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Keyboard Ace Neil Angilley was a celebrated child prodigy musician before studying piano, trumpet and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. He is currently musical director for Vanessa Mae, regularly accompanies Michael Ball, and tours with the Black Smoke Band in Jeff Wayne> '> s > '> War of the Worlds> '> extravaganza. Neil has performed all over the world with Shirley Bassey, Ben E King, Sister Sledge, The Gypsy Kings, Lisa Stansfield and James Galway. He was nominated for a prestigious Grammy Award with British Jazz funk band > '> Down To The Bone> '> , and has written and produced tracks for David Benoit, Richard Ellliot, Snowboy, Julian Marc Stringle, Rachel Calladine, Down To The Bone and Just East of Jazz. At the age of 20 Neil travelled extensively in South America and discovered a vivacious rhythmic style of music that he had never heard before. His passion for Latin American rhythms has never left him and on Good Friday he launches his latest album > '> Havana Club> '> at the Chickenshed. All the tracks on > '> Havana Club> '> are in the Latin Jazz vein with the emphasis on the Latin. It is the infectious sound of music from Brazil, Argentina, Cuba and Uruguay. Accompanying Neil at the Jazz Shed all the way from Toulon in the South of France comes bass ace Nico Gomez > -> and flying in from Rome for the gig will be Italian drum star Davide Giovannini. British percussionist.

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Neil Angilley