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Interview with Marcus Anderson


Marcus Anderson is in town again.  Over the past eighteen months we've seen him here with Prince, collaborating with Lianne La Havas on a live cover version of Lost & Found at some legendary shows at Kokos in Camden and performing at the iconic Ronnie Scotts in Soho on a version of Purple Rain with a sax solo in place of that famous guitar solo!


More recently he was here with Liv Warfield on her Not Giving Up Tour, which by all accounts really blew people away that were lucky enough to be there.


This time Marcus is back in Soho at one of the Capital's best jazz clubs which is celebrating its 50th year in 2015, The Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho.  He will be playing four shows this weekend, filling the early and late slots for both Friday and Saturday evening.

Marcus took some time out to talk to us about Penny Loafers, musical vibrations, Prince's Vault, singers singing like sax players and sax players playing like singers...


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Tickets for this weekend's shows can be found in the links below

Friday Early Show
http://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/jazzBook.aspx…
Friday Late Show
http://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/jazzBook.aspx…
Saturday Early Show
http://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/jazzBook.aspx…
Saturday Late Show
http://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/jazzBook.aspx…

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