Jay Rayner Quartet
'Songs of Food and Agony'
Last Show: Saturday 21 st July 2018
PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)
Founded in 2012, the fabulous Jay Rayner Quartet, romps through a repertoire of two halves. In keeping with his international renown as a restaurant critic, Jay tackles songs that deal with food and drink. Alongside that, in a series of brilliant anecdotes, he also reminisces about his childhood growing up with a mother who was a famous agony aunt and sex advice columnist, the late Claire Rayner. Because, as he says, ‘so many blues songs sound like a letter to an agony aunt’. Cue tunes like 'Black Coffee' and 'The Ladies Who Lunch', 'Food Glorious Food' and Leonard Cohen’s 'Dance Me To The End of Love'.