When: 28/11/2010

Where: Spiro Ark's Centre, 25-26 Enford Street, W1H 1DW

Time: 15:00

Contact: 020 7723 9991

Price: £12 / £10 conc. + Internet booking fee

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Jews have been called 'the people of the book', but Mike Gerber, author of the book Jazz Jews, and host of the Jazz Jews hour on UK Jazz Radio, has proposed an alternative tag - Jews as the people of the song. Songs, that is, that have been widely adopted as jazz standards, and that have contributed to the evolution of jazz.
And at a special Jazzsongs and Jews event at The Spiro Ark cultural centre in central London on Sunday 28th November 2010, you can join Mike and singer/pianist Clare Shaw in a celebration - in words and music - of this symbiotic relationship between the songs of Jewish-American popular composers and jazz.
The show will feature the songs - jazzed up - of such Jewish-American greats as George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and some lesser known composers.
Songs that although not written for jazz, have contributed so much to it.
So remember, the 28th November - Mike and Clare's Jazzsongs and Jews show.