An orchestra and all that jazz
Last week, the jazz singer was battling a chest infection. “I was built to sing, physiologically, but the fatigue hasn’t helped the challenge of fighting this virus,” he says. “I’ll cope.”
The Dublin show will be special — he performs with his band, and with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. “I wasn’t going to have my band with me for the Dublin concert, just my collaborator, Laurence Hobgood [pianist], but John McClean [guitarist] was coming home on a ‘father and son’ visit to Ireland, so I invited him to join us. Then, the bass player, Clark Summers, said he’d like to come, too.”
