Festa: Marc Cecil Quintet

Festa: Marc Cecil Quintet

Superb swinging bebop, bossa, salsa, lyrical ballads, the lot!

Marc Cecil drums, Shanti Paul Jayasinha trumpet, James Arben sax, Gunther Kurmayr keys, Dominic Howles bass.

Last time this band came, the five musicians on our stage had a great time, and a pile of fun, and therefore so did we. We got bop and salsa and ballads and fun watching the musicians enjoy themselves and each other.

About their album, Digby Fairweather writes, “Marc has revisited the music of Dizzy Gillespie with affection, skill and admirable attention to detail. The result is a live album in which both arrangements and solo outings would have prompted smiles of approval from Dizzy himself “

With the storming James Arben, Gunther Kurmayr and Dominic Howles (last with us with Tim Richards), it will be a gig to savour.