Quay Arts are delighted to welcome Digby Fairweather, a superb trumpet and cornet player, who has been in the music business for over thirty years, winning numerous awards.
Digby is accompanied by well-know island band ‘The Phoenix Trio’.
Digby became a fulltime jazzman in l977 after twelve years as a qualified librarian in Southend-on-Sea. He has worked with amongst others Midnite Follies Orchestra, Eggy Ley, Eric Silk, Keith Nichols, Ron Russell and Lennie Hastings and recorded his first album with Welsh’s band in l974.
Solo projects have included collaborations with veterans Nat Gonella, Britain’s first star trumpeter, and double-bassist Tiny Winters and he led his own band the ‘Jazz Superkings’.
He also founded the charity ‘Jazz College’ with pianist Stan Barker in l979, the National Jazz Archive in l987 and a number of other jazz-related organisations at this period, including the Association of British Jazz Musicians and Jazz Section of the Musicians’ Union.
What others have said:
‘Digby is one of our most articulate jazzmen in both his words and his music. Whatever he says or whatever he plays is of great interest to the world of jazz’ (Sir John Dankworth CBE)
‘Digby is one of the best ambassadors jazz could have!’ (Michael Dynan, The Stage)
‘Digby Fairweather is a superb cornettist who will knock your lights out every time he hits high C!’ (Blues and Roots Magazine)
‘Much spoken of and justifiably’ (Humphrey Lyttelton)
‘The sweetest cat around and a marvellous player’ (Warren Vache Junior)
‘He knows what he’s doing!’ (the late great Ruby Braff)
Bits and bobs:
Fri 8 May Performance 8pm Bar & Menu from 6:30pm onwards
Location: Cafe Bar, Quay Arts
Ticket Price: £10 / *£9 (*Friends Concession)
Box Office 01983 822490
