Curtis Stigers in Concert

About

The 2024 Rye International Jazz and Blues Festival proudly present an incredibly special evening concert with the highly acclaimed American Jazz singer, saxophonist and composer Curtis Stigers, as part of the 2024 festival programme!

For the past thirty years, the singer, songwriter, saxophonist, and guitarist has been making records that confound those who try to categorize his music or put him in a box.

Curtis Stigers has had several top ten hits as a long-haired, blue-eyed soul singer and he has written and sung an Emmy nominated TV theme song. He's recorded a track for one of the biggest-selling pop albums of all time and he's released nine critically acclaimed award-winning jazz albums. Curtis has played for presidents and princes, and he has appeared in two Seth MacFarlane movies about a foul-mouthed cuddly bear called Ted. He's recorded thirteen studio albums and a live album singing Sinatra songs with a big band from Denmark. He's toured with symphony orchestras, written songs with Carole King and duetted with Al Green, Shawn Colvin, and Tom Jones.

His most instantly recognisable mainstream hits have included I Wonder Why, Your All That Matters to Me and Never Saw a Miracle back in the 1990's.

The latest Curtis Stigers album, This Life (February 2022), is a self-produced look back at 30 years of songs, albums, and concerts, featuring newly crafted versions of some of the biggest and best songs from his long, successful career.