Lorne Lofsky-Nigel Price Quartet @ Queen's Hall, Hexham - Nov. 16

Lorne Lofsky (guitar); Nigel Price (guitar); Jeremy Brown (double bass); Joel Barford (drums)

The Scottish leg of the tour done and dusted, the Lorne Lofsky-Nigel Price Quartet motored south, stopping off in Hexham for an afternoon concert. Later on, Lofsky, Price, Brown and Barford would conclude a long day on Railway Street in Newcastle. 

Queen's Hall, Hexham presents a monthly Sunday afternoon concert series. Of late, audience numbers have been most encouraging. This afternoon's full house spoke volumes for the programming policy. 

An earlier BSH review of the Lofsky-Price concert at the Blue Lamp up in Aberdeen covered most bases - the sets lists in Aberdeen and Hexham were broadly similar, I Hear a Rhapsody an addition to the programme here in Hexham. 

A most attentive audience marvelled at the virtuosic musicianship - guitarists Lofsky and Price comfortable in one another's company, bassist Jeremy Brown a tower of strength, drummer Joel Barford of the new generation of hot shot drummers.

An exquisite reading of Nancy with the Laughing Face, a contrasting Bitter Suite, a bluesy Bluesette to Oscar Peterson's Sushi, with four or five concerts already chalked off, Lofsky and Price were in the groove.

The Globe, Newcastle would be the Lofsky-Price Quartet's next port of call. It promised to be something special.

Set list: I Remember You; Sweet Georgie Fame; Invitation; Nancy with the Laughing Face; Bitter Suite; MorningStar; Bluesette; 

Estate; I Hear a Rhapsody; Sushi.