Talk: Chris Ingham – The Beatles and Me

Saturday 10th October 2026 at 11.00am

Doors open at 10.30am

Tickets: £10 (including a free tea or coffee)

Tickets are available HERE, by phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

The jazz pianist, singer and bandleader and author of ‘Rough Guide to The Beatles’ dips in and out of his book, shares his experiences interviewing Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono and reflects on why the Beatles still matter to him, not to mention the rest of the world.

“Over and above his impish arpeggios, droll introductions and left-handed singing the thing that fascinates me about Mr. Ingham is his erudition” Jazz Journal

Chris Ingham
Rated by the Evening Standard as “one of Britain’s best singer-pianists”, Chris has performed over 300 festival and club performances of his repertoire shows and has released five acclaimed CDs: Hoagy, Hoagy II, Dudley, Stan and recently Walter/Donald, his jazz quintet interpretations of Steely Dan songs. He is musical director of film song group Jazz at the Movies and classic modern jazz sextet Rebop. Chris is also a record producer (Ruthie Henshall, Joanna Eden), author (Rough Guide to The Beatles and Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra) and TV composer (Wartime Crime, How The Beatles Changed The World, Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind). Based in East Anglia, he curates jazz clubs in Diss (The Corn Hall) and Bury St Edmunds (Hunter Club).

This talk will finish at approximately 12 noon.