Brian Dee , Kenny Ball , Dave Newton , Trevor Tomkins, jim Richardson, Mick Hanson to name a few , some famous, some who deserve to be.

This concert brings together a mix of jazz genres from Gary Baldwin the great British Hammond Organ player who hails from East End London. He spent the 60s playing all over the west End in Ronnie's, Esmeraldas the 2 Rs , 10O club etc . He is a heavyweight blues and jazz session player called upon by the likes of Doris Troy and Jeff Beck and Beverley Knight.

Then on Trumpet and Drums are two musicians from the trad / mainstream circuit who have toured internationally for over a decade with The famous Chris Barber. Peter Rudeforth is regarded as one of the most authentic New Orleans trumpet players in the business and John W