(Screenshots by Ken Drew).
I think tonight was a co-operative effort with no designated leader so, as Will was doing the announcing I'll give him the credit.
This was one of those delightful vignettes that neither sends you to sleep nor keeps you wide awake but has you hovering in that never-never land in between the two extremes which tonight was a good place to be.
Kit Downes is often seen as a boundary-pushing avant-gardist but tonight, as he has done on previous occasions, he showed his compatibility with the more mainstream side of the genre.
Arnold-Foster proved he he didn't get the gig because his name is Will although at Smitty's it does get your foot in the door if you are called Will*. No, it was his Jim Hall inspired playing that clinched it.
Ferg Ireland is, deservedly so, a KS regular and his ability to play a complex passage whilst adjusting his face mask simultaneously without missing a beat is in itself the stuff of legend.
Talking of legends, drummer Jas is herself becoming something of a celebrity having been pictured in the i newspaper and interviewed on BBC's Woman's Hour of recent and, as if that wasn't enough, when it comes to drummers she's a contender.
A nice mix of tunes including a Kit Downes original.
The Shadow of Your Smile; Jim Hall's Waltz New (always reminds me of Someday my Prince Will Come); I'll Never Smile Again (as per Bill Evans); Kit's Army of Three; More Bill Evans with Interplay; Giuffre/Hall's Swamp People and finally, as sensitive a version of Georgia on my Mind as you're likely to have heard anywhere other than at The White House on election night.
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*At least four of the KS regulars are called Will!
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