(Screenshots by Ken Drew)
Four masked musicians - not a horn-player or a singer in sight - is this more restrictions or just the way it worked out? Whatever, it was another cracking set. Amazing how, so soon after his BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award, Deschanel Gordon seems as though he's been part of the scene forever.
Deservedly so. Just One of Those Things, compared favourably against most any version by anyone anywhere. I'll Never be the Same had a slightly tongue in cheek feel to it - sort of a mish-mash of earlier styles that segued into a hint of more contemporary styles (just a hint). This guy didn't read the last chapter first!
Luca Caruso was also showcased on the former number. He's fast becoming to UK jazz what his namesake was to Italian opera.
Which just leaves tonight's only Will - there's usually hundreds of them - but this one plays guitar better than any of the others and that includes a few guitarists playing elsewhere whose mothers didn't call them Will!
Yet another winner!
Lance
Numbers included: That Old Devil Moon; Tres Caballeros; Lyreste; Just One of Those Things and I'll Never Smile Again.
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