Wed 23 January Sally Doherty Quartet Sally Doherty - vocals Piero Tucci - piano and accordion Colin Elliot - double bass John Perry - drums

Sally Doherty Quartet (also sometimes known as Los Amores) is a latin inspired band fronted by Sally along with Canadian pianist and accordion player Piero Tucci.

She got involved with this project after years of listening to music from Brazil, Cuba and Mexico and after being inspired by such jazz singers as Chet Baker, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday and Brazilian singers João Gilberto, Elis Regina, Maria Creuza, Rosa Passos and Eliane Elias. She approaches Brazilian bossa nova and samba and Cuban and Mexican boleros with the same ease as the ballads and swings that she carefully selects from the American songbook. Her set includes the bossa nova repertoire of Antonio Carlos Jobim and songs by other great writers such as Chico Buarque, Ary Barroso, Consuelo Velázquez, Luis Bonfa, Dennis and Adair, Romburg and Hammerstein and many others. Her singing has been described as ‘intimate and passionate’. She sings the Latin American songs in their original languages of Portuguese and Spanish because, she says, “they sound so much more beautiful”.

"Backed by superb musicians her talent cannot be expressed in simply a few words… blessed with a voice that is supple soft and strong, sensuous and melodic. In short: Sally is one of the brightest talents on the current music scene. ‘Foolish heart’ is a gift for those lovers of good music."—Jazz & Bossa Nova, FM-106, Rio de Janeiro

"Piero Tucci is a jazzer’s dream… unpretentiously skilful"—Sandman magazine

Sally's web-site for more info on the band...