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Lots of tunes were played tonight. Most were standards and I made the total fourteen. John gave all his instruments equal exposure and if I was asked which one I preferred I would say the baritone sax. I liked his playing on There Will Never be Another You and also You’re Driving me Crazy - a tune you don’t hear too often these days.
He played tenor sax on an Erroll Garner number Shake it or Break it and I liked his tenor solo on East of the Sun which was done as a bossa nova. I thought his clarinet could have done with some amplification but he sounded good on the tune Robbin’s Nest. A composition by pianist Sir Charles Thompson which was a big hit for co-composer Illinois Jacquet back in the 1940s.
Paul Hartley’s trio did a first class job backing Hallam and I would like to mention the excellent bass work of Ken Marley and also the drummer Eryl Roberts who always keeps things swinging. I suppose tonights music could be classed as mainstream although there was one bebop excursion with Hallam's version of Sonny Stitt’s Blues Walk.
The next jazz gig at the Railway is on Sunday June 19 with the Dean Stockdale Trio - Mike Farmer
It’s You or no One For me; Topsy; I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling; Robbin's Nest; There Will Never be Another You; Dream a Little Dream of me; Whispering; Blues Walk; Shake It or Break It; Love me or Leave Me; East of the Sun; You’re Driving me Crazy; Lullaby of the Leaves; Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.
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