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Gerry Richardson (organ, vocals); Garry Linsley (alto sax); Rod Sinclair (guitar); Graeme Hare (drums).
Another Friday at the Lit and Phil and another full house sold out weeks ago. If you want a ticket for these monthly Friday concerts, you have to be quick off the mark. Today the offering was the well known and well respected Gerry Richardson leading a quartet with a mixture of soul, funk, jazz and blues.
Everyone seated, announcements made, and then wham! straight into Ben Tucker's Comin' Home Baby. A tune long associated with Herbie Mann and Mel Tormé, this blues classic set the scene for things to come, no prisoners were to be taken, just hold onto your hats and enjoy the ride. There were blistering solos aplenty from Gerry, Rod Sinclair and Garry Linsley. Graeme Hare, sitting in for regular drummer Paul Smith (on tour with Lindisfarne) looked very comfortable behind his kit and was obviously enjoying himself, no more so than when he led the band into African Sunset, a Richardson original.
There were other Richardson originals such as All About McGriff (a homage to Jimmy McGriff's All About My Girl) and some standards like Joe Zawinul's Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Witherspoon's Money’s Getting Cheaper, Mose Allison's Everybody's Cryin' Mercy and Soul Shadows by Joe Sample. All in all a well put together set which was both entertaining and showed how good this band are. Gerry Richardson can not only play a mean organ but has the voice to match and when he toned it down with Bobby Hebbs’ Sunny, you could hear the proverbial pin drop. Sylvia
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