Enjoy Yourself with Jessie Gordon
In a FRINGE WORLD premiere, Jessie Gordon and her fabulous jazz band are taking the Ellington by storm with a collection of riotous, ridiculous, rapturous swing songs and an exhortation for you to ENJOY YOURSELF.
Featuring fearless swing tunes from the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, Slim and Slam, Dinah Washington and Louis Armstrong, the band will be providing a glorious soundtrack to Jessie’s lilting vocals.
Jessie is joined by Michael Perkins on drums, Nick Abbey on double bass, and Harry Mitchell on grand piano.
"sparkling and vivacious" ★★★★½ Talia Hart, Out in Perth 2020
"mind-blowing performance of amazing talent" ★★★★★ Amanda Lancaster, Fourth Wall, 2018
Presented by: Jessie Gordon
Jessie Gordon is a very sun-shy Perth red-headed singer and songwriter who brings her love of old world roots music into the 21st Century. She has toured Australia, America, South East Asia, Germany, France, Spain, Poland and the UK. She is also a 20 time Fringe World Music and Cabaret Award winner. Her original music is a combination of soulful blues, harmonic gospel and joyful swinging country.
She has also recorded nine albums, including two with Mark Turner (Best Friends 2019 and Live at Kidogo 2021), an original album (A Work of Friction 2018), two intercontinental albums entitled Berlin Nights (2017) and Unknowable Journey (2020) with Berlin band Ginger Blues, the latter of which won the German Blues Award for 2020, and most recently the eponymous Sassafras (2021).