Joanna Eden "The Latin In Me"

Excellent singer-pianist Joanna Eden has been an established performer on the UK jazz circuit for some years now. Starting originally as a jazz singer in the 1990’s, in 2000 she launched her first CD, “A Little Bird Told Me” at Ronnie Scott’s to enthusiastic reviews and significant airplay on BBC and other national radio stations. Through the early 2000’s she started to focus more on her own compositions as well as continuing to perform jazz standards, and in 2005 produced the self-penned album “My Open Eye”, later released on Universal Records. As a result of the critically-acclaimed reception of that album she was offered supports for both Jamie Cullum and the Buena Vista Social Club and her most recent album, “Falling out of Grace” contains more of her excellent originals. Joanna has also found increased exposure of late due to the praise of one of her former vocal students, a certain Sam Smith (yes, that one) who has been active in helping to promote his teacher's excellent work to a larger audience. This evening Joanna will be performing her specially written show "The Latin In Me", a reflection of her love for Latin music of all types, strengthened by her recent work supporting The Buena Vista Social Club and Omara Portuondo at festivals all over the UK. The music this evening is tribute to the great Latin music and musicians of both the past and present coupled with her own, excellent, originals. Helping her put all this together is a terrific lineup of A-team musicians, including Gerry Hunt (UK)-sax/guitar/flute, Andy Lafone (Uruguay)-bass and Carlos Fuentes (Chile)-percussion. Joanna’s gorgeous voice, infectious joy and unbounded enthusiasm ensure that this is a really lovely, feel-good, gig.

“Brilliant” Jamie Cullum; “Eden’s songs have melody, mystery and bite” Mojo Magazine; “Eden writes sharp-witted, well-crafted songs and sings them sweetly and with conviction” Evening Standard