As if Friday's two sessions totalling some nine and a half hours weren't enough, Classic Jazz Party attendees made a beeline for the Village Hotel's Pub and Grill, determined to secure ringside seats at the first of the now legendary late night jam sessions. The fleet-of-foot nabbed the best seats, others would make do with a table further from the action. The barflies lined the bar and they weren't going anywhere anytime soon. A pint of Guinness in hand, your correspondent opted to make mental notes, after all, several pints of Guinness later scribbles would look more like hieroglyphics...
Trumpeter Enrico Tomasso was afforded the honour of leading the session. An American pianist, Andrew Oliver, a Swede, Ulf Johansson Werre playing trombone, and a British contingent comprising session lead E. Tomasso, David Horniblow (reeds), former recipient of the CJP Young Talent Award, Curtis Volp (banjo, guitar) and master drummer Nicholas D. Ball hit the ground running with Jelly Roll Morton's Pep. Wow! Hotter than hot, what a start! Another pint of Guinness, please!
Sitters-in were many, the numbers included Limehouse Blues (the room cheering), Up a Lazy River taking it down, Ana Quintana, all the way from NYC, sang Angry (AQ wasn't really angry!) and, from the Windy City, Mia Elliott wondered out loud, Am I Blue? And then there was the star of this and every CJP jam session, vocalist Cia Tomasso. The Guinness kept on flowing, the jazz kept on getting hotter and hotter. It was gone 1:30am. Russell
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