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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Phil Brown Swingtet at the Cricks

On Monday evening we saw the Phil Brown Swingtet at the Cricketers in Horsell Birch, Woking. It was the full band with no deps., the front line comprising Phil Brown (trombone), Lester Brown (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Mark Aston (tenor sax, clarinet) with the rhythm section of Andrew Clancy (keyboard), Ken Ames (guitar), Mike Bennett (bass) and David Clancy (drums). Guests were Peter Clancy (string bass), Roy Stokes (trombone), Chris Lowe (trombone), Colin Lewry (piano) and Ray Poole (piano. Axel from Denmark sat with us and the three of us agreed that the numbers from the trad era through to swing were all great but the modern jazz numbers were boring due to the lack of melody. This not just a question of date but of musical content. Centrepiece by Harry (sweets) Edison was from the 1950s but we enjoyed it.
The Phil Brown Swingtet plays the widest range of jazz of any band we see so I suppose we must be grateful for that and expect to be dissappointed by some numbers.

posted by Peter # 07:11

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