TRIBUTE TO OSCAR PETERSON & SONNY STITT: Steinway Artist LENORE RAPHAEL & GLEN MANBY

Name: TRIBUTE TO OSCAR PETERSON & SONNY STITT: Steinway Artist LENORE RAPHAEL & GLEN MANBY
Start: 2025-10-23T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-23T22:00:00+01:00
Location: University of Surrey

Schedule

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

University of Surrey | Guildford, EN

Lenore Raphael is an internationally renowned jazz Pianist, Steinway artist, radio host and jazz teacher and has been critically acclaimed as one of the best pianists in the jazz mainstream today. Critics, jazz hosts and jazz lovers all agree that Lenore is one of the most SWINGING mainstream pianists today. Influenced by Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell and Bill Evans, she has taken these influences and created her own recognizable sound. Featured in top jazz clubs like Dizzy’s at Jazz At Lincoln Center, The Blue Note (NYC), Blues Alley (DC), The Jazz Showcase (Chicago) Ronnie Scott’s (London), and festivals such as The London Jazz Festival, Ottawa International Jazz Festival, and Joy of Jazz in South Africa where she was one of the 3 famed Steinway artists including Ahmad Jamal and Abdullah Ibraham, she is still enjoying touring all over the world
For this exciting performance, New York pianist and Steinway artist Lenore Raphael is joining forces with the popular UK bebop alto saxophonist GLEN MANBY in a tribute to two of their favourite stylists, Oscar Peterson and Sonny Stitt, famously recorded on the 1959 album “Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio”.
After a great first performance together at the Brecon Jazz Festival, Lenore and Glen have kept in regular contact since then and discovered they have a lot of music, musical friends and associates in common, despite their being on opposite sides of the pond, and we are delighted to invite them both to feature for this one-off performance at Guildford Jazz!
With Marianne Windham on bass and Matt Home on drums
This event will take place in the Performing Arts Studio at the University of Surrey, with unreserved seating and a licensed bar available before the event and during the interval.
Tickets £20 (£18 for members, £7 for students/U18s) from www.guildfordjazz.org.uk