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POSTED: 24 MAY 2010
Vince Jones bound for Double Bay's Cosmopolitan Bar
The newly re-opened Cosmopolitan Café in Sydney’s Double Bay is offering audiences the chance to experience one of Australia’s leading jazz vocalists, Vince Jones, in an intimate dinner and show performance on Friday 4 June.
Vince is a remarkable interpreter and composer of songs in a contemporary jazz style — a style that appeals equally to listeners and his musical peers. As a vocalist he resists showing off technique to the detriment of feel. He’s confident in his musical literacy and sings like there’s nothing to prove. It’s a refreshing approach that gives the audience the chance to be really moved.
Vince also plays trumpet and over the years his style has developed a distinctive reserve and subtlety. A brief, thoughtful solo from Vince is worth a hundred notes played with less discretion.
Through the 1990s Vince Jones and his band found success on the European circuit making an impression on reviewers, audiences and promoters. They played to packed houses in Germany, London, Switzerland, Denmark and the Netherlands including the major festivals — the North Sea, Montreux, Aarhus — and a range of more intimate venues. Similar success has been found in the USA in recent years.
Jones uses his voice as an expressive instrument and the lyric as a vehicle for story and comment — a balance found in the roots of jazz.
Vince Jones will also venture north of Sydney’s Harbour Bridge for a concert at Norths Leagues, Cammeray, on 5 June.
*Based on media release issued by IP Publicity.
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