Hi Everyone,

I’m sure when I was young time lasted longer!! Now after many life years my time seems to go by like sand through the fingers. You never seem to have enough. You can never save time, or make up time. You cannot go back in time and correct your mistakes (no, I am not admitting ever making mistakes, although there is enough evidence to contradict this!).

But how can it be that it’s Tuesday afternoon again. BLOG DAY!!

So lets try and live again, through the gift of memory, (that’s human memory not Microsoft’s!), the past jazz week, and remind everyone of what could be another memory landmark coming up for you on THURSDAY!!

So just to complicate things even more let’s put the last thing first!

This Thursday, SEPTEMBER 18^th, we have a return of that fine saxophonist and sometime member of the Glen Millar Orchestra, Martin Dunsdon. Another Guildhall School of Music graduate, as is our keyboard man Ken McCarthy. Martin is becoming a regular Hedsor musician, and is very welcome back with us again. The photos below are from one of his previous Hedsor appearances.

He will be joined by a trumpet player that I seem to have missed, Matt Hill. He HAS been to Hedsor before, but it was on one of those rare evenings when I wasn’t there!! Below therefore is a photo of him culled from off of the www.

 

Looking back to last weeks session it seemed to have all the makings of the unusual, when at the start of the evening it was apparent that we had NO DRUMMER.

So for the fist 4 tunes we had Al Pirrie and Nigel Fox hiding behind Lester Brown and Al Nicholls. Musically they were not hiding but coping remarkably well. Then, having flow in straight from Jersey (?) but with a delayed flight, we had a drummer, who set up very discreetly whilst the music flowed on. He joined in (very appropriately) part way through Duke Ellington’s “Do Nothing ‘till You Hear from Me”.

From then on we all realised what we had been missing...Elliot Toms on drums.

 

The rest of the evening was as you would expect. Al was in his usual booting form, and Lester was at his very best. A great evening was had by all.

BUT only if you were there!!

You still have the opportunity of getting to Hedsor Jazz in September, and we have some treats coming up in October:-

Oct  2^nd  Stuart Henderson trumpet with Alam Nathoo reeds

Oct 9th   Lester Brown trumpet, Duncan Lamont reeds, Dennis Smith drums,                                                                 

Oct 16th - Bruce Adams trumpet with Art Themen reeds

See you soon

 

Geoff