Ruby Wood with Rod Mason's "Elements"

Ruby Wood (vocals), Rod Mason (saxes), Richard Hammond (bass) Richard Wetherall (piano) Dave Walsh (drums) 

Great to welcome Rod and his band back to Seven. Always good to hear his mightly saxophone sounds matched by the energy of his regular band - Richard Wetherall on keyboards, Richard Hammond on bass, and Dave Walsh on drums.

"Mason's Elements delivers high quality originals with great aplomb - an explosive mix of music and personality!"

The band features top jazz vocalist Ruby Wood. When Ruby sings people stop and listen. Commenting on BBC Radio 2's 'The Best of Jazz' in November 2006, Humphrey Lyttelton said of Ruby: 'I always sit up in my chair when I hear someone who has an individual quality. I like the way it gives a new slant on a very old song. She is very much singing it in her own way.'

Ruby Wood was born in West Yorkshire in 1986. Her parents love jazz and chose her name from the Thelonius Monk classic Ruby, My Dear, and so she was exposed to a wide variety of different musical styles from an early age. Ruby says, "my interest in music developed much earlier when I took up the steel pan when I was seven. I joined a steel band from Huddersfield called North Stars Steel Orchestra, one of Europe's oldest steel bands. The steel band taught me so much. I learnt and played a variety of different music ranging from traditional West Indian Soca to Classical music and through to Jazz. Playing with the band gave me a great number of opportunities to play, events such as the Trinidad and Notting Hill Carnivals as well as a UK tour with Dennis Rollins, taking in sellouts at the Brecon and Cheltenham Jazz Festivals.'

Ruby graduated from Leeds College of Music in July 2008, winning the national Yamaha/Classic FM jazz scholarship for outstanding musicians that year. Now hrt main projects include writing and performing in a hiphop/jazz band called Extra Curricular, writing and performing with acoustic guitarist Noah Burton, working with Double Bassist Jenni Malloy, and gigging with this band, and with her function band, Dirty Boy Massive. 

To hear her sing, visit her website at www.rubywood.net  

To hear Rod visit http://www.roomdarkener.net/ or catch extracts of his last Seven gig on our YouTube site here

Ruby Wood with Rod Mason's Elements are at Seven on Sunday 1st November 1-4pm

Tickets are £5/4 concessions, kids under 16 free