Tickets: £22.50 Seat at a shared Table for 4 /£17.50 Seat - No Table

Doors: 7.30pm

Show: 8:00pm-9:30pm - Single Set 75 min

Please note you can book for dinner either before or after the show.

Anjali and Will are reunited at the Hampstead Jazz club, first having performed here together at it’s inaugural concert in August 2013 to perform a selection of Modal Jazz classics by Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard and Horace Silver as well as Anjali’s own songs. They are joined by two of the most in-demand players in the business, Larry Bartley on Bass and Winston Clifford on Drums.

You can expect some fireworks tonight!

ANJALI PERIN

Anjali is a vocalist, pianist, songwriter and arranger-producer specialising in jazz, funk and soul working as a full time musician since graduating from the Jazz Masters programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama after leaving her previous career as a corporate lawyer to pursue her musical path, which she’d honed from a childhood learning of Classical piano and violin alongside Indian Carnatic music and songwriting. Her first jazz album was signed to Jazzizit records and her performing highlights include jazz venues from Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Pizza Express Jazz Club (Dean Street), to the Royal Festival Hall and National Theatre as part of their jazz events alongside festivals including Love Supreme festival. A career highlight was performing for and meeting Quincy Jones as part of The Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland.

Anjali writes and releases her own songs, self produced and featuring her arranging talents under the artist name Pokkisham, which crosses multiple genres from jazz and soul to rock and Indian influences and has been supported by Jazz FM and BBC Introducing. Anjali is featured as one of their musicologists on BBC6 Music breaking down aspects of music and songwriting on the Huw Stephen’s Drivetime show. She is also a Senior Lecturer on the Masters programme in songwriting at ICMP in London.

WILL BARTLETT

Since winning the BBC Big Band Most Promising Musician in 2001, Will has studied in London with John Taylor, Pete Churchill and Simon Purcell and in New York with Mike Ledonne, Jeb Patton and Jakob Sacks. In 2022 he released ' THE SOUNDLESS DARK' with Norma Winstone, Tony Kofi and Robin Ince, a collection of his setting of Philip Larkin Poems.

His UK accolades has led him to collaborate and work with virtually every great British Jazz musician, including Norma Winstone, Claire Martin, Soweto Kinch, Jim Mullen, Nigel Price, John Dankworth, Kenny Wheeler, Toni Kofi, Steve Williamson, Peter King, Stan Sulzmann and Jamie Cullum.

Larry Bartley is a bassist/composer who has been a staple of the London & international jazz scene since the the 1990s, and has played and/or recorded in the bands of: Abdullah Ibrahim, Denys Baptiste, Steve Williamson, Courtney Pine, Bheki Mseleku, ingrid laugbrock, Jean Toussaint and many more.

Larry’s 2003 debut album, “ALONG THIS WAY” was nominated for ‘best new work” in the BBC JAZZ AWARDS, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award in 2015. His quartet “JUST US!” featuring Tony Kofi, Ed Jones, & Rod Youngs, released their debut album “BEAUTY IN THE HIDEOUS” in 2014.

Winston Clifford studied with ex-Tubby Hayes drummer Bill Eyden and with Trevor Tomkins at the Guildhall School of Music, and has gone on to play with many musicians including Courtney Pine, Bheki Mseleku, Jason Rebello, Ronnie Scott Band and countless more.

"You have the ease of an instrument when you sing and I can tell you are playing and really feeling every note..." - Quincy Jones (of Anj Perin)

"Albums such as The Soundless Dark do not come along every day…wonderful" (5stars) - Marbank (of Will Barlett)

"Soulful in a quiet and understated way, with beautifully crafted arrangements and a real empathy"- Kit Downes

"Lots of groovin' going on...promised much and delivered more" - Bebop Spoken Here

LINE-UP:

Lead – Will Bartlett

Piano – Will Bartlett

Vocals – Anjali Perin

Drums – Winston Clifford

Bass – Larry Bartley

Please note, The Club is not licensed to allow access to Children under the age of 16 after 9pm, so for evening performances, please do not book tickets for children under the age of 16. Children aged 16 and above are welcome at any time.

For £22.50 Tickets:

Seats are not numbered and you will be seated at available tables. Please note tables seat 4 people, so for bookings of less than 4 people, you will be seated and share a table for 4.

For £17.50 Tickets:

This is a fully seated event. Seats are not numbered and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

Please NOTE, there is NO food served in the Jazz Club, there is a bar for drinks. We advise booking a table for dinner at the Duke of Hamilton upstairs at least 1hr before show-time - Book Here

Please note the Jazz Club is situated in the basement of the Duke of Hamilton Pub and access is via a number of stairs. The nearest toilets are situated on the 1^st floor of the Pub.