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The Leon Garner Quartet is a London-based jazz group performing music of the 1940's and 50's great American songbook.

About

Fronted by singer Leon Garner the band regularly perform at sell-out venues across London and Europe, delivering shows which fuse time-honored hard-swinging bop with modern harmony and groove. House band at The Ned the quartet is in high demand throughout London's most prestigious establishments, most notably The Savoy, The Ritz, Annabelle's Mayfair, The Ivy Club, The Haymarket, Blake's, and Soho House. They also have an annual winter-season residency at Badrutt's Palace, Switzerland. The band also arrange, write, and perform their own material drawing from Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Bobby Darin, Sinatra, Tony Bennet to more modern influences such as Bill Charlap, Uri Caine, Paul Motian, Scott Colley, Christian McBride, and Jonathan Kresiberg.

Reviews

Bill Gardiner, Olivier Awards: 'Mr. Garner makes no bones about his devotion to Tony Bennett, whom he once met as a teenager at Ronnie Scotts, and I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that Mr. Bennett would be delighted by Leon and his young friends on stage at the Crazy Coqs last night”.

Richard James, Savile Row, GQ Fashion Designer of the Year: 'Wonderful musicians, playing sensational music. Fabulous!”