Appearing in Topcliffe & Asenby Village Hall!
Saturday evening – 27th March 2010

An NY Rural Arts sponsored event

Company:   Martin Speake & Colin Oxley Jazz Duo

Show:  Live Concert (Saxophone and Guitar)

Target Audience:  Adults and older children

Website:   www.martinspeake.co.uk

Two of Britain’s finest jazz musicians, alto saxophonist
Martin Speake and guitarist Colin Oxley
perform music composed or associated with Louis
Armstrong, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter,
Irving Berlin, Johnny Green and many others.

The intimacy of the duo allows for close, improvised
interplay that is melodic, lyrical and infused with a
harmonic richness. The result is a performance
of unique, personal interpretations of some of the
greatest music in the jazz repertoire.

Testimonials

“..one of the most original and interesting jazz
saxophonists on the British scene” TIME OUT magazine

“I listen again to Colin Oxley’s glorious guitar,
responding with both masterly chording and joyful
single notes to every mood”   Humphrey Littleton