Man performs at jazz club show and people are gobsmacked after seeing who it is
Jazz club attendees were left stunned when a music icon made an unexpected appearance on stage for a spontaneous set. The legendary performer stunned guests at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club with his surprise turn, leaving those present absolutely delighted.
Jamaican-American jazz pianist Monty Alexander had been entertaining the crowd when an unscheduled special guest made his entrance. The mystery performer had been in the vicinity ahead of a packed show at London's Hyde Park. The more personal setting and unexpected gig has since taken social media by storm, with a TikTok clip documenting the astonishing moment.
Those who missed out have expressed their jealousy of the lucky audience members who witnessed the impromptu show. The shock appearance sent the crowd wild, as none other than Stevie Wonder stepped onto the stage.
Simon Walker's TikTok post reads: "Imagine just sitting enjoying the already talented Monty Alexander but then your favourite legend of all time pops in with his harmonica!"
Wonder, who graced Hyde Park just weeks following his stint at the London jazz venue, captivated the audience with his harmonica prowess.
One fortunate witness to the performance commented: "When I saw this I nearly collapsed."
Another remarked: "That's insane! I don't know what I was expecting you to cut to but I was not expecting Stevie." A third fan confessed: "I'd think I was hallucinating."
Fans were equally thrilled by Wonder's incredible vocal performance. One admirer gushed about the legendary artist, posting: "I didn't know harmonica could sound this good."
Another fan enthused: "Mate, what an unbelievable privilege, to see them jam, Stevie Wonder is a GOAT, love him, he is fab, bet you had the best night."
Alexander subsequently uploaded the performance footage to his Facebook page on June 24, captioning it: "You never know who's going to swing by when Monty is in town!"
Wonder, who headlined Hyde Park on July 12, thrilled audiences with his unexpected visit.
He would go on to deliver an epic 30-song repertoire at the London venue just weeks following his impromptu session with Alexander. The complete setlist from his Hyde Park gig is listed below.
The extensive performance received rave reviews from concert-goers, with Wonder also taking to the stage at Manchester's Co-Op Live Arena.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Sun
a minute ago
- The Sun
Hollyoaks star Nikki Sanderson strips off to a bikini in Mallorca after quitting C4 soap
HOLLYOAKS star Nikki Sanderson stripped off to a bikini in Mallorca, after quitting the C4 soap. The actress, 41, is enjoying a luxury holiday and has been thrilling fans with her pool selfies. 4 4 4 In the new photo, Nikki looked like she has barely aged a day since shooting to fame on rival soap Coronation Street in the late '90s, as sassy Candice Stowe. Now best known for her former role of Maxine Minniver in Hollyoaks, the soap star showed off her enviable figure as she lounged by the pool on her Spanish holiday. Nikki showed off her toned body in a cute pink striped bikini. In a second, equally stunning, photo, she had changed into an orange two piece, which showed off her toned tum. Nikki wrote next to the pics: "Same spot, different bikini." The much-loved star's fans rushed to compliment her on her look, with one saying: "You look gorgeous. lovely pictures. Hope you are having a lovely day." Another added: "Just so beautiful." NEW CHAPTER Nikki is living life to the full and enjoying her free time after quitting Hollyoaks after 12 years. The Sun revealed in February that the actress was leaving the Channel 4 soap. Inside soap couple Nikki Sanderson and Anthony Quinn's romantic holiday in Mallorca Having debuted in 2012, her character Maxine featured in some major storylines, including domestic violence and miscarrying a baby. Maxine departed the village in a taxi, after making plans to escape the country alongside her daughter Minnie. Speaking to The Liverpool Echo at the time, Nikki shared: "It's the weirdest feeling because it's an end of an era. "It's exciting but also really sad. It's hard to describe how I'm feeling about it. "It's going to be very different and I'm kind of getting used to it I guess. It's a different normal for me now." Insiders previously revealed that Nikki had decided to move on to give herself more freedom to try other roles. A source told The Sun: 'She met with bosses and told them of her plans to leave, she'd just turned 40 and felt the time was right to say goodbye to Maxine. 'She's keen to explore other opportunities and is excited to get back out there." 4 CORRIE RETURN? Fans have speculated Nikki could reprise her Coronation Street role as Candice Stowe. She portrayed Sarah Platt's best friend in 400 episodes from 1999 to 2005. Speaking to OK! about a possible cobbles return, Nikki said:: 'I love Candice and I love Coronation Street, so I'd never close myself to anything if they did want me back in the future, that's the exciting thing about doing what I do. "You just never know what might happen next." From Hollyoaks to Hollywood James Corden played a caretaker in the early days of the soap. The former American TV host doesn't have much positive to say about his time on the soap, claiming it was "hell on earth." Since his short-lived time on the show he has gone on to bigger things including smash hit comedy Gavin and Stacey. Rachel Shenton joined the soap as aspiring glamour model Mitzeee Minniver in 2010. Over two years her character was sent to prison, got pregnant and had a number of romantic affairs. Since leaving Hollyoaks she has won an Oscar for best live action short film, The Silent Child. Rachel has also starred in White Gold and All Creatures Great and Small Emmett J. Scanlan played gangster turned anti-hero Brendan Brady. Emmett played the love interest of Steve Hayes, with their romance delighting fans until it turned violent. Since his departure Emmett has appeared in Peaky Blinders, The Fall, Gangs of London and even appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy Emma Rigby joined Hollyoaks when she was 15 as Hannah Ahsworth. Hannah's eating disorder storyline was the first of it's kind on TV while other plots included being caught in a fire, gangland drug dealing and running away. Since leaving the soap in 2010 Emma has gone on to star in ABCs Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as the Red Queen. Other roles include guest appearances in Death In Paradise, Ripper Street and Fresh Meat Nico Mirallegro got his big break with Hollyoaks starring as emo Barry 'Newt' Newton. Nico's main storyline in the soap was developing schizophrenia which culminated in a suicide pact. He left the soap in 2010 and went on to star in My Mad Fat Diary, Our Girl, Rillington Place, The Ark and Common, Penance, as well as the Mike Leigh movie Peterloo and was nominated for a Bafta for his role in period drama The Village. Ricky Whittle used Hollyoaks as a stepping stone to break America. He played one of the soap's resident hunks, Calvin Valentine, from 2006 to 2011 - when he was killed off at his wedding. After leaving the soap Ricky cracked America starring in teen drama The 100 and America Gods. He also appeared in Strictly Come Dancing in 2009. Warren Brown joined Hollyoaks in 2005 for a year as evil Andy Holt. His stint on the show consisted of date rape storylines and a crime spree, before eventually being killed off. After leaving Hollyoaks, Warren became a big hitter in TV playing DS Justin Ripley in Luther, as well as major roles in a number of dramas including Liar, The Responder, Homefront and Good Cop. Wallis Day played Holly Cunningham in the soap for years before leaving. In 2021 Wallis won the role of Batwoman in DC's series, taking over from Ruby Rose.
Daily Record
2 hours ago
- Daily Record
American sparks debate after calling popular Scottish waterpark ‘creepy and abandoned'
A TikToker shared old photos of the Time Capsule's dinosaurs in a video that drew over 2,000 comments A TikToker known for exploring spooky attractions around the world has baffled Scottish viewers after claiming the Time Capsule in Coatbridge is a 'creepy abandoned waterpark.' US-based content creator @whyjordie, who describes herself as the 'submechanophobia queen' and specialises in animatronics and ocean-themed fears, recently shared a video featuring old photos of the Lanarkshire waterpark. The clip, which has drawn more than 2,000 comments, focuses on the dinosaurs that once roamed the attraction in the 1990s, Glasgow Live reports. The video is titled: 'This indoor water park that is now abandoned; at one point had a T-Rex statue in the pool, very submechanophobia coded and the fact that it's abandoned now is horrifying.' In the short voiceover, she speculates: 'Just knowing this waterpark is still there but abandoned, probably completely closed off to the public, in the complete darkness, possibly still with water in it – who knows? With this giant T-Rex in it. Also why does it have like the B-word in its mouth? The red stuff. 'Imagine going down this little slide and just being in front of this T-Rex in water? Why would they do this?!' For many Scots, the images immediately evoked memories of the dinosaurs that made the Time Capsule famous when it first opened in the early 1990s. While locals often admitted the T-Rex slide, complete with its blood-red mouth, was unsettling, the idea that the attraction now lies abandoned has been met with bemusement. TikTok users in Scotland were quick to defend the leisure centre in the comments. One wrote: 'The Time Capsule is abandoned? Since when? Last night when it closed?' Another added: 'Never in my life did I expect to see an American on my fyp talking about Time Capsule.' Not everyone disagreed with the American TikToker's eerie interpretation, however. One commenter admitted: 'This what started my submechanophobia, I went when I was about 3/4 and lasted about 5 mins in the water.' While the dinosaurs disappeared more than a decade ago, the Time Capsule is far from abandoned. In fact, it has just reopened following a significant refurbishment programme. The popular family attraction closed earlier this year to allow for essential upgrade work, which has now been completed. Improvements include new pumps and blowers for the waterfalls and river rapids, along with more than a mile of new wiring to modernise the electrical systems. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. Visitors can now also enjoy colour-changing underwater LED lights, designed to enhance the atmosphere of the pools. Safety and comfort have been prioritised with the installation of soft rubber flooring at Splashdown Island and Coral Cove. Repairs have also been made to the river rapids and tiles throughout the complex, while the shower facilities have been upgraded to provide a fresher experience for guests. Not every feature is back in use just yet. The much-loved tipping bucket and the yellow flume remain closed while further developments take place. However, the purple flume is ready and open to the public.
Spectator
2 hours ago
- Spectator
Lisa Nandy, Nigel Farage and a tale of two silly political shirts
Two shirts were in the news at the weekend, both worn by politicians. In the light blue corner, we had Nigel Farage launching his personally branded football strip top – in Reform colours, with the name Farage and the number 10, a bargain at £39.99 (£99.99 if you want it signed by the man himself). In the red corner, meanwhile, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy attended Wigan Pride – one of the never-ending LGBTQ+ moveable feast days that populate the calendar on either side of the holy Pride month itself – wearing the official t-shirt of the event, emblazoned with a 'trans rights' slogan. Farage's football top has gone down very well with the people it was intended to go down very well with, selling 5,000 units in its first day on sale. And it put ants in the pantaloons of Reform's detractors – another intended outcome, one suspects – who spent Sunday on the socials spluttering about how this was the acceptable face of the hard right, etc etc. Some sniff a whiff of burnt horsehair whenever Farage appears. This derangement, strangely, increases whenever he does something naff, like launching personalised schmutter. It's much the same syndrome as when Boris Johnson's slapdash demeanour was vaunted, often by the very same detractors, as the lid on a pot of simmering evil. People on the right aren't allowed the leeway of just being corny or erratic. The Reform FC shirt provided a tiny morsel of levity, which in these doomy times is much needed. A friend of mine has many of the same misgivings about Reform that I have, but thinks that while we wait we might as well vote for what is, undoubtedly, the campest of the political parties. You'd think Wigan Pride, festooned with the glitter and bunting that decorate all things LGBTQ+, might be a rival for the camp crown, but – as ever with such events – the sparkle was dimmed by shadows of contention, in this case Nandy's 'Protect The Dolls' t-shirt. This slogan, for those of you who are unaware, is an American rallying cry to extol the 'rights' of men who claim to be women to vault over the barriers placed around all other men. The 'dolls' in question are those chaps who make a better fist of convincing anybody that they might actually be ladies. (The ones who don't are known as 'bricks'.) So to sum up, this is the Culture Secretary taking a position aligning herself with the extreme fringes of a deeply unpopular campaign that her own administration is now trying, somewhat cackhandedly of course, to back away from. You may remember how Nandy declared, on being appointed to her cabinet role, that the culture war was now over. Peace in our time! Here she is, a year later, still fighting it, the Neville Chamberlain of 2025. Nandy is a born follower of whatever her milieu considers right and proper on a given day, however bizarre. She has form on this issue, telling an audience back in 2020 that rapists should be accommodated in women's prisons if they fancy it. And here she is again, doing and saying what is politically expedient, slipping on the Wigan Pride t-shirt. As Philip Patrick noted here the other day with reference to Nicola Sturgeon, one of the big problems with the trans issue is the enthusiasm for it from party workers and staffers. Added to this, Nandy, as an MP, has to engage with 'communities' and 'stakeholders' – which means wearing an item of their choosing and posing for photos wearing it. These are not the parish pump affairs of the old local politics. Political figures of all the main parties have been beclowned at Pride events, from Boris Johnson in a Pink Stetson to Keir Starmer swathed in glitter – which just made him look as if he'd contracted a particularly nasty case of psoriasis. I can't imagine someone as toxically agreeable as Nandy handling the awkwardness of the T-shirt situation in any other way but acquiescence. She shouldn't have had to. There should be a simple rule for politicians on their visits to Prides, mosques, or anywhere else: no merch, no slogans, no cultural frills or campaigning furbelows. This rule would enable the politician, when presented with a hat marked 'UP THE TALIBAN' or a badge marked 'DOWN WITH KITTENS' to sigh and say 'so sorry, obviously I'd love to don this tasteful item, but it's against the rules, I'm afraid; my hands are tied'. Today, silly emblems and slogans and campaigns abound in public life, and this rule would at least take politicians out of that loop. Another news story at the weekend, for example, informs us that the BBC has purchased 10,000 badges, 7,000 mugs and 6,000 lanyards branded 'Call It Out', at a cost of £61,000, in an effort to remind their staff not to harass and abuse each other. There is something quintessentially perfect about this story – a modern British institution thinking it can solve a serious problem of criminality with branding. The Blairite consensus smashed up our common culture and morality, forged after centuries of trial and error, and now seeks to replace it – with merch. Politicians should, if they absolutely must, slip into their own silly campaign wear, but they shouldn't go near anybody else's.
