Ah! Technical issues right from the start. Ella's vocal mic wasn't playing ball. The opening number, Just Friends, rendered Ella all but inaudible. During a brief intermission to enable our host to put a shilling in the meter we heard a recording of Ella singing I'm Old Fashioned to plug the gap.
No More Blues restored order, James Taylor's September Grass surprised, after all, it isn't staple fayre on a jazz gig. Yellow Dress (comp. Ella Hohnen-Ford), sounding very much like Roy Hargrove's Strasbourg St Denis, slotted in nicely, Jonny Mansfield's four-mallet solo pretty darn good.
As Ella was about to 'interview' Jonny, no sound! Tech wiz Will Sach stepped up to sort things. It's just as well someone knows what they're doing. Or so we thought! The audio level dropped, we could hardly hear what was said. Oh, well.
Non-jazz numbers, Rufus Wainwright's The
Art Teacher and Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman, added
to the mix. Stars Fell on Alabama returned us to the GASbook.
Sound issues aside, it had been another excellent session.
Set list: Just Friends; I'm Old
Fashioned (recording); ?; No More Blues; September
Grass; If I Should Lose You; Yellow Dress; Tennessee
Waltz; My Monday Date; The Art Teacher; Wichita
Lineman; Stars Fell on Alabama; ? .
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