Hedsor Jazz Headlines 19/03/18 !
Hedsor Jazz has had a few
problems to deal with this last 3 years. This week, with our Cancer Fundraiser
coming on Thursday, we have had two more unpleasant surprises thrust upon us.
Yesterday (Sunday) I learnt
that our trumpet player, Lester Brown, has been involved in a car
accident. His car is I believe a write off, but the good news is that Lester is
OK. Shaken and stirred, but he will be with us in a couple of week time. BUT he
won’t be with us on Thursday.
Today (Monday) I have had
the news that our saxophone section, Mike Wills, is again in hospital.
He is currently being kept in to check out an “anomaly”. He says he feels fine,
but we may not have him with us on Thursday.
SO, the line-up for our
Cancer Special now stands like this:-
On trumpet we will have Stuart
Henderson
On saxophone we have Duncan
Lamont jnr
Our star guest remains as
singer Sarah Moule
Alan Grahame had wanted to
be with us as well this week, but he is currently abroad, but he will be with us
later in April.
It is just sad to reflect
that this will be our first Cancer fundraising evening without our dear Clive
Burton. In the last few years Hedsor Jazz have lost our pianist Zane Cronje, Ken Rankine
our bass player and finally Clive, and all three have been lost to cancer.
Many of us have other
friends and family too who have been greatly affected by cancer and this week I
had a message from Lisa Munns (Zane’s sister, now living in France
SO do come out to support
Cancer Research UK UK
The evening will start at 8pm , so don’t be late.
Talking of being late,
don’t forget that the clocks Go Forward 1 hour this Sunday morning.
I have been trying to
locate a song I heard many years ago about Sundays. I’m pretty certain that the
first line was “Sunday I go Sailing in The Serpentine” and I think it was by a
traditional jazz trumpet leader called Jerry Brown. So far, I haven’t traced it
down, but I did have a Sunday (as many of you did too I’m sure) where our
planned activity was disrupted, yet again, by SNOW.
This time the weather gave
me more time to catch up with some listening.
First in the CD player was
a CD led by bass player Jim Richardson. Called “2plus2” it has Don
Weller on sax, Jim Mullen on guitar and the late Chris Dagley on drums. It may
well have been one of the last recordings Chris made (it was released in
February 2010. Chris was killed returning from Ronnie Scott’s in a motorcycle
accident on 28th July 2010 ). The recording just shows what a loss the UK
Second up was an ACT album,
celebrating 25 years of that label. It is a compilation, with a very nicely
illustrated booklet moulded to it. It contains a variety of mostly Scandinavian
musicians, but one stood out to me particularly as being very good indeed and someone
I had never heard before.
Korean singer Youn Sun Nah is a delight. On this
album there is only one tune by her, but it prompted me to look further, and
there is much terrific stuff by her on YouTube and a number of albums on
Amazon. I am now a fan! Try
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJIYPtsxAsI
where she has Ulf Wakenius
on guitar as part of her band.
Other material on the ACT album
confirms my liking for trombonist Nils Landgren, and for guitarist father and
son Ulf and Eric Wakenius. It’s all wonderfully well recorded, and a good
workout for anyone’s Hi Fi. It can be found as ACT 9850-2 as “The Jubilee Album”.
So there you have it, and
as someone once said “sic transit Gloria Swanson”!
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