With the Jazz festival only a month or so away, there is something a bit different coming up in this month’s night of Jazz At The Boathouse.
Jazz and blues music has always attracted some real characters, and if boogie woogie piano is your thing then you’re in for a real treat in the shape of Louis Vause, one of the most entertaining pianists in the business, when he comes to town on the 17th March.
During the course of a colourful life Mr Vause has travelled across the Sahara desert on the roof of a train and played in a band with Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse from the Fast Show. He has played keys with Madness, Graham Coxon and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics. He has played a ghost in BBC1’s “Randall & Hopkirk Deceased” with Vic Reeves, and led his own orchestra alongside Jude Law in the recent remake of “Alfie”. All this time he has been honing his piano skills, largely self-taught, to the point where his instructional film “A Beginners Guide to Boogie and Blues”, is one of the most successful that Time Warner has ever published.
Louis will be leading a quintet of top jazz sidespeople including former Loose Tube John Eacott on trumpet and fluegelhorn and Louise Elliott on tenor sax and flute for what is bound to a great party night at the atmospheric Spyglass Boathouse.
Tickets £15 from the Jazz Office at 6 Pier Street Ventnor, Tel: 01983 856206.