The Sam Every (little) Big Band Christmas Special

Doors 6.30pm | Performance 8pm | Event Calendar CLICK HERE The Soul Mama Menu offers a delightful blend of African, Caribbean, and South American cuisine. Soul Mama was listed in the ?top restaurants to look forward to in 2024 list? by the Evening Standard. Please take a moment to explore our menu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Sam Every (little) Big Band Christmas Special Looking for some smooth, yuletide jazzy goodness this festive season? Then come and join Sam Every and his big band, making their Soul Mama debut, for a Christmas big band special. Featuring fresh new big band takes on all of your favourite christmas tunes. Songs made famous by Frank Sinatra,?Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Bubl? and more, given a fresh new take by one of the most exciting young big band ensembles in the UK. Perfect for having a pre-Christmas boogie, this is a night of festivities not to be missed!? ?Channeling echoes of Quincy Jones; Everys? songs sound like forgotten classics re-discoveredfor a new generation.? -AndrewRogers,BBCRadio1 ?[Every] Offers a quality of writing, performance and production far beyond his years. Genuinelyoriginal writing with clever lyrics andfine rhythm section playing. Forget the next generation ? thisis the music of now!? -Malcolm Edmonstone,Internationally renowned Arrangerand Orchestrator The Sam Every Big Band is one of the most exciting young big bands performing in the UK today. After making their London club debut in 2019, they have obtained a 100% sell-out record at all of their Jazz club performances, making serious waves in the UK jazz industry. They are regular performers at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho, and have performed multiple sell-out shows at the world-famous Ronnie Scott?s Jazz Club in London?s Soho. They are a projects-based band, performing a variety of unique sets, entirely compiled of original arrangements for the band, featuring acclaimed UK singers. So far they have worked with the award-winning Emma Smith, Iain Mackenzie, Katie Birtill, Freddie Benedict and many more. The band also regularly appear on the festival scene, most notably frequently headlining the Twinwood Music Festival, in Bedfordshire. In 2025, the band embarked on their 2nd UK tour, as repeat recipients of Arts Council England funding. Performing new reimaginings of everything from Guilty Pleasures to TV Themes, the band performed at some iconic UK venues like Eastside Jazz Club (Birmingham) and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (Liverpool). The band are also regular performers at the EFG London Jazz Festival; opening the festival for Pizza Express Jazz Club in 2023 with UK singing starlet Emma Smith before most recently headlining two houses at Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club for the festival in 2024. Outside of live performing, during the 2020 lockdown, the band remotely recorded a 5-track Christmas EP, named ?Christmas Is Here.? A mixture of original songs and arrangements by band leader Sam Every, the EP was digitally released to critical acclaim. It quickly gained multiple listens across BBC Radio and was used in several Christmas adverts in 2020 and 2021 across ITV, Channel 4, BT Sport and SKY TV.