We did better at this year's Jazz Festival, I think. We started with Kit Downes' piano trio, one of the new-to-us groups we like to try each festival. They'd appealed because Downes is said to have some of the same mixed jazz and classical sensibi...
Continuing the Jazz Festival reports, I'll start on a low note. The gig I was most looking forward to -- Nikki Yeoh's piano trio -- was cancelled, because there was a long power cut at the Everyman theatre :( So instead I sat at the Jazz Marquee l...
We went to the opening gig of the 2009 Cheltenham Jazz Festival. It was an eclectic mix of well-known jazz, full-on gospel, plus complete unknowns. Namely, Jason Yarde, Alex Wilson, Ian Shaw, Mica Paris, the Ruach Mass Choir, and 200 kids from Bea...
After a really needed good night's sleep, we headed quite late to Copley Square to Trinity Church, via Finagle a Bagel for breakfast. This is an Episcopal church, who use the Book of Common Prayer and take their high choral tradition seriously. (S...