American Jazz Vocalist Amber Weekes & The Alex Webb Trio
Saturday 13th May 2023
Tickets: £20.00 Seat at a shared Table for 4 /£15.00 Seat – No Table
Doors: 7.30pm
Show: 8:00pm-9:30pm – Single Set 75 min
Please note you can book for dinner either before or after the show.
Join American Jazz Vocalist Amber Weekes, as she performs songs from the great American Songbook, Compositions of Oscar Brown, Jr., and interprets songs made popular by vocalists such as Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, and Lena Horne. Accompanied by our very own AlexWebb and this trio.
Her music had been featured worldwide and here, in the UK. Amber’s debut performance in the UK is here at the Hampstead Jazz Club. During her performances, she will share selections from all of her non-seasonal recordings, including
her Spring of 2023 release.
AMBER WEEKES
Recording artist, Amber Weekes, raised in Los Angeles, says she was “born singing” in her parents’ musical household. At four, she stepped onto her first stage, the living room coffeetable in her childhood home. The daughter of singers from Harlem, Weekes’ home oozed with the sounds of Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Barbara Streisand, Diahann Carroll, The
Beatles, Leontyne Price, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Motown.
Generations earlier, her grandparents, Wilfred and Nettie Weekes, served musical giants Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Billy Strahorn and many others inside Weekes’ Luncheonette in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. These famous patrons left their musical mark on the family. It was just a matter of time that Weekes would step into and fully claim her musical inheritance.
Weekes has produced four albums in her career, including the promotional recording of “Round Midnight” produced by Trevor Ware and Louis Van Taylor in 2002; the market release of “Pure Imagination,” produced by Trevor Ware, Mark Cargill and Kenny Sara, and executive producer Amber Weekes in 2019; the market release of “The Gathering,” a
Christmas album produced by Mark Cargill and executive producer Amber Weekes in 2020, which was in the top 25 of the Roots Music 2020 Christmas albums chart and top 10 for Christmas jazz albums; the release of “My Romance – A Special Valentine,” (EP), in 2021; and “Round Midnight Re-imagined,” produced by Mark Cargill, and executive producer
Amber Weekes in May 2021, and is currently working on a new album scheduled for release in the Spring of 2023.
ALEX WEBB
Alex Webb, a resident artist at Hampstead Jazz Club, has worked with many top UK and international vocalists and recently recorded the acclaimed jazz album ‘British Standard Time’ – a Jazz FM Album Of The Week – for Lateralize Records.
…”With ‘Pure Imagination’, recorded on her own Amber Inn imprint, Amber Weekes amply demonstrates that she belongs to the rich tradition of the Jazz diva.” – John Stevenson – AR Stash
“If you want to know how class can sound sexy, sultry and soulful, this is the ground zero lesson in it all. Killer stuff.” – Chris Spector, MidWest Record
LINE-UP:
Lead – Amber Weekes
Piano – Alex Webb
Drums – Dan Hester
Bass – Hamish Moore
Please note, The Club is not licensed to allow access to Children under the age of 16 after 9pm, so for evening performances, please do not book tickets for children under the age of 16. Children aged 16 and above are welcome at any time.
For £20.00 Tickets:
Seats are not numbered and you will be seated at available tables. Please note tables seat 4 people, so for bookings of less than 4 people, you will be seated and share a table for 4.
For £15.00 Tickets:
This is a fully seated event. Seats are not numbered and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
Please note the Jazz Club is situated in the basement of the Duke of Hamilton Pub and access is via a number of stairs. The nearest toilets are situated on the 1st floor of the Pub.
Showtimes
Doors: 7:30 pm | Show: 8:00 pm