| Performance Notes | This new project premiered at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho, The show features Sarah and her band on stage on a trip through Bessie Smith's cannon of classic songs chronicling a life of gin-soaked bar room brawls, renegade lovers and bawdy nights of Harlem vaudeville. 'Gillespie's realism, passionate energy, wry wit and insight into the personal and social challenges Smith faced in the 1920s and 30s make her an appropriate torch-bearer for the legendary singer's legacy'. John Fordham - The Guardian |