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Fever: Jo Harrop Sings Peggy Lee at Hampstead Jazz Lounge
Courtesy of Alex Webb | Posted on January 5, 2018
Where
Hampstead Jazz Lounge
23-25 New End, Hampstead
London
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+44 20 7916 0595
When
Fri, January 19, 2018
20:00
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Jo Harrop pays tribute to the sultriest songstress of them all, Peggy Lee - with a superb band led by pianist/MD Alex Webb and featuring Tony Kofi (alto sax), with the creamy-voiced Harrop delivering moving renditions of Peggy Lee ballads as well as swinging out on other great songs from the Lee canon.
Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was one of the great figures of jazz American popular song and had a career spanning six decades. Songs featured in the show include Lee’s Fever and Why Don’t You Do Right and The Folks Who Live on the Hill. Peggy Lee, unlike most other singers of her generation also distinguished herself as a songwriter, penning It’s A Good Day, I Love Being Here With You and He’s a Tramp (the last featuring in the Disney film The Lady And The Tramp)...