Katie
Patterson (drums); Russ Henderson (tenor sax/flute); Erik Svela (guitar); Oli
Cadman (keys); Peter Gavin (bass guitar).
(Review
by Ann Alex).
The members of this band
hail from studies at the renowned Leeds College of Music and they play an
interesting and exciting mixture of neo-prog rock, pop, jazz and free jazz, all
well bound together. The audience was
small, which surprised me as I thought other young musicians would have been
interested.
I went because I
especially wished to see a woman drummer and I couldn’t help but think of a Bebop Spoken There quote from an
American woman drummer who, when asked her opinion of Buddy Rich, said “He
plays pretty good for a man!”. I wasn’t
disappointed, Katie played excellently irrespective of gender which is the way
it should be.
Besides drumming Katie,
from Canada (Nova Scotia
For instance, Early Morning View was about a ride in a
hot air balloon.
So to best describe this
sort of music, I’ve decided a poem would serve!
I should mention that the band wore aprons instead of sporting the more
traditional tee shirts.
It
takes Allsorts
To give us all sorts of
music
Does what it says on the
pinny
Keys sadly soulful, up
and down harmonic scales
Or flying high in the
balloon
Flute fluting, its name
like its sound
Assertive sax lays down
the riff
Almost but not quite too
many times
Bass lays down the riff
Almost but not quite too
many times
Guitar lays down the
riff
Almost but not quite too
many times
Then –
The drums womanned
royally in purple pinny
Slivers, shimmers of
cymbals
Fall into the snare
Bup bup bup, bam bam bam
False finish to the tune
Audience claps
Falls into the snare
False finish again
Audience claps
True finish
Audience hesitates –
Then claps.
Ann Alex.
Ann Alex.
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