Wednesday 5 February 2014

Improv Jazz

I found out that home-made coffee cake goes down really well with black coffee and also iced coffee. Sat down with this fine cuisine to enjoy more Band of Brothers with Jamie and Mark. Every episode we finish is followed by loud sighs of fulfillment and a session of quietly muttering 'So bloody good.'

We hit the open mic at our local yesterday. Jamie put his name down to play but this week was especially busy. 'Dr Jazz' typically headlines every Tuesday night with a series of harmonica and wash-board solos for about an hour, then he hands over to some younger folks to play. A rare treat came from a young man who called Dr Jazz back onto the stage for a blues freestyle session, to me, that was music in it's rawest and most unique of forms. In the corner of my eye, I saw an audience member bust open a large case, revealing her saxophone and started to jam along side them. She was called on stage immediately for a sax solo and she blew the house down. The cheers of delight were infectious.   

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