Cathi Cook - Trombone and Vocals; Gray Smith - Keyboards, flute and soprano sax; Andy Faulkner - Guitar; Mike Payne- Bass;
Jeff Willett - Drums
With guest appearances by Derek Edmond - Drums and Ben Chappel - Sax
Influences
Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Curtis Fuller, Albert Mangelsdorff, Raoul de Souza, Dennis Rollins, Annie Whitehead, Charlie Hunter, Joshua Redman, Pat Metheny, Martin Taylor, Antonio Forcione, all those lovely lads in the Welsh Jazz Scene .... and more....!
Sounds Like
Ourselves - all tracks on this player are our own material.
CCQ - the Cathi Cook Quintet comprises Key Boards/Flute, Bass & Drums rhythm section plus Jazz Guitar and Trombone/Vocals/Soprano sax front line.
The band's material is drawn from a variety of influences - Hard Bop, Smooth, Out, Blues, Latin and Funk, and comprises both original material composed & arranged by the band and standards from the modern jazz repertoire (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Roland Kirk and the usual "evergreen standards"). This large repertoire contains sufficient diversity to accommodate a wide variety of audiences and venues.
CCQ - despite being uncompromising in their musical direction & objectives have an appeal that goes beyond the "hard nosed" jazz audience. Thus CCQ are a popular choice, not only for the specialist audience, but also for the more sophisticated function or corporate "do".
For more information on the band, availability & costs, or to order a CD of our original material, please phone Graham Smith on +(44) 78 40 20 30 62 or email graytheflutesmith@yahoo.co.uk.
Oh no! Were you there too!? We were on at the George on Saturday afternoon, it was very busy there! Hope you had a good time if you came all the way there! That's quite a drive from Milton Keynes!
Hi Cathi, thanks for the comment. Yes things are going pretty well - I should have my first album ready before long. It's all very exciting, if slow-moving!!
I dunno yet,Theres always so many on the go Cath,been working on Woodys first album a lot recently,have to get you to play on some more stuff soon. Up north doing a few shows with Snake right now,staying in Harrogate in between gigs . see you soon... Edx
Hi Cathy, how's it going up there in MK? Hope you're busy with your 'bone! We are looking at getting back together a jump jive band we had running in the 90's, you could have joined in on that too! I'm still looking for girls for the lil' big band, but have to consider letting fellas in on it now, there's simply not enough jazzer ladies in Wales!
Hi Cathi Happy new year to you and the family. Hope your busy and gigging loads It bloody cold ain't it - I feel so moody I could..........ooops! Woody
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