After spending Xmas in Brighton visiting family I was back home ready to face the new year by hearing some live jazz at my favourite jazz spot the Railway which on the first Sunday of 2022 featured Mike Hall and his excellent quartet. Mike opened with the Jules Styne composition Time After Time which always makes me think of Chet Baker's version on the Jazz Icons DVD. He followed this with a tune that Mike in his introduction mentioned that it was the last tune that Jerome Kern wrote the title being Nobody Else But Me . Can’t say I’ve heard this before but I’m sure Mike will add this to his repertoire.
It’s always good to see the house
upright piano being utilised and in the hands of Richard Weatherall there is
no one better suited to play it in this unit. His solos are creative and ably
assisted by the great Ed Harrison on bass and local drum legend Eryl
Roberts.
Included in the dozen tunes played
tonight were some originals by the likes of Kenny Barron, Monk, Mingus, Paul
Gonsalves, and Kenny Wheeler, plus standards and an uptempo bossa nova.
The ones that impressed me most were the Tadd Dameron number If You Could See me Now which had Mike using a softer approach than usual
and also Invitation a tune that the late Joe Henderson liked
to play a lot and which was written by Bronislaw Kapers who also composed On
Green Dolphin Street.
The next jazz gig at the Railway is tomorrow Jan. 4 with guitarist Steve Oakes and his Band. Mike Farmer
Time After Time; Nobody Else But Me; Hard Groove; Song For Abdullah; Invitation; If You Could See me Now; I Mean You; Groove Merchant; Everybody's Song But My Own; On A Clear Day; No More Blues; Nostalgia In Times Square,
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