A Few Lines of Blog.
to make sure you know that
our next Hedsor Jazz is January 5th 2017. I think this will be at
our normal start time of 8.30pm and will probably have what passes for our
normal resident band!! It WONT have food!
January 5th
gives you enough time to walk off the Christmas filling (!) and perhaps the New
Year hangover as well!!
I do hope you all enjoyed
our Christmas party on December 22nd. I thought it was all absolutely
splendid, AND the room was wonderfully full of all you people supporting live
jazz. If you want to see all the pictures I took of the evening, and maybe
listen again to the music, click on the link below to my DropBox folder.
It was a real delight to
hear Roy Williams again. Back in the day of jazz at Maidenheads “The Bell” pub,
(the 1970’s) he was a frequent visitor with the great Alex Welsh band. He then
went on to join the Humphrey Lyttleton’s band, and again played alongside John
Barnes. John was a bit like our own Mike Wills, a player of many reed
instruments including baritone sax. Mike used to live within walking distance
of John’s home and they were friends. It was John Barnes playing that inspired “our
Mike” to start on the saxophone. To see Roy and Mike recreating some of Roy and
John’s duet moments was very poignant. But that’s jazz!
Until 2017 I wish you all a
happy New Year.
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