DB Jazz
Project: Dave Keighley (tenor, alto & soprano saxophones), Tom MacMillan
(guitar), Adrian Sander (bass guitar) & Ben Grant (drums) + Mojo Roller:
Chris Roe (guitar & vocals), Daz Whitfield (bass guitar) & Chris
Cassidy (drums).
(Review by Russell).
A jazz and blues double bill. The
blues band up first. Mojo Roller played it loud, blues rock trio loud. Matt
Schofield (Don’t Know What I’d Do),
Robben Ford (Start It Up), the
pattern set – unremittingly, ear-splittingly loud, guitar/vocal-lead blues
rock.
Kings Freddie and Albert and
Chris Roe’s main man SRV (Stevie Ray Vaughan) made it abundantly clear where
these guys were coming from and you either went with them or – no one did – you
got off at the next stop. Roe’s Stratocaster tore it up, the bass and drums
team of Daz Whitfield and Chris Cassidy a rock-solid foundation. Mojo Roller
need to be heard again – either toned down or in a larger venue!
The downstairs bar at the Bridge
was doing good business (about ten deep at the bar) and no wonder,
Schiehallion’s Bitter and Twisted was on the bar. It didn’t last long.
The jazz set. The DB Jazz
Project, a quartet (three quarters round-the-block vets, one quarter new kid on
the block) formed by Dave Keighley and Ben Grant (Dave and Ben, the D and B of
DB fame), explored a Hawkwind to Hilliards sound world by way of Brit Pop Strat
riffs. Most of the tunes originals (Funky
Tune, Angel, Take the L Train) and none the worse for it, Keighley’s enhanced
saxophonics (tenor, alto and soprano) reverberated around the upstairs room of
the Bridge Hotel. Adrian Sander’s hypnotic bass lines freed MacMillan’s Strat
to scratch and scat, and, occasionally, dazzle, fusion-style. Little Flower (one of few covers)
impressed, MacMillan’s Puppeteering
certainly impressed (Keighley, soprano) and the DB Jazz Project continues to
develop.
Russell.
1 comment :
Fantastic night we had and enjoyed the gig a lot, more to come fro us The DB Jazz Project.
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