Nat Steele brings his vibraphone-led quartet back to The Bear Club for the first time since his hugely successful UK tour with saxophonist Grant Stewart in 2020.
This time, the lineup features the talents of award-winning Canadian pianist Sean Fyfe, young rising star Lorenzo Morabito on double bass, and Mark Taylor on drums—who's been living and playing jazz in New York since the mid-1990s with musicians like George Coleman, Monty Alexander, Benny Green, and Ray Brown.
Nat is an exceptional vibraphonist based in London who has worked with the cream of the crop of today's jazz artists, including Leon Greening, Julian Bliss, Allison Neale, and Sara Dowling.
Nat's debut album, Portrait of the MJQ, was awarded Jazz Album of the Month by BBC Music Magazine and gained a plethora of positive reviews in the jazz press, including four stars in The Observer and Jazzwise Magazine. It even made it into the top ten in the jazz charts in Japan.
In 2019, he was invited by Grammy award-winning pianist, arranger, and composer Alan Broadbent to give the world premiere of a new work celebrating the 25th anniversary of Watermill Jazz. In 2020, just weeks before the pandemic, he completed an 18-date Arts Council-funded tour of the UK with the MJQ band, featuring guest tenor saxophonist Grant Stewart.
Expect swinging bebop, hard-bop, and new arrangements of jazz standards.
“A remarkable young vibraphonist in the Milt Jackson tradition”
“A truly stellar all-round performance: stop-time chords, neat turnarounds, valid interchanges, nimble adjustments – all jazz life was here”
Doors 7pm / Music 8.30pm / Tickets £16 / £10 for members
All seating/tables are first come first served.