| February 12, 2027 | |
| 6:00 pm | |
| London | |
| Pizza Express Jazz Club |
The Long Way Here launches live on Friday 12 February 2027 at PizzaExpress Jazz Club in Soho.
It is Dan Forshaw’s fifteenth album as a leader and his first album of ballads. Over lunch in 2016, Branford Marsalis told him not to record one until he was over forty. He waited ten years.
This is the only night to hear the album with the voice that is on it. Becca Wilkins sings the record’s one vocal track and joins the quartet for the launch alone. Every other date on the tour is instrumental.
Ballads are the heart of the set, not the whole of it. Songs from the album, including Dan’s own Ti Amo and John Coltrane’s Central Park West, sit alongside tunes from the band’s live repertoire.
The quartet: Lewis James on piano and Guy Dempsey on bass, both Royal Academy of Music graduates, with Lewis Kentaro Isaacs on drums. All three are former students of Dan’s.
Friday 12 February 2027 | PizzaExpress Jazz Club, 10 Dean Street, London W1D 3RW