Josh Mitchell-Rayner (keys); Stan Woodward (electric bass); Ferg Kilsby (trumpet); King David Ike-Elechi (drums)
I did not intend to review this gig - Knats have been reviewed at just about every gig they have played - I just intended to get inebriated with family and friends of the band and I did - totally - but yet…
If you haven’t been to a Knats gig my advice is to do so before these young musicians disappear next September to music colleges in London. Only Ferg, at 16 years old, will be around for another year before he too will be off.
Upstairs, The Punch Bowl was rocking to these young musicians. I had no notebook with me but I know they started with Crazy, the Gnarls Barkley tune, and somewhere in the middle was Close to You by The Carpenters - but not as we know it!
It was the original compositions though that were outstanding from such young musicians: Modis Operandi; In The Pitt (a nod to the pub where two of them work) and several others the titles of which I couldn’t catch above the cheering from a very appreciative crowd.
The next chance to catch this band is at Hoochie Coochie on Thursday Feb. 24.
To quote our editor in chief when he last reviewed this band, “If this is the alternative face of jazz today, I’m up for it”….totally! Sylvia
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As Sylvia says, catch these guys before they're gone!
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