The last time Stuart MacCallum graced this room was 18 months ago as a
duet with fellow guitarist Mike Walker. On Friday night MacCallum played in
an even smaller unit giving a thoroughly entertaining solo performance on
guitar and electronics. The style he plays in is not classical jazz guitar even
though there is plenty of improvisation going on. The music is a folksy
cinematic kind of an affair. Numbers build up with wave upon wave of layers
creating ambient, hypnotic, dreamy, haunting soundscapes. Original compositions
such as Vital Space, inspired by an estate agent and Ewe Field, a
song about a vegetarian guest house in The Lake District where coincidentally
both Stuart and his parents went to for their honeymoons (although not at the
same I imagine), were interspersed with classic favourites Alfie, When
I fall in Love and that well known jazz standard Amazing Grace.
Not an evening for the jazz purists but an entertaining one nevertheless.
Steve H
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