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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Magna Jazz Band at the Berrylands + John Goddard

This evening we went to the Berrylands Hotel in Surbiton, for Brian White's Magna jazz band, with the standard line-up back together. John Goddard (trombone, pictured) sat in for three numbers. All the numbers played were good but we particularly enjoyed:
'Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out':
'T'aint Nobody's Business', a Bessie Smith number played as an instrumental;
Brian's bluesy vocal 'St James Infirmary';
'St Louis Blues' another instrumentalised Bessie Smith number that is seldom sung now;
and, best of all, Alan Dandy's keyboard solo 'Softly as a Morning Sunrise', composed by Sigmund Romberg.
The Magna band is still the best we see regularly.

Labels: Jazz

posted by Peter # 23:49

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