Been spending a couple of days in Scarborough preparatory to the Jazz Festival later this month which will, of course, be reported extensively within these pages.
It was a relatively jazz free weekend (for once) although I had hoped to dine at Beiderbeckes and catch the Jeremy McMurray Trio. Unfortunately my hotel included evening meal so I had to forego a visit to "Bix's".
However, all was not lost as it enabled me to watch the Prom concert - Hooray For Hollywood. Not a jazz occasion to be sure although with Clare Teal around our music wasn't a million miles away!
Individuals apart, conductor John Wilson and his orchestra - an orchestra with quite a few jazzmen in its ranks - gave a stupendous interpretation of songs from many of the great Hollywood musicals beginning with 42nd St in the 1930s through to Hello Dolly in the 1960s.
At the end all I could do was shout - "Hooray For Hollywood"!
Watch again.
Watch again.
Lance.
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