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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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
#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,… 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,… Read More »VOCAL.STAGE AT WATFORD JAZZ FESTIVAL
