jazz joint birthday
Last year,for our joint 50th birthdays, Julie and I went to gig Tampa Florida (well we didn't just go for the music,we were there for two weeks over christmas).Ooh the extravagance!
This year we also went to a gig. In Camden Town.
As I've mentioned,the building work on our house has left us skint, Christmas is cancelled.
However,thanks to my brother Moray and his wife Gill we could celebrate our 51st birthdays with a meal and live music at the Jazz Cafe in Camden.
We've been to the Jazz Cafe on numerous occasions, to see various rock/blues/jazz acts.
Tonight was going to be blues /rock. The US guitarist Robben Ford was the headline act. He's a fantastic player, who in the past has played with loads of top bands.Tom Scott & the LA express, Gregg Allman & Friends, Yellowjackets, Miles Davis, and Joni Mitchell, to name a few.
We saw him earlier in the year when he was touring with Larry Carlton,another top player who Stelly Dan used a lot in the studio.
The support ac tonight was a guitar/singer songwriter guy called Mark Buck, who not to put to fine a point on it, was crap!
Still that gave us the chance to eat most of our meal before Robben hit the stage.
I find it a bit weird eating in the dark, you order something, and kind of hope, that when the waitress plonks the plate down in front of you , it is indeed the chicken or whatever you ordered!
Robben came on eventually and played stuff from his new CD "truth" plus a few of his old favourites. About half way through his set he invited Bernard Purdie (the worlds most recorded drummer , Aretha Franklin's stickman on many of her recordings,google him!) to sit in on the drums which was excellent.
So thanks again to Moray and Gill for a great evening. That's the last of the live music for 2007.
We kick off 2008 with Joe Bonamassa at the Shepherds Bush Empire in February.
This year we also went to a gig. In Camden Town.
As I've mentioned,the building work on our house has left us skint, Christmas is cancelled.
However,thanks to my brother Moray and his wife Gill we could celebrate our 51st birthdays with a meal and live music at the Jazz Cafe in Camden.
We've been to the Jazz Cafe on numerous occasions, to see various rock/blues/jazz acts.
Tonight was going to be blues /rock. The US guitarist Robben Ford was the headline act. He's a fantastic player, who in the past has played with loads of top bands.Tom Scott & the LA express, Gregg Allman & Friends, Yellowjackets, Miles Davis, and Joni Mitchell, to name a few.
We saw him earlier in the year when he was touring with Larry Carlton,another top player who Stelly Dan used a lot in the studio.
The support ac tonight was a guitar/singer songwriter guy called Mark Buck, who not to put to fine a point on it, was crap!
Still that gave us the chance to eat most of our meal before Robben hit the stage.
I find it a bit weird eating in the dark, you order something, and kind of hope, that when the waitress plonks the plate down in front of you , it is indeed the chicken or whatever you ordered!
Robben came on eventually and played stuff from his new CD "truth" plus a few of his old favourites. About half way through his set he invited Bernard Purdie (the worlds most recorded drummer , Aretha Franklin's stickman on many of her recordings,google him!) to sit in on the drums which was excellent.
So thanks again to Moray and Gill for a great evening. That's the last of the live music for 2007.
We kick off 2008 with Joe Bonamassa at the Shepherds Bush Empire in February.
posted by Al Stuart at
15:23
2 Comments:
Your photography looks like a collection of boots snap shots.
Your design is a lot worse than a first year art student and you clearly can't draw.
Do you have a degree or did you just half finish an apprenticeship at prontoprint.
I'd give up if I were you and become a bicycle courier.
Hi mcsaat, crazy name. Where are you from? Eastern Europe I'm guessing.
Welcome to our country.
I've never taken photos of boots, but that sounds like an interesting project. I'm working at Ogilvy this week. Good job someone likes my work!
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