Sunday, 14th
October, 2012, Doors open 6.30pm, show from 7.30pm, £8 (on the door only)
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (Upstairs),
47 Frith Street,
London
W1D 4HT
Tube: Tottenham Court Road or Leicester Square
Web:www.jumokefashola.com
Email: JazzVerseJukebox@me.com
Jazz Verse
Jukebox marks the UK’s 2012 National Poetry Day with special guest poets Katrina
Naomi, Phil Lucas, underground hip hop star Breis, plus music from
Argentinian jazzer Guillermo Rozenthuler and from Ayo-Dele.
Since its inception in 2009, the Jazz Verse
Jukebox, (the brainchild of broadcaster & vocalist Jumoké Fashola), has
welcomed established poets & musicians such as Lemn Sissay, Soweto Kinch,
Michael Horovitz, David Grant, Anthony Joseph, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Katrina
Naomi. Join us for what promises to be a thrilling night of diverse
spoken word & jazz from some of the freshest exponents on the scene. With cushions to lunge on, cocktails to
imbibe & surprises, this is one night not to miss!
PLUS Jukebox Open Mic:
Come & sing with our amazing house band
(Simon Wallace-Piano/ Oli Hayhurst-Bass/ Winston Clifford-Drums) or perform
some poetry.
Compered by & with music from Jumoké
Fashola
Katrina Naomi’s first full collection, ‘The
Girl with the Cactus Handshake’ (Templar Poetry 2009), was shortlisted for the
2010 London New Writing Award and received an Arts Council England writer’s
award. She has performed at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, the Essex Poetry
Festival and the StAnza Poetry Festival, among others. From 2009-10 Katrina was
the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s first writer-in-residence and a pamphlet
‘Charlotte Brontë’s Corset’ was published by the Brontë Society in 2010.
Katrina won the 2008 Templar Poetry Competition with her pamphlet ‘Lunch at the
Elephant & Castle’ and recently received a Hawthornden Fellowship. Katrina
was brought up in Margate and lives in south London.
BREIS (pronounced breeze) is a dynamic Hip
Hop MC constantly pushing the boundaries of what Hip Hop is and can be. He is
also the author of educational Hip Hop book entitled ‘Brilliant Rappers Educate
Intelligent Students’. His style is a fusion of Hip Hop, Soul and Afrobeat born
out of his experiences growing up in both the UK and Nigeria. He has toured
internationally and shared the stage with artists such as Angie Stone, Nneka,
Dead Prez, Omar Sosa, and Kim Burrell. He is currently recording material for
his debut album.
http://www.breismusic.wordpress.com
Writer, poet and pointless word rambler Phil
Lucas is the author of 3 poetry books and one novel. Before being gifted
a publisher and deciding to decamp to Brighton to write full-time he took a
somewhat messy journey through employment and real life. He has run
school classes on poetry, been a stand-up comedy poet (he hates that phrase)
and had an unhealthy dose of proper and largely pointless jobs too. His
acclaimed 2008 debut novel, Seaside Tales From Asper St Jasper, won him a cult
(i.e. small) following and his poems have been peppering all sorts of
publications for about 15 years. He also won a poetry competition a long
time ago, but he insists he doesn't want that to persuade you that his work has
any merit.
When Phil is not writing his books in cafes
he's usually writing all sorts of bits and bobs for magazines and websites in
cafes. He also spends a lot of time on Twitter, in cafes. Phil is equally at
home writing about them technical aspects of The Channel Tunnel or the
potential consequences of owls developing hands.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Guillermo
is a versatile vocalist, guitarist and composer. He is the lead singer of
Rioplatenses, a band featuring some of UK’s top Latin musicians. They appear
regularly in London, performing Guillermo’s originals and their distinctly
contemporary take on traditional South American folklore. Rioplatenses have
recently released their first live album, A route to the roots.
Guillermo moved to the UK in 2000 after
more than 10 years performing and teaching in Buenos Aires, where he grew his
reputation as a jazz and Latin vocalist and voice coach. Now based in London,
he regularly takes part in several musical and pedagogic projects across
Europe.
Guillermo didn't find tango, tango found
him after he moved to Europe. From his home base in London, he has now become
one of the leading voices of tango in the UK, working regularly with various UK
and Europe-based tango bands, La Portatil, Mala Pinta, Los Mareados.
Formerly the vocalist of outstanding sax
player Gilad Atzmon’s Orient House Ensemble, winner of the BBC Jazz awards,
Guillermo has recorded in their album, Musik, hailed “Best Jazz album of the
Year", (J Lewis, Time Out).
After moving to London, Guillermo immersed
himself in the melting pot of European, African and Asian influences that
define the musical landscape of the city. In 2007 he has achieved a Masters
degree with distinction in Ethnomusicology (Middle Eastern music) at SOAS.
Ayo-Dele is currently working on her
project ‘Forever Becoming’ which combines her British and Nigerian influences
expressed through songs and stories. Her latest collaboration is Naija, the
Musical – a three year development project which she is co-devising and writing
with UK based renown freelance theatre practitioner, Femi Elufowoju, jr.
Ayo-Dele Edwards is a London based
singer/actress, who from an early age has been surrounded by various genres of
music. As the fourth child born to Nigerian parents in London, Ayo-Dele has
experienced countless blessings that have molded her into who she is today. Her
name means ‘Joy has come home’ in Yoruba, a tribe and language spoken in
Nigeria, Western Africa.
At the tender age of four, her family moved
back home to Africa, where she adjusted to a new way of life, assimilating a
new found culture through formative education and formulating new friendships.
Surrounded by eclectic rhythms and sounds, Ayo-Dele became fixated with music a
huge cultural signpost at every corner she turned. Merging her British musical
repertoire with the African heritage was inevitable and grew into her main
passion.
