Lindsay Hannon (vcl); James Harrison (pno); John Pope (bs); Tom Chapman (dms).
(Review by Lance/photo by Mike Tilley).
A cracking gig! Lindsay sounded good - don't let her tell you otherwise! Drawing mainly from her superb album - The Spy - she displayed the qualities that justify her position as being among the forefront of the select group of illustrious jazz singers around town.
We knew the music from previous gigs and, of course, the CD.
As it happens, my favourite number from the gig isn't on the CD - Why Try to Change me Now? nor did she sing my favourite number from the CD on the gig - The End of a Love Affair!
Minor quibbles - what she did sing was enthralling, drawing from the contemporary song books of The Doors (The Spy); A Tom Waits' number; a lot of Joni Mitchell; Gassers such as Love Me or Leave Me, So Long Big Time and What a Little Moonlight Can Do; Liz Corney's beautiful Heather Forever and Billy Bragg (The Saturday Boy)
But I never made the first team,
I just made the first team laugh
And she never came to the phone
She was always in the bath
I had to look in the dictionary
To find out the meaning of unrequited
While she was giving herself for free
At a party to which I was never invited
Who, in their lifetime, hasn't related to that lyric?!
The Plus were A+ tonight. James, ebullient as ever, John, a tower of strength and Tom merely tremendous.
And Lindsay?
Catch her at Ashington Jazz Club this coming Wednesday (March 4) and find out for yourself!
Lance.
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