TJ Johnson Trio: ‘Salute to the Jazz Singing Piano Players’

In this one-off concert, The TJ Johnson Trio will be performing a selection of tunes by his favourite Jazz, Blues, and Rhythm & Blues Singing Piano players such as Ray Charles, Fats Waller, Nat King Cole, Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino. TJ will take you on a trail from the Smokey Jazz dives of New Orleans through the foot-tapping Honky Tonks of Texas to the Gin-soaked Speakeasies of New York.

TJ Johnson is widely considered to be one of the UK’s most charismatic and highly revered jazz and blues singers and seems to find a magic way to weave his own nuance into the story of each song as if they had all been written especially for him.

A hot piano player and respected bandleader, TJ Sprang onto the Jazz scene in the late 80s as a Jazz singer with Max Collie at the age of 17 and, since forming his own band in 1990, has performed extensively for over thirty years now at many Theatres, Festivals and Jazz clubs both in the UK and overseas.

TJ Johnson – Piano / Voc
Tim Fairhall – Double Bass
Wesley Gibbens – Snare / Rhythm / Percussion

“TJ Johnson is a great entertainer, swinging piano player and soulful jazz and blues singer. We’re so lucky to have him on the UK Jazz Scene”– Jazz Guide.

“TJ Johnson and his band are one of the most swinging on the scene”– Just Jazz Magazine.

“Best Blues Singer”– Jools Holland.

“Music is my life, and in my life, I have only heard a handful of voices that Rank with the Greatest, and TJ Johnson is one of them”–
Ranald MacDonald – Boisdale.