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THE DIY JAZZ RESTAURANT was created by Ros in 2008. It opens in Winscombe Cricket Club once every two or three months. The cricket club is transformed for the evening into a candlelit dining room where guests book a table and bring their own suppers. Drinks are bought at the bar.
Ros usually sings, accompanied by the best jazz musicians she can get from Bristol and further afield. Guest musicians vary from talented young players to well established ones. The music on offer might be jazz, blues, latin, pop/rock or funk. The club has been growing in popularity and in January the saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis guested at the club to a sellout audience.
To join the emailing list for DIY Jazz Restaurant and other gigs, please contact Ros.
'Well done last night - we thoroughly enjoyed the evening.A great performance well delivered!Not only was it wonderful to hear Pee Wee do his stuff,the rest of the band demonstrated themselves to be really accomplished musicians and you sang beautifully - a top top show!
We hadn't been before and we were very impressed as well with the setup and the organisation - great stuff!'
'I just wanted to express my thanks. It was the most excellent jazz that I have heard for an extremely long time. I was buzzing by the time it ended. The arrangement of Hendrix was just out of this world....it was so wonderful to watch you all clearly share with your audience how much you enjoy performing together.'
Ros’s vocalising has a richness of tone, delicacy of phrasing, and emotional breadth and depth
that keeps her audiences captivated. She learned to sing by throwing herself into projects as they presented themselves, and if they didn’t, by creating them for herself.
For a while she fronted an own material rock band, the Violet Hour, before going on a Jazz course at Glamorgan University. Other jazz and song writing courses followed, including Wavenden Studios, Merclef Advanced Jazz course, and Ray Davis’ song writing course run by the Arvon Foundation.
Since 2002 she has gigged in and around Bristol, the south west and also in London. Her repertoire includes swing, bebop, blues, latin, funk and originals.
She works with some of the best musicians in the southwest, such as on keyboards, the amazing Anders Olinder, who has toured with everybody from Peter Gabriel to Courtney Pine, and master drummer Andy Tween, who tours with Seth Lakeman among others. She has given concerts and made her first cd with Alex Steele, a mainstay of the Cheltenham Festival and his band, and guested with international Jazz guitarist Jim Mullen.
Currently Ros is collaborating on a song cycle with composer Knud Stuwe. The premiere of this work and other originals will be held at St Aidan's Church, Bristol in May.
Telephone: 123.123.123 Email: your email here
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