Quay Arts are delighted to host the BBC Jazz Award winner; Anita Wardell at the August Jazz Café on Friday 27th August, 2010.

Anita uses the voice as her instrument, displaying precision, agility and heartfelt emotion, her singing is exciting and breathtaking.

She is noted for her mesmerizing and captivating vocal improvisations and vocalise lyrics to instrumental solos.

Anita is a musician who uses the voice as her instrument, displaying precision and agility, mixed with heartfelt emotion. “Kinda Blue“, her second and most recent album for Proper Records UK, shows Anita’s versatility and complete command of her instrument. On this recording, she has teamed up with some of the UK’s finest musicians: Robin Aspland (piano), Jeremy Brown (bass), and Steve Brown (drums), with special guest performances by Tristan Maillot on drums, Adam Glasser on harmonica and Phil Robson on guitar.

Anita received the prestigious BBC Jazz Award for Best of Jazz category in 2006. This coupled with the release of Kinda Blue has propelled Anita into the major artist’s arena. Noted, her first release for the new label (released in July 2006), is a collection of well known material from the Blue Note era to which Anita has penned many of her own lyrics.

Bebop pioneer Mark Murphy proclaimed Anita, "a gift from Australia", adding "what hits me, is how expressive her ballad singing is. Then she has the courage to scat a ballad or two, not unlike a young lady disciple of the Ben Webster school."

Visitors to Quay Arts will be charmed by this sensitive jazz maestro who voice is her instrument. Menu served from 6:30pm onwards.

Bar & Menu: Café Bar, from 6:30pm onwards

Ticket Price: £10 / *£9

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