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LOST IN DREAMS
LOST IN DREAMS

The new album by

ANDREA VICARI

with
EMMA RAWICZ - saxes
DORIAN LOCKETT - bass
NIC FRANCE - drums
ANDREA VICARI - pianos

original compositions and arrangements © 2024 andrea vicari

Recorded 17-18/06 2024 at The Premises Recording & Rehearsal Studios. 209 Hackney Road, London. E2 8JL. Engineer and Producer : Neil Goody, Co-Producers : Andrea Vicari, Dorian Lockett Design : Gabrielle Lockett

EMMA RAWICZ INTERVIEW
PODCAST EDIT NOW AVAILABLE



FEBRUARY CONCERTS 2025


Friday February 14th

Andrea Vicari Band

Featuring Mark Lockheart - sax
Oliver’s Jazz Bar, 9 Nevada St, Greenwich SE10 9JL

olivers
 
Tuesday February 18th

ANDREA VICARI TRIO

Tuesday February 18th
3 Horseshoes Pub, Severnoaks, Kent
 

Sunday February 9th, 1pm

Andrea Vicari Band

Featuring Mark Lockheart - sax
The Oval Tavern
131 Oval Road, Croydon, CR0 6BR

 

LIONESSES 110 %

The Women's Football Musical

by Andrea Vicari


21st October 2024, Upstairs at The Gatehouse, Highgate, London







ANDREA VICARI BAND
featuring MORNINGTON LOCKETT

Sunday June 30th 3pm


Maltings

Buy tickets at Jazz-At-Southern-Maltings

JOEY ALEXANDER INTERVIEW
PODCAST EDIT NOW AVAILABLE



Sunday October 22nd
Andrea Vicari Band
Featuring Emma Rawicz
City Wine Bar, Rochester
120 High St, Rochester ME1 1JT, UK
 

Thursday 19th January 9pm

Andrea Vicari Quartet featuring Paola Vera
Oliver’s Jazz Bar, 9 Nevada St, Greenwich SE10 9JL

linktr.ee/andreavicarijazz

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Saturday 19th November 9pm

Andrea Vicari Quartet featuring Mornington Lockett

with special guest Ben Vize (sax) + Eric Ford and Dorian Lockett

Oliver’s Jazz Bar, 9 Nevada St, Greenwich SE10 9JL

- sort of part of the London jazz festival.
linktr.ee/andreavicarijazz

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James Pearson Interview

Andrea Vicari interviewed pianist and Ronnie Scott supremo James Pearson ahead of his Dudley Moore and Burt Bacharach tribute performances at the wonderful https://musicatmalling.com/ festival this coming weekend. You can listen to the interview at these times


Andrea Vicari's Jazz Ambassadors
@ Ipswich Jazz Festival, 4pm, July 2nd



w/Andrea vicari(piano) Emma Rawicz (sax) Amy Baldwin @amyb_bass (bass) Chiara Spigariol (drums) Celebrating women in jazz & female jazz composers from an all female group

https://www.ipswichjazzfestival.org.uk/global/#jazz
Concert on the main stage by The Jazz Ambassadors

Paola Vera


This Week's concert

Chris Hodgkins' Band Triple Album Launch. Thursday May 12th 8pm
Not with my band but with all these great musicians listed below led by Chris Hodgkins.

Pizza Express Jazz Club (Soho)
Chris is launching three albums the 'Salute To Humphrey Lyttelton' recorded after last Novembers 17 date UK tour, the Chris Hodgkins International Quartet album 'Festooned with Trumpets' and the Vic Parker, Chris Hodgkins, Jed Williams album recorded live at the Quebec Hotel, Cardiff in January/ February 1976. The band for the launch is: Chris Hodgkins, Henry Lowther, Nick Smart (trumpets) Alison Rayner (double bass), Buster Birch (drums), Charlotte Glasson (baritone sax/clarinet/penny whistle), Alex Clarke (tenor sax/clarinet), Diane McLoughlin (alto sax/soprano sax), Mark Bassey (trombone). With special guests Andrea Vicari on piano and guitarist Phil Robson.




This Week's concert





ClF


Learn

Someday My Prince Will Come


New Lessons available at https://en.tipeee.com/andreavicari
and https://www.youtube.com/channel/andreavicari




Andrea Vicari's Jazz Ambassadors at Southampton Jazz Club


Emma Rawicz | Tenor Sax solo on "Just Had To Tell Somebody"
by Dorothy Ashby arranged by Andrea Vicari











Andrea Vicari / Yazz Ahmed at The Hive, REVIEW


https://www.thejazzmann.com



Gwilym Simcock interview now on YouTube




Recently I interviewed virtuoso pianist and composer Gwilym Simcock to discuss his career to date, Metheny hook-up and whether we've all been watching too much football in lockdown (sub or dep?); on my Jazz London Radio show "JazzDoodles". Now available to listen again on YouTube https://www.jazzlondonradio.com/jlr-interview-series-gwilym-simcock-april-2021 Andrea Vicari’s Jazz Doodles 15.00-16.30 Tuesdays 15.00-16.30 Thursdays 15.30-17.00 Saturdays http://jazzlondonradio.com
Learn

Cantaloupe Island


New Lessons available at https://en.tipeee.com/andreavicari
and https://www.youtube.com/channel/andreavicari



Cantaloupe Island was written by Herbie Hancock the jazz pianist and I'm going to be referring to the 1964 recording from the album Empyrean Isles. This features both Herbie Hancock and Freddie Hubbard. There are six lessons on Cantaloupe Island. I go from playing the tune, to introducing you to the form, various scales for improvising, and then in Lesson Six I analyze Herbie Hancock's solo and Freddie Hubbard's solo and give you some ideas about how you can go forward with having transcribed those particular solos, and how you can incorporate them into your practice. After that there are three bonus lessons which are designed for pianists and basically I'm going to show you how to play the groove and also how to vary it.

Lessons - play-alongs - sheet music - worksheets - transcriptions
TIPEEE
for videos in sequence:
www.jazzsnippets.com

JazzSnippets.com


We are pleased to announce that we now have a new website where we are steadily uploading the lessons Andrea has recorded so far in an (hopefully) easy to access format http://www.jazzsnippets.com
By using the menus at the top (or side if you are on a mobile) you should be able to follow the lessons in order for each subject and check back to the "snippets" for an easy reference guide. 
Expand to full screen on a tablet to use on your music stand. Pause, play and wind the snippets using the control buttons or use the controls on the YouTube videos.  Have fun and tell us what you think.

snippets
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Jazz Piano Day January 23rd


Andrea Vicari and Pete Churchill (along with Simon Purcell and Liam Noble) are part of this Jazz Piano Online Extravaganza this Saturday - check it out if you want a unique chance to learn with four top UK jazz educators.
Sign up here
https://www.theonlineukjazzcourse.com/pianodaydetails

Andrea Vicari's, support lessons snippets and more here https://en.tipeee.com/andreavicari
Support AndreaVicari on Tipeee
Learn

St Thomas


New Lessons available at https://en.tipeee.com/andreavicari and https://www.youtube.com/channel/andreavicari


JAZZ SNIPPETS


40 available now - more to come - subscribe to my YouTube channel for updates. If you're unfamiliar with YouTube playlists this first video shows you how to navigate quickly to the information you need. Something missing ? Ask us to record a new Snippet if what you want to learn is not yet there. https://www.youtube.com/channel/andreavicari


Support AndreaVicari on Tipeee
LEARN

HONEYSUCKLE ROSE & SCRAPPLE FROM THE APPLE

Two jazz classics with very different styles but written on very similar chord changes

We've been busy since the summer creating Jazz Snippets and more recently consolidating last season's tutorials into single pages so you can more easily find the lessons in order. We're also linking the lessons to appropriate support lessons - often the aforementioned "Snippets" so you can rapidly check any musical terms you are unfamiliar with. This is also to make room on the front page of en.tipeee.com/andreavicari for the next series of lessons based on a comparison of the jazz standard "Honeysuckle Rose" with the Charlie Parker Be-Bop classic "Scrapple From The Apple" based on the same chords - with a full speed "Stride Piano" tutorial included just for fun.


Support AndreaVicari on Tipeee



Suffolk Jazz School Zoom Workshop

Caravan with Andrea Vicari. 7pm - 8.30pm. Wednesday 9th September. £10. Join acclaimed pianist and jazz educator Andrea Vicari for this online workshop on Zoom as she delves into that great jazz classic "Caravan". Plus support lessons on Tipeee coming soon https://en.tipeee.com/andreavicari



To apply, send an email to neil@neilbateman.co.uk stating which instrument you play and which workshop(s) you want to do and also send your payment of £10 to their account: Suffolk Jazz School Ltd. Starling Bank, Sort Code 60-83-71. Account no: 40427688. Please give your name as a reference and say which workshops(s) you are applying for. You can also pay by PayPal, please Neil me know if you wish to do so.

MONTY-VIDEO presents COLD DUCK TIME (Confit de Canard)

To celebrate the fact that we are still standing and keen to go ahead with this year's Dordogne jazz summer school I present on behalf of Telly "ElTel" Knight and all the Monty regulars this splendid socially distanced, lockdown downtown funker - the course signature tune back in the day.



As part of the programme "The Jamming Book" is making a comeback. An off-the-peg jamming repertoire for the socially distanced jazz musician containing parts in C, Bb, Eb, and Bass all in one book. Copies available at this year's Dordogne Jazz Summer School or online in .pdf format at https://en.tipeee.com/andreavicari with a complete set of live-trio playalongs.



Jamming Book lessons on TIPEEE


Latest lessons on the all-time favourite standard 'Autumn Leaves' following on from the Blues module containing with multipart lessons on C-Jam, Sonnymoon for Two and Billie's Bounce; and standard "Fly Me to the Moon". Also available lessons on MODES; FUNCTIONAL HARMONY: LYDIAN SCHMIDIAN etc. get prepped for Monty !



Support AndreaVicari on Tipeee




@The Crypt, Camberwell, Friday 20th September




@Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham, Saturday February 22nd




peggyspanorama

Tuesday Feb 4 8.30 Andrea Vicari Trio + Jam

Oliver’s Jazz Club, 9 Nevada Street, Greenwich, SE10 9JL




@theotherpalace, Saturday February 1st 2020


The Other Palace, 12 Palace Street, SW1E 5JA London



Jazz London Radio presents the Jazz London Radio All Stars; a special band put together to showcase the Presenters who are top musicians on the jazz scene. Andrea Vicari: piano, Deirdre Cartwright: guitar, Emily Saunders: vocals, Dorian Lockett: bass and Sophie Alloway: drums.

@The Crypt, Camberwell, Friday 20th September




@Teignmouth Jazz Festival, Saturday 19th October 2019



Stunning performance by @AVicari_Jazz Ex Tempore at brilliant @teignmouthjazz festival @YazzAhmed1 @alba_nacinovich#RosaBrunello @dhamblett @susakpress @PavilionsTQ14 @Teignbridge @visitsouthdevon pic.twitter.com/B2x8CKm4BK

— Peter Marsh (@PeterMarsh307) October 19, 2019


@Teignmouth Jazz Festival, Saturday 19th October



MARSDEN JAZZ FESTIVAL






Great photo set from our sellout gig @JazzliveSE5|The Crypt on Friday. Thanks to photographer Daniel Devlin @susakpress http://danieldevlinphotography.com

njext_group

@The Crypt, Camberwell, Friday 20th September








NJE

@www.scarboroughjazzfestival.co.uk, Sunday 22nd September


Scarborough jazz festival






Northern Trio Tour



Northern Trio Tour




https://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com/2019/05/metered-magic-andrea-vicari-trio-lit.html

Northern Trio Tour


LitandPhil

Lit&Phil

Northern Trio Tour

Northern Trio Tour

lithil

Live at Ipswich Jazz Festival


The Deppa Hirst Band has performed at Marlborough; Greenwich and Swanage Jazz Festivals. The music is a mixture of Claude and Clare's eclectic compositions with influences from Township Jive to Brazilian Samba and Jamaican Reggae. Completing the lineup is pianist; composer and broadcaster Andrea Vicari and multibassist Dorian Lockett, here on electric bass and Brian Abrahams on drums. This album was recorded live at Ipswich Jazz festival.

But now from BANDCAMP

Claude Deppa

The Austerity Playbook

A new musical by Mark O'Thomas - music by Andrea Vicari - directed by Andre Pink

Watch the full performance from Hoxton Hall





New Jazz Ex-Temporé
international jazz ensemble at www.scarboroughjazzfestival.co.uk

 


NJE

www.scarboroughjazzfestival.co.uk


THE AUSTERITY PLAYBOOK at HOXTON HALL



REVIEW BY JAZZWISE

http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/breaking-news/15170-jazz-meets-theatrical-protest-with-the-austerity-playbook Austerity playbook review








THE AUSTERITY PLAYBOOK at HOXTON HALL


Friday 18 January 2019 8pm

The satirical jazz musical by Andrea Vicari and Mark O'Thomas
Directed by Andre Pink for the Dende Collective



New Jazz Ex-Temporé
international jazz ensemble
Some of Europe’s best female jazz artists playing original jazz music with electronics

Andrea Vicari - piano/keyboards : Yazz Ahmed - trumpet/electronics
Rosa Brunello - double bass : Alba Nacinovich - vocals/electronics

Following on from the 2018 Jazz Extempore project in Croatia the band will be touring the UK in September 2019. 

Currently booked for Scarborough Jazz Festival

MORE INFO



To book this band, or Andrea's other ensembles email:-



JONATHAN KREISBERG INTERVIEW

Andrea interviewed New York based guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg before his sell-out gig at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho. Guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg has been steadily building his name as one of the most compelling composer/performers in Jazz.  Combining timeless melodicism with forward thinking lines and textures, His style and approach has created a strong following of fans around the world.  He frequently tours worldwide and records with his own groups as well artists such as Dr. Lonnie Smith, who says of Kreisberg "He is a passionate musician with great vision, and he is constantly in fiery pursuit of innovation." Kreisberg

Twenty-first-century woman song






Twenty-first-century Woman


21c2

Twenty-first-century Woman


Andrea is recording a charity single for International Women's Day with Joanna Forbes L'Estrange at the world famous Abbey Road Studios today (Thursday 22 November)

http://www.joannaforbeslestrange.com/twenty-first-century-woman-song

Abbey Road Session

Teignmouth Jazz Festival 2018


Andrea Vicari created a special arrangement for the Devon Youth Jazz Orchestra played in a gala concert opening the Teignmouth Jazz Festival 2018.




Twenty-first-century Woman


Andrea will be recording a charity single for International Women's Day with Joanna Forbes L'Estrange at the world famous Abbey Road Studios this week

http://www.joannaforbeslestrange.com/twenty-first-century-woman-song

“Twenty-first-century woman is a gospel-style song for women’s voices and band, inspired by Oprah Winfrey’s famous 2018 Golden Globes acceptance speech. It will be recorded at Abbey Road Studios on 22nd November 2018 by stars of London’s West End scene, singers from Hollywood film soundtracks and an all-female band of top London session musicians. The recording of #twentyfirstcenturywomansong will be directed by the song’s composer, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, and released on Friday, 8 March 2019, International Women’s Day. All proceeds from downloads of the track will go to CARE International to support women and girls around the world. Find us on social media at #twentyfirstcenturywomansong "

21C

Jazz Liburnia JazzExtemporé project 2018








Jonathan Kreisberg Interview

This Week (November 6th) Andrea interviews USA guitar virtuoso Jonathan Kreisberg on Andrea Vicari's JazzDoodles show on Jazz London Radio Tuedays/Thurdays 3pm Saturday 3.30pm http://www.jazzlondonradio.com


Jazz Liburnia JazzExtemporé project 2018

Andrea Vicari reunites with Yazz Ahmed for this year's Jazz Ex-Tempore project November 10-15th in Croatia



http://www.liburniajazz.hr/

National Youth Jazz Orchestra


Richard Butler MBE, Performing Arts Subject Leader at UVHS, said the workshop was once in a lifetime. “It was brilliant for the students because most of them have not experienced anything like this before , to get a workshop with top professionals and an artist like Andrea Vicari is amazing"

Read the article here
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/16977806.national-youth-jazz-orchestra-visits-uvhs/

nwmail

National Youth Jazz Orchestra


Andrea is running some outreach workshops for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.


pizza

Jazz London Radio All Stars

Jazz London Radio believes in playing quality music 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  The Presenters share that passion and they bring that mentality to the station on a daily basis. They are significant figures on the jazz scene, either in jazz administration or as important composers who have released great records over the years.  The Presenters will get together for a night of top class jazz, performing their best compositions for the delight of the Pizza Express Jazz Club.

Andrea Vicari (piano), Dorian Lockett (bass), Sophie Alloway (drums) + Chris Hodgkins + Emily Saunders + Kevin Davy +Deirdre Cartwright + Todd Gordon PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho) OCTOBER 3RD

Full details and booking at: Pizza Express booking

PETER ERSKINE INTERVIEW

Andrea Vicari interviewed internationally renowned US drum star Peter Erskine who enjoyed 'RockStar" fame as part of legendary band "Weather Report" in the 1970s before a long an illustrious career alongside musicians such as Joni Mitchell, John Taylor, Eliane Elias, Steps Ahead, Steely Dan, Diana Krall, Kenny Wheeler, Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Brecker Brothers, The Yellowjackets, Pat Metheny and Gary Burton, John Scofield etc. He appears on 700 albums and film scores, and has won two Grammy Awards, plus an Honorary Doctorate from the Berklee School of Music (1992). Erskine Interview

100tradesPoster
 Andrea will be performing at the Birmingham JazzLegends Festival on Saturday May 12th with Yazz AhmedLegends

CHINA 2017

3rd Maritime Silk Road Art Festival
SILK
Elvis Staniç Group

Quanzhou, China 3rd Maritime Silk Road Art Festival
Elvis Stanic - guitar, Andrea Vicari - piano, Tonci Grabusic- drums; Damjan Grbac - bass

Andrea Vicari will be travelling to Quanzhou in China to perform at major concert halls in the Silk Road festival as part of the Elvis Stanic group. Andrea has had a long-term collaboration with the Croatian guitar through their participation in the 'JazzExtempore'project.

East and West" .. demonstrates their apparently never-ending scope for harmonic creativity and highly-focused improvisation"
The Musician Magazine

Jazz Ex-Temporé “An important and enjoyable contribution to the new, emergent European jazz - full of confidence and creativity.” Dave Gelly - Observer Jazz Critic

"fabulous, fluid playing by all with Andrea’s sweet, choral vocal tone gelling the irregular bar lengths into a melodic melange." London Jazz News



The Austerity Playbook

A new musical by Mark O'Thomas
music by Andrea Vicari
directed by André Pink



Austerity
Northern Stage, Barras Bridge,
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1 7RH
http://www.northernstage.co.uk/
With the kind support of the Economic and Social Research Council, Newcastle University and Durham University
Dende Collective in association with Mark O’Thomas and Andrea Vicari


EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL

JazzLondonRadio Allstars November 16th
Jazz live @The Crypt, St Giles Church, Camberwell Church Street, London, SE5, Camberwell
http://www.jazzlive.co.uk/
Trumpeters Chris Hodgkins and Kevin Davy, guitarist Deirdrie Cartwright, vocalist Emily Saunders and pianist Andrea Vicari with Dorian Lockett and Nic France

Ronnie Scott's
INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL

August 21st
Andrea will be performing on August 21st 2017 at the world famous Ronnie scott's jazz club in Soho, London as part on the annual international piano festival alongside such global greats as Peter Beets (Holland), Tord Gustavsen (Norway)


A-RHYTHM-A-TIK
A-Rhythm-A-Tik

The new book of original piano pieces by
ANDREA VICARI

available to buy from lulu publishing www.lulu.com/spotlight/AndreaVicari

A-Rhythm-A-Tik is a collection of 27 original pieces in a variety of styles, levels and keys and is suitable for teenagers and adult learners. The music includes improvisation over simple harmonic structures and the level is from grades 3-6 (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music).
There are contemporary pieces influenced by jazz, classical , popular, TV themes and light music. Much of the music has a strong rhythmic element and identities such as swing, funk and latin. Many of the improvisations focus on groove rather than complex harmony. The arrangements are flexible and the performer can choose whether to include the improvisation or not. Rigid observing of the notated music is not necessary and again pianists may deviate from the written material as long as much of the important elements of the composition are in place. The music comes with a series of online lessons by the composer herself. LESSONS

New Recording : THE HOUSE

The House
Andrea has recorded an album of original songs and arrangements with UK based Austrailian singer Trudy Kerr - "The House" on Jazzizit records. Trudy Kerr's latest album features four original songs co-written by Andrea and Trudy; and one Vicari vocal composition; alongside Trudy's reworkings and arrangements of classic standards and lyrics set to jazz instrumental pieces.





JazzLondonRadio

RADIO JLR
ANDREA VICARI presents JAZZ DOODLES
on Jazz London Radio Tuesdays & Thursdays 3pm ; Saturdays 4pm (UK time)
http://www.jazzlondonradio.com/

London's Internet Jazz Radio Station

Andrea recently began a career as a broadcaster and journalist with a weekly show on JazzLondonradio.com including interviews with international jazz greats like pianist John Taylor, drummer Bill Stewart, Larry Goldings, Hiromi, Marc Copland, John Abercrombie and harmonica star Antonio Serrano. http://www.jazzlondonradio.com

Podcasts of her interviews can be heard here http://www.jazzlondonradio.com/category/podcast

Shows air Tuesday and Thursday at 3pm and Saturday at 3.30pm



South Africa 2016

*Andrea Vicari was appointed to the judging panel of the 2016 University of South Africa Jazz Piano competition which ran from 26 January to 06 February 2016 Unisa Muckleneuk Campus, Pretoria, South Africa.

UNISA


AV

"a sharp post-bop piano
improviser and prolific composer - breathtakingly eclectic"
The Guardian


"..never-ending scope for harmonic creativity and highly-focused improvisation"
The Musician Magazine

"a considerable compositional and bandleading talent".
The Times

"irresistibly catchy"
The Observer


"distinctive and original compositions & consistently fine piano playin..she's something special"
BBC Radio 2


"Who else in jazz raises frivolity to this level of the sublime?"
Mike Butler | Metro


"one of the most brilliant jazz musicians in the UK - an outstanding pianist and superbly fertile composer" 
Penguin Rough Guide to Jazz


"frenetic, orgasmic, mindblowing"
BeBop Spoken Here

"..stimulating original compositions.. Vicari .... delivered a dazzling solo that was variously reminiscent of both Joe Zawinul and Django Bates.
The Jazz Mann