Shirley Smart
contemporary jazz latin jazz
Influences: Mulatu Astatke, Avishai Cohen, Omer Avital
Shirley Smart plays cello as a bassist, lead voice and soloist within a sextet that fuses jazz swing with Arabic, Turkish and North African melodic traditions. Her ten years working in Jerusalem alongside Avishai Cohen and Omer Avital give the grooves and improvisation a distinctive Middle Eastern colour, and she has trained under Janos Starker and Raphael Wallfisch before becoming Jazz Musician-in-Residence at St. John's College, Cambridge.
Personnel:
Shirley Smart (cello)
Alistair Martin (trumpet)
James Arben (tenor saxophone)
John Crawford (piano)
Marcus Penrose (double bass)
Demi Garcia Sabat (drum kit)
Upcoming gigs
- Fri 16 Oct — 19:45 — Shirley Smart Sextet at Vortex Jazz Club