Bombay Bop
Tue 13 Aug
|Thorpe Hall Golf Club
A night of Bollywood Jazz. A themed evening of musical entertainment accompanied by home cooked curry from our commended chefs.


Time & Location
13 Aug 2019, 18:30
Thorpe Hall Golf Club, Thorpe Hall Ave, Southend-on-Sea SS1 3AT, UK
About The Event
Doors 6.30pm music starts at 8pm
Indian music has long held a fascination for jazz musicians, but indo-jazz fusion as a genre has focused exclusively on Hindustani or Carnatic classical music. Bollywood songs – a repertoire larger, richer, and more flamboyant than the Hollywood equivalent which has given us the Great American Songbook – have gone largely ignored. Bombay Bop intend to put this right. The band’s leader, Dave Jago, is a founder member of the Bollywood Brass Band, and has been playing this music at Indian weddings and festivals for over 25 years. His new band takes the drama, romance, passion and energy of Bollywood and mixes it up to produce a fresh and invigorating jazz sound. Expect gorgeous ballads from the 50s, slices of funk from the sixties, right through to the invigorating dance sounds of the present day.
Dave Jago (trombone) will be well known to clu…
Tickets
Non Members
£16.00
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£14.00
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Students and MU members (on presentation of relevant ID)
£10.00
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