GOOD REASONS TO BOOK
1. Headline attraction at the Birmingham International Jazz Festival and major box office success - outselling Arturo Sandoval, John McLaughlin, Tower Of Power, Mary Coughlan, Clark Terry’s Newport Jazz Festival On Tour, Martin Taylor’s Spirit Of Django, Michel Petrucciani, Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, Tony Bennett and The Count Basie Band.
2. The Guardian said: “behind the fun and rollicking good times lies an outfit skilled enough to get four horns to come on with the bite and precision of The Count Basie Band." (December 30th 1995).
3. The unique mix of 1940s Kansas City Jazz and Blues is presented with the most exciting stage performance extant. Show-stealing performances of Jazz, Blues and even rock festivals are regular happenings. There are no barriers in the King Pleasure date book.
4. Their first five albums were all big-sellers and are still in demand. The sixth CD, Smack Dab In The Middle, was their biggest and best. Their US tour took in San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Phoenix Washington and culminated with four nights at Dan Aykroyd’s famous House Of Blues in Boston.
5. The band are veterans of more than 2000 live shows, 50 TV appearances in 7 countries and countless rave reviews. They are probably one of the most in-demand jazz/blues attractions in the world, regularly playing some 200 concerts a year.
6. They have their own fiercely loyal fan club - 4,000 members increasing daily. Fifty-six of them chartered an aircraft from Birmingham to see the band at the Cork Jazz Festival.
7. They are bill toppers at jazz festivals in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cork, Oslo, Hannover and Birmingham. They play major festivals in Germany, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Switzerland and Russia. They are the only band to be invited back to headline at Cork for a record 11th time.
8. Blues & Rhythm magazine dubbed them “easily the best Rhythm & Blues Band on the planet!”, Paul Jones of BBC Radio 2 claimed that they are “The hardest act to follow since the parting of the Red Sea”, while Now Dig This referred to them as “The aristocrats of Rhythm & Blues".