Paul Higgs ''Brown & Blue''

About this event

Member ticket only – £15

Non-members ticket only – £20

Members dining + ticket – £50

Non-members dining + ticket – £55

Hotel Deal - Dinner Bed & Breakfast plus tickets just £179 per couple

Over 18s only

Doors Open 7pm

On Stage 8.15pm

Paul's biography:

Paul was a Musical Director at the National Theatre and the RSC, and has performed with Sir Peter Maxwell Davis, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Johnny Dankworth, Lulu, Tony Hatch, John Williams, and Nancy Wilson. He has also performed in major concert venues around the world, such as the Royal Festival Hall, the Berlin Concert Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, the Elgar Room, Ronnie Scott’s, The Stables and the Culford Room, Cadogan Hall.

Brown and Blue

Paul Higgs presents an evening of tunes by the legendary trumpet players, Clifford Brown and Blue Mitchell. Paul illustrates both Clifford Brown’s and Blue Mitchell's virtuosic technique and brilliant inventiveness in their exploration of the Hard Bop and Bebop styles. Both had a great soulful lyricism and a sense of melody.

Mitchell’s lyricism was rounder and more restrained than that of Clifford Brown, the leading trumpeter of bebop’s second generation. Brown set the example for virtually every trumpet player in Mitchell’s generation, who sought to combine the virtuosity of early bebop with the listenability and soulfulness of rhythm and blues.

Paul plays trumpet with a sublime tone and breathtaking technique - a perfect match for the music of 'Brown and Blue'.