Jazz Preview: From the West End to a songbook of standards

Onitiri played Nala in The Lion King for two years, but at Otley Courthouse tonight returns to her love of jazz standards.

Ella Fitzgerald is the inspiration as she dips into the Great American Songbook, accompanied by a quartet.

Meanwhile, at Wakefield Sports Club, bassist Gascoyne will be leading his new group through a programme drawn from popular songs of the past

30 years.

Sebastiaan de Krom is still on drums, Andy Panayi plays tenor, and Jim Mullen is a splendid choice on guitar. Trudy Kerr is the singer on a rewarding trip down memory lane .

Davis, a monarch among soul saxophonists, can be heard three times –

first with his band at The Shed, in Hovingham Village Hall, tomorrow

night, where all tickets have already been sold for what is the venue's 18th birthday party.

Snake and his other group, Burden of Paradise, perform at the Frazer Theatre, in Knaresborough, next Thursday, and the following evening finds them at Cobbles and Clay, in Haworth.

He is joined by two old friends at Leeds College of Music, Dave Bowie (bass) and Mark Creswell (guitar), plus a fine singer, Helen Watson.

Gogo Penguin (where do they get these names from?), at Dean Clough, Halifax, on Thursday, are a new trio formed by the Halifax pianist, Chris Illingworth, Grant Russell, on bass, and Rob Turner on drums.