Paul Mitchell and The Chaps Quartet

A favourite at Fairport's Cropredy Convention music festival, singer and guitarist Paul Mitchell here teams up with a platinum-standard backing band to deliver a selection of Sinatra-style jazz and swing classics. The improvisational nature of the band gives it an immediacy that breathes new life into many familiar standards and will also surprise you with jazz versions of some more modern tunes.

There are so many ways this band could stumble with this kind of material. The fact that it rarely puts a foot wrong is down to the supreme musicianship of the self-styled 'Chaps Quartet' of Danny Thompson (bass) Jim Mullen (guitar) Liam Noble (piano) and Paul Clarvis (drums). Add Mitchell's easy, engaging delivery and you've got a fine collection of standards with a twist. Live and loose, the Chaps Quartet makes you realise you're in the room with a bunch of top musicians and like them, you'll be having a high old time!