Description
Joe Stilgoe and the Entertainers, the new powerhouse jazz supergroup, have put together a record like no other; a purelove letter to jazz clubs around the world, and the people who frequent them.
Titans of the UK jazz scene, singer and pianist Joe Stilgoe and clarinettist Giacomo Smith have come together to formThe Entertainers, which features members of Kansas Smitty's House Band, Joe's own band, and guest vocalists EmmaSmith and Pete Horsfall. Each song on 'Welcome To The Club' tells a different tale and presents a different character from jazz clubs the worldover - the music is about membership, acceptance, a shared love of something vital, quixotic rules and regulations, theminutiae of 'everynight life', and importantly, the world of entertainment.
Joe explains: "Giacomo and I started writing this album during the first lockdown. His beautiful jazz club, KansasSmitty's, had been closed. All music venues had, but we weren't to know then that this would be a permanent full stopfor the place. We swapped stories about the people who came to the club, and to the clubs we'd both played in aroundthe world. We realised that the characters you might see in Ronnie Scott's or Birdland in New York or Blue Note Tokyoare the same... the roles always repeated even though the cast changes."
