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These women of Wylam are wild. I'm not sure if they are wanton but they're certainly wonderful!
The wildness began with what sounded like an orgasmic shriek (if my memory serves me correctly) before Andrea and Jude shared vocals on what may have been called Give me Your Love. This was good. The WWOW are the blonde bombshells of 2022 irrespective of the colour of their hair.
Jude did Twisted courtesy of Wardell Gray and Annie Ross, singing superbly and playing nice bass lines. Andrea sang Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered complete with the verse and a virtuosic, almost a coloratura, finale that left the audience totally bewitched without being at all bothered and bewildered! In between Helen blew a lovely trumpet solo.
Helen was on the money again on Senor Blues; a number that also had Caroline playing some runs that you don't find in Czerny!
Jude sang Comes Love and Andrea gave us that strangest of songs - Nature Boy. Helen blew muted and, once more, Caroline hit pay dirt (musically speaking).
Clifford Brown's Sandu proved to be fertile ground for Jude's scatting and the film, The Purple Plain provided the material for Andrea's emotive rendition of Miss Celie's Blues. Jude sang Georgia on my Mind followed by Cheek to Cheek. Caroline really went for it on that one! This was her Mona Lisa, her Tower of Pisa, her unwritten jazz piano concerto - in other words, it was okay!
More shrieking as Andrea and Jude took us out on Stevie's La La La La La. We all joined in as we knew most of the words.
Five fine musicians - not forgetting Alison who, although hidden in the engine room away from the spotlight, provided solid support throughout and helped to ensure that this is a band to remember and, a date to remember is July 24 when the Wild Women invade the Globe*.
It had been a fitting finale to my afternoon at The Exchange's first jazz festival. There was more to come but my carriage awaited (number 11 bus) so I bid a reluctant farewell - Lance
*Unfortunately now postponed. In their place will be the Rebelators.
2 comments :
Yeah - wildly wild! This was a blast. Anyway, that great number 'Miss Celie's Blues' was from The Colour Purple, not from 'Purple Plain' - a lot of purpleness here, but Purple Plain was a British made WW2 film from 1945 .......
I stand corrected!
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