Bedazzled with the Dudley Moore Trio: A Spectacular Evening of Comedy, Film, and Toe-Tappin’ Jazz

Bedazzled A Celebration, Main Auditorium, Hebden Bridge Picture House Saturday 25 May 2024, 15:00 — ends at 22:00

£15/£10 All shows inclusive

Local arts group, Music Street, present ‘Bedazzled’, a one off special event celebrating the comedy of Pete ‘n Dud, coupled with the pizazz and toe tappin’ jazz of Dudley Moore.

The Dudley Moore Trio Live In Melbourne 1978 3.30pm

The Dudley Moore Trio goes down under in a newly discovered ‘previously lost’ feature length concert from 1978. Featuring Pete Morgan on bass and Chris Karan on drums.

“My ideal of jazz is a very heavy beat going on, with very relaxed, melodic work on top. Which makes the beat both heavy and light at the same time. It seems to sort of froth over. When you get that kind of combination of tremendous heaviness and tremendous lightness, I think you get real swing. Stomping-but not in the sense that it’s just banging your foot through the floorboards. It’s a sort of incredible floating feeling that one gets”. — Dudley Moore

Bedazzled (1967) 5.30pm

See Peter (Cook) on screen and even (Moore) Dudley in a comic retelling of the Faust legend. Set in swinging sixties London, George Spiggott, the Devil (Peter Cook) offers the frustrated young Stanley Moon (Dudley Moore) seven wishes in return for his soul. As Stanley pursues the girl of his dreams; his beloved Margaret Spencer; waitress (Eleanor Bron) the devil makes his screams come true.

Wittily written by Peter Cook with an intoxicating jazz score from Dudley Moore, this 60’s cult classic directed by Stanley Donen will have you thoroughly Bedazzled!

The Chris Ingham Quartet — The Jazz Of Dudley Moore 7.45pm

The event then builds to a rousing crescendo as we welcome the Chris Ingham Quartet for a scintillating live performance of the jazz of Dudley Moore.

“Chris Ingham is a force of nature. He has contributed immensely to UK jazz in celebrating the music and legacies of countless jazz greats.” — London Jazz News

“As for Dudley, it’s simply that he is an undervalued British musician whose work in the 1960s, as a player and composer, was essentially whitewashed from history as his fame in other areas grew. Our Dudley album and live shows are heartfelt efforts to help address this historical imbalance. I was reading Alan Bennett’s Diaries and he remarked, in his entry soon after Dud passed in 2002, at how little had been said about his prowess as a musician. Everyone who was lucky enough to encounter it first-hand was dazzled.” — Chris Ingham

“Swing, humour and poignancy…a jazz joy” **** MOJO

“Unfailingly tuneful and spiced with gentle harmonic guile…Dudley would have been delighted” **** OBSERVER

“Classy product . . . with plenty of the right kind of swing.” — Jazz Journal

Tickets are available to buy at Hebden Bridge Picture House.