RED DESERT MUSIC PRESENTS
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Great gig at Docker Brewery on Sunday for the #sundayservicejazzclub and lovely hang afterwards at Tpsfolkestone with Nicola Palmer who works so hard to generate this fab #jazzevent https://youtu.be/GwmPGaReT1M?feature=sharedBig Thanks 💛
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IS WAS GREAT TO BE PART OF THIS SERIES OF JAZZ EVENTS IN BERMONDSEY SQUARE SE1 : SUNDAY AUGUST 3rd – 2-5pmNot least because I was working, once more with the brilliant Christian Vaughan and an array of London’s young jazz talent https://youtube.com/shorts/Vm8TjJjnp2M?si=AJbAs0rYfyb6snDX HANKS to Stephen Pierre for inviting me to perform at one of the… Read More »BERMONDSEY SQUARE JAZZ – AUGUST 2025
A fantastic gig at The Clarence Jazz Club Malaga with a fabulous trio of Malaga based Jazz musicians Juanlu Garcia on piano Fernando Toyos on double bass Sergio Diaz Muñoz on drumshttps://youtu.be/CPyMbI0R4vQ?feature=shared
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In March 2025 I started rehearsing “A Night Out” by Harold Pinter with my good friend and Drama Centre trained actor Adam Clifford I did alot of theatre and television acting through the 90’s and early 2000’s and it was great to start exercising these skills again
It was great to be on the Robert Elms Show BBC Radio London, talking about Jazz at the Red House Here I am with legendary jazz drummer Teddy Pope JAZZ AT THE RED HOUSE 13 Upton Avenue. E7 9PNJANUARY 29TH – 8PMI Love this clubhouse jazz gig ❤A #jazznight that has been going for a… Read More »JAZZ AT THE RED HOUSE – FEBRUARY 2025
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A great review here of our Duncan Lamont Songbook gig at Jazz Cafe Posk https://ukjazznews.com/the-duncan-lamont-songbook/
A brilliant last night, at the 606 Club on the 23rd A lovely musical happening with a glittering array of top jazzarati performing An absolute pleasure to be pictured here with Simon Wallace Paul Carmichael & James EdmundsAn amazing duo set from @jasonrebelloofficial & @timgarlandmuse and of course the hardest working musicians of the night… Read More »606 CHRISTMAS PARTY 2024
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SEPTEMBER 2024 Started a course in Jazz Harmony & Ear Training at Morley College LondonNeed a bit of geek and study time and to refresh my knowledge of jazz and music theory knowledge 🤓I did all this back in the late 90s at City Lit and still have all the notes I made but….need the… Read More »JAZZ STUDIES AT MORLEY COLLEGE
Finally revised and completed the Biography fir this website and I’m really pleased with how it has been added to and presented by the maker of the website – Dario Di Lecce I love how the photograph of my mother and father has been used as the banner pic for the full bio.Where it all starts… Read More »WEB-SITE BIOGRAPHY
Anyone who cut their jazz gigging teeth during the mid 90s to 2000s will have this wonderful jazz musician and beautiful human to thank.Being one of the bookers for the small Pizza Express restaurants all over London and Kent that had live jazz back then, he provided work for many of us.I got to know… Read More »R.I.P DAVE SILK
Framing Mother’s Poetry A poem that I put to the music of Didier Messidoro for my album #homeiswheretheheartis produced by and featuring Terence Collie and available at Bandcamp https://estherbennett.bandcamp.com/album/home-is-where-the-art-isThe edelweiss was a pressed flower that my mother had kept as it had belonged to her mother which I felt, needed to come out if it’s… Read More »FRAMING MOTHER’S POETRY
THIS WAS A VERY SPECIAL GIG ONSUNDAY JULY 7thAt Riverside Arts Sunbury for Mood Indigo Events Celebrating the life and music of DUNCAN LAMONTWe cannot believe it is 5 years since we lost you and it was more than a pleasure to join Duncan Lamont Jnr. Janet McCunn Terence Collie Richard Sadler & Paul Cavacuiti… Read More »CELEBRATING DUNCAN LAMONT
On June 27th, it was an honour to have been invited to take part in this event, curated by Diana Torti & Women in Jazz Media for Anita Wardell 💗At the lovely #northlondon venue – Karamel. London N22
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#scrapbooking I’ve really enjoyed doing this.It was suggested to me by one of the good folk at The Jazz Centre UK after handing me one of the posters that had been distributed around Southend promoting our recent #duncanlamontsongbook gig there, that I should make a #scrapbook Most of our advertising and promotion is online now… Read More »SCRAPBOOK
MAY EVENTS
Soff Music presents Esther Bennett at The Birdcage Stoke-Newington
I shall once again, be accompanied by two of our very finest jazz musicians – Benjamin Croft and Nick Lenner-Webster
MAY 19th 12.30pm I presented my vocalstage at The Villiers Arms for Watford Jazz Junction and The Watford Jazz Festival My special guest vocalists were the multi award winning vocalist and lyricist Georgia Mancio and Birmingham based world class jazz, blues and reggae vocalist Roy Forbes We were very lucky to be accompanied by two… Read More »VOCAL.STAGE AT WATFORD JAZZ FESTIVAL
Such a huge thankyou to Mark Gordon Bob Walker & Tom Townsend for their great musicianship and for all they do, along with @adrianriley and team at The Cask Inn to run and promote Scarborough Jazz I had an absolutely brilliant night!And thank you to John Anderson for the lovely photos! 🧡
Great night at Speakeasy Jazz at Clarence House on Friday April 19th and thank you to the wonderful hosts for the photographs and kind words ‘What a fun and uplifting time we had last Friday listening to the dulcet tones of Esther Bennett alongside the awe-inspiring Craig Milverton Trio. Esther didn’t disappoint and performed in… Read More »THE SPEAKEASY JAZZ CLUB
Lovely afternoon on Saturday March 16th at The Jazz Centre UK with these guys and #theduncanlamontsongbook Duncan Lamont Jnr. Terence Collie Richard Sadler and special guest Janet McCunnHuge thankyou to all of the wonderful volunteers at the centre 😎👌🏽❤
Cracking gig at Corner Pocket Jazz & Blues Club on March 12thThese guys were just great Keenan Ngo Wayne Matthews Aaron Moloney A big thank you to Steve who books the jazz and runs the night here at The Westwood Club Doing a great thing 😎💛
St Ives Jazz Club March 5th 2024Band photos by Tony Brown With Thomas Quirke Pete Truin Music Ross Williams and Damian Rodd A brilliant time in #stivescornwall @stives_cornwall Great gig and great hospitality. Thank you for looking after me so well 💛
Absolutely loved being in the studio in February with the brilliant #broadcaster and fellow Brummie Nina M Das Gupta, talking about my #spokenword track #mybirmingham