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At 9:00pm the quartet were ready to start the show in front of a crowded room when disaster happened. Freddie’s keyboard refused to work and by the time the fault had been fixed we were already 20 minutes behind schedule.
Nevertheless, all's well that ends well, or in this case (eventually) starts well and Freddie picked a great tune as an opener which sounded very familiar to me and when he said it was Horace Silver’s Silvers’s Serenade I remembered it as one that was often heard at jam sessions back in the day when there was jazz to be heard seven days a week around the Manchester area.
Freddie likes to dig out tunes that are regarded as jazz standards but not often played such as Sonny Stitt’s Eternal Triangle, a real finger-buster of a tune but this presented no problems to reeds maestro Jim Collins who was impressive on everything he played during the evening.
Once again, it was impossible to pick out highlights as all the numbers sounded great to me. I was pleased to see Jim Collins had brought his flute along to the gig and I liked what he did on Charles Lloyd’s Forest Flower. The rhythm team of James Adolpho bass and Phil Bennett drums did a first rate job and they both got to do some solo work on the closing number Caravan.
The next jazz gig at the Railway is on Tuesday Sept. 12 with Bryan Pendleton and his Shearing Sound Quintet. Mike Farmer
Silver’s Serenade; Four; Forest Flower; Black Nile; Lament; Eternal Triangle; Speak Low; El Toro; I Could Write a Book; Aisha; Caravan.
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