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On Thursday evening Selina and I met Marion and Leon at the Berrylands Hotel in Surbiton, where Brian White's Magna jazz band performs every week. It was the standard line-up with no changes and they played some numbers that we had heard in the last few nights played by other bands. 'Mama's Gone Goodbye' was played more delicately than by the John Maddocks Jazzmen and with a much more sophisticated keyboard solo. Leon's favourite (but not Selina's) 'I Cover the Waterfront' was also played by the Urban Gin House band on Sunday, both bands including Alan Dandy; difficult to choose between them. After a false start due to Pete Towndrow momentarily forgetting the melody, 'Nobody Knows You' went really well and 'New Orleans' included a fine trombone solo and an unusual bowed bass feature.
Unusually, Selina and I ate in the bar area before the others arrived. My curry special with glass of wine included was fantastic value, Selina's sausages on Yorkshire pudding was more than she could manage.

Labels: Jazz