The Jazzville Quintet with Raquel Alvaro and Alec Robinson

The Jazzville Quintet play the York Theatre Royal on Saturday 24 October, with the set starting at 20:00. It's a York-based jazz combo, so they're playing on home turf, and they've brought in Portuguese jazz singer Raquel Alvaro to front the night.

Alvaro is a Leeds Conservatoire graduate, and her background stretches across classical, Fado, and jazz, so she's comfortable moving between them. The set itself draws from the Great American Songbook, and they've pulled from a few different corners of it: Latin favourites, swing classics, and haunting jazz ballads. It's a broad enough range that you'll likely recognise a good chunk of the repertoire, even if you don't know the specific titles.

The gig is part of The Old Paint Shop season, which changes the Studio into a cabaret club for the run. That means unreserved seating, so you'll just take whatever's free when you arrive. It's in the Studio rather than the main house, which keeps things closer to the stage.

So, The Jazzville Quintet with Raquel Alvaro at the York Theatre Royal Studio, Saturday 24 October, 20:00.