Platform Jazz performs at Rhumbelow
Enjoy an evening out with Platform Jazz this January.
RHUMBELOW Theatre in Cunningham Avenue, Umbilo, presents Swingtime with Platform Jazz, featuring the best of swing music from the 30s, 40s and 50s, on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 January, Friday 30 January and Saturday 31 January, and Sunday 1 February.
For their new show there are two new band members in the guise of Jeff Judge on sax, and Kirsten Sayers on clarinet. Effervescent Shelley MacLean is the featured vocalist. The rest of the band is unchanged led by Cathy “Hotlips” Peacock on trumpet, “Dunc the hunk” Wooldridge on trombone, Andreas “Bullfiddle” Kappen on double bass, the one and only Melvin Peters on piano, and “bashful” Bruce Baker on drums.
The show will feature hits by Duke Ellington, Rosemary Clooney and Ella Fitzgerald such as Fever, Hey Mambo, Blue Moon, Embraceable You and A nightingale sang in Berkley Square. The band will pay tribute to great big bands of that time and will include Sing sing sing, Caravan, How high the Moon and a tribute to Glenn Miller. Other fab swing tunes include I’ve got you under my skin, Fly me to the moon and Shelly’s smoky version of Georgia on my mind.
If it’s class, sophistication and good old fashioned nostalgia you are after, spend time with Platform Jazz.
Take food picnic baskets. The venue opens 90 minutes before the show for a picnic dinner.
Braais will be available should you wish to cook some meat.
Tickets are R120 and R100 for pensioners and tables of eight or more for the first weekend only. Booking is essential through Computicket or email Roland for bookings on roland@stansell.za.net or 082 499 8636.
