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On Monday night we saw the Apex Jazz Band at the Cricketers in Horsell Birch, Woking. The band comprised Tony Nutt (cornet), Peter Minett (soprano and alto sax), Clive Burton (trombone), Terry Twiss (guitar, banjo, vocals), the versatile Ian Parry (string bass) and Dave Beale on drums. As usual we particulary enjoyed the numbers where Terry sang and played guitar, e.g.
'Ain't Misbehaving';
'Am I Blue', to which we danced;
and Peter's feature 'When Shadows Fall' AKA 'Home'.
However, our favourite number of the evening was Clive's feature 'Stardust', which Peter told us was written by Hoagy Carmichael in 20 minutes !
We sat near to Clive's wife Jan with whom we had a lively discussion about two members of Clive's band, Century Jazz. We had not realised that saxophonist Simon was deputising for the regular player on the one occasion we saw the band. We now need to give them a second chance. We would love to hear pianist Zane again.

Labels: Jazz