Roly
Veitch & Giles Strong (guitars) + Ray Burns (harmonica)
(Review
by Russell/Photo courtesy of Mike Tilley).
Two guitars, Great American Songbook,
Jobim, Django. One student of jazz guitar took a front row seat, another
preferred a back row (chattering class) pew. Jazz Café regulars (an amiable
bunch) secured the best available seats, the Saturday night drinking circuit crowd
behind them at the bar (chatter, chatter).
The front row assembly filtered out the
extraneous ‘background’ noise keen to hear Roly Veitch and Giles Strong play
some jazz guitar. Whether it be an indisposed James Birkett or last minute dep
Roly Veitch, the guarantee of top quality, relaxed jazz guitar held firm. The
other half of the equation – Giles Strong – also offered a life time guarantee
of first-rate guitar playing. Veitch and Strong selected a few tunes and played
them. Easy? If you know how! And these guys knew what to play. It was as if You Stepped Out of a Dream, into the
How
Insensitive of the barflies to make themselves
heard, oblivious to the two craftsmen seated at the front. Musicians tolerate
all manner of ‘difficult’ circumstances, Veitch and Strong have, no doubt,
encountered much worse and this Jazz Café gig delighted all who were there to
listen. Djangologist Strong played some Django with Veitch and invited Mr Ray
Burns (harmonica) to join them in their Romany caravan. The duo swept away those
Autumn Leaves and went off into the
night with Billie’s Bounce.
Russell
1 comment :
I've tried adding a comment on the blog for the last hour or so - nothing earth shattering, but just to say how sweetly sublime this gig was - it was easy to get lost in the music and ignore the gobby barflies! Sweet dreams are made of gigs like this!
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