Spats Langham’s Hot Combination – Live Jazz in The Showbar

Swanage Jazz Club is proud to present Spats Langham’s Hot Combination

Long time Swanage favourite Tom ‘Spats’ Langham returns with his Hot Combination which takes you on a musical journey from ragtime through the hot jazz and lowdown blues of the 1920s, the sophisticated swing of the 1930s, taking in the French Hot Club sound of Django Reinhart, with jump-jive and Latin rhythms along the way. Spats’ has added to his Hot Fingers Trio the ‘Cotswold Canary’, Emily Campbell, bringing her unique talents to the blues music of Bessie Smith, the jazz of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holliday and the gospel music of Mahalia Jackson and
Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Spats has played all over the world and with lots of leading figures in the jazz world including Chris Barber and Acker Bilk. His virtuoso banjo and guitar playing and singing and brilliant sense of humour have made him one of the most in demand figures on the British jazz scene.

A FREE event, sponsored by the original Swanage Jazz Club!