Sing and Swing - Renaissance Singers With Chris Dann Trio

Christine Archer-Lockwood has collated some time honoured jazz standards together with A Little Jazz Mass to create a concert programme where the choir will sing along with a jazz trio of Chris Dann on piano, Berndt Reiss on bass and Ralph Sims drums. All three are very experienced jazz musicians with a long cherished love of jazz. In the jazz tradition, all three musicians will have their moments to shine.

And, in the jazz tradition, the choir will have soloists from within it share the spot light while the rest of the choir concentrates on maintaining the harmony and jazz rhythms in the fashion of the like of Manhatten Transfer. The audience will no doubt enjoy listening again to the many popular standards of the mid twentieth century jazz era.

Bob Chilcott is a prolific British choral composer with many religious works in his diverse portfolio. The choir recently sang his Making of the Drum that highlighted the rhythms of Uganda. A Little Jazz Mass gave Chilcott the opportunity to marry his love of jazz to religious liturgy. Over many years, the Mass has been put to music in a range of genres and those music lovers familiar with the classics will easily recognise the parts of the Mass in its jazz form.

Whether it is the jazz that is the attraction, a love of popular jazz standards, or the sound of an accomplished choir, this concert is bound to tick boxes.