| Main Performers | Yvette Norwood-Tiger - vocal |
| Secondary Performers | Gunther Kurmayr - keyboard
Paul Michael - contrabass
Josh Kemp - saxophone
Richard Day - drums |
| Set List | 'Lullaby Of Birdland', George Shearing (Yvette Norwood-Tiger),
'You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To', Cole Porter (Yvette Norwood-Tiger),
'Autumn Leaves', Joseph Kosma (Yvette Norwood-Tiger),
'Song For My Father', Horace Silver (Yvette Norwood-Tiger),
'La Vie En Rose', Louiguy (Yvette Norwood-Tiger),
'Mas Que Nada', Sergio Mendes (Yvette Norwood-Tiger),
INTERVAL - 15 mins 10:25 - 10:40,
'Agua de Beber', Antonio Carlos Jobim (Yvette Norwood-Tiger),
'Summertime', George Gershwin (Yvette Norwood-Tiger),
'Besame Mucho', Consuelo Valezquez (Yvette Norwood-Tiger),
'Green Dolphin Street', Bronislau Kaper (Yvette Norwood-Tiger),
'Don't Get Around Much Anymore', Duke Ellington (Yvette Norwood-Tiger),
ENCORE
'Pata Pata (Touch Touch)', Miriam Makeba (Yvette Norwood-Tiger) |
| Performance Notes | Our intimate Late Night Jazz series presents sensational music in the Royal Albert Halls Elgar Room.
Women and the Hall celebrates the women who were instrumental in the fight for womens suffrage, and provides a platform for the women who are shaping our future, through a season of talks, film screenings and performances.
Let the sultry sounds of vocalist Yvette Norwood-Tiger take you to a place where jazz was the most celebrated American music genre.
Yvette Norwood-Tiger performs all manner of jazz standards from great composers such as Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and the Gershwins. Her vocal styling and texture is often compared to that of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
She also performs songs in languages including French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, and has collaborated with artists such as the Cotton Club All Stars, Tito Puente Jr. and the late, great saxophonist David Fathead Newman. |
| Related Archival Material | Autograph (RAHE/8/1/14) |