American songbook

Dominic has entertained audiences across the UK and abroad with classics from the Great American Songbook as well as songs by British and French composers and contemporary New York-style cabaret songs.

His love of singing at the piano began in the 1980s when he was resident-pianist at London’s premiere jazz and cabaret venue, Pizza on the Park, where he played opposite and befriended many of the world's leading singer-pianists and cabaret entertainers including Blossom Dearie, Steve Ross, Marion Montgomery, Adelaide Hall, Dave Frishberg, Bob Dorough, Richard Rodney Bennett and Joan Rivers.

Dominic is much admired for his unique and heartfelt vocals, exquisite pianistic touch and fresh and contemporary arrangements of classic songs. He appears regularly at The Pheasantry in Chelsea in themed shows celebrating legendary songwriters that are both entertaining and illuminating and have been a big hit with London audiences.

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The dapper Dominic Alldis made fine work last night of standards associated with the great Nat “King” Cole. Sporting a scarlet floral shirt of the type only international jazz-cabaret artists take to work, he showed a winning combination of old-style British charm and new style-keyboard skill. Before calling up drummer Martin France and bassist Alec Dankworth (succeeded later by bass-guitarist Maddie Edwards), Alldis sang Too Marvellous for Words with piano alone, displaying interesting chord-voicings never heard when he was the house-pianist here. After three numbers tenorist Iain Ballamy arrived with typically agile, serpentine solos, but the leader was not to be outdone. His graceful and inventive ideas, particularly on Skylark, were far more substantial than his “singers’ piano” of the past. France, mostly on brushes, motored tidily along with Dankworth, warming up when giving Nature Boy and Chaplin ballad, Smile, the boss-nova treatment. Let There Be Love featured George Shearing’s famous gospel-piano fills, and the set-closer, It’s Almost Like Being In Love, even found Alldis scat-singing for 16 carefree bars. He’s a class act.

Jack Massarik

Evening Standard

Your CD of songs by Noël Coward just arrived and I immediately played it. I thought your playing and the arrangements all complemented the fine vocal very well..

Dave Brubeck

jazz musician

It's rare to find a pianist-singer with a style so finely integrated that it's hard to think of voice and piano as separate elements... We're lucky to have him.

Dave Gelly

The Observer

Dominic Alldis has gained a well-deserved reputation as a sensitive and swinging pianist, the surprise is that as a singer he is all that and more...

Steve Ross

cabaret entertainer