Hal's Hall, Adelaide University
Event postponed
Anita Wardell & Emile Ryoch – A Night of Bebop
Anita Wardell (UK) teams up with local saxophonist Emile Ryjoch to present a night of swingin’ bebop and breathtaking scat solos featuring an all-star, all-local band for this exclusive Adelaide performance.
Anita Wardell – vocals
Dave McEvoy – piano
Emile Ryoch – saxophone
Tasha Stevens – bass
Steve Neville – drums
Doors: 6pm. Band: 7pm.
The Ellington Jazz Club, Perth
Event postponed
“You Inspire Me”
For International Jazz Day
Doors 6pm
Show 7pm
The Ellington Jazz Club is proud to present award-winning, British Jazz Vocalist Anita Wardell, for our 2024 International Jazz Day Celebrations.
Anita is noted for her mesmerising and captivating vocal improvisations and vocalese lyrics to instrumental solos. She is a musician who uses the voice as her instrument, displaying precision and agility, mixed with heartfelt emotion.
Anita is the recipient of the BBC Jazz Award for ‘Best of Jazz’ in 2006 and the British Jazz award for ‘Best Vocalist’ in 2013.
Steeped in the bebop and jazz standards tradition, Anita will be paying tribute to the artists that have taught and inspired her on her musical journey thus far. Charlie Parker, Mark Murphy, Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Cannonball Adderley, Clifford Brown and many more.
Anita Wardell – Vocals
Harry Mitchell – Piano
Karl Florisson – Double Bass
Ben Vanderwal – Drums
“The singer’s mercurial musicality and acute sense of improvisational freedom can at times take the breath away” Peter Quinn
Ellington Jazz Club, Perth
Event postponed
“You Inspire Me”
Doors 6pm
Show 7pm
The Ellington Jazz Club is proud to present award-winning, British Jazz Vocalist Anita Wardell, for our 2024 International Jazz Day Celebrations.
Anita is noted for her mesmerising and captivating vocal improvisations and vocalese lyrics to instrumental solos. She is a musician who uses the voice as her instrument, displaying precision and agility, mixed with heartfelt emotion.
Anita is the recipient of the BBC Jazz Award for ‘Best of Jazz’ in 2006 and the British Jazz award for ‘Best Vocalist’ in 2013.
Steeped in the bebop and jazz standards tradition, Anita will be paying tribute to the artists that have taught and inspired her on her musical journey thus far. Charlie Parker, Mark Murphy, Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Cannonball Adderley, Clifford Brown and many more.
Anita Wardell – Vocals
Harry Mitchell – Piano
Karl Florisson – Double Bass
Ben Vanderwal – Drums
“The singer’s mercurial musicality and acute sense of improvisational freedom can at times take the breath away” Peter Quinn
Twickenham Jazz Club
Event postponed
Anita Wardell celebrates Carmen McRae.
One of the greatest jazz singers: Carmen McRae — fierce, Swinging and an amazing storyteller!
Piano Smithfield
Event postponed
Anita Wardell’s “Scatasphere’
Looking forward to returning to Piano Smithfield for a night of Jazz singing- vocalese, standards and bebop!
Scolt Head, Islington
Event postponed
Anita joins Peter Werth and crew at the Scolt Head for some swing standards and Bebop fun.
Pizza Express Live, Holborn
Event postponed
Guesting at this event in support of Jazz Against Violence.
Come join us for the third year of eCubed’s Jazz Against Violence, returning to Holborn – the famous Holborn Jazz Club: downstairs at Pizza Express Live! where iconic artists such as Laura Mvula, Morcheeba, Chrissie Hynde, Annie Lennox, NAO, Jordan Rakei and Goldie have all appeared on the club’s stage. All profits will be donated to Solace Women’s Aid.
We will be featuring the returning professional artist from last year – Anita Wardell between 6.00pm – 10.30pm. She will be joined by the new artist to our eCubed line-up – Hayley Poleon, a captivating show singer, and Judy Kawaguchi, Founder of eCubed and a former Trustee of Solace Women’s Aid, returning with a fun well-known jazz standards influenced by Gershwin.
There will be raffles, live auctions, drinks and food you can enjoy at your table. If you wish you have dinner there, there is a full restaurant ready to serve you at your table.
Come listen to beautiful music and enjoy a great atmostphere – what a perfect night out with your friends and colleagues, and all for an amazing cause!
So please invite your friends, colleagues, and family and join us this year for an evening of soul-warming music, and a great fun!
Doors Open at 6.00pm so you can meet up, eat and drink, and catch-up with your friends before the start of the programme. Great music to follow starting at 7pm.
Sligo Jazz international Summer School 2024
Event postponed
Anita is looking forward to be joining the faculty for the 2024 Sligo international Summer School. 23rd-28th July 2024.