Isobel Gathercole - Singer
Queertet @ Millenium Centre Cardiff
May 4, 2024
7:00 PM GMT+1
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About this concert
Queertet brings together a collection of London’s finest LGBTQI+ musicians to celebrate everything queer about the world of jazz and musical theatre!
Headed by award winning young saxophonist Tom Smith, Queertet tells the story of the songs of celebrated LGBTQI+ musicians and composers throughout history such as Stephen Sondheim, Ma Rainey, Cole Porter and Billy Strayhorn.
Queertet performed extensively during Pride 2018, touring London and selling out two shows at Ronnie Scott’s with Ian Shaw, Julian Clary and Sharon D. Clarke. They have also performed at venues such as Pizza Express Soho, the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall, and at Clapham Omnibus as part of their LGBTQI+ Festival 96.
“WHETHER PLAYING THE STANDARDS SONGBOOK OR THEIR ACCOMPLISHED ORIGINALS, THE QUEERTET BRING DISCERNING PLAYING, INDIVIDUALITY AND SWINGING GROUP DYNAMICS, WITH GREAT CHARM AND LIKEABLENESS”
LONDON JAZZ NEWS
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Isobel Gathercole - Singer Biography
Isobel is a jazz singer based in London. She trained in jazz vocals at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has been performing at many of London's top jazz venues since arriving on the scene in 2014; including Ronnie Scott's, the Vortex and the Spice of Life. Isobel developed her love of jazz and the Great American songbook at a very young age and started singing seriously at the age of 11. Since then she has had the opportunity to sing with ensembles of all shapes and sizes from her vocal/guitar duo to playing with a full sized studio orchestra in a tribute to the work of Jeremy Lubbock alongside fellow soloists Lianne Carroll, Joe Stilgoe and Tommy Blaize. She has also explored big band singing through her work as a vocalist with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, in addition to small group work with her own quartet. Her debut album, in collaboration with arranger and composer Colin Skinner, is a love letter to the legendary albums of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. It was released on the Trapeze Label and is available for purchase online.
‘She sounds so authentic and stylish but fresh at the same time’ – John Wilson
‘Isobel’s yearning vocal could easily be the theme tune to the next Bond movie.’ – Dave Doyle The Syncopated Times
“Ms Gathercole proves to be a distinctive and confident vocalist, equally adept at a slow ballad or a swinger….She has style, timing and above all, a distinctive voice which is all her own. There are occasional shades of Billie Holiday but that can’t be bad, can it?”
Gerry Stonestreet – In Tune International Magazine.
Read More‘She sounds so authentic and stylish but fresh at the same time’ – John Wilson
‘Isobel’s yearning vocal could easily be the theme tune to the next Bond movie.’ – Dave Doyle The Syncopated Times
“Ms Gathercole proves to be a distinctive and confident vocalist, equally adept at a slow ballad or a swinger….She has style, timing and above all, a distinctive voice which is all her own. There are occasional shades of Billie Holiday but that can’t be bad, can it?”
Gerry Stonestreet – In Tune International Magazine.
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Cool Jazz
Straight-ahead Jazz
Big Band
Blues
Great American Songbook
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Orchestral Jazz
Retro Swing
Bossa Nova
Great American Standards & Jazz
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