Pete Gilligan (pno); Paul Grainger (bs); Russ Morgan (dms); Bradley Johnston (gtr); Paul Gowland (ten); Rob Bates (dms); Tom Lapworth (gtr); Luke Stuart-Smith (bs); Francesco Falconi (pno).
(Review by Lance).
Circumstances decreed I left early even though there were other aspirants waiting in the wings aspiring to aspire - no doubt First Mate Russell will chart these aspirations.
Gilligan, Grainger and Morgan have long since aspired and, on this balmy evening, they set the standard at an almighty high with Morgan's brushwork as dynamic as any three stickmen combined. Horace Silver's Summer in Central Park had all three artists painting a picture of that idyllic setting (give or take a mugging or two). Bradley made it a quartet then Pete took five leaving Bradley in charge for All the Things You Are and Wave.
PG number 3 Gowland tenorised I'll Remember April and Darn That Dream, Bassist Luke Stuart-Smith, lynchpin of DUBB, stepped up to the plate for Just Friends and Stella by Starlight had Lapworth, Falconi and Bates joining Stuart-Smith.
There were other highs (Alec J. Gamble could be heard warming up, Debra Milne had arrived and Ian Forbes was about) and, I'm sure, many more to follow before the party was over.
Lance.
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