PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)

Queen Mab explores the female side of jazz through the character of Mab, a fairy referred to in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, where "she is the fairies' midwife, who helps sleepers 'give birth' to their dreams. Campus compares Mab to the Mediterranean myths of the ‘Dea Madre’ (Goddess Mather) and the Janas (Sardinian legendary fairies) linking her Mediterranean roots to contemporary jazz with an electronic twist. Original music by Lodder and Philips, lyrics by Campus.

"So this is really what jazz can ALSO be; it can be about poetry, about singing it, performing it, it is about creation. An absolutely inventive show."

Jazz in Europe

After a world tour and dates including Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Italy and the London Jazz Festival, the Filomena Campus Quartet is back to PizzaExpress where jazz vocalist and theatre director Campus organised the renown international Theatralia Jazz Festival (former My Jazz Islands festival) for three consecutive years. Following the acclaimed album Jester of Jazz, the Quartet presents their new project 'Queen Mab', that will be recorded in 2018, and that includes original tunes with new music and arrangements by long time collaborators Steve Lodder and Dudley Phillips and lyrics by Campus.

Band Lineup

Filomena Campus (vocals and effects)

Steve Lodder (piano/keyboards)

Dudley Phillips (bass/double bass)

Rod Youngs (drums)