Coming this week to Hedsor Jazz, two terrific players that to my knowledge haven’t actually played together before. On Thursday 13^th April we have trumpet master Steve Waterman, and tenor ace Frank Walden all backed by Ken McCarthy on piano and I think back from his holiday, Martin Hart on drums. There will be a bass player, but in line with recent policy (!), they are the surprise on the night!

Steve Waterman

 

 

Frank Walden

Last weeks session provided an interesting and different comparison. Duncan Lamont on tenor was his usual excellent self, but he had brought with him a vibraphone player that we hadn’t seen before. We are so used to, and blest to have had play for us in the past, vibs player Alan Graham, and to hear a younger and different style of vibes player was interesting and entertaining.

Roan Kearsey-Lawson took charge of our evening and seemed to produce a wall of sound, which had less emphasis on individual notes and more on the sound of four of the instruments bars being vibrated together. He also had some interesting visual flourishes which together with his foot movement, almost dancing from one end of the vibraphone to the other, provided additional entertainment! For the last tune of the night he also took over the drum chair. A very versatile and amusing player. My photos of the evening are below.

 

He did however undermine my efforts at raising money for Cancer Research UK from second hand cd sales by selling his own cd’s at £5 for one, but £10 for four!

 

I’ll leave this weeks blog short as I am preparing to ship out to Ghana more computers for the school in Nyaboo. They are being collected on Thursday, so that will be a busy day. I may have the honour of bringing along an honorary Ghanaian lady chief with me to the jazz on Thursday, if we are all still standing after packing it all up!

The Computer School at Nyaboo, Ghana