Jacqui Dankworth's
'Shakespeare & All That Jazz'

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Multi award-winning vocalist, Jacqui Dankworth MBE, revisits the music of the seminal British albums "Shakespeare and All That Jazz" and “Wordsongs”, composed by her father, Sir John Dankworth, and recorded by her mother, Dame Cleo Laine.  Jacqui draws on her own intimate and lifelong familiarity with this genre-defying music, as well as her experiences as an actor working with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
 
The programme features the incomparable Jacqui Dankworth on vocals, accompanied by pianist Charlie Wood, and their world-class band of musicians, performing settings such as “Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day”, “Fear No More The Heat O’ The Sun”, the story of Macbeth told via “Dunsinane Blues”, a comical tongue-twisting roll-call of Shakespeare’s complete works, as well as a few surprises along the way!
 
The genius of Shakespeare’s poetry, the brilliance of the musical settings, and Jacqui’s virtuosic vocals, combine to create a truly unique and unforgettable concert event.

'One of our finest singers, regardless of category' 
Sunday Times
 
'Jacqui Dankworth doesn’t confine herself to singing jazz; she is gracefully at ease in folk music and semi classical contexts, as well as being an imaginative interpreter of standards. But in all her incarnations, she exhibits a subtle control of dynamics and a voluptuous tonal richness that seems to make almost any material sound special'
The Guardian