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Noah Stoneman (piano); Daisy George (bass); Will Cleasby (drums).
The news wasn't all good tonight. As of April, Smitty's will be streaming on Saturday nights only. Still, I suppose it was inevitable. However, let's not cry over spilled beer until it's actually ruined the carpet. There have been some great sessions and I'm sure that even though the quantity will have been slimmed down the quality will remain at the level to which we are accustomed to.
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Like last night, this was a night where the musicians just relaxed and let it all hang out (figuratively speaking).
On sessions like these I close my eyes and imagine I'm in NYC, back in the day, and listening to Marian McPartland at The Hickory House or, say, Joe Bushkin at The Embers. Tonight's music met with the mood and at the end I almost went outside to hail a yellow cab.
Three of the best London jazzers played some great stuff - Cole Porter to Coltrane, Georgia to Johannesburg. That's the beauty of today's young musicians, they respect the past whilst looking towards the future.
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Wayne Shorter's
Edda;
Georgia on my Mind;
Night and Day; Abdullah Ibrahim's beautiful composition
The Mountain; Kenny Garrett's
Wayne's Thang (don't ask!); Trane's
Central Park West and a tune I knew but couldn't put a lid on. It had Cleasby working out on it like a man possessed - possessed of great talent that is. He's on the shortlist for the next jazz polling day. Come to think about it, all three are likely candidates.
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When lockdown ends and the venues open we will probably look back and think of how nice it was just to enjoy live music at home without going out in the rain, missing buses and getting accosted by loose women - although, on second thoughts ...
Lance
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