The Nag is Back, at least for one week, at its original publishing time!!

The reason for this primarily is to tell you of TONIGHT'S gig at The Bourne End Community Centre.

From 8.30 pm onwards, we will have an almost Kansas City Experience!! "Jammin at Mo's" could well describe tonight's event. Its going to be a JAM SESSION. No, nothing at all to do with strawberries (raspberries perhaps!), but all to do with the players out there who would like to sit in with the likes of Ken McCarthy (who will be the pianist) and "play that thing".

A number of well known and respected local musicians have already committed to this project, but if you play, are unemployed tonight and fancy a blow, come along. If your free tonight, don't play, and would like the excitement that this kind of event can generate, come along. It will cost you the magnificent sum of £3 to get in, you will have a chance to win a raffle prize, AND you get food at half time!! Come on out, and leave Poirot to the TV!

NEXT WEDNESDAY April 12th, those wonderful hosts at The Harrow have decided to run a musical reunion. And so Lynn Garner and Ken McCarthy will be playing their from 8.30 pm just like old times. You know it makes sense to come and support them, look what happens to gigs that don't get your support. (Yes, it IS called a nag!).

THURSDAY The Clive Burton Quintet are at The Hedsor Social Club from 8.30 pm. Please come early, pay your £3 entry fee, and listen to some of the best jazz music around this area.

SUNDAY The Fifield hosts Century Jazz from 8 pm. If you miss Sunday lunch, catch up on it at The Fifield with some really swinging tunes as well!!

INTO THE FUTURE, but not so far away that I'm not beginning to panic! is The Jazz for Cancer Concert at The Bourne End Community Centre on FRIDAY May 12th. Tickets £10 each are available from me, or Crocks and Crystals at The Parade in Bourne End. The Clive Burton Quintet (no deps this year I'm told) will be ably enhanced with the guests Richard Kellaway on clarinet and Simon Spillett on Tenor Sax. We hope to offer a wide range of jazz styles from these superb artists, so do everyone a favour and buy you tickets early.

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At this moment in time (i.e. the longhand for "now") I just want to make you think! If you had to write a review of a recently recorded jazz CD, what would it be, and why? Answers by email please, and I will write some more with my thoughts latter in the week,

But as that other Geoffrey (Smith) will say, "but for now, Goodbye".

Geoff C
http://jazzfromgeoff.blogspot.com