Sunday Jazz Lunch | Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall by Rikette Genesis Sunday 08 September 2024 13:00 Boisdale of Belgravia

Lunch reservations from 12pm | Live Music 1-4pm

As an icon­ic Live Music British Restau­rant, we make a Sun­day Roast a much more excit­ing venture! 

End your weekend with friends and fam­i­ly with a scrump­tious 3-course Sunday lunch and a fantastic atmosphere, all accom­pa­nied with Live Jazz.

Cham­pi­oning the Great British roast, Bois­dale selects some of the very finest Scottish beef for the stun­ning cen­tre­piece of the new menu. An 18-hour slow roast dry-aged rib of beef, York­shire pud­ding, goose fat roast pota­toes, her­itage veg­eta­bles, red wine gravy is undoubt­ed­ly some of the high­est qual­i­ty meat avail­able in the capital. 

For those look­ing for an alter­na­tive to the full Sun­day roast offer­ing, lunch dish­es includ­ing the leg­endary Bois­dale Roast Dum­friesshire black­face hag­gis bashed neeps & tat­ties will be on offeror or fish of the day more casu­al lunchtime dining. 

Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall by Rikette Genesis 

This specially-curated tribute to Lady Day was inspired by the legendary 1956 concert at which Billie’s music was accompanied by extracts from her autobiography Lady Sings The Blues.  With a band led by pianist / MD Alex Webb, the outstanding London vocalist Riketté Genesis gives her unique interpretations of the Lady Day catalogue while quoting from her extraodinary life story. 

The show includes many of the most well-known Holiday songs, ranging – as did the Carnegie Hall concert – from the optimism of her 1930s work (What A Little Moonlight Can Do, Fine And Mellow) through her 1940s Torch songs (My Man, I Cover The Waterfront) to her self-penned classics Don’t Explain and Lady Sings The Blues – and many more.

Holiday’s memoir Lady Sings The Blues remains a unique document.  The New York Herald Tribune called it, ‘One of the most candid self-portraits ever painted on a typewriter’, and it retains the power to shock and intrigue more than half a century later.

Riketté Genesis is jazz vocalist specialising in swing era material, who recently released the EP Busy Line highlighting her traditional gypsy jazz and swing influences.  She has performed at some of the leading venues in the UK including the Southbank Centre in London, The Radio Academy Festival, WOW Festival, Wilderness Festival and The Citadel Festival. She also performed recently at one of Nigeria's leading music venues in Lagos for the Satchmo’s Jazz Festival.

Alex Webb is a pianist, arranger and songwriter with a long history of working with leading jazz vocalists; his songs have been recorded by Liane Carroll, China Moses, Jo Harrop, Allan Harris, Cherise, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and many others. He created Cafe Society Swing and co-composed Stormy: The Life of Lena Horne as well as creating many other themed live jazz shows.