However, no such problem with Alan Glen (pictured) and Sue. So good to see them and looking so well. Hopefully, one day we'll get to once more experience the magic of Alan's playing that was so often a high spot at the sessions in the Chilli.
David Carnegie was also an integral part of those 'good old days' and, whilst he didn't make it down from across the border his Facebook 'like' was important.
Good to see Laurie Brown who often played vibes at the pub. Debra Milne, I seem to recall made one of her earliest appearances at the Chilli singing Stomping at the Savoy and that shrinking violet Kenny Kirsopp blew some rocking tenor at the wake and sang some scatological blues.
Omìd Ramak played drums. Last I heard he'd joined the army - had he gone AWOL just to be there?
I could go on and on but, to do so, it would be akin to writing a history of modern jazz in Newcastle. So apologies to all I haven't mentioned ... Lance
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So many musicians were there, either at Saltwell Crem or afterwards at the Globe...trumpeters Graham Hardy, Kevin Eland and Ray Johnson, pianists Stu Collingwood and Alan Law, bassists Paul Grainger, Neil Harland and Dave Parker, guitarists Mick Wright, Roly Veitch and Mark Williams, David Gray, Paul Gowland, John Hallam, Haaruun Miller, singers Mo Scott, Bev Wilson and Kirstin Elsadie Smith, drummers Tom Atkinson, John Bradford, Matthew Fairhurst and Sam Young, later in the evening Andrew Porritt, Fiona Finden, Stu Finden, the list goes on...
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