Monday night, Mark Williams was at the Side with Zoe and, lo and behold, two days later he's taken it to the bridge. Well you can never get too much of a good thing and Mark hit the ground running on the opening Charlie Parker number "Au Privave"; Dave scatted this one. Ian Forbes on drums kept things moving along with Barry Ashcroft once again playing bass."There Is No Greater Love" brought Nicola on to the stand and she got a big, juicy sound from her baritone sax. Both horns blew well on "Solar"
As the evening progressed, fellow guitarist Daniel, spelled Mark before handing over to Felix who isn't called Felix but gets called Felix by Dave who is called Dave and David Carnegie chained himself to the empty keyboard stool for a belting "Killer Joe". David also brought in a chart for a Sam Rivers tune called "Beatrice". I'd never heard it before but it was an appealing tune with some nice changes. "Blue Bossa" had Dave blowing flugel before chanteuse Lindsey Hannon got up and laid down some blues in Bb.
(Good job I didn't put a full stop after 'laid down'!)
Shame it had to finish at 11 pm.
Beatrice is a great tune - I haven't played it for ages. Does Felix know the Entertainer?
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ReplyDeleteA couple of years ago I heard Lewis Watson play at the Saville Exchange on the night that the genius that was George Best died.On the night Lewis with then regular band mates Ken Marley and Adrian Tilbrook played a string of great tunes including extended work-outs of Beatrice and dedicated to the great man Best a wonderful version of A Weaver of Dreams.I didn't know Lewis was a football fan.His performance that night lives on in the memory.A great gig!
Russell
Man You will never guess who he supports!
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