Not a vintage jam, just another day at the office albeit not without its highs and its lows. Among the highs were some impressive trumpet playing by teenage protégé Kilsby whose After You've Gone could have been mistaken for Red Allen or Blue Mitchell in a blindfold test - that's how colourful it was. His cohorts from Knats, Woodward and King David, were also in top form although the latter was perhaps a tad over forceful in the opening trio set. However, he did atone for it as the evening progressed.
Good to have Katy aboard. I hadn't heard her for a while and I was enjoying her well-structured solo on There Will Never be Another You when she was cut off in mid-flight by an explosive intervention by Ed Bell that would have done some irreparable damage to Jericho's walls! Talk about coitus interruptus! Not cricket Ed old boy!
Gray and Gowland always work well together and they were cookin' with gas on How High the Moon?
The brothers Ho, inscrutable as ever, slotted in nicely on bass and keys. Finney and Mather spelled King David on the kit with more keyboard capers from Dagan and Schultz. There was also a tenor saxist and a Hawaiian lap steel guitar player whose names I failed to get.
I also missed Dreever's vocal - a timetable change to the 27 bus service (now one an hour after 9pm) meant leaving before the finale. Still, all in all, it had been an interesting evening - Lance
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