A shorter stream this afternoon, fifty minutes rather than the usual full hour. Adrian Cox said he didn't want to detain people too long the day before the big day. As usual, clarinet maestro Cox had been gigging here, there and everywhere, now he was at home for a couple of days before hitting the road again. Preacher Cox addressed his online flock (numbering more than sixty) in his inimitable, engaging manner. Playing clarinet, singing and responding almost instantaneously to a continuous stream of online comment, Cox is the real deal.
Tunes familiar to Cox, tunes not so familiar to Cox (our man learning one of the numbers this morning!) plus a few 'seasonal items', this Facebook stream (open to all, Facebook account or not) drew an audience at what surely must be a busy time of the year (last minute Xmas shopping etc). Algiers Strut to the seasonal stuff - Silent Night, Santa Claus Blues, White Christmas - Cox cannot be faulted, great clarinet, great vocals, he's 'the man'. Russell
Set list: Algiers Strut; I've
Got My Love to Keep Me Warm; Silent Night; Mary's Boy
Child; Santa Claus Blues; Santa Claus is Coming to Town; Maryland,
My Maryland (O Tannenbaum); White Christmas.
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