Jazz at Progress | Perfect Stranger “Unfinished Business” Album Tour | Buy tickets

Friday 25 October 2024 | Progress Theatre, Reading | 7: 30pm | £19.00 (£17.00 concessions, £10 under 16) plus maximum 5% booking fee.

Perfect Stranger “Unfinished Business”

Left to right: Paul Michael bass guitar | Eddy White guitars | Shanti Jayasinha trumpet & flugelhorn | Jonas Golland drums | Alcyona Mick keys | Chris Sansom conductor | Tom Green trombone | Mick Foster saxes, flutes, bass clarinet | Rob Millett vibes, percussion | Adam Bishop saxes, flutes, bass clarinet

Always on the look out to offer something unique to put before our jazz-loving audience, we were approached by Chris Sansom with the concept a ten piece band performing his compositions, first incubated in the creative juices by Chris in the 1970s, using ‘classical’ principles, incorporating the musical vocabulary and sounds of jazz and rock.

Chris wrote a four movement work for a band, which included some members from the National Youth Jazz Orchestra at the time, called Life & Times (of a Perfect Stranger. Although this project seemed to have come to nothing, its gestation period has ended!

Perfect Stranger comprises superb musicians who are steeped in jazz. Too many to go into detail, but look them up here

The album is now recorded, mastered and packaged and we have the first gig of the album launch tour. A video has been made of the recording and here is the final track to whet the appetite.

Imagine these superb musicians performing live at Progress. We think it will be a Wow occasion. So please come along and enjoy a night of unique, exciting music.

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