Ray Gelato

Ray Gelato is probably the UK's foremost exponent of swinging good-time jazz who's been good enough to perform privately for Paul McCartney and the Queen! Following in the footsteps of Louis Prima, Louis Armstrong and Cole Porter, Gelato has been getting audiences jumpin' and jivin' since he picked up the saxophone in the late '70s.

Tenor sax player and winner of the 'Rising Star' in the BBC Jazz Awards 2007 and winner of the British Jazz Award for Tenor Saxophone 2011. Simon - dubbed 'the new Tubby Hayes' - has worked with the likes of alan Barnes, Tina May, Liane Carroll, Danny Moss, Bobby Wellins, Jim Mullen, Alan SKidmore, Allan Ganley, the BBC Big Band, Tommy Whittle and many more.