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This evening at The Cricketers in Horsell Birch we saw the Phil Brown Swingtet (pictured), comprising Phil Brown (trombone), Lester Brown (trumpet, flugel horn), Mark Aston (Tenor Sax, Alto Sax, Clarinet), Ken Ames (guitar), Andrew Clancy (keyboard), Mike Bennett (string bass) and David Clancy (drums). The first half seemed over in no time, proving that time flies when we are enjoying ourselves.
Numbers we particularly liked were:
'Perdido', composed by Duke Ellington's valve trombonist Juan Tizot;
Improvised number 'Credit Crunch Blues', without much laughter from the audience;
'Blue Bossa', composed by Trumpeter Kenny Dorham;
'Mood Indigo', composed by Barney Bigard, to which we danced;
'In a Mellow Tone', a 1939 jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics written by Milt Gabler.
Peter Clancy (pictured) sat in on trombone for:
'Georgia on my Mind', to which we danced and 'I Get the Blue When it Rains', with (unusually) Peter singing.
For us the greatest number, just as we were leaving, was Mark's feature 'Over The Rainbow', by Harold Arlen with lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, written for the movie The Wizard of Oz.

Labels: Jazz