Salena Jones
	Salena`s December concert showcased the album with a seventeen piece stringed ensemble, including her jazz quintet - at the Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall in their “Cool Yule” series.   Early 2000 saw Salena starring at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Idaho, backed by the Hank Jones` Quartet including such current luminaries as Russell Malone, Lewis Nash, and also featuring Roy Hargrove, Dianne Reeves and Freddie Cole.  On this USA trip Salena also appeared with her own trio for the first time at New York`s world famous Blue Note Jazz Club - when she became the first European-based artist to have appeared at all the Asian and the American Blue Note Clubs. One of her four sell-out shows was broadcast on the world wide web and also filmed for Japanese television.  In March Salena made her three week return appearance at London`s Pizza on the Park, and she starred at the Peterborough Jazz Festival with the BBC Big Band. Salena`s association with the Band now goes back some twenty-five years and their famous leader, Mr Barry Forgie, has written many arrangements specifically for her.
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