THE SATURDAY MATINEE
Saturday 2nd March 2024
3:00PM - 6:00PMFREE ENTRY (DONATIONS REQUESTED)
Earl Okin
Earl Okin is a performer and entertainer, a jazz singer and instrumentalist, a songwriter, a satirist, a philosopher, a political commentator, a comedian, a raconteur and a quipster.
He has given concerts around the world in theatres, clubs and festivals, and regularly performs at London’s premier Jazz Club, Ronnie Scott’s. Over his career, he has worked alongside such legends as Adelaide Hall, Benny Carter, Stephane Grappelli, Barney Kessel and Dame Cleo Laine among others.
Review of a live performance in London by The Daily Telegraph
"Earl Okin is Britain's answer to Woody Allen - or as near as the most restrained temperament of these islands allows. Diffident, bespectacled, neat in the English rather than the American high-school sense, constantly aware that the light at the end of the tunnel could be that of an approaching train, he holds the audience in his hand and glances at them sideways as though surprised to find them there.
He sings, plays the guitar, scatters delayed-action throwaway lines about the stage, provides his own trumpet accompaniment by mouth alone and breaks off to give a witty, illustrated account of stride piano...and who else could get an entire audience to join in with their own mouth-made jazz-trumpet riffs?"