(Review by Russell)
Culture Lab was full to overflowing. Late arriving
students stood at the back of the room for this week’s installment of student
musicians’ public performance. A short session, as at least one of the
performers had to dash down to St Nicholas’ Cathedral for some other engagement
in their busy lives. An organ scholar perhaps or choir practice, who knows?
Stevie Jackson sang folk, played fiddle (Norwegian
Hardanger) and for one number she was accompanied on guitar by a talented
fellow student. Alto sax player Dominic Lodge played a Paul Desmond-Jim Hall
blues with piano, bass (the excellent Tim Farrow) and drums (from a distance it
looked like Lewis West) and a female vocalist in support. His short set
concluded with Duke Pearson’s Sweet Honey
Bee.
Finger style guitarist James Wade closed the show with
more dazzling playing (earlier in the year Wade gave an impressive recital in Culture
Lab). Scott Joplin’s Silver Swan Rag (arr.
Tom van Bergeyk), Plymouth House and
a John Renbourn tune rounded off a fine set.
Russell.
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