SPIRIT OF DJANGO with MARTIN TAYLOR
event day: 24 September 2010
From 7.30pm to
Ayr Town Hall
New Bridge Street
Ayr
KA7 1LX
If you can imagine the ideal soundtrack to driving through the scented country roads of France on a hot lazy summer’s day then it would be the music of Martin Taylor’s Spirit of Django. To mark the 100th Anniversary of the birth of one of the founders of European jazz Django Reinhardt, Martin Taylor has reformed his award winning group Spirit of Django after a 15 year hiatus for the new album, ‘Last Train to Hauteville’.
Martin Taylor first came to prominence in the ’70s through his work with violinist Stephane Grappelli and as such is able to trace his musical lineage back to Django Reinhardt and the original Quintette du Hot Club de France.
In 1994 Martin formed Spirit of Django to re-explore his own Gypsy roots. Their first album reached No.1 in the UK Jazz Charts with their version of Robert Palmer’s ‘Johnny & Mary’ becoming familiar across Europe as the theme for the successful ‘Nicole-Papa’ TV adverts for Renault Clio.
Price: £Unreserved seating £20
Contact .
Citadel Box Office 01292 269793 or www.thebooth.co.uk
