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Marco Woolf may well have created his own genre of music combing improvised storytelling with jazz - maybe it could be labelled Jazzanory!
Woolf is a cool and charismatic character and the performance at the Globe on Thursday evening was quite captivating. Most of the set told the story of the lifecycle of a young woman called Francine from small child to adult. Woolf’s gentle words dovetailed nicely with the rest of the band and a special mention must be made for Miriam Willmott on the drum kit and the saxophone player, who’s name I sadly didn’t catch, they both excelled.
As the set came to the close Woolf decided to improvise a complete story. ‘Do you want a long one or short one?’ he asked the audience. ‘Short’ regular Newcastle jazz attendee John barked out only to be contradicted by a younger member who requested ‘long’. A comprise of medium seemed to be settled on.
Audience members were asked to suggest characters that would be assigned to the individual band members around which a story would be improvised. The 4 characters nominated were: a mermaid, a shark (my suggestion), Andy Patterson and Sarah Ball.
The story that followed was somewhat convoluted and nonsensical climaxing in the consumption of a box Tesco value blueberries (I was hoping the shark would eat the mermaid but it transpired it was in a co dependent relationship with her!)
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