The Kings Cross Vintage Band

Vintage Band In London

The Kings Cross Vintage Band

The Kings Cross Vintage Band have been running for several years, performing regularly at private and corporate functions at venues such as Kensington Palace Orangerie, Foundling Museum, Mondrian Hotel, Fulham Palace, Garrick Club and more.

The style is vintage jazz, gypsy swing mixed with Latin rhythms and classic filmscore melodies.

A curious collective comprising some of the most indefatigable musicians in London, we seek to bring live music back to it’s raw essence, playing every song as though it were our last.

Their style is a veritable cacophony of Manouche swing, Parisian musette, criminally forgotten pre-war melodies, Tango, Colombian Cumbia, Fellini soundtracks and even some self written compositions.

The instrumentation ranges from a trio to 7-piece, including the following instruments: female vocals, clarinet, violin, guitars, accordion/piano, double bass/tuba, latin percussion.

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Cultural Origins of Latin Jazz begin with Cuba, New York City in particular, the States and Brazil.

Following rhythms and styles of Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music, blended with percussion, giving a balanced fusion of European and African sound.

Latin Jazz was a result of a long process of nteraction between American and Cuban music styles intertwined together to form 20th Century New Orleans’ early Jazz, that had a distinctive syncopated (accents transitioned to weaker beats) rhythmic character.

The city’s well renowned pianist and composer at the time, Jelly Roll Morton, referred to the Latin influence on Jazz as a “Spanish Tinge”.

The Cuban Habanera Rhythm was very quickly adopted by American Musicians (a syncopated four beat pattern) and could be heard in many of their compositions; especially the popular 1914’s St Louis Blues by W. C. Handy.

Sounds of American Jazz eventually spread through to the Caribbean simultaneously as Latin American melodies and dance rhythms made their way to North America Regions.

Across the entire region, both musicians and bands became more versed with the musical languages, where larger bands soon expanded their own repertoire into congas and rumbas, two types of Afro-Cuban dance music.

Drummers of Afro-Cuban style music played a fundamental role in developing Latin Jazz from the late 1940s through to the 1960s, as it gave the genre its visibly inexhaustible stream of rhythmic patterns, phrasings, and styles all through the means of percussion.

As time progressed, by the early 21st century,Latin Jazz gained popularity and critical acclaim as well as became one of the most dynamic and diverse components of the Jazz World.