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'This Can't Be Love'

Tue 16 Apr

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Thorpe Hall Golf Club

Paul Higgs - trumpet, guitar & melodica, Neil Bullock - drums, Alex Keen - bass, Gabrielle Keen - piano & Annie - voice.

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'This Can't Be Love'
'This Can't Be Love'

Time & Location

16 Apr 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

My first exposure to jazz came in the form of two albums that my parents owned. The first was a dixieland jazz compilation & the second was Ella Fitzgerald singing 'The Rodgers & Hart Songbook'.

It was only later in life that I realised what an influence that Rodgers & Hart album had been on me. Such an extensive catalogue of well known beautiful songs and yet Rodgers & Hart as a partnership often seem overshadowed when 'The Great American Songbook' is referred to. I knew Paul was a fan of this great songwriting partnership and asked him if he would be musical director for an evening devoted to their work and happily he agreed. After their first Broadway hit Rodgers & Hart never looked back with a string of successful musicals & films. They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more tha…

Tickets

  • Non Members

    £16.00

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  • Members

    £14.00

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  • Concessions

    Students and MU members (on presentation of relevant ID)

    £10.00

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Chalkwell Park Rooms

Chalkwell Park,

London Road (A13)

Westcliff-on-Sea

SS0 8NB

Food from 6.00pm, music from 8pm

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