Adrian Cox conducted today's Sunday Service from a conservatory somewhere en route to Tyneside.* Way back in 2000, at the age of fifteen (!!!), our clarinetist made his first recording as a sideman with Richard Bennett's New Orleans Jazz Band, and today's live stream gig revisited the album, Thriller Rag (Lake Records LACD139). Something like eighty fans were online to listen to Adrian play clarinet and sing a selection of familiar tunes and recount numerous stories of his time on the road with Bennett.
Make sure you learn your melodies was Richard Bennett's sage advice to the young A Cox. It seems our host took onboard his band leader's words: tune after tune Adrian rattled off melodies and lyrics, no problem at all. Thriller Rag opened the show swiftly followed by Bogalusa Strut, I Get the Blues When it Rains and more. Down Among the Sheltering Palms (perhaps the tune of the day) brought us almost to the two o'clock finish. A few parish notices (next week's Sunday Service features our host Adrian and his mate, the brilliant pianist Joe Webb!) then out on Panama.
* Adrian has many strings to his bow and this evening he'll be on stage at Newcastle's o2 Academy with Buster Bloodvessel's Bad Manners! Russell
Set list: Thriller Rag; Bogalusa Strut; I Get the Blues When it Rains; Dippermouth Blues; Barefoot Boy; Over the Waves; When I Leave the World Behind; Down Among the Sheltering Palms; Panama.
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