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Earl Okin
Jazz Singer
(2 Reviews)
Also Performs As: Comedy Singer
Country: United Kingdom
Based In: North Kensington, London
Performs: Worldwide
From: £500
Country: United Kingdom
Based In: North Kensington, London
Performs: Worldwide
From: £500
One of UK's top Jazz and Bossa Nova cabaret concert artistes, experienced worldwide. No background music gigs. Seeking theatres, arts centres, festivals, TV, radio. (Also management and recording contracts). I've worked alongside Paul McCartney, Stephane Grappelly etc.
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Description
I've performed for decades literally around the world. I'm not like anyone else. I'm one of the UK's top Jazz and Bossa Nova singers but also a headline act on the comedy circuit. My one man concerts therefore I call Jazz Cabaret. Songs from the Great American and Brazilian Songbooks, together with one or two of my own songs and with some of my own type of sophisticated humour. No background music gigs. Listening audiences only.
Reviews (2 Reviews)
Earl Okin - Jazz Singer - North Kensington, London
Event Location: Brewery Jazz Club, Rye.
Event Type: Jazz Festival
4th September 2021
How does one categorise Earl Okin? It’s a hard task, perhaps impossible. He is a performer and entertainer, a singer and instrumentalist, a songwriter, a satirist, a philosopher, a political commentator, a comedian, a fount of knowledge,
a raconteur and quipster, a thought-provoker and perhaps the last wearer of spats in the country.
Earl Okin returned to the Rye Jazz and Blues Festival last Saturday, August 28 and delighted a packed Brewery Yard Club in Rye with a magical programme of songs linked by a commentary of dead-pan and self-deprecatory brilliance.
He and remade My Way for all pianists (“I want a Steinway”).
He altered our perceptions of “One for my baby” by singing it from the barman’s point of view and in the barman’s voice and reminded us of the genius of Hoagy Carmichael and Duke Ellington. Many of Earl Okin’s song performances are greatly enhanced by his skill with accents and especially by his ability to become a jazz trumpet of beguiling charm and swe
Earl Okin - Jazz Singer - North Kensington, London
Event Location: Los Angeles
Event Type: Concert
8th August 2010
WEST HOLLYWOOD CONCERT, LOS ANGELES
"You are quite a genius you are - you have managed to find a niche in Cabaret I have never seen nor heard before - you are simply brilliant. Hard to categorize.
One must see you in person to "get you" - even though your musicianship is fantastic!!!
BUDDY BREGMAN.
(Legendary producer/arranger of the Ella Fitzgerald 'Songbook' series.
Experience
I've recorded at Abbey Road, toured with Paul McCarney, performed alongside Jazz greats such as Benny Carter, Stephane Grappelly etc. I've performed at all the major venues in London and on TV in the UK, Australia, Brazil etc.
Previous Clients
I've performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Wembley Arena, the London Palladium, Ronnie Scott's and have given private cabaret performances for the royal family of Sweden. I've performed for the BBC, ABC in Australia etc. and major festivals such as the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, the Cork International Jazz Festival, the Roskilde Festival etc.
Suitable for
Awards Ceremony Charity / Fundraising Event Concerts / Tours Conference / Meeting Corporate Event Cruise Ships Festival / Outdoor Event Nightclub Event Private Party Session Work Trade Show / Exhibitions
Meet the Act
I began in the 1960s, signed to the same publisher as the Beatles. During that time, I learned audience skills performing in Folk Clubs. I first performed in New York back in 1968, and got to know the Duke Ellington family. I collect 78rpm records, especially opera singers such as Caruso. Among my friends have been such Jazz legends as Benny Carter, Milt Hinton, Adelaide Hall and Tommy Flanagan. I know all the TV comedians in the UK. I usually saw their first gigs. A documentary film was made about me about 5 years ago.
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