Georgie Fame, Jon Papenbrook and the NZ School of MusicBand

The New Zealand School of Music Big Band

Music Director: Rodger Fox

In Concert

With Special Guests

From the United Kingdom the Sensational
GEORGIE FAME

And from the USA Trumpeter Extraordinaire
JON PAPENBROOK

Palmerston North
April 01
The Globe Theatre 8.oopm
Book at TicketDirect (06)350 2100
www.ticketdirect.co.nz

Wellington
April 02
Expressions Arts & Entertainment Centre – Upper Hutt 8.oopm
Book at (04) 527 2168
www.expressions.org.nz

Three of Best in One Concert.

The New Zealand School of Music Big Band with musical director RODGER FOX
This big band is Wellington’s leading big band and is looking forward to performing in concert with the great Georgie Fame and the sensational Jon Papenbrook. The New Zealand School of Music is the combination of the Massey and Victoria Universities music departments.

GEORGIE FAME
Born Clive Powell on June 26, 1943 in the English industrial town of Leigh, Lancashire, in July 1959, at a summer holiday camp, Clive was spotted by Rory Blackwell, the resident rock and roll bandleader. Blackwell offered the young singer/pianist a full time job and the teenager happily left his job at the weaving mill. Rory and the Blackjacks departed for London, their hometown, when the summer season ended prematurely and Clive went with them. The promise of lucrative work in the music business didn’t materialize, however, and the band broke up. The determined young man from Leigh opted to stay on in London, but for a time it proved rough going. He tried unsuccessfully to make his way back home, and eventually he had the good fortune of finding “lodging” at The Essex Arms pub in London’s Dockland, where the kindly landlord provided him a room where he could sleep. Rory Blackwell renamed Clive Powell “Georgie Fame”.
Another gloomy out-of-work period finally ended in March 1962, when Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames took up what was to be a three-year residency as the house band at the Flamingo Club in London’s Soho district. According to Georgie, they played “rhythm and blues all-nighters to black American GIs, West Indians, pimps, prostitutes and gangsters.” The band’s reputation as “the epitome of cool” spread rapidly, and in 1963 their first album, Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo, was recorded live at the club. A string of hit records in the following years included the No. 1 best sellers, Yeh Yeh (the first recording that knocked The Beatles off the number one spot in the charts), Getaway and 1967’s The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde. Due to his great popularity, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were the only UK act invited to perform with the first Motown Review when it hit London in the mid-1960s. During this time, Georgie also pursued his interest in jazz, recording the milestone album, Sound Venture, with the Harry South Big Band. This led directly to successful tours of the UK and Europe in 1967 and 1968, which found Georgie singing with the Count Basie Orchestra.
It was also in 1989 that Georgie Fame joined forces with Van Morrison, after having been invited to play Hammond organ on Van’s Avalon Sunset album the previous year. He continued to record and tour with Morrison throughout the nineties. During that time, he and Van co-produced and performed on the Verve albums, How Long Has This Been Going On, released in 1995 and Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison, released in 1996.
In 1990, Georgie Fame signed with producer Ben Sidran’s Go Jazz Records and his first album, Cool Cat Blues, was released on that label in 1991. Recorded in New York City, it featured such musical luminaries as Van Morrison, Jon Hendricks, Boz Scaggs, Will Lee, Robben Ford, Richard Tee and Bob Malach. The follow-up album, The Blues and Me, completed in 1991 and released in 1992, was recorded in similar musical company. It also featured special guests Dr. John, Phil Woods, Stanley Turrentine and Grady Tate. In 1992, the album, Endangered Species, was recorded with the Danish Radio Big Band in Copenhagen and in 1993, the album, City Life, featuring Fame, Madeline Bell and the BBC Big Band was released.
In 1997, bassist Bill Wyman began forming his new band The Rhythm Kings and Georgie Fame became a founding member. Since that time, there have been five CDs and several tours, and The Rhythm Kings "reform" periodically to tour and record to the present day. Throughout his 40-year career, Georgie Fame has recorded over 20 albums and 14 hit singles. He is equally at home in the company of jazz groups and big bands, orchestras, rock groups and his own band, The Blue Flames. As a sideman, he has recorded with many artists, including Gene Vincent, Prince Buster, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Joan Armatrading, Andy Fairweather-Low, Bill Wyman and Van Morrison. Ever on the road, Georgie Fame continues to perform his unique blend of jazz/rhythm and blues for live audiences at clubs and music festivals throughout Europe.
Amongst his musical influences and heroes, he names Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Mose Allison, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Thelonius Monk, Betty Carter, Peggy Lee, Jimmy Smith, Booker T, Chet Baker, Johnny Griffin, Jon Hendricks, Eddie Jefferson, King Pleasure, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Sonny Rollins, Richard “Groove” Holmes and many, many more.

JON PAPENBROOK
Trumpet Artist.
One of the world’s most highly respected and sought after Trumpet Artists from Los Angeles, California.

Recording and Touring experience:

The BUDDY RICH BIG BAND,RAY CHARLEs,LOUIE BELLSON,
PEARL BAILEY, HARRY JAMES
BILL WATROUS,BOBBY SHEW,TOM JONES
AL JARREAU,FRANK SINATRA ,NATALIE COLE
ROD STEWART, PRINCE,LIZA MINELLI, AEROSMITH
THE TEMPTATIONS.

Jon is also the featured artist on The Rodger Fox Big Band CD “ Ain’t That The Truth” which won New Zealand jazz recording of the in 2001 and “A Rare Connection” which won the 2005 Jazz recording of the year. Jon is also featured on the big bands CD release “Warriors”

In September of 2006 Jon Papenbrook toured as the featured performer with the Rodger Fox Big Band during appearances at the Monterey Jazz Festival and performances in San Francisco,
Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT: RODGER FOX: Email rdfox@ihug.co.nz

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