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Sunday night at The Globe and tonight’s offering was a group of five musicians at least some of whom who could claim the Globe as their spiritual home. They either volunteer their time there or they are members of the various Globe music programmes like the regular Wednesday session Take it to the Bridge.
Having seen earlier versions of the band I was expecting an entertaining evening of GASbook standards. But there was not an Autumn Leaves or a Summertime in sight. Instead the band set their stall out from the first tune, an original penned by pianist Mark Squires called R and B. Other originals from the pen of Mr.Squires featured throughout, reflective pieces like What I Think About When I Think About Walking or Pandemonic written during Covid with a Latin groove that allowed sax and trombone to trade off each other to great effect.
The highlight of the first set was, for me, the Joey Calderazzo composition El Niño written for Micheal Brecker’s band with a thoughtful intro on bass by Dave Parker and with Micheal Howard showing how comfortable he is behind his kit.
The second set kicked off with Horace Silver’s Tokyo Blues before a contrafact penned by Mr Squires. He invited the audience to guess where the original chord progression was from. Given that the title he had given it was Colonising Mars, it didn’t take long for someone, not me, to recognise David Bowie’s Life on Mars.
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Other tunes played: Sunshower (Kenny Barron); Barracuda (Gill Evans); Isfahan (Billy Strayhorn/Duke Ellington); Sing a Song of Song (Kenny Garrett); Strange Meeting (Bill Frisell); Starmaker (Roy Hargrove)
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