Chris Ingham Trio - The Jazz of Dudley Moore
“Swing, humour and poignancy, a jazz joy”
“A vibrant and moving homage”
CHRIS INGHAM - Piano
MALCOLM CREESE - Bass
GEORGE DOUBLE - Drums
Beloved comic actor Dudley Moore (1935-2002) was also a dazzling jazz pianist and a composer of wit and depth. The Chris Ingham Trio revisits Dudley’s evocative and appealing 1960s jazz in a rich, rewarding presentation packed with striking music and fascinating anecdotes.
This acclaimed show has been warmly received at Ronnie Scott’s and in concerts and festivals throughout the UK while the group’s CD Dudley received rave reviews fulsomely approving the overdue celebration of a remarkable British musician.
“Dudley would have been delighted”
The Jazz of Dudley Moore with the Chris Ingham Trio
Dudley Moore, beloved comic actor, we all know about. He was part of the theatre smash hit Beyond The Fringe (1960-64) and the influential TV programme Not Only But Also (1965-70) before becoming a Hollywood movie star (1979 onwards). However, for all the acclaim he received as an actor, and the affection with which he is remembered as a hilarious and lovable personality, perhaps the most interesting thing about Dudley's reputation is how undervalued he is as a jazzman and composer. He was an organ scholar at Oxford University (where his tutor rated him as a near-genius) and a virtuoso
pianist, brilliantly exploiting the stylistic possibilities of Errol Garner and Oscar Peterson in late sessions at Peter Cook’s Establishment Club, dazzling appearances on television, and sparkling trio albums for Decca Records.
Dudley composed quirky and imaginative jazz originals, as well as witty movie scores. His music conveys something about his complex and conflicted life - one filled with light and shade, joy and woe. It is this emotional range and depth that makes playing Dudley's music an intimate and heartfelt pleasure for players and audiences.
“An intimate and heartfelt pleasure”
Chris Ingham - Piano
Rated by The London Evening Standard as “one of Britain’s best singer-pianists”, Chris has led two hundred festival and club performances of his Hoagy Carmichael, Dudley Moore and Stan Getz shows. Musical director of the film song quintet Jazz At The Movies and the classic modern jazz sextet Rebop, Chris is also a record producer (Ruthie Henshall and Joanna Eden), author (Rough Guides to The Beatles and Frank Sinatra) and television composer (Wartime Crime and How The Beatles Changed The World). He curates jazz clubs in Diss and Bury St Edmunds.
Malcolm Creese - Double Bass
Malcolm studied classical cello at London’s Guildhall School of Music and later switched to bass. He has played with most of the top UK orchestras and is a jazz bassist of international repute. Malcolm’s CV includes eleven years with Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, performances with numerous jazz luminaries including Mel Tormé, Lee Konitz, George Shearing, George Benson and Mose Allison, and sessions for Sting, Rod Stewart, Depeche Mode and Diana Ross, among others. His trio Acoustic Triangle - with saxophonist Tim Garland and pianist Gwilym Simcock - is one of the UK’s most revered jazz ensembles.
George Double - Drums
George drums with Art Themen’s Organ Trio, John Etheridge’s Blue Spirits and many of Chris Ingham’s projects including Rebop and Jazz at the Movies. He has worked with Dame Shirley Bassey, Grammy Award winner Jack Jones, Marc Almond, Mica Paris, Ruthie Henshall, Paul Jones and Kym Mazelle, and has played on West End shows Wicked, Guys and Dolls, Avenue Q, Sinatra and Anything Goes. A respected published drum educator, notably for Trinity College in London, George also curates East Anglian jazz clubs in Hadleigh, Southwold and Frinton