Steve Howe (gtr); Ross Stanley (B3); Dylan Howe (dms).
This was a jazz gig- don't let anyone tell you otherwise! How could it be anything else with Ross Stanley pedaling the B3? And Steve Howe? Well I've long believed that beneath every rocker there is a jazzer and so it proved tonight when Yes guitarist Howe made it clear that he could cut it as a jazzman.
The majority of the audience that filled the ground floor of Hall 2 (plus a few who overlapped onto the next level) probably had never heard of Miles Davis, Roland Kirk, Jimmy Smith or Kenny Burrell or even realised they were listening to jazz yet they gave a standing ovation at the end and, for an encore, Steve Howe played a wonderful, unaccompanied piece. He didn't give the title but it could have been a composition by Albert Harris, Carl Kress, Dick McDonough or even Eddie Lang. It was lush! For the second encore it was more Kenny Burrell and more standing ovations.
In between the jazz we had jazzified versions of numbers associated with Yes but it was the fifties Blue Note Jimmy Smith/Kenny Burrell grooves that made this listener's night. Ross Stanley was incredible in support and solo whilst Howe Jr. on drums drove and booted, soloed and foured, did crazy and sedate. It was one of those gigs that just flew by.
Lance.
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