For tonight's show Suzanne had, on tenor sax, Ed Kainyek, who has played the Railway many times, and always goes down well with the regular jazz aficionados including myself. This was a drummer-less gig but with Gavin Barras on bass the tempos were maintained and I was also very pleased to see Robin Dewhurst on the bandstand in charge of the pub's upright piano. He gets a really great sound out of the instrument!
One of numbers that I liked best was the opening one, In a Mellow Tone which contained a spirited tenor solo and some creative tenor and trombone interplay during the theme.
Another highspot for me occurred in the second set when the band played a Duke Pearson tune which Ed Kainyek introduced as being one from a Grover Washington record but which sounded very similar to a slow blues, Scrap Iron, that was included in the Blue Note album The Right Touch which I can recommend to any lovers of Stanley Turrentine's soulful sax.
There was a tune I had never heard before in the first set that Suzanne told me, after the gig, came from Chet Baker's LP Lets Get Lost, Zingara.
To sum things up, it was a successful night of modern jazz, and if any jazz fans have not heard Suzanne Fonseca before, try to get to one of her gigs.
Next jazz at the Railway is on Tuesday 14 December with guitarist Bim Williams' trio. Mike Farmer.
In a Mellow Tone; Tangerine; Triste; Zingara;The Way You Look Tonight; Scrap Iron; This Can’t Be Love; All The Things You Are; It Could Happen To You; S’Wonderful; Can You Read My Mind?; Besame Mucho.
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