Anita Wardell "Stolen Moments"
“...the most creative Jazz singer in London”
Evening Standard
The winner of two BBC Jazz Awards and a British Jazz Award for ‘Best Jazz Vocalist’, Anita Wardell is renowned for her captivating vocal improvisations. Using her voice as her instrument, Anita displays precision and agility, mixed with heartfelt emotion (the Evening Standard proclaiming her “the most creative jazz singer in London”). Tonight, along with jazz standards, the programme will celebrate the late great jazz singer & lyricist, Mark Murphy. The four-time winner of the ‘Best Male Vocalist’ title in the Downbeat Reader’s Poll and a multiple Grammy award nominee, Murphy’s skills as an improviser were legendary... and, Anita actually studied with him many years ago, making him a particularly inspired choice! With her quartet featuring Matyas Gayer-piano.
“...the most creative Jazz singer in London” Evening Standard; “…one of the country’s leading...jazz singers” Jazz UK; “First and foremost, it’s the innate musicality of Wardell’s interpretations that impresses” The Jazz Rag; “a model of the Jazz singer’s art” Guardian