It isn't the only game in town. Over on the east side of the city at Cluny 2 the Jazz Defenders are in concert.
This hard-driving band from over the border made a big impression on me when they played at Hoochie a couple of years ago. It was one of my gigs of the year in 2022 as you will gather from this review - LINK.
So you can get your Sunday night jazz fix even earlier as it's a 6:00pm start and that isn't all. If you've got a 'souped-up' 2-litre jazzmobile you could hear the Jamie Toms Quartet in Hexham at 3:00pm, Lindsay Hannon at 5:00pm in Durham, the Jazz Defenders at 6:00pm then spin a coin between Edgar Rubenis at the Pro. Bar or the Tweed River Jazzmen in Berwick at 7:00pm.
All doable but, and here's the rub, a combination of roadworks and parking problems could lead to the best laid schemes of mice and men ... Lance
2 comments :
Hi Lance,
You're right to say that the Jazz Defenders are a fine band, but I'm not which map you're looking at when you describe them as coming from "over the border". They are in fact based in Bristol, with several of the members being long-standing leading figures on the city's jazz scene.
I stand corrected. It was their association with the record label Haggis Records that caused me to make this erroneous assumption.
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