Olive Rudd (vcl), Ray Harley (tpt), Herbie Hudson (tmb/hca/vcl), Jim McBriarty (clt/vcl), Malcolm Armstrong )pno). Alan Rudd (bs), Mike Humble(dms.)
Things got off to a good start when Mike Humble told me he'd had a call from Florida saying he'd seen Mike's photo on Bebop Spoken Here and was he in Ireland? Mike explained it was an Irish pub in South Shields.
Bebop Spoken Here International!
Not that there was anything Irish about the music today - it was straight down the middle Chicago Style.
As I'll never hear the Condon gang playing After You've Gone - they themselves have all gone - I'll happily go to meet my maker having heard "Rosie's Rascals" playing the aforementioned song. Ballade chorus, up-tempo blast, great solos, going into a half time finish. This was as good as it will ever get. Chapeaus all round.
Olive too did good on It Don't Mean A Thing, Backyard, Rhythm and others.
An afternoon of vintage Maine Street.
They are in Morpeth Town Square on Sunday afternoon. Friday and Saturday they are up at Kirkcudbright.
Lance.
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