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An interesting session on this auspicious occasion - International Jazz Day and the Jazz Co-op's seventh birthday. They said it would never last but the fact that it has got this far suggests that it is in it for as long as it takes.
In olden days (pre-2020), International Jazz Day at the Globe would have had players of all standards from across the region jamming and forming unplanned musical alliances - happy days!
Without that intermingling of punters and players, pints and Pinots that same feeling was never going to be recaptured via an audienceless livestream. However, with Scotland but a caber's throw away, all was not lost and thus began the latest Scots' invasion. Last week, JazzMain crossed the border for a swinging set and this week the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year finalist, Matt Carmichael, came along.
With McCreadie on piano, who'd already made his mark at The Globe a while back, the portents looked good although, I'll hold my hand up and say that, to me, the opening 10-15 minutes seemed like an hour and I was struggling to stay awake. Having said that, the sidebar pundits were all going into raptures!
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The music had very much a Scottish, with an occasional Scandinavian, feel about it which is understandable and which was indeed the inspiration behind his recent album Where Will the River Flow from which most, if not all, of tonight's repertoire came from.
All of it wasn't my bag but the, maybe, 80% of it that was made up for the 5% that wasn't - the other 15% lay somewhere in between.
So, a curate's egg or should I say a Scotch egg?
One indisputable fact - Four great musicians.
Lance
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