
York is a bit off BSH readers’ normal turf but
it’s worth flagging up a new venue and recommending that you check it out if
you are ever in the city. Micklegate Social is one of the first buildings
inside the wall at Micklegate: the staff are friendly, the beer is good and the
jazz is downstairs in an atmospheric cellar-room.
Organiser of tonight’s gig, Faye Thompson, IS
well-known to BSH readers from Earlybird , Jambone and more recently, Jazzy
Christmas. Her enterprise as a youthful impresario also deserves to be
acknowledged. In fact, “youthful” was a
key word tonight with Paul Edis looking positively avuncular when the gig
morphed into a jam session after his solo set. And if the musicians were young,
the audience seemed even more fresh-faced – to the extent that Paul prefaced
his usual mid-set sales pitch with the anxious question: “Do any of you still
buy CD’s?” It is reassuring to see jazz performed by talented youngsters and
applauded by friends and fellow students: it has a future!