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I've been a fan of Lewis, or Lew as he was back then, when he emerged from music college as a member of SNECK who played a regular Tuesday night gig at the Corner House which, back then, was the centre of the north east jazz universe.
Around about this time in the early 1980s he beat off the competition in a jazz contest held at the City Vaults in Newcastle's Bigg Market that saw him pick up a hundred well deserved smackers (and I don't mean kisses although, being in the Bigg Market, if he'd hung around...) ahead of a mega strong field.
From thereon he became an almost annual fixture at the various Newcastle Jazz Festivals, his prowess growing and his absorption of more contemporary influences moving him into the forefront of the local scene although, had he been so inclined, the world could have been his oyster.
He dropped out of sight for a while but has recently emerged with tonight's line-up at the Globe (Lewis Watson, Mark Williams, Andy Champion, John Bradford) it's a 'not to be missed' gig but, although I can't make it, don't blame it on my 'long gone youth' blame it on Go-North East/Unite (delete as you see fit.) Lance
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