This evening at
The Cricketers in Horsell Birch we saw the Phil Brown Swingtet (pictured), comprising Phil Brown (trombone, vocals), 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 comprised just five numbers, showing that this band gives every piece a good airing.
Numbers we particularly liked were:
'Bag's Groove', composed by Milt Jackson, vibraphone player with the Modern Jazz Quartet, bringing back memories of Chislehurst Caves in the '60s where Raye Duvall's group always finished with it. John Elmer plays it well on the CD 'Cool Vibes'.
Mark and Lester's duet 'Carnaval' from Black Orpheus, one of our favourite numbers, composed by Brazilian Luis Bonfa.
Phil, Ken and Andrew playing the Chris Barber number 'Going Up The River'.
Jed Kearse had read my post about the blues not necessarily being 12 bars. He brought in the score for 'Trouble in Mind' (let nobody say this is not a blues) to show that it is not 8 bars as I claimed but 16 bars. It is true that the two 8 bar sections are not quite identical. I passed the score to Dave Lowe for the benefit of his son Chris. Jed says that in his book of blues numbers, 5% are not 12 bars.
Our table companions were Axel, Brian and Tony as last week. Once again Selina and Tony were giggling about the food being served behind us. In the break, Selina told the more mature of the two Jills that our business partner David is a very nice guy who is being ripped off by his soon to be ex-wife. Jill said it is a great pity he is too young for her.
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