Lunchtime Jazz: Joe Webb

The startlingly accomplished young pianist Joe Webb kicks off our lunchtime jazz series in style.

Webb is a leading force on the UK contemporary jazz scene and rapidly garnering an international reputation. He assimilates the early ‘stride’ piano stylings of Jelly Roll Morton and James P Johnson with a Tatum-esque technique, filtering these attributes through a highly attuned modern sensibility. Jamie Callum says, “there are few people more joyous to listen to at the piano than Joe Webb,” so it’s worth taking note.

“He can swing and is melodic and he lets the ideas unfold without the arbitrary stuff”- Brad Mehldau