Friday 10 January 2025
REMEMBERING DUNCAN LAMONT
WITH DUNCAN LAMONT JR, ESTHER BENNETT AND DANIELA CLYNES!
This very special show features two of the London jazz scene's highly respected jazz vocalists, Esther Bennett and Daniela Clynes and Duncan Lamont Jnr who will be celebrating the legacy of his illustrious father’s song writing career.
The project will be exploring the surprisingly vast songbook of Duncan Lamont, often described as the new Cole Porter whose songs have been recorded by Natalie Cole, George Shearing, Mark Murphy and Cleo Laine amongst many others.
Blossom Dearie in a New York Times interview mentioned Duncan Lamont as one of her favourite songwriters and one of his most treasured possessions was a letter from Fred Astaire saying how much he liked Duncan’s song “Fred Astaire"!
As a saxophonist, Duncan Played with almost everyone in show business (often as a featured soloist) with Henry Mancini, Benny Goodman, Nelson Riddle, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bing Crosby, Count Basie, Fred Astaire, Paul McCartney…the list is endless.
In other accolades, Duncan gained great commercial success for writing the theme tune and incidental music for the children's television series "Mr Benn".
Line up:
Duncan Lamont Jnr – saxophone and flute
Esther Bennett – vocal
Daniela Clynes – vocal
John Crawford – piano
Richard Sadler – double bass
Paul Cavaciuti – drums
Video 1 (“Manhattan in the Rain”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prY6h-KSaeY
Video 2 (“There Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Blues”): https://youtu.be/LvyslZ_XPkM?si=6sslgxcWxLmm5Sds
Video 3 (“I Told You So”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZxmcoqQXQ
